Still Howling

“Still Howling” and “Endnote to Still Howling” are First Place Winner of the Best Beat Poem Contest, 2016, sponsored by Beatlick Press.

“…her lines simmering and ultimately erupting like a geyser, the reader taken on an exhilarating ride.

— Ann Wehrman, from the review of Still Howling in The Pedestal Magazine

Review of Still Howling by Ann Wehrman in The Pedestal Magazine

Review of Still Howling by Sheila McDermott-Sipe in Goodreads

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“Still Howling” and “Endnote to Still Howling” were first published on October 5, 2016 in the journal Cacti Fur. (Click on Cacti Fur to take you to the poems.)

They were published in the poetry book Still Howling: Poems by Mary Dezember, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, October 29, 2016.

They were also published in Watermelon Isotope, edited by Kenneth Gurney, on December 12, 2016.

“Still Howling is the drumbeat we’ve been waiting for in unsettling political times. Mary’s work will inspire you to forge onwards in the long march towards positive social change.”

— Jordan Eddy, cofounder of Strangers Collective

 “Dezember has created telephone lines through time that reopen essential conversations. Her poetry sent me back to Ginsberg to reread and listen to ‘Howl’ which I had not done in at least fifteen years. The bounty of colors, the unabashed sensuality, the ecstasy of ‘saying yes’ took me back to Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself.’ And most poignantly, through these telephone lines, we hear female voices that have been silenced speak to us, and we must listen closely no matter how enraged we feel…I can’t imagine that in the great cosmic literary and artistic conversations that transcend time that Whitman, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Peters, Franklin, and O’Keeffe are not also giving thanks to Mary Dezember as we all should.”

— Sheila McDermott-Sipe, literary arts educator, from review on Goodreads