Local Poet's First Chapbook

Congratulations to Celeste Thompson, a local poet and PSU publishing student. Her first poetry chapbook, Rabbit Fur Purse, is being published by Finishing Line Press and will be released on December 8, 2006.

"Self-deprecating, funny, tender, careless, and incredibly caring, Celeste Thompson offers a refreshing new voice in Northwest poetry. Here is a world of food, jawbones, dogs, and furniture animated in absurd and very smart ways—and always on the line's light music. There are also wonderful human connections here between slugs and mothers, scandalous graffiti and Queen Nefertiti, disease and love. Most of all there's the courage to confess utter bewilderment and the profound revelation that her religion seems to be poetry." ~Henry Hughes, winner of the Oregon Book Award for his poetry collection, Men Holding Eggs

If you would like to take a closer look at this wonderful collection of poetry, go to: www.finishinglinepress.com. You can purchase a copy of Rabbit Fur Purse for $12, with free shipping if you buy it before November 15, 2006.