Portals Press of New Orleans, Lousiana, announces the publication of The Women at the Well, a new collection of poems from Lincoln poet Grace Bauer. A native of Pennsylvania who lived for several years in New Orleans, she is also the author of Where You've Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press, 1993) and The House Where I've Never Lived (Anabiosis P, 1993). She's a winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, and several other awards and fellowships. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and women's studies at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln.

Robert Graves said Jesus came to declare war on the Female and all her works; I say Grace Bauer has come to fight back.--Martha McFerrin, poet of Women in Cars The Bible will never be the same.--Carole Simmons Oles, author of Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell Click Here to Buy this Book!