Penny Harter

Among my twenty-some books and chapbooks, my newest collection is *The Resonance Around Us* (Mountains & Rivers Press, 2013). Other recent books include *One Bowl*, a 2012 prizewinning e-chapbook (Snapshot Press: http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks/One_Bowl.pdf; *Recycling Starlight* (Mountains & Rivers Press, 2010. A cycle of grief poems processing the loss of my husband, William J. Higginson, in October of 2008.); and *The Night Marsh* (WordTech Editions, 2008). With my late husband, William J. Higginson, I co-authored *The Haiku Handbook* (25th Anniversary Edition, 2010), and my children’s alphabestiary, *The Beastie Book*, came out in December, 2009. Recent work appears in both print and on-line journals, including Adanna, Persimmon Tree, Pirene’s Fountain, Tatoo Highway, Rattle, Rose Red, The Quotable, Tiferet, and in anthologies including *Facing the Change* (Torrey House Press, 2013); *Forgetting Home:Poems About Alzheimer’s* (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013); *The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home* ( Holy Cow Press, 2013); *The Best of the Barefoot Muse* (2012); The Crafty Poet (Wind Publications, 2013), and in a craft lesson in *Wingbeats* (Dos Gatos Press, 2011). A Dodge poet,I was a featured reader at the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information and sample poems from my books, you may visit my web site at: www.2hweb.net/penhart. And for current and ongoing activities, readings, publication news, etc., please visit my blog at http://penhart.wordpress.com.