Kodiak Herbal, February 2008

Mary did such an amazing job on my book cover. I have had a great time giving readings here and there, selling my chapbook, talking to kindred spirits about poetry. Some of the work in this collection is quite old, and was written when I lived in very remote Alaska from 1996-1999, before I moved to California. My husband Nick worked as a fish culturist for the National Marine Fisheries Service at Alaska's oldest field research station, Little Port Walter. We were on the southern tip of Baranof Island, near a fishing town called Port Alexander. The year-round population at LPW was four humanoids. When my daughter Naomi was born, the population increased to five humanoids. We got our groceries and mail once a week (more seldom in the winter) by float plane. I spent my first winter pregnant, my second with an infant, my third with a toddler. I wrote the poems in order to stay connected to the world around me. And to keep from watching The Shining over & over.

Welcome to MaCaHu Press!

Thanks for visiting our blog. We came up with our name based on the first two letters of each of our given names: MAry (Behm-Steinberg), CAroline (Goodwin) and HUgh (Behm-Steinberg). Each year we publish 1-2 titles by a variety of writers (both sung and not-sung-enough) for your reading pleasure.

We currently have four titles available:

Kodiak Herbal by Caroline Goodwin $10
Two Museums by Paula Cisewski $10
The Great Wheel by Hugh Behm-Steinberg $15
Camouflage by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson $10

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