Cool Women Cut Second CD

2010-08-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

Cool Women have just recorded their second CD: Cool Women in Their Element, 36 poems, $15. To purchase a copy, contact Cool Women, lmharrod1@verizon.net.

Upcoming Readings

2010-08-15T08:25:00.000-07:00

Cool Women

2008-08-03T11:07:00.000-07:00

Who We Are

Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Carolyn Foote Edelmann (poet emeritus), Lois Marie Harrod, Betty Lies, Joyce Greenberg Lott, Judy Michaels, Penelope Scambly Schott

Cool Women, a poetry critique group founded in 1995 by Carolyn Foote Edelmann and Betty Lies, has been performing since Valentine's Day, 2000. Known for their sassy poetry readings from Princeton, New Jersey, to Portland, Oregon, they have been called "bold, insightful and provocative" as well as "zesty, protean and prodigious." Terry Blackhawk writes "the weaving of poetic voices is remarkable, raising a single luminous canopy" above its separate authors.

Although each poet has her own strong voice, Cool Women think of themselves as a group in which the communal enriches the individual. So collectively, Cool Women have been married 16 times, and have l8 children and l8 grandchildren. They have written 46 books and chapbooks, appeared in 46 anthologies beond the 4 volumes published by Cool Women Press, and published over 1000 poems in literary journal and online. They have sold cosmetics at Macy's in Hearld Square, made donuts at a cider mill, designed children's clothes, catered weddings and photographed public restrooms. They avoid, when possible, ironing, vacuuming and scrubbing toilets.

Cool Women

2008-08-03T10:53:00.000-07:00