Amazon.com Category:  Poetry Publisher: Sun Rising Poetry Press ISBN-10:  193324223X Pages: 196 Copyright: Mar 2006 The fallout of hurricanes Katrina and Rita have left most of us shaking with a new awareness about devastation, poverty, and how fleeting life can be. Soft cover, 196 pages, Sun Rising Poetry Press. Excerpt The Vagaries of Nature, Arrogance of Man refusing to leave his dog a floating man shakes his head moving away from the chopper the poison in the river blinding him to the dangers his dog has already faced pluckrd from a slow death by starvation many will think themselves rescued harbouring wickedness within each cell exposed to the vagaries of nature and the arrogance of man

Washing the Color of Water Golden
Washing the Color of Water Golden is a book that begins with Hurricane Katrina and ends, if it ends at all, in a new New Orleans, braver, smarter, and stronger for having gone through a terrible tragedy. Featured In Washing the Color of Water Golden, are fifty-five poets who were in various places when Katrina and Rita hit, and whose clarity of vision challenge us to repair our psyches, our national response plans, and our southern states.

Contirbutors include: Daniel Arsyn, Kelvin Bueckert, Mike Burch, Ginger Bush, Mike Cavanagh, Patricia Cresswell,Darin Cox, karyne de contreras, Echoes Ezzrai,John Gagnon, Linda Gayton, Michael Graber,Christine Hamm, T.S. Kerrigan, Kathy Kubik, Terry Lowenstein, Prasenjit Maiti, Yvette Merton,Corey Mesler, Alex Nodopaka, Kyle Richtig,Don Schaeffer, Trish Shields, Durlabh Singh,Monica Ellen Smith, Cheryl Snell with art by Janet Snell, Dan Stafford, Nikki Stewart,Brigit Truex, Lisa Zaran

Proceeds from the Sale of this book will will go toward Katrina Hurricane Relief and will benefit the surviors.

Kathy Kubik