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Winner, 2015 Turtle Island Editor's Choice Chapbook Award.According to Jennifer Richter, author of the poetry collections Threshold and No Acute Distress, "Here From Somewhere Else, Judith Arcana's gorgeous new collection, has movement at its core. Many of these poems are fueled by questions-questions that generate a powerful urgency and contribute to the book's compelling internal momentum. A curious voice and generous heart guide us through Arcana's geographical and emotional landscapes; I was delighted but not surprised that here, love gets the very last word."

It's Oregon's Illinois Valley as only YOU know it.Discover something deep underground at the Oregon Caves. Build the next treehouse at Out 'N' About. Design new playground equipment at Jubilee Park. And how will you top your Taylor Dog. You can do(odle) all this and more in The Doodle, Design, & Draw Book for Illinois Valley Kids of All Ages.

"Backer is within and without tradition, conversing with William Carlos Williams, Coyote, and prison inmates, and saying nothing that all of them can't understand." -Eric Paul Shaffer, author of Lahaina NoonThere are no observers in the food chain. Like it or not, we're in nature and nature is in us. So, what do we do about that? In this hybrid collection of poetry and short essays presented as a chronological narrative, Sara Backer explores the choices we make to embrace and reject the wild world. Backer shows us this is not easy, and when insight arrives, awareness becomes a demanding and never-ending job. If you pay close attention, though, the rewards are spectacular.This chapbook won the 2015 Turtle Island Poetry Award. According to Turtle Island editor Jared Smith, "This is what a chapbook should be all about-a precise and mind expanding voyage into a state of mind that could not be entered into through a longer work-and yet contains more than any work of similar size possibly could."

Cobra Lily is a review of art and literature, focusing on the cultural and natural environs of Southwest Oregon.

"Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- children's playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges, you'll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages." -Cindy Cooper, Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festival, Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of Our Mothers' Daughters, Every Mother's Son, and What if your mother are feminist classics. The stories in this new collection, rooted in her experience as a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, were written as the United States has moved relentlessly into constraining motherhood and denying reproductive justice. By necessity, these stories reach from the past into the future, offering history and hope. "I'm profoundly grateful to Judith Arcana for writing these vital, electrifying stories. With abortion rights in America being stripped away-state by state, clinic by clinic-we need to hear from those who've fought this battle before. Arcana is a Jane; her work in the pre-Roe abortion underground has provide the seeds for her fiction, stories rooted in essential history to spark action in our terrifying present." -Leni Zumas, Author of Red Clocks