Donna's
poem "Story" was published by Earth Hymn: KYSO
Flash Anthology 2019.
"The
Play is Not the Thing," an essay about a failed field
trip, was accepted for publication by
Kappan and will be available in their March
2020 issue.
"Downtime"
will be published in The Whitefish Review,
24th issue, "Awakenings," December 7, 2019.
Donna's
work won the following awards at the League of Minnesota
Fall Conference: 1. The Blizzard Writers' Award, first place
for "The Art of Hearing"; 2. The Poets Potluck Award, award
of merit for "Beach Drama"; 3. The Heartland Poets Award,
second place for "Lunar Musings"; and 4. The Moccasin Award,
award of merit for "Adrift."
The
Very Edge Poetry Collection will publish "Entrepreneur
Sans Wall," "Directions," and "Precious Land." The editors
write that the poetry has a "fiercely gentle nature...just
what we are looking for." This book will be published in the
spring of 2020.
Tishman
Review will publish the poem "Adrift."
"Memorial
Day" will be published in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of
Military Experience & the Arts' on-line journal, As
You Were. This poem honors Donna's uncle, Leon
Pleasants, Air Force veteran.
Finish
Line Press will publish Donna's chapbook, Persistence of
Vision, November 2019 and is now offering
prepublication ordering (July-Nov.) by sending $13.99 plus
shipping (check or money order made out to "Finish Line
Press") to
Finishing
Line Press
Post
Office Box 1626
Georgetown,
KY 40324
Shipping
is only $2.99 per copy, ($16.98 total). Or order online.
Click and scroll to "Preorder Forthcoming Titles" or
"Bookstore." You may search by title: Persistence of
Vision. Credit card orders will be processed through
PayPal. Preorder ships November 1, 2019.
Persistence
of Vision centers on a love for movies featuring
32 original poems and cover photography by Laura Bittle.
 Donna
Isaac's first full-length collection of poetry, Footfalls
is now available through Pocahontas
Press or through contacting Donna at donna@donnaisaacpoet.com
for $20.00. These poems celebrate the people, places, music,
and stories of her childhood Appalachian home.
"Encounter
Near Aldie, Virginia," "Needle and Thread," and "Berry Is
My Madeleine" have been accepted for inclusion in Is(sue) 7 of
AvantAppal(achia), online
edition.
Donna's
poem "Encounter Near Aldie, Virginia" won first place in the
New Voices category sponsored by the Poetry Society of
Virginia.
Here are the judge's comments:
"The winning poem features striking phrasing and vivid
imagery as it evokes a moment towards sunset when the
poem's narrator not only has a surprise encounter with two
deer who appear and then disappear into the trees,
followed by a sighting of buzzards "circling something
dying," but those experiences in the growing dusk lead to
a moment of vision, when the distant Civil War past and
people of that era--or beyond--seem to materialize from
the shadows. After the sun finally sets and night comes
on, there's a heavy rain whose sound "beats a cadence"
that strikes the narrator as a kind of "martial music /
rattling the night," evoking the sounds of drumbeats and
gunfire, echoing the battles that occurred long ago near
Aldie, Virginia. The poem is both subtle and powerful in
its interweaving of mysteries that emerge from both the
past and present."
In addition, for the other winner "Carmen Aponte," here are
the judge's comments:
" 'Carmen Aponte' is such a personal poem, streaked with
equal parts the pain of discovery, of growth, of the past.
And yet it places you entirely in the moment, as though
it's happening right now. The language is tender, and so
pretty in spots that you almost gasp with pleasure at it:
'the color is Rachel, darkest shade"'...'don't they see my
beauty? / so transformed I cannot see.' And the last two
lines. 'but a wet tabby, a bleeding clown, / staining the
basin with Rachel-colored tears.' This is mastery.
Brilliant work."
Donna's
poems "Offering," "Picking," and "Family Foods" are, as of
May 13, 2019, posted on the Poetry Post at the Phalen Poetry
Park in St. Paul.
Two
poems: "August Morning" and "Making Do" will be published in
the first annual Gabriel's Horn Anthology, Startled by
Joy.
The
Poetry Society of Virginia awarded First Place to "Carmen
Aponte," Donna's poem about a friendship for the Bess
Gresham Memorial Prize.
Wordrunner
eChapbooks has published three poems: "Roasting
Vegetables," "The Golden Ratio," and "Entrepreneur sans Wall"
for April 2019.
The
poem "Make Love, Not War" will be published by the University
of Pennsylvania spring 2019 online issue of The
Penn Review
The
Poem "Grief" will be published by Goddard College's literary
journal Clockhouse,
Vol. 7.
"The
Real Deal" is
part of the Jim
Webb Special Is(sue).
Jim Webb aka Wiley Quixote, Kentucky poet and activist, passed
away fall 2018,
The
Saint Paul Almanac
will publish "Church Ladies" in their upcoming issue, Volume
12. saintpaulalmanac.org
Genre:
Urban Arts
will publish Donna' s poems ""Carrots" & "Teeth" in the
next issue, #8.
genreurbanarts.com (announced February 2019)
"Story"
has been accepted as a semi-finalist in The DavenTree
writing challenge. Winners and finalists will be selected in
a few weeks. (announced February 2019) KYSO Flash
Literary Journal
Donna's poem "For Pete's Sake" has been
published by Typishly,
an online journal, December 18, 2018.
Donna's poem "Brokenness" will be
published by Earth's
Daughters, issue #92 with the theme "She
Persisted."
Two poems, "Encounter Near Aldie, Virginia" and "Mist" by
Donna Isaac were published in The
Moccasin, The League of Minnesota Poets
(2018).
The League
of Minnesota Poets' Awards 2018 were recently announced at the
annual conference in Hopkins, MN.
Donna earned the following recognition:
•First Honorable Mention in the Lost in Translation category
for her poem "Learning Arabic."
•First
Award of Merit in the South Minnesota Poets' Society category
for her poem "After."
•First
Honorable Mention in the Musica Award for her poem "The Day
Rita Dove Danced for Me."
•Second
Award of Merit in the Mississippi Valley Poets & Writers'
category for her haiku "Over the Mountain."
Donna's
poem "Transaction" is published in the Bacopa
Literary Review 2018 (Writers' Alliance of
Gainesville).
My
poem "Truth/Time" has been published in issue 3 of Rascal,
live for the fall 2018 issue.
The
poem "Suggestions" will be published in Adanna's
annual issue #8 with the print publication scheduled for
late August or early September 2018.
Rascal
Journal will publish "Truth/Time," in their
upcoming summer 2018 issue.
"Transaction,"
a prose poem, will be published by Bacopa Literary
Review. The print edition will be out in October
2018.
"Elementary
School" will be published by Perfume River Poetry
Review (Tourane
Poetry Press) April 2018, celebrating the theme of
childhood.
"September
Sky" and "Our Daily Walk" published in In Plein
Air--poems and drawings of the natural world by Poetic
License Press
The
following poems by Donna Isaac received recognition by the
League of Minnesota Poets' Annual Awards, 2017: "Remedies"
awarded by The Southeastern MN Poets' for first honorable
mention; "Shapes and Shadows" awarded by the Lilian Osborne
Memorial for third honorable mention; and "The Station off
Heisey Avenue" awarded by the Janelle Hawkridge Memorial for
second award of merit.
The
Martin Lake Journal, 2017 will publish
three of my poems: "Dark Death"; "Rise"; and
"Constrictions."
Shark
Reef, an online journal, will publish "Constrictions"
by Donna Isaac, Winter 2018 edition, posted by January 2018.
Crosswinds
Poetry Journal will publish Donna Isaac's poem
"Rise" in their Spring 2018 issue.
Crosswinds
Poetry Journal, Vol. II, 2017
published two poems, "Tomatoes" and "Taking
Heed". Portions of the proceeds go to food shelves and
non-profit literacy groups. You can order a copy here.
"Dark
Sky Spot" was published in the Martin Lake Poetry Anthology.
Purchasing the book benefits local food shelves.
The anthology can be found at various independent
bookstores, e.g., Micawber's at 2338 Carter Ave., St.
Paul. A plethora of fine Minnesota poets!
St. Paul Almanac published my poem "To Grandma
Delores Suffering from Lewy Body Dementia" in their spring
2017 publication.
The book release party was April 6, 2017
Black Dog Cafe, 308 E. Prince St., St. Paul.
Shark Reef literary journal published my poem "The
Great Escape" in their winter 2017 issue
If you go to this link
you will read a poem I wrote. Hope you enjoy!
My poem "Summer Job" was published by Pine Mountain Sand
& Gravel: Appalachia Under Thirty, vol. 19,
2016.
To purchase copies of the annually themed journal, go to sawconline.net
or contact Donna via donna@donnaisaacpoet.com
The University of Missouri at Kansas City, BkMk Press,
recently announced the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. My poetry
manuscript was honored as a finalist for this award.
My poem "Venus, Later" won first place in the Dakota County
Library's Adult Poetry Contest.
The winning works were published on this website: www.co.dakota.mn.us/libraries
by June 18th, 2015.
Click on Poetry to read my poem and the other winning
poems.
My poem "Visitors" was published in Pine
Mountain Sand & Gravel, Volume 18
the literary journal of the Southern Appalachian Writers
Cooperative at the beginning of June 2015.
Copies of the journal are $12.00 and can be purchased through pmsg.journal@gmail.com
"I Want to Go Out" won honorable mention in the Bloomington City
Poetry Contest.
"Wedding" was an acknowledged achievement.
Winners of the contest were honored at the Creekside Community
Center in Bloomington
Aug. 16th, 2014 from 4:00-6:00 P.M.
Reception and readings
The poems was featured on bloomingtonmn.gov
beginning in Sept. 2014.
"The Candle of Memory" and "West Virginia: 12 Steps"
These poems were in the October edition of White Stag, a
literary/arts magazine.
To purchase the book, go to whitestagpublishing.com.
"Off" Published on Sleet an on-line literary
magazine in the spring 2012 issue
Go to www.sleetmagazine.com
to read it.
"Springs" was published in The Highlands Voice
distributed by West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.
"About Her Losing a Breast" Appears in the February 2012 online
literary magazine, Hospital Drive, published by the
University of Virginia Medical School. Go to http://hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu
to view this work dedicated to Donna's aunt, Janice Bageant.
Dakota County Poetry Anthology
"Shoveling" www.co.dakota.mn.us
Pisgah
Review
"Strength"
Minnesota Arboretum Calendar
2010-2011
Sponsored by Writers Rising Up
My poems: "Ode to the
Dragonflies" "Asking" "Turns"
Four
of my poems were featured on Cracked Walnut's first audio
cd, vol. 1, "Departures," found at www.crackedwalnut.com.
The
poems are entitled: "How Precious Did That Grace Appear,"
"Facts," "Off My Feed," and "I Want to Go Out."
All of the poetry revolves around
the theme of loss, leaving, and death.
My poem "Nativity: Four Years
Later" was published in the Cancer
Poetry Project book.
Go to www.cancerpoetryproject.com
for full information and to purchase the book.
My poetry capstone "Sustenance"
received Outstanding Poetry Thesis 2007 from Hamline
University.
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