The Traveler's Vade Mecum

Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working today. For poetry lovers and lovers of history.

Author: Helen Klein Ross
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 10/10/2016
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781597092241
ISBN10: 159709224X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | General
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Salmagundi, and in The Iowa Review, where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. Her writing has been anthologized in Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008), Best of Gigantic (2015), and in SHORT: Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms (Persea Books, 2013). Her admiration for those editors has increased during the creation of this anthology.

Helen is the author of two novels and 16,400 tweets. Her most recent book is What Was Mine (Simon & Schuster / Gallery, 2016).

She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and Salisbury, CT.