Living With Haints
Tiger Bark Press – 2024
In these new poems of both “mastery” and “mystery,” Georgia A. Popoff, “witness to the natural order,” speaks of longing and regret with honesty and precision: “the ways a bed is carefully made / each morning to ward off any trace of intimacy.” Or, at times, doesn’t speak of such things: “what we don’t say / is our most tender history.” With humor, with a nod to “memory in all its chicanery,” Living with Haints offers sensual pleasures and memorable moments, as in the wonderful “Hindsight” with its punning title: “The men I loved were once so pretty… // Asses tight as their hearts. / And oh, their hair, their hair.” Doesn’t that “oh” hurt so good? Popoff is a poet of such modest and winning gestures.
—Michael Waters
To order: https://www.tigerbarkpress.com/catalog/p/living-with-haints-popoff
Psychometry
Tiger Bark Press – 2019
Ten years to fruition, Psychometry is a collection of four cycles of poems, Psychometry, Epistle, Voice, and I Am. The first three sections are in persona, speaking of and with women voices throughout generations, through the extraordinary and the every day.
To order: https://www.tigerbarkpress.com/catalog/p/popoff-psychometry
Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities
Tiger Bark Press – 2015
Psalter gives voice to its central character, Joy, who questions, observes, rants, worries, and marvels at the human condition as she navigates daily life.
“Psalter is poetry of uncommon surprises. The varied landscape of these poems are compelling, urgent and tender. The poems walk with melodic insight in a neighborhood of life. Being human has an edginess, and these are lively edges.” – Michael Burkard
To order: https://www.tigerbarkpress.com/catalog/p/popoff-psalter
The Doom Weaver
Main Street Rag Publications – 2008
This second volume, released in Spring 2008, offers a poignant personal statement of womanhood in the 21st century.
“These poems of plain statement and often incandescent images, of ironic detachment and helpless commitment, offer uncanny assessments of life and lives, love and family. They move with a dancer’s grace out to the edge and back in again. The Doom Weaver is an impressive collection by a poet of real accomplishment.” – Charles Martin
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Coaxing Nectar From Longing
Hale Mary Press – 1997
Now out of print, but often available pre-owned online, this first collection is the early work of Georgia A. Popoff, representing the first 25 years of her life as a poet.
Out of print but frequently available on line through third-party vendors.
Our Difficult Sunlight:
Poetry, Literacy and Social Justice in Classroom & Community
Teachers & Writers Collaborative – 2011
In Our Difficult Sunlight, Georgia A. Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana demonstrate the power of poetry in the K-12 classroom. Drawing on their combined 30 years as teaching artists, the authors explore the terrain of the 21st-century public school and outline strategies for using the reading and creation of poetry to improve students’ reading comprehension and writing skills.
Highlighting best practices, exercises, and anecdotes rooted in their diverse experiences as a Chicago-based, African American poet/professor and a Caucasian poet/educator from upstate New York, Lansana and Popoff offer insights into how engaging young people in writing and sharing poetry can break down barriers to learning, aid in exploration of critical issues, and foster connections among students and teachers from very different backgrounds.
Our Difficult Sunlight was a finalist for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Instructional Literature.
Available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0915924285/
The Whiskey of Our Discontent:
The Whiskey of Our Discontent:
Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent
Haymarket Books – 2017
Released in June 2017 to mark the 100th anniversary of the seminal American poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, this collection of personal and scholarly essays from nearly 30 contributors examines the impact of Ms. Brooks on American literature, African American letters, and our collective arts and culture through various lenses: race, class, gender, community, and poetic craft. Edited by Georgia A. Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana, with foreword by Sonia Sanchez.
The Whiskey of Our Discontent was recognized as the 2017 Central New York Book Award winner for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2017 Chicago Book Award in nonfiction.
Available in paperback and ebook: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/986-the-whiskey-of-our-discontent
Also now available through Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Whiskey-of-Our-Discontent-Audiobook/B082XJ4MX8