Pamela Uschuk
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Blood Flower reissue: May 29, 2025, Red Hen Press
Refugee, May 10, 2022, Red Hen Press
Starred Review, Kirkus, 01/23. Listed by Orion Magazine as one of 14 recommended books of poetry in 2022.
Blood Flower, February 1, 2015, Wings Press, BOOKLIST STARRED NOTABLE BOOK
Wild In The Plaza of Memory, 2012, Wings Press
Crazy Love, AMERICAN BOOK AWARD, 2010, Wings Press
Scattered Risks, Wings Press, 2005
One Legged Dancer, Wings Press, 2002
FInding Peaches In The Desert, Wings Press, 2000, TUCSON-PIMA LITERATURE AWARD
Order Books: Antigone Books, Maria's, Elk River Books, Union Street, Homer Books, & Powell's Books & from the author. Or www.redhen.org
POETRY COLLECTIONS
UPCOMING EVENTS 2025-2026
AMERICAN BOOK AWARD
Thank you, everyone, for funding my Kickstarter Project: HOPE'S CRAZED ANGELS: An Odyssey Through Ovarian Cancer.
GREEN FLAME
Slender as my ring finger, the female hummingbird crashed
into plate glass separating her and me
before we could ask each other’s name. Green flame,
she launched from a dead eucalyptus limb.
Almost on impact, she was gone, her needle beak
opening twice to speak the abrupt language of her going,
taking in the day’s rising heat as I took
one more scalding breath, horrified by death’s velocity.
Too weak from chemo not to cry
for the passage of her emerald shine,
I lifted her weightlessness into my palm.
Mourning doves moaned, who, who,
oh who while her wings closed against the tiny body
sky would quick forget as soon as it would forget mine.
Appeared in Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day, April, 2020.
From, REFUGEE, Red Hen Press
Listen to this interview done by Leslie Tate with Pam in Feb. 2017 https://leslietate.com/2017/02/2980/
Pamela edited and published Truth to Power in 2017 and Taking Liberties in 2025 as responses to the 2016 and 2024 Presidential Elections. It features 119 American writers, including Rita Dove, Carolyn Forche, Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natalie Diaz, Martin Espada, Luis Alberto Urrea, Octavio Quintanilla, Alberto Rios, Linda Hogan, and more. She published the 357 page Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century in 2020, edited by Luis Alberto Urrea, Octavio Quintanilla, Carmen Tafolla, Beth Alvarado and Edward Vidaurre. Her laterst collaboration with Black Earth Institute is Through The Ash,, New Leaves--100 writers (Camille Dungy, J. Drew Lanham, Linda Hogan, CMarie Fuhrman, Joy Harjo, Richard Jackson, Rita Dove and more addressing the Climate Crisis. Puro Chicanx, Through the Ash and Taking Liberties are projects sponsored by Cutthroat and by Black Earth Institute. Purchase all three anthologies at:
NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEW'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023! ORDER FROM RED HEN PRESS NOW!
Pam was 2024 PEARL S. BUCK VISITING WRITER, RANDOLPH COLLEGE, LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA
August 14th, Pine River Library, generative poetry workshop
August 21st, Elk River Books, Livingston, Mt.
September 30, Arizona Poetry Society, Zoom workshop
October 21st, Historic Y Theater, TAKING LIBERTIES reading, 5-7 p.m,
University of Arizona Poetry Center, Saturdays in January, 2026 generative poetry workshop, Against Disease
