11/20/07

   Breathing Out is a new poetry anthology featuring twenty-one poets from Loosely Identified, the St. Louis Women’s Poetry Workshop.

What are critics saying about Breathing Out?

         "I was so impressed with the poetry in this booklet, that I wish I
         could become an honorary member of their group — even for just
         one meeting! The booklet as a whole leaves one with a feeling of
         the kindred spirits at work in their poetry workshop that has
         survived thirty years."
                                                                             - Stuart Eglin,
                                                                             New Hope International
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"Breathing Out, Poems by Loosely Identified is a book to inhale....The book is cohesive and persistent, consistently Middlewestern, with each of the 21 poets quietly reminding the reader there is something breathing, somewhere in the magnolia trees -- moment by fragrant moment." 
                                                                   - Donna Biffar,
                                                                   Chiron Review,
                                                                   Issue 77, Winter 2004

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    Breathing Out gives new visibility to the work of St. Louis women poets. The project has utilized various talents of the workshop including all editing, production layout, artwork, and distribution.

    The publishing project originated to present Loosely Identified’s creative work to the reading public, raise women’s visibility in the arts community, and acknowledge members’ support and work in the St. Louis region’s artistic and activist community. Over sixty organizations are included in the preface to the book, credited by the poets for their own development as artists.

    Loosely Identified traces its history in St. Louis back thirty years, with sixty-five writers participating over time. Many poets from the Workshop’s early phase remain active participants today. Two of these, Nanora Sweet and Rebecca Ellis, served as managing editors for Breathing Out. 

   Breathing Out (ISBN 0-9748468-0-5) is available for $5 from Left Bank Books, 314-367-6731 (email: info at left-bank dot com).  For more information, contact Cherry Pie Press (email: cherrypiepress at yahoo dot com).