Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees

A gardener tends her vegetables and flowers while devising a way to manage her burgeoning chipmunk problem. A daughter pens a letter to her dead father. Jesus saunters into hot yoga and dazzles the assembled practitioners. Three sisters play on their swing set in the middle of the night. In these-and other-poems from Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees women support cheer challenge and ultimately sustain each other. Just the Girls celebrates women and what it means to be connected to the female whole.Advance Praise: Just the Girls is a poetic celebration of female friendship. In brilliantly created portraits of a family of sisters aunts mothers and daughters Anderson gives us a close look at the many ways in which women matter to each other. Maggie Anderson author of Dear All Were in the presence of a poet with an ear for how language shapes our worlds and an eye alert to the details that make those worlds real to us. What a splendid moving collection of lyrics! Dr. Steven Reese authorExcentrica: Notes on the TextPam Andersons work is smart sensitive and at times wonderfully wry. Thomas Dukes poet and authorAnderson gives our everyday lives a voice that is rich and cuts to the quick. She has a gift for articulating the beauties and mysteries of our lives in poetry that will leave you wanting more. Diane Laney Fitzpatrick author and social media strategistThese poems are a poignant catalog of what we learn from girls and women inspiration and cautionary tale and our complicated memories of domestic life. Karen Schubert author of The Compost Reader