SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

FICTION, CREATIVE NONFICTION, POETRY

2015-2019, Poems published in Likely Red, Naugatuck River Review, ArtAscent, Light Journal, The Literary Nest, Evening Street Review, Gemini Magazine, Montpelier VT's PoemCity exhibit, and Randolph VT's PoemTown exhibit.

Winner of Gemini Magazine's Open Poetry Prize for 2018: Poem title, "The Internet of Everything."

Participant in Tupelo Press's 30/30 Poetry Project, April 2018...writing a poem each day!

The Space Between Us, chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2018.

“Rubber Man,” inThe Disenfranchised:  Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse dies, ed.  Peggy Sapphire (Baywood Publishing, NY, 2013).

Poems for Tai Chi Players, chapbook, Kattywompus Press, 2013.

"St. Anne's Promises," nonfiction,  Muse & Stone, Winter 2011.

“Out of Place,” nonfiction, Cornfield Review, 1997.

“Frank and Helen,” nonfiction, West Virginia University Literary Review, 1990.

SCHOLARLY WORK

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture (editor; introduction and one essay).  Champaign: U of Illinois P,  2007 (paperback 2009).

Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film (editor; introduction).  N.Y.: Routledge, 2004.

“Community Cookbooks.” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food, ed. Andrew F. Smith.  N.Y.: Oxford UP, 2004.  Vol. 1, 312-15.

“Romanced by Cookbooks.”  Gastronomica 4(2): Spring 2004, 35-42.

The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, reprint of 1958 edition (concept editor; introduction).  Beacon Press, 2000.

“Our Sisters’ Recipes: Exploring Community in a Community Cookbook.”Journal of Popular Culture 31(Winter 1997): 137-51.

Co-authored with Diane Silleck.  “The Colored Ladies of Delaware, Ohio” in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: a Student-Teacher Quest.”  Obsidian II12 (Winter 1997): 156-72.

Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997 (editor; introduction and one essay).

Epistolary Responses: The Letter in 20^th-Century American Fiction and Criticism.  University of Alabama Press, 1996 (monograph).

 “Reading Lessons.”  Quilt Culture: Essays on the Quilt as Metaphor.  Eds. Cheryl Torsney and Judy Elsley.  Univ. of Missouri Press, 1994.

And many articles in journals such as Gastronomica, Journal of the American Culture Assoc, and others.

I love giving poetry readings, either on my own or with other poets. Get in touch if you're interested: anniebower@yahoo.com 

 Swirl

 Why deny

 inner cry

 to reach, plunge, swirl

 refuse sigh

 promote I

 accept mad whirl

 refuse shy

 promote eye

 images unfurl

 doubts rise, die,

 return, fly

 break pattern, kick door,

 slam barefoot though snow

 snap bare branch

 rough twig shards every shade of   tan,

 brown bark

 words fail

 fall