A Poem from the Book:

The Plover and the Woman with Painted Toes

The long-haired woman with painted toes

is running barefoot across the gritty sand of Seawall Picnic Area

during peak migration at Acadia

She is showing her tiny son

the fun of the run

chasing

a solitary,

Semipalmated

Plover

(2011)

Climate Change, Foothills Publishing, January 2014.

Order information: Copies are available through Martha Deed or through Foothills Publishing.

The Last Collaboration by Martha Deed with Millie Niss, Furtherfield, January 2012 (free online) and updated in book form, June 2012.

Related Writing:

The Buffalo News: Another Voice, August 2011
The Yale Journal for the Humanities in Medicine: Writing for Life, August 2011
Insight : Connecting the Dots: From Family Advocacy to Patient Safety in the Hospital, May 2012
Cell 2 Soul: Selected Poems from the book: Far Side of the Styx, Glass Unicorn, Autopsy, Autopsy 2, The Newest Grave, December 2012
Cell 2 Soul: In Praise of Millie, First Create, March 2013
KevinMD : Survivors of Medical Error Need Crisis Intervention, February 2013
KevinMD : After my daughter's death, I work to prevent other deaths, March 2013
KevinMD : A doctor's attitude toward his older patients, August 2013
And Then : A Child Dying Before Her Time (Deed) and If Only They Read Homer (Niss), Volume 18, 2015

Reviews:

Difficult to read yet hard to put down, [The Last Collaboration] is a memoir that is both a work of art and a textbook, filled with lessons for patients, caregivers and students of contemporary health care systems. Robert S. Holzman, MD

The Last Collaboration is a powerful document from which we can all learn. . . a true “chaos story” and a narrative we can all learn much from. David Elpern, MD

This is medical misadventure laced with anguished prose and cries for help. The collaboration between mother and daughter is deeply personal and worth experiencing for yourself. John James, PhD

Anthologies

Mo' Joe: the Anthology (Editor: John Roche). Beatlick Press, 2014.

Joe the Poet Goes to Mod-Po

Joe the Poet Goes to Maine

Prometheus Chair (Editor: Alan Casline), Rootdrinker Institute, 2013.

The Desperate Woman, Niagara, Door

Le Mot Juste by Just Poets, Foothills Publishing, 2013, 2014, 2015

Visiting a rattlesnake farm

Oscar Silverman Reading at the State University

#6

The Cento (Theresa Welford, Ed.), Red Hen Press, 2011

Misunderestimated Will of Me

River Road

The Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind, Unlikely Stories, September 2010

A Funny Story About Cancer

Love Over 60: an anthology of women's poems, Mayapple Press, 2010

A Coven of Mothers

Voices from the Herd: An Anthology for Buffalo, NY, Doubt It Publishing, 2010

The Flood

Spidertangle Anthology , Edited by mIEKAL aND, Xexoxial Editions, February 2009

Charges, Snowman

Chapbooks

From the Chapbook:

This is not a poem about

. . .

the printer leaking ink across my desk

the scoundrel accountant's mistakes on my aunt's tax returns

the old people our age dying off like flies

the gross weather of this winter that fails to pass in April

the raccoon that did its thing with a fawn under our window,

not even about James Russell Lowell's poem, "The Dead House,"

which was described as falling like a millstone upon the heart . . .

The Water Bill, Benevolent Bird Press, 2014

Order from Benevolent Bird Press, PO Box 522, Delmar, NY 12054

or from Author.

This is Visual Poetry, chapbookpublisher.com, August, 2010

65 x 65 , Peter Ganick's Small Chapbook Project, December 2006
Revised Edition, March 2009.

(Contact mldeed@verizon.net for further information.)

9, {PO25centEM}, Furniture Press, July 2004. Original Printing Sold Out

Mini Chap, 16 Pp. Second printing March 2009 available from author only.

(Contact mldeed@verizon.net for further information.)

Truck

Mustering Out 5 June 1865, April 20, 2014

#3, #11, #16, November 5, 2014

Dead Bird, March 12, 2013

Morris Island Mockingbird, March 19, 2013

On Barcelona

They're Dying Now, On Discussing the Purchase of a New Bird Feeder Whilst Having the Flu, December 19, 2014

Bubble Outside Washington, Flyover, September 2, 2013

Seamus Heaney Reading at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, August 31, 2013

The Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park, January 2013

Upon Reading Mike Basinski's Poetry, January 2013

Climate Change, January 2013

New Verse News

Paris 1974, 2015, January 11, 2015

Dirty People in Business Dress, October 4, 2012

Saying Good-bye to Football, March 12, 2012

Secret Polling Places, May 25, 2011

Marriage Equality, June 28, 2011

Debt Ceiling, August 1, 2011

Duplicity of Sand, February 2, 2014

Visiting the Town Too Tough To Die, The Buffalo News, January 2, 2011

Coyotes (Not a Metaphor), Walls, Visiting a Rattlesnake Farm, Safe from Death, Bird Watching, The West Shore RR, Late Afternoon

Beyond Bones II, September 2010

Illegal Entry, Letters to the World , Edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler,
Red Hen Press, February 2008

Four Renga with Karen Lewis

Dhatu, Winter Toothache, Yellow, Full Flower Moon, LYNX XXI , February 2006

Sour Notes, Edifice Wrecked , Issue Three, July, 2004

Letter of Non-Award, Linda Gives a Party, No Smoking Here

Heaven on Earth, Verse on Vellum , Spring 2004

Illegal Entry, Artvoice , April 1, 2004

First Place Winner, Buffalo/Niagara Ice Boom Poetry Contest, Just Buffalo Literary Center

Three Poems by Martha Deed, Artvoice , December 24, 2003, P. 20.

Fruitcake
Bowmansville, NY
Lake Effect

Muse Interruptus, Martha's Garden , July 2003.

Also as Baby Talk, Moria , February 2004

Untitled, Poetry Shards 1. 2. 3., Blessing for a New Year, The Awakenings Review , Winter 2001. Pp. 89-90.

Snow Haiku (Video, 2011)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, February 14, 2011

Electronic Village Galleries, UK

Skylab/ Avant Poetry Collection, Ohio State University, August 2010

Death, Two Eagles Originally published in This is Visual Poetry by Martha Deed, August 2010

The Lost Shoe (video, 2010)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, March 18, 2010

Missing Unlikelystories Multimedia installation adapted from limited edition Artists' Book (below), January 2007.

Missing Man Drafting2 Curated by Kevin Thurston, Baltimore, MD
August 2004

Breakfast (video, 2006)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, January 9, 2007

October Surprise (video, 2006)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, April 9, 2007

War and Peace (video, 2006)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG , August 1, 2006

Birthday Dinner (video, 2005)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, December 2 , 2005

Winter Storm Warning (video, 2005)

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, December 2 , 2005

Hecatomb in Cheektowaga (video) Martha Deed and Millie Niss

Reviewed by Michael Szpakowski at DVBLOG, November 9, 2005

Exhibited: SCOPE 2006, New York City

Photo credit: Millie Niss

Jewel on the Erie Canal (video) Martha Deed and Millie Niss

Members Exhibit, Carnegie Arts Center, North Tonawanda, NY, Nov 6- Dec 10, 2005

Exhibited: SCOPE 2006, New York City

Photo credit: Millie Niss

Up to No Good (video) Martha Deed and Millie Niss

Exhibited: SCOPE 2006, New York City

News from Erewhon The Iowa Review Web Flash fiction by Martha Deed and Millie Niss, October 2005

Collage: Millie Niss

Sheep Apnea Museum of the Essential and Beyond That Multimedia by Martha Deed, Millie Niss and Muriel Frega, July 2005

Image: Muriel Frega