Buttonhook Press 2023 AMERICANA Pamphlet Series
Writer’s Portfolio
Poetry: All forms & styles

Richard Widerkehr

POTTER’S VALLEY ROAD

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About the writer:
RICHARD WIDERKEHR’s fourth book of poems, Night Journey, was published in 2022 by Shanti Art Press. Main Street Rag brought out At the Grace Cafe the year before. His work has appeared in Open: A Journal of Arts & Letters, Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and many others. He won two Hopwood first prizes for poetry at the University of Michigan, three prizes in The Bridge’s annual awards, and first prize for a short story at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. He reads poems for Shark Reef Review.

Image: Cat on a Flowering Summer Meadow by Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939). Oil on canvas. 29.7 x 35.8 inches. 1919. Public domain.

Pamphlets

Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog at Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”

Buttonhook Press 2023 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”POTTER’S VALLEY ROAD”

Individual works

Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Two December Mornings”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Sun Shower” 

Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”When We Send My Sister Birkenstocks,|She Gives Them Away”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Kristallnacht, 1938:  Night of Shattered Glass”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Dramatic Monologue in Blank Verse|2020 theme: “Poor Excuses”|Richard Widerkehr|”The Missing War: This Armed Ghost Speaks to His Son”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”When You Ask About That Dream”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Richard Widerkehr|”Green’s Idea”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″

Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”

Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog At Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”

Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”In Grandma Hale’s Painting, Which She Gave Me”

Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”When A Hawk Flushes An Undulating Flock Of Dunlins”

Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”As We Walk West in Late Afternoon: Ira Speaks”

Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Biloxi”

OJAL Art Incorporated, publishing since 2017 as OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and its imprints Buttonhook Press, HOT BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Issues, and HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art, supports writers and artists worldwide.

BUTTONHOOK PRESS MASTERS SERIES

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The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Brian Clements on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Mark Budman on Flash Discourse
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Ray Gonzalez on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Michael Martone on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Roberta Allen on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Peter Conners on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Maxine Chernoff on Prose Poetry

With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Pedro Ponce on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Tom Hazuka on Flash Fiction

With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Kent Dixon on Flash Fiction & Nonfiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Jim Meirose on Experimental Discourse
With an interview by Associate Editor Warwick Newnham

 

O:JA&L’S HIGH BUTTON PRESS ART CHAPBOOKS

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RITES OF CALIBRATION: Images & Excerpts

Fine Art Photography by Rex Wilder

NEW MEXICO Deconstructed

Fine Art Photography by Natalie Christensen

IMPERFECT VESSEL

Painting and drawing by Anne-Marie Brown

BY LAND AND BY SEA: Awakening the Sensual

Sculpture and Installation by Mark Yale Harris

LAYERED LIGHT

Painting  and drawing by Bette Ridgeway

ESSENCE & ATMOSPHERE

Painting and drawing by Kathleen Frank

TANGENT & INTERPLAY

Painting and drawing by Catherine Eaton Skinner

Implications of Energy
Artist portfolio of Dr. Ernest Williams III