JERRY WEMPLE

New Work

a poetry collection and two anthologies

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We Always Wondered What Became of You from Broadstone Books, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award

 

• This compelling memoir related in (mostly) prose poems, begins with  “a black-haired, brown-skin boy delivered by a woman with a German name and no explanation at all” surrendered to Saint Joseph’s Foundlings Home and Maternity Hospital in a “foundering hard-coal city” in Pennsylvania. As the narrator moves on, he struggles with issues of belonging and not belonging, of race, and finally, of resolution. 

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Rivers, Ridges, and Valleys from Catamount Press

 

• This collection of 27 essays by a variety of writers reflects the variety of experiences found in rural PA. The book is co-edited with AD Stuart. ​

 

Keystone Poetry

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• A follow-up to 2005's Common Wealth, this volume features work by  182 poets from every region in the state. The book is co-edited with Marjorie Maddox. ​​