Here Comes The "Whistling Woman"

 Out and onsale.

  How happy I am to tell you that Mary Kellogg’s wonderful new book “Whistling Woman” is now out and available at some local bookstores and online, from the Troy Bookmakers.
  The book includes an introduction and photographs by me, and is a collection of new poems from this wonderful, loving and extraordinarily gifted person. Her first book of poems, “My Place On Earth,” is still selling well, but this volume is a great leap forward. It is lovely, elegaic, defiant. Mary Kellogg is living her life, and she pays no  more attention to the expectations and limitations of others than I do. Less, I think. The poems are funny, sad, touching and always, inspiring. You can meet Mary and get signed copies of her book Saturday at the Battenkill Book Store in Cambridge, N.Y. (noon). Or you can get it online.
  I think you will love it as much as I do. Maria edited this volume, as she did the first. For all of us a labor of love, and a proud publication of Bedlam Farm Books. We are a community of encouragement, and Mary embodies everything we hope to accomplish.
  Mary has been writing poetry since she was eleven, but never showed her poetry to anyone until she showed some poems to me a few year ago. I am so glad she did.