Poetry. "'This is about what turns up,' writes Sally Ashton in SOME ODD AFTERNOON. What turns up may be the 'dangedy-dang twang' of a banjo, a laptop hiding under a hoop skirt, or a living room that becomes a forest of grandfathers, one 'a log, another stone, one a river.' To step into the opening line of one of her poems is to venture out into a future as uncertain and marvelous as the one unfolding before the youngest son in a fairy tale. We understand how wide the world is when Attention, freed from its daily constraints, becomes a wanderer"--Nils Peterson.

Author City: LOS GATOS, CA USA

Sally Ashton, is a poet, writer and editor of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. She is author of SOME ODD AFTERNOON (BlazeVOX Books, 2009) Her Name Is Juanita (Kore Press, 2009), and These Metallic Days (Main Street Rag, 2005). Poems also appear in AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM (Firewheel Editions, 2009) and BREATHE: 101 CONTEMPORARY ODES (C&R Press, 2009) as well as journals such as Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, 5am, Mississippi Review, and Poet Lore. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship, Poetry, from Arts Council Silicon Valley and has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. Ashton earned her MFA at Bennington Writing Seminars. Besides workshops, she teaches creative writing at San Jose State University and lives in Los Gatos, California. She blogs at www.poetryonastick.blogspot.com.

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