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<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>FootHills Publishing</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills Publishing"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gelineau"><U>Gelineau</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Darling, Morton"><U>Darling, Morton</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Czarnecki"><U>Czarnecki</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ruggieri, Pruitt, Memmer"><U>Ruggieri, Pruitt, Memmer</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Huff"><U>Huff</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Desire Vail"><U>Desire Vail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bruce Bennett"><U>Bruce Bennett</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Czury"><U>Czury</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Conners"><U>Conners</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gilman"><U>Gilman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="M J Iuppa"><U>M J Iuppa</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sweet"><U>Sweet</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brown"><U>Brown</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arsenault"><U>Arsenault</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leuzzi"><U>Leuzzi</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saling"><U>Saling</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MacPherson"><U>MacPherson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Good"><U>Good</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harrier"><U>Harrier</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coffman"><U>Coffman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Donaghy"><U>Donaghy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coon"><U>Coon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OBrien"><U>O'Brien</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Merrifield"><U>Merrifield</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Allardt"><U>Allardt</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Battelle, Loiselle"><U>Battelle, Loiselle</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gell Center Anthology"><U>Gell Center Anthology</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ouzoonian"><U>Ouzoonian</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Myers"><U>Myers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id81.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Courington"><U>Courington</U></A>   |   <B>Betten</B>   |   <A HREF="id86.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HillKaucher"><U>Hill-Kaucher</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact FHP"><U>Contact FHP</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Hanging Out</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With Loose</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Words</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>M.R. Betten</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="23037de0.jpg" border=0 width="311" height="478" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> Mary Rose Betten is a character actress seen often on tv, film and stage.  Her works as a  published playwright include:  PEOPLE OF THE PASSION, THE BAR OFF MELROSE and MARY M.  She has written and performed her own comedy routines on network television, won the coveted CLIO award for comedic work in TV commercials and is currently completing a collection of short stories.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Mary Rose Betten's poems have a voice that is playfully dramatic, slightly wicked, and absolutely her own.  With imagination and insight, she casts time, desire, and memory in starring roles, and graciously provides poets their own paparazzi.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c009700f00000bf01.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="18" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chryss Yost</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Chryss Yost is an editor of </div> <div> "Poetry Daily" and "California Poetry."</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Mary Rose Betten, in her poems, is hilarious and brave; and I bet that's the way she behaves in her "real life," too. Whether she's telling us what it's like to be a character actress or a learned theologian's wife, or asking us if we're also troubled by "the grandmotherly tone" of the instructions on seed packets, or sharing with us her defiance and acceptance of the aging process - "I'm a/Been there/Done that/Never can be too fat/Crone," whose "hair is a color God never meant it to be ...," who wears "shoes only an elephant could love" - or describing the complicated joy and sorrow of mothering - "the leaf of my own tree/The pistol of my blood red flower/Sweet force of life declaring life" - her voice is tender and wry and human, straight-forward and full of surprises.  She pulls no punches and she takes no prisoners.  I, for one, am glad she's on the planet.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>-  Cecilia Woloch</B></div> <bR> <div> Cecilia Woloch's books include:</div> <div> LATE - (BOA Editions Limited, 2003)</div> <div> SACRAFICE - (Cahuenga Press 1997)</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Count Your Brown Spots</B></div> <bR> <div> One for loss</div> <div> Two for change</div> <div> Three for uncertainty</div> <div> Four for strange</div> <bR> <div> They offer  </div> <div> Drama</div> <div> Conflict</div> <div> Mystery</div> <div> Storytellers take your pick</div> <bR> <div> So Jupiter is huge</div> <div> So they found canals on Mars</div> <div> Brown spots match the fruited planes.</div> <div> They are the stuff of stars</div> <div>  </div> <div> Study their shape</div> <div> Make them dance</div> <div> Sing them a song</div> <div> Induce a trance</div> <bR> <div> They're festive    </div> <div> So capricious</div> <div> Natures very own confetti</div> <div> At the brown spot pageant</div> <div> I won first prize</div> <div> For a spot that looked </div> <div>      just like </div> <div>      Ted Kennedy  </div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-55-5</div> <bR> <div> <B>Hanging Out With Loose Words</B> is a 36 page hand-sewn chapbook - $8.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <B>Hanging Out With Loose Words  </B>ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <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="Hanging Out With Loose Words"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-24"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. 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