Jennie Orvino / James Sorcic

The next handful of posts will be dealing with the collective works of these two poets who were married and had a daughter and then separated all of which played out and was chronicled in a series of poetry chapbooks published between the late 1960s into the mid 1990s.

The C.C.C Camps in West Virginia 1933-1942 by Milton Harr (1998)

The C.C.C Camps in West Virginia 1933-1942
Milton Harr
self published
West Virginia
(c)1998

Subtitled A Record of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Mountain State 1933-1942 this booklet is packed with useful information on the subject. 50 pages. Staple-bound.

Just Universes by Diana Smith Bolton (2016)

Just Universes
Diana Smith Bolton
L+S Press
Washington, DC
(c)2016

32 page chapbook. Really fine poetry. Don't know terribly much about the press but the poet has been a poetry facilitator in the DC community for a number of years now.

A Week with Beijing by Meg Eden (2015)

A Week With Beijing
Meg Eden
Neon Books
(c)2015

Why is it "with" and not "in"? Because, in this fine collection of poems, Beijing is a person. A woman. A woman who, at least in one of the poems, foreshadows the terrible events we are now living through by talking about not using a cough mask. The city and the woman and the country merge into one overlapping and color swirl of mess. Worth the read, worth collecting.