Nature Studies

Pushcart Nominations 2015

Press News!

It’s been a wonderful and productive year at Sadie Girl Press! In the last 12 months, we have published 2 anthologies, 1 full-length collection, 6 chapbooks, 1 art book, and 1 limited edition CD/chapbook. We have 2 more chapbooks in production and a special new project on the horizon for 2016.

To recognize the incredible talent that have made this incredible year, we have selected the following poems for a Pushcart Nomination:

  • JL Martindale’s “Rewrite My Sorrow” from The Bottle & the Boot
  • Daniel McGinn’s “The Eye Sees What It Wants to See” from The Bottle & the Boot
  • JD Isip’s “How to Cook with Government Cheese” from Pocketing Feathers
  • Robin Steere Axworthy’s “Mother 2” from Then & Now: Conversations with Old Friends
  • Terry Ann Wright’s “Nature Studies” from Nature Studies
  • Raquel Reyes-Lopez’s “No Era La Misma de Antes” from The Language I Was Broken In

The Pushcart Prize is awarded to work published and nominated by small presses and journals in 2015. We wish all of the nominees the best of luck and are honored to have published your work. Thank you to everyone who contributed to all of our projects this year, be it poetry, art, or even just support.

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Nature Studies

Available Now, Poetry Chapbooks, Terry Ann Wright

Debut chapbook, Nature Studies by Terry Ann Wright. 45 pages, perfect bound, 6×6 inches. Illustrated with Victorian style scientific drawings to compliment her biting poems. Available through Sadie Girl Press Bookstore.

“Each poem in these “Nature Studies” is a precise scalpel of human relationships. We could say that this book is an anatomy/botany/cartography of attraction and rejection, of desire and oblivion. The poems are complex, vocative (many of them built in the “you” voice), rich in sound, piercing. The author exercises a sort of contemporary, Victorian contention to fully explore passion, disorder. It is in this movement between exposure and form where the pages of this book breathe, come to life. The reader hears echoes of William Blake (“The Sick Rose”) and Emily Dickinson (“Started Early-Took My Dog”) but most of all, we hear the distinctive voice of Terry Ann Wright–daring, unapologetic.” ~Mariano Zaro, author of Tres letras/Three Letters