Dear Friend,

GREAT NEWS!

Drawing Outside the Lines,my new poetry chapbook, is now 
available.

Here's what Tony Hoagland wrote about it:
 

"The world, according to Ann McGovern, is a fog roamed by these crazy creatures who drink martinis, go on blind dates, mourn and tell jokes. Her poems are witty, wry, punchy, sexual and tough-minded. She has a fine-dashed tuned sense of the strange poetry of this life, its poignant, catastrophic and ribald comedy, and she makes tight, dark, fun poems out of it, featuring us, 'smiling/like we knew what was coming' "

My newest chapbook can be yours for only $13. Please send your check  made out to Ann McGovern and mail to me at 30 East 62nd Street, NYC 10065.

Please let me know how you want your copy inscribed.

You may know me as a children's book author of 55 books, including Stone Soup. After 40 years of success with my children's books, I decided to immerse myself in poetry. Writing  poetry for adults is challenging, frustrating -- and very satisfying.

I read poems every day. I write and rewrite many, many times. I try to find a poem in everything I do, see or think.

My first chapbook: Bribing The Fortune Teller is in its third printing. My second chapbook, Insomnia's Shadows won first prize in Artella’s Poetry Contest. Drawing Outside the Lines is published by the prestigious Finishing Line Press .  Recently I finished my first collection, a manuscript of 60 poems: River of Glass. It’s circulating now to contests and publishers. I’ll keep you posted.

Excitedly,

Ann McGovern