Pamela Uschuk
Pamela Uschuk has written three books of poems, Finding Peaches in the Desert, One-legged Dancer, and Scattered Risks (Wings Press, 2005). She has a spoken word CD, Finding Peaches in the Desert, with music by Chameleon and Joy Harjo. New and selected poems are due out of Sampark Press in New Delhi. Her most recent chapbooks are Blood Flower, featured at The Drunken Boat, and Heartbeats in Stones (Cod Hill Press, 2005). She is recipient of the Struga International Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award (National League of American Pen Women), and the Tucson/Pima Writing Award. Her work has been translated into several languages, and she is editor of Cutthroat, A Journal of The Arts.
She makes her home with the writer William Pitt Root, and their two dogs, Happy and Lulu.
For more on Pamela Uschuk, see
- Wings Press's review of Finding Peaches in the Desert
- Sample poems at Poems Niederngass
- Bio, poems, and critical commentary at Colorado Poets Center
- Her essay "Listening Without Distraction: Sustainability in Little Tibet" at Terrain.org
- "A Siberian Cold Front Takes Over the Last Week of April" at Arabesques
- The Pamela Uschuk Archives at Tucson Weekly
Meacham Readings
- 1. Select a reading (Requires QuickTime)
- Saturday, February 24, 2007
- Friday, March 31, 2006