{"product_id":"rose-petals-falling-in-the-grand-canyon-new-and-selected-poems","title":"Rose Petals Falling in the Grand Canyon: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJan Zlotnik Schmidt\u003c\/strong\u003e is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita at the SUNY New Paltz Department of English. She taught autobiography; creative writing; and American, contemp-orary, women’s, and Holocaust literature. She also taught writing at Life Spring Institute in Saugerties, NY.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003eHer work is published in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review, Memoir (and), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/the-orchards-poetry-journal-summer-2025?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=055d2664c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Orchards Poetry Journal\u003c\/a\u003e, Westchester Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eand elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e Her poetry is Pushcart-nominated and anthologized in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAn Apple in Her Hand\u003c\/i\u003e (Codhill Press) and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRethinking the Ground Rules\u003c\/i\u003e (Mediacs Books). Jan is a frequent reader of her poetry at venues in the Hudson Valley.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003eHer volumes include \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eWe Speak\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ein Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e (Edwin Mellen Press, 1991), \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eShe had this me\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003em\u003c\/span\u003eory\u003c\/i\u003e (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000), \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Earth Was Still\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2011). \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHieroglyphs of Father-Daughter Time\u003c\/i\u003e (Word Temple Press), \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eForaging for Light\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eOver the Moon Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini\u003c\/i\u003e (Palooka Press, 2021). Her latest, coauthored with Tana Miller, is \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/joseph-cornell-the-man-who-loved-sparrows?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=055d2664c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eJoseph Cornell: The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eMan Who Loved Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2024). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003eShe also has two autobiographical essay collections: \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eWomen\/ Writing\/Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e (SUNY Press, 1998) and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eWise Women: Reflections of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eTeachers at Mid-Life,\u003c\/i\u003e coauthored with Dr. Phyllis R. Freeman (Routledge, 2000). With Laurence Carr, she co-authored an anthology of women’s writing from the Hudson Valley\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e: A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valle\u003c\/i\u003ey (Codhill, 2013), which won the USA Best Book Award for an anthology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: -.1pt;\"\u003ePaperback: 126 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (August 21, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54004466319544,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/jschmidt_front.jpg?v=1787976289","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/rose-petals-falling-in-the-grand-canyon-new-and-selected-poems","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}