Poetry
Goddesses I Have Known
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Author’s proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to SAFE, Inc of Clarion County, PA. SAFE provides services to victims of domestic violence.
The book is also available at Sparrow Books, 623 Main Street, Clarion PA 16214. (814) 227-4800.
“At times uncovering and questioning older mythologies, at time inventing new ones out of modern life, Thrushart examines the ways in which women have often been asked to follow, believe or even embody divinity for others…”
Tresha Faye Haefner, Founder of The Poetry Salon and author of “When The Moon Had Antlers” (Pine Row Press, 2023)
Inspired By Their Voices
The author’s proceeds are donated to Poets Against Racism & Hate USA, a nonprofit organization.
A second edition of Inspired By Their Voices is now available from Quimby, Pickford & Cheshire Publishing. The new edition features five new poems. QPC Publishing has pledged all proceeds to benefit Poets Against Racism & Hate USA. The organization’s mission can be found on its website.
The book is being used by PARH USA and the Ohio Poetry Association as a part of its 2024 Ohio Underground Railroad Whistle-stop Poetry Tour. Donated copies of the book are being given as gifts to the poets and supporters of the tour, which includes poetry readings at ten locations throughout Ohio, and a capstone event in Columbus. More information about the tour is here.
“[The] words transport the reader through time and towards hope. She writes a testimony to the bravery required to resist oppression. She writes of the heroes who staunchly supported what was right…”
Joseph Croskey, Ph. D., Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Sanctity: Poems from Northern Appalachia
Assuasive. Soothing. Sanctity.
Envelope yourself in the tranquility Thoreau calls, “a tonic of wildness.” Join nationally award-winning poet Patricia Thrushart on a healing walk. Forests and fields permeate poems celebrating Northern Appalachia.
Quimby, Pickford & Cheshire Publishing has released a second edition of this book of nature poetry written during the pandemic. New poems for each of the seasons were added by the author.
Sanctity. It’s time.
Yin & Yang
“…I happened on an amazing article—one which described the origins of Yin and Yang as an astronomical phenomenon observed by the early Chinese..
At the same time, much of my poetry began taking on the characteristics of a dialogue—sometimes a question and answer, other times looking at a single emotion from two different, often opposite, points of view. During this time, I was struggling with various out-of-balance conditions in my own life…
But like water filling a space, equilibrium does finally come to pass. It may not be at the level we planned or wanted, but it is equilibrium. Life moves back in balance because it must. And so the title of this collection of…poems is a tribute to the inevitable balancing.”
Cover art by Brennah Soukup, The Herron School of Art and Design
Little Girl Against the Wall
“…Each of us thinks we own the indistinct memories of our past and the imagined promise of our future, but all we really have is Now…
And now, through some happy force (call it Luck, call it Agape Love, call it God) I find myself at a denouement that includes the great blessings of acceptance and forgiveness. In sharing my poetry I hope to share the promise of these blessings with you. If they came to me, they can come to you.
Within each of us is a little girl against a wall, or a lost and crying boy. As Buddha taught, the human condition at its very heart must include suffering. My story of pain may be different from yours, but in this we are the same: We are on a journey. We have suffered pain. We CAN find acceptance…”
Cover art: I Contemplate Her Genuflecting, by Jessica Dunn, The Herron School of Art and Design and co-founder of the BrainTwins design studio of creative consulting.
Biography
Cursed: The Life and Tragic Death of Marion Alsobrook Stahlman
Patricia will be publishing a second edition of Cursed by mid-year 2024. A limited number of first edition copies published by Adelaide Books are available by contacting her.
Thrushart spent years meticulously researching the life of Marion Alsobrook Stahlman, from her ancestor who landed in Jamestown in 1609 to the death of her youngest son in 1962. Using a combination of narrative nonfiction and fictional vignettes, the stories explore the changing role of women, the tensions between the growing medical profession and faith, Southern slavery, yeoman farming and more.
Watch an interview with Patricia about CURSED here on YouTube.
Other Publications
This wonderful series is published by Sheila-na-gig Editions and edited by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour. Find copies here.
Patricia is Co-Editor of the North/South Appalachia Series:
The North/South Appalachia series is available on Amazon and benefits the nonprofit Reconnecting McDowell.
Patricia has a poem in this important anthology edited by Rachel Neve-Midbar and Jennifer Saunders, published by Querencia Press. “The writers in Stained offer their menarche stories, sometimes magical, sometimes traumatic; their menopause stories filled with longings and goodbyes. But they are also writing all that comes in between, the stories spoken in whispers: the stains, blood-soaked sex, the babies wanted or not and the bleeding after. Endometriosis, PMDD, birth control, body dysmorphia-and many stories of medical mistreatment. Some of these writers see the blood of their bodies as an expression of their selfhood, an aspect of their own magic.” Find it on Amazon.