Native Fruit: Poetry and Fine Art Inspired by the Pawpaw

Native Fruit: Poetry and Fine Art Inspired by the Pawpaw

Edited by Athens, Ohio, Poet Laureate Stephanie Kendrick

ISBN: 9781962405065  $15.00 

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ABOUT THE EDITOR: Stephanie Kendrick is the 2023/24 Athens, Ohio Poet Laureate. She wrote In Any of These Towns (Sheila-Na-Gig editions, 2022) and is the editor of local poetry newsletter, Periodical Poetry. With a Masters in Social Sciences from Ohio University, she serves her local community in a variety of ways, including through her career at the Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities. She has been published in several amazing journals including Gyroscope Review, Still: The Journal, Poets Reading the News, Pudding Magazine, Lunch Bucket Brigade, Sheila-Na-Gig online, and elsewhere.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Native Fruit is bursting with poetry and fine art inspired by one of the region’s most intriguing plants. The pieces in this collection are full of childhood memories, history, social metaphors and halting beauty. Not many fruits evoke a mystery and cult-like fervor quite like the pawpaw. This collection is for anyone who has savored our beloved custard-apple or those who have spat it right out. Although the pawpaw has successfully evaded society’s propensity for mass-production, its grasp on those who know it is captured in the pages of this delightful book.