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    Frogs That Sing and Others
    Frogs That Sing and Others
    Frogs That Sing and Others
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    Frogs That Sing and Others

    By Joan McIntosh

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    We and all other animals are closer to each other than we usually think.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbbott Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2012
    ISBN9781458205551
    Frogs That Sing and Others
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    Joan McIntosh

    Joan McIntosh graduated from Beloit College and has a master’s degree in botany from the University of Wisconsin. She was head of the science program at a private school in South Bend, Indiana, before retiring in order to have more time to write. Her poetry has been published in South Dakota Review, Indiannual, Shenandoah, Connecticut River Review, Cumberland Review, and others. She has given readingsat the Noontime Series of the Folger ShakespeareLibrary in Washington, DC; the Naptown InvitationalReading Series at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and atmany schools, churches, and bookstores. Joan was one of twenty poets selected for a two-week workshop in Critz Virginia sponsored by Wake Forest University and Reynolds Tobacco. In February of 2006, Garrison Keillor read her poem “Reading History a Year at a Time” on his Writer’s Almanac radio program.

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      Frogs That Sing and Others - Joan McIntosh

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Part I Here

      A Good Life

      Early One Morning

      Wind or No Wind

      My Apology

      A She-Turtle’s Afternoon

      The Yellow-headed Blackbird

      Finial On The Fence Post

      Wild Cats Near Our Apartment

      Who Is Nice?

      Shrike On The Fence

      Three Worlds

      Frogs That Sing And Others

      Part II There

      Spring At Your Northern Wisconsin Summer Home

      An Unfamiliar Road

      Far Away

      Dream Bells

      Searching for the Scene

      Our New Sky

      Helicopter

      When Did They Know?

      My Lives

      Part III Then

      My Mother’s Birthday

      The Beach At Grandma’s Cabin

      Phone Call To Ginny

      The Distance

      Time Of The Wildwood

      My Mother The Sculptor

      Rainbow

      Meditation

      Part IV Now

      Eighty-fifth Birthday

      Ironing

      Paying Bills At My Sunroom Desk

      For All These Times

      A Visit to the Art Gallery

      These Days A Restlessness

      Stuff

      The Funeral

      Silver

      Sometimes It’s Necessary

      New Year’s Eve

      A Note To An Old Friend Up North

      She Died Two Weeks Ago

      Destinations

      A Gift From Africa

      They Ask: Who Is The Wind?

      Tree Tunnel

      Part V Always

      In Our Eighties Or It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over

      Rituals

      After Love

      The Need to Be Lost

      Wherever We Are

      Shapes and Shadows

      Sunrise

      Forgive The Pencil

      Hello Love

      Days of Joy

      for MAC

      and for my dear family and friends

      and for friends I have not yet met

      Acknowledgements

      "My Lives and Dream Bells" were both published with Honorable Mention by Passager in their 2009 annual poetry contest issue.

      Other poetry books by Joan McIntosh:

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