https://www.donnareis.com/news daily 1.0 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/bbb14880-5ae1-40eb-9552-24891036694f/donna-body.jpg News - Poet & Writer Donna Reis is the author of two full length poetry collections: Torohill (Deerbrook Editions, 2022) and No Passing Zone (Deerbrook Editions, 2012), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is co-editor and contributor to the anthology, Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews (The University of Akron Press, 2005). Her non-fiction book, Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley: 60 Personal Accounts (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2003) has sold nearly 3000 copies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/4129f338-989c-402a-aacf-4ff5f2744129/torohill3d.png News - Praise for Torohill “Make it honest,” a poetry teacher once urged, and Donna Reis’s poems perfectly embody both the honesty and the making of this imperative. Out of the wreck and ruin, out of the breaks and pains that constitute the tragic comedy of our ordinary lives, Reis crafts poems of extraordinary tenderness and resilience, which are grounded in an abiding love. These are poems made to savor and to share. —Jeanne Marie Beaumont https://www.donnareis.com/events daily 0.75 2023-02-23 https://www.donnareis.com/events/soulshine monthly 0.5 2023-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1677182214856-K5VX1VFCQ6K0NYY22FXX/combined.png Events - Poetry At Soulshine Market - Featured Poet: Donna Reis, reading from her new book of poetry Torohill Plus open reading https://www.donnareis.com/events/event-two-rgba3 monthly 0.5 2023-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1677182214856-K5VX1VFCQ6K0NYY22FXX/combined.png Events - National Poetry Month Reading - Featured Poets: Donna Reis (left), Donna Spector, and Mary Makofske read from their books. https://www.donnareis.com/about daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1341c4cb-1c4f-4003-aed2-13348e36e2d7/donna-about.jpg About Donna Reiss https://www.donnareis.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/406ab3bc-da6b-4e9c-96fa-667fe61e3d5f/donna-contact.jpg Contact - Get in Touch Donna Reis is currently available for readings and speaking engagements. Please use this form to inquire or arrange to receive an inscribed copy of one of her books. https://www.donnareis.com/works daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://www.donnareis.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-04-14 https://www.donnareis.com/books daily 0.75 2023-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/4129f338-989c-402a-aacf-4ff5f2744129/torohill3d.png Books - In praise of Torohill “Make it honest,” a poetry teacher once urged, and Donna Reis’s poems perfectly embody both the honesty and the making of this imperative. Out of the wreck and ruin, out of the breaks and pains that constitute the tragic comedy of our ordinary lives, Reis crafts poems of extraordinary tenderness and resilience, which are grounded in an abiding love. These are poems made to savor and to share. " - Jeanne Marie Beaumont https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1649886155762-Q6QWWD87CYJJ5DWLY10F/certain-reis.jpg Books - Certain “A collection to savor, Donna Reis‘s spirited, tender, droll, and haunted lyric poems spin an inverted fairy tale where lovers are middle-aged and battle-tough, but also burnished to a sheen reflecting compassion, tolerance, and a dry, enduring humor. Old enough to know life seldom unfolds as we expect–they have learned to love the unexpected and their compatible quirks; his “melancholy nostalgia,” her eye-rolling. They have learned to entertain and embrace their ghosts, and to rescue each other with a mature, certain love.” –April Ossmann Finishing Line Press, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1649367388099-II4JP0SRKR6GB1MCSPS8/no-passing-zone-donna-reis.jpg Books - No Passing Zone “Lyrical, wry, biting—Reis uses all the tricks in her deck to show how to survive the pain and healing of the body, the crumbling and restoration of houses, the razing and rebuilding of love. There’s serious word play here, and a sharp eye for detail. Reis explores not only her own experience, but the lives of others—Dorothy Wordsworth ministering to her brother, Mary Lamb, whose “Kitchen rattled / toward me, its knives hissing . . .” Readers will rejoice at the perseverance of this poet, who “stayed because [she had] more stories to tell.” —Mary Makofske Deerbrook Editions, 2015 Reviewed in American Book Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1649886585605-BQ4TO4L9IDQI14IRIT05/dog+shows.jpg Books - DOG SHOWS AND CHURCH “Donna Reis exhibits the limber, omnivorous intelligence of a child as she takes us on a tour of the small town that is this book. Only a poet with sufficient measures of compassion and craft could reveal so deftly the peculiar emotional history of a population in a particular space and time. It is the news I crave when I read poetry, the ‘news’ Williams felt we needed to hear. Delicate yet vital, I loved this book and read it from cover to cover at first sitting. This is a young poet I always look forward to reading.” ~Rick Pernod, founder and director of Exoterica, an award winning poetry series. Eurydice Press, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1649367431702-XYPTRF9SVU2V50CNE1R0/ghosts-warwick-valley-reis.jpg Books - Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley These stories will make you bolt you doors and sleep with the lights on. Beloved as a pastoral paradise by weekenders and vacationers, beautiful Warwick, New York, is a historic town that boasts of bucolic diary farms, gingerbread Victorian homes, and winding back roads that lead to scenic hamlets and villages. An artists community has grown up in the area, inspired by the natural beauty of the surroundings. However, all is not perfect in this Paradise. Schiffer Publishing, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1649886603561-X4WGSS5Y6WIOZSJKCTEK/incantations.png Books - Incantations “From the pictures on Tarot cards, from the lives of historical figures, and from memory Donna Reis creates characters and draws us into their stories. The dreamy quality of many of these poems has nothing to do with obscurity; the dreamscapes of Reis’s poems are real, sensory and immediate. These incantations work their magic with closely observed details, ‘the necklace of rosary beads (that) ticks against the window,’ ‘a woman slipping tortillas doughy tongues in the hearth’s mouth.’ Here is a poet who has found her voice and carries us with her into ‘that stillness / only lovers and the dying feel / before they go beyond.” —Mary Makofske, author of the Richard Snyder Award publication, Traction Eurydice Press SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1649367456397-KJM1RK3K6S312ECEKOME/blues-cover.jpg Books - BLUES FOR BILL Blues for Bill celebrates the life and work of the poet William Matthews through his own language, that of poetry. While poems of William Matthews are well known and remembered, this collection of poems ensures that the world will remember Bill himself: his graciousness, intelligence, knowledge, style, good humor, capacity for friendship, immense talent, and wit. The poems included were written by people who knew Bill in a variety of ways, under myriad circumstances; as friend, both old and new; as mentor and teacher; as colleague; as father. The poems are remarkable, true testaments to Bill and his art. —The Editors University of Akron Press, 2005 https://www.donnareis.com/reviews daily 0.75 2023-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dd5decdf40c05d0652e92/1677182508896-FYGA3X0QHLKZR8Z73RS3/combined.png https://www.donnareis.com/shop daily 0.75 2022-04-06 https://www.donnareis.com/shop/p/stanton-recipes-ed-1-8k77f monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ced3ca71bd8b30001701f6b/1565720274118-RVA8LKI0ZQRA4IBPX502/stanton-book.jpg Shop - Stanton Recipes Ed. 1