Judith Skillman - Poet
Judith at Mt. Rainier, WA USA Judith Skillman

The author of eleven books of poems. Her work has appeared in Field, The Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals.

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New Book of Poems Available Now

Image of Judith Skillman's new book - Prisoner of the Swifts
These poems "render in iridescence" the mortal lives, with their windows onto eternity, of us all. --Carolyne Wright

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Or you can order directly from the publisher at Ahadada Books

Prisoner of the Swifts
by Judith Skillman
96 pp, 2009, ISBN # 978-0-9811704-7-3

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Judith Skillman on National Public Radio 

A discussion of 3 summer poems

(Audiocast from KUOW)


Review of Heat Lightning in THE CORTLAND REVIEW

By David Rigsbee, in Issue 41, November 2008

Judith Skillman in Centrum Magazine

Reading and Writing @ Centrum, an online magazine

Forthcoming in 2010:


Recent Publications:

Inertia Magazine   


Flatiron, A Foreign Beer Garden,
and Picassos Toad (with audio)
Roadkill Logo

Field Mouse
Ahadada Logo
Anne-Marie Derése in Translation
& The Green Parrot

Liking Chicago

A Cadence of Hooves

from
Yarroway Mountain Press
Iowa Review Logo



Upcoming Readings

  • Elliott Bay Books, Judith reads from her new book “Prisoner of the Swifts”
        with Michael Spence — new book Crush Depth
    Saturday, July 18th 2009 - 7:30 pm at 


Poem of the Month - June

The Trundle Bed

No one’s been here since she left it as it was:
made up in flannel sheets, tightly tucked,
hospital corners tri-folded, embossed
 
with iron-clad will.  Inside out, not caring
how the others saw her, she’d work the least
child over until it was hell-bent on crying.
 
Demons of oncoming night, nostalgia
welling up in pastel colors from that one’s
throat, salt-lipped.  Hostess to the last, words dripping
 
with slights, hands welded to broom-whipped frenzies.
No one’s stayed on here since she left us.
A room can’t swab its own coat of dust.
 
And that one who stayed up all night still lies
close to the burnished floor of her housekeeping,
alongside the bronzed horn of Reveille.


Copyright Judith Skillman 2009


Book Reviews

You can read reviews of Skillman's books.
 

Poetry Editing Service

Finishing Your Poetry Manuscript: Theme, Revision, & Marketing

Will assist authors with in-depth revision, explore marketing strategies for the work in progress and create a manuscript that is more than the sum of its parts.

In addition, Judith will critique individual poems.

To query or sign up e-mail judith.skillman@comcast.net or call (425) 235-0504 or (425) 785-7507.