GENDER: Two Novellas in Verse
Anne Harding Woodworth’s eighth book, Gender: Two Novellas in Verse was published in October 2022. You can get it here, along with some of my other books, and here, as well as at your usual places.
“Gender is a thought-provoking pair of novellas that artfully convey profound ideas using a mix of free verse, form, and rhyme. . . . a heartwarming pair of stories with a unique voice and a keen perspective on gender that is earnest and meaningful.” (Literary Titan)
See Anne’s interview at Literary Titan here.
“Gender . . . is phenomenal—compelling, fascinating, complex, and meaningful, leaving you deeply introspective as you contemplate the story’s deeper meaning.” (Jennie Moore for Readers’ Favorite).
“[Harding Woodworth] has constructed both intriguing stories using leaps in time, dynamic changes of scene, inner thought among her diverse characters—all in a poetic framework . . . [She] has created two worthy worldviews in which gender roles are mixed as much as matched . . .” (review by Barbara Bamberger Scott at Feathered Quill Book Reviews)
(See Anne’s Feathered Quill Interview here)
“. . . the intended connection [between the two novellas] is to show us how some people slip out of the category they’re given, thereby creating new possibilities for human relations.” (Independent Book Review—read the whole interview by writer Tucker Lieberman here)
Harding Woodworth is a member of the Board of Governors at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA, and of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., where she and her husband live when they are not at their cabin in the mountains of Western North Carolina. You can find Anne on FaceBook (Anne Harding Woodworth), Twitter (@aesopseagles), and instagram (annehardingwoodworthpoet).
Books and Chapbooks
by Anne Harding Woodworth
For more information on Anne’s books, go to the "Books" page.
Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (Atmosphere Press, October 2022) Amazon.com
Trouble (Turning Point, 2020)
The Eyes Have It (Turning Point, 2018)
Unattached Male (Poetry Salzburg, 2014)
Artemis Sonnets, Etc. (Turning Point, 2011)
Spare Parts (Turning Point, 2008)
The Mushroom Papers (Northwoods Press, 2002)
Guide to Greece and Back (Lycabettus Press, 1978)
The Spare Parts Saga (chapbook, Turning Point, 2024)
The Last Gun (Cervena Barva Press, 2016)
Herding (Cervena Barva Press, 2014)
Up From the Root Cellar (Cervena Barva Press, 2006)
Aesops Eagles (Northwoods Press, 2001)
Trouble
Cover by Harvey Mudd
Harding Woodworth’s seventh book of poetry, Trouble, appeared in the fall of 2020 (Turning Point Books). In January of 2022, Trouble received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry.
"Wit, humor, irony, formal invention; all flourish in these richly evocative poems, ranging from infancy through senescence.” Werner Gundersheimer
"In the opening poem of Trouble, as the 80-year-old speaker named Hannah meditates on death and various ways of committing suicide, she says, ‘Euphemisms are the result of embarrassment.’ Anne Harding Woodworth’s poems never blush and turn away.” Katie Manning
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The Artemis Sonnets, Etc.
Photo Credit: Hal Looney
Cover photo by Hal Looney
"Here the ground is dappled and rich with mystery and meaning, intelligence and implication. At her best, alongside her keen ear and obvious talent, Harding Woodworth knows well how to make a poem sing and continue singing though the multiple levels of whatever refrain she traverses."
René Ashley
"Woven into this stunning book of poems is the quiet telling of a modern marriage which splits in tow while its teller, who is American becomes firmly wedded forever to its locale, which is Greece." Rod Jellema
The Eyes Have It
Cover photo by Gayle Krughoff
"These are poems to wander slowly among, richly literate and quirkily human poems that invite you to contemplate sight and seeing in new and illuminating ways."
Katherine E. Young
"Harding Woodworth is a superbly visual poet. No less sharp of ear than of eye. Hers is a penetrating free-verse gaze—not without a dash of rhyme now and again—onto the kaleidoscope chips of the 'real world’s' surface reality . . ."
Norman R. Shapiro
“How rare to find a thematically integrated collection that does not proceed by lockstep! In spare, graceful mostly-free-verse poems whose complexity derives from depth and range rather than from obscurity of expression, Harding Woodworth explores all kinds of seeing.” Rebecca Foust
“Anne Harding Woodworth has an eternal impulse to explore what she notices, to peer beneath and into it, to extrapolate from it." Nancy Meneely