ryki zuckerman

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Her poems have appeared in Black Mountain College II Review, Slipstream, Home Planet News, Steel Bellow, Swift Kick, Lips, Paunch, Pure Light, The Buffalo News, Artvoice, poetry superhighway, Moondance, and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in A Celebration of Western New York Poets (White Buffalo Publications, 2014), Brigid's Fire (CSIPP, 2011), and the Mo' Joe anthology (Beatlick Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2014).  Her poems have appeared as Broadsides for Serendipity Arts and also for the Tea Leaves Collection. She has done readings at many local venues, as well as on spoken arts programs on WNED-TV, WBFO-FM, WHLD-AM (AudibleInk Radio), and thinktwiceradio. In 2009 she was the featured reader for the Poetry Collection of the University of Buffalo at the Butler Mansion. She is a  longtime co-editor of Earth's Daughters magazine. She created, curates, and hosts two literary reading series: the Wordflight at Red Doors Series and the Gray Hair Series.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4e620200.jpg" border=0 width="288" height="288" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>a bright nowhere</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> is a 40 page hand-stitched chapbook.   $10.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                   <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Galant" ><A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT>     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="a bright nowhere"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.50"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="a bright nowhere"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="4.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="a bright nowhere"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>