Penny Harter

Here are links to a number of my poems available online at other web sites. Please note that web pages on other sites each open in a new window or a new tab, depending on your browser settings. Journal-title or organizational links take you to each web site's home page. Book-title links take you to information on and sample poems from the indicated books. (The full URLs are duplicate links for individual poems, provided for optimum accessibility.)

New! My poem "Witness" won an Honorable Mention in the Barbara Mandingo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, online at <http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/awards-&-contests/bmk-contest/2007-winners.htm#poem2>

New! "At the Sea's Edge", from my book Along River Road, heads the table of contents of the Autumnal 2007 issue of Sea Stories, the journal of the Blue Ocean Institute, at http://www.seastories.org/Autumnal07/entries/harter.html.

New! "Archaeology", from my forthcoming book, The Night Marsh, appears online in the Fall/Winter 2007-2008 issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review, at <http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/harterarchaeology.html>

New! Three poems from my January 2008 book, The Night Marsh, appear online in the Fall 2007 issue of Umbrella, at <http://www.umbrellajournal.com/fall2007/poetry/PennyHarter.html>.

"Whale Song", from my book Turtle Blessing, is published online in the Autumnal 2006 issue of Sea Stories, the journal of the Blue Ocean Institute, at <http://www.seastories.org/autumnal_content/harter_whalesong.html>.

"Whale Heat", from my book Lizard Light, is published online in the Autumnal 2006 issue of Sea Stories, the journal of the Blue Ocean Institute, at <http://www.seastories.org/autumnal_content/harter_whaleheat.html>.

"For a Bottle-Nosed Dolphin off the New Jersey Coast" appeared in the anthology Under a Gull's Wing, and is published online in the Autumnal 2006 issue of Sea Stories, the journal of the Blue Ocean Institute, at <http://www.seastories.org/autumnal_content/harter_bottle_nosed.html>.

"The Night Sky" is another poem from my book Lizard Light, here on the publisher's web site at <http://www.shermanasher.com/poetry.html#night>.

"To My Daughter in Her Father's House" originally appeared in Mothering Magazine, and is now on their web site at <http://www.mothering.com/sections/poems/daughter.html>.

"Evening rain"—one of my prize-winning haiku—is published with a lovely commentary by Christopher Herold on the web site of the e-zine The Heron's Nest at <http://www.theheronsnest.com/haiku/0302V7935/thn_rc_2.html>.

In the meantime, you may be interested in reading sample pages with other poems from my published books, available from the links on my Publications page. If you have questions, you are welcome to contact me. Thanks for stopping by! Penny Harter