recent or forthcoming books or chapbooks from authors featured in the spring 2006 issue of kaleidowhirl  

Kristy Bowen's first full-length collection, the fever almanac, is due out from Ghost Road Press this coming November.

The Book of Answers, a chapbook by Lucille Lang Day, will be published later this year by Finishing Line Press. "What If the Flight of My Memory Is Booked? Can I Take the Next Plane?" and "Can LSD or Mescaline Free the Nuthatch Trapped in My Cerebrum?" are from this collection.

Margarita Engle's The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Henry Holt), a historical novel written in free verse for middle readers, is a Junior Library Guild Selection (Editor's Choice) and Booklist Starred Review.

Taylor Graham's latest chapbook is Under the Shuttle, Awake (dancing girl press, 2005).

Recent chapbooks by Deborah P Kolodji:
--Seaside Moon, a winner of the 2004-2005 Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award was published by Saki Press in June 2005. ISBN: 1-893823-17-2. $5.00 from Saki Press, 1021 W. Gregory, Normal, IL 61761. www.geocities.com/sakipress
--unfinished book, published by Shadows Ink Publications, February 2006. ISBN: 1-932447-55-5. $6.95 +$1.33 shipping from Shadow Poetry, 1209 Milwaukee Street, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024. www.shadowpoetry.com/bookstore/unfinishedbook.html
--Symphony of the Universe, an illustrated chapbook of science fiction poetry published by Sam’s Dot Publishing, March 2006. $5.00 plus S&H ($1 – US, $2 – Canada, $3 – International) from Tyree Campbell, P O Box 782, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406-0782. www.genremall.com/poetry.htm

Christine Potter's first collection of poetry, Zero Degrees At First Light is due out from Word Press in autumn 2006.

Tamara Kaye Sellman is the publishing consultant for the anthology Obliquity (Tuesday Night Publishing, 2006). She also is the publisher of the anthology Southern Revival: Deep Magic for Hurricane Relief. 100% of donations to and sales of the anthology benefit First Book's Book Relief, an initiative to place at least five million new books into the hands, schools and libraries of those affected by the hurricanes.

Ravi Shankar, along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry, due out with Norton in Fall 2007.

Margo Solod's Some Very Soft Days was published by May Apple Press.

Jeanne Murray Walker's Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith was published by Abeline Christian University Press.