Barbara Pelman

Poet & Teacher

Barbara Pelman is an award-winning poet, and a teacher with over thirty years’ experience in high schools and universities. She has conducted poetry workshops in her home, in schools, and in with teachers. 

brief and endless sea new

The poems in A Brief and Endless Sea…address a lifetime of lovers, loves, and losses with vitality and a piercing presence. 

Tonya Lailey

borrowed rooms

These poems, spare and nuanced, explore the borrowed rooms we inhabit in personal relationships.

Ronsdale Press

Pelman’s Narrow Bridge is a musical ode to life, aging, acceptance, and rebirth in three parts.

Skylar Kay

One Stone

Lyrical poems map the reconstruction of a woman’s life after an exodus from a twenty-year marriage.

Ekstasis Editions, 2005

She knows

to be without desire

 is to be contained…”

– From “Hunger”, One Stone