Book Giveaway For Black Birds: Blue Horse

[close] Black Birds : Blue Horse is a poetic elegy in memory of Nicole Dial, who was killed in the Logar Province of Afghanistan on August 13, 2008 while working for the International Rescue Committee. It was selected by David St. John as the winner of the 2011 Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition in Poetry.

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Natalie Peeterse has an MFA from the University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Sonora Review and Strange Machine, among other journals. Her poems have appeared in I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (Lost Horse Press) and other anthologies. She has been a fellow with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a participant at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and was most recently an artist in residence at the Caldera Institute in central Oregon. She lives in Missoula, MT with her family. [close]