Brief Term(1st Edition) by LoisMarieHarrod, Bradley Strahan Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Black Buzzard Press ISBN-13: 978-0-938872-44-3, ISBN: 0-938872-44-3
"Accessible narrative poems for and about high school teachers and students based on Lois Marie Harrod's 22 years of high school teaching. A good read for any teacher, student-teacher or person thinking of teaching. Useful as starting point for students in creative writing classes."
"Spelling the World Backwards is a poignant account of a father dying from Alzheimer's disease and a mother's caretaking. Accessible narrative poems tell the story,though not in chronological order, of the father and a mother, their life together, their daughters and his dying--that slow pouring out of grief which accompanies Alzheimer's. Harrod uses Alzheimer's to explore the interrelationships of memory, loss and art in her lucid, well ..."
"The sharp, angular lines of Lois Marie Harrod's Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis evoke a classical world infused with the weight of history and the pressure of the contemporary world, and out of that pressure, forge artistry."
"Harrod's Crazy Alice has three sections of rolicking poems:#1, Crazy Alice, a fictional autobiography exploring the poet as woman; #2, Sex Without Words,which explores the connections between language and the body, words and love-making; and #3;Artifacts, poems largely from her experience as parent and teacher. Harrod's most popular book among high school teachers and their students."
"As the title indicates, Part of the Deeper Sea explores the relationships between small incidents--seeing horseshoe crabs on the beach, attending high school play, finding a gray hair--and the larger themes of human life. What Harrod does best is make unexpected elegant connections in poems that recognize the laughter and sorrow of daily life. Underneath everything is what Lynn Powell called the "submerged terrain where we really live.""
"Cool Women Volume Six is a poetry anthology, containing new poems by widely published poets (Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Lois Marie Harrod, Betty Bonham Lies, Judy Rowe Michaels, Sharon Olson, Penelope Scambly Schott, Maxine Susman, and ..."
Spat by Harrod, LoisMarie Paperback, 46 Pages, Published 2021 by Finishing Line Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64662-491-1, ISBN: 1-64662-491-2
"In Spat, Lois Marie Harrod examines-head-on, upside down and sideways-the little fractures that haunt our intimate relationships."
PART OF THE DEEPER SEA.(1st Edition) by LoisMarieHarrod Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by Palanquin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-889806-15-0, ISBN: 1-889806-15-3
Furniture(1st Edition) by LoisMarieHarrod, Ginny Connors Paperback, 28 Pages, Published 2008 by Grayson Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9785382-2-4, ISBN: 0-9785382-2-6
"Poems that begin with objects--chairs, beds, potted mums, clothes on the line--and end with wry commentary on the human condition. The bed was another matter, rumpled but righteous in her own way, whispering to her sheets that the chair worried too much about saliva and salvation. . ."
Concrete Wolf Two Chapbook Issue by John R. Thelin, LoisMarieHarrod Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2005 by Concrete Wolf ISBN-13: 978-0-9717671-6-4, ISBN: 0-9717671-6-5
"This is a Special Issue containing two complete poetry chapbooks, Put Your Sorry Side out by Loise Marie Harrod and The Way Out West by J.R. Thelin. Lois Marie Harrod’s collection, Put Your Sorry Side Out, offers a refreshing look at the world through the eyes of her entertaining and earnest characters Aunt Eurydice, Alice Ann and Marlene Mae. Unsentimental and unapologetic, these poems feel like thought snapshots taken in the midst of ..."
"Anthology of edgy poetry by Eloise Bruce, Carolyn Foote Edelmann, Lois Marie Harrod, Betty Lies, Joyce Greenberg Lott, Judy Michaels, Penelope Scambly Schott. "The Cool Women revel in the sensual interplay between the distinct forms a poem can take and the emotional urgency that makes poetry such a compelling art. The joy of this book is that very different hands create poems that are notable for their passionate intelligence. The varie ..."
"63 poems by Cool Women, a critique and performance group based in Central New Jersey, arranged in four thematic categories: Cool Women Wise Up, What Keeps Us Up at Night, Familiar, In Color. The writers explore topics as diverse as rice pudding, octopi and widowhood."
"The 17th edition of the critically acclaimed poetry annual contains pieces by R.A. Allen, Gershon Ben Avraham, Shirley J. Brewer, Roxanne Cardona, Barbara Daniels, Maureen Daniels, Jessica G. de Koninck, Lois Marie Harrod, Ruth Holzer, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Michael Keshigian, Elaine Koplow, John Larkin, Yvonne Higgins Leach, Edward Lee, Evalyn Lee, Lisa Meckel, Cameron Morse, Martina Nicholson, Alita Pirkopf, Leland Seese, Wesley D. Sim ..."
"BY THE TIME native Sicilian Mariagrazia Buttitta turned twenty-six, she’d planned out the perfect life. After finishing her residency in Buongiorno Medical School, she’d be primed for a job at the prestigious Roma Hospital, the first step toward becoming an Italian Dr. Oz. And what life is complete without a handsome prince by her side, gracing the face of Italian People Magazine as one of Italy’s “Most Beautiful Couple”? Instead, she w ..."