The Rural Lives of Nice Girls

Gailmarie Pahmeier's The Rural Lives of Nice Girls creates a world of longing and loss across the barrooms and front porches of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Nevada, revealing a geography of magic and shame, where the narrator unapologetically delivers something/ real good and real strong. --Suzanne Roberts, Author of Plotting Temporality

Gailmarie Pahmeier's poems are lush, cinematic narratives from a singular American female voice -- mesmerizing in their grace, masterful in their craft. As much as these poems are pure heart and soul, they are gems: pieces of art by a gorgeous spirit and a talent any poet should envy. These are the poems I wish I could write---fortunately I get to read them, again and again, a pure joy every time. --Lee Herrick, Author of Gardening Secrets of the Dead

Gailmarie s supple poems are tales of family and home finding it, making it, cooking it, calling it, leaving it. They open the door, invite you in to sit a spell, maybe have a drink, listen to lyric stories of small town lives off the side of the highway, to hear about the taste of dreams, the importance of makeup and a mother's rhinestone pumps. Listen she says, it s important for these folks, as well as the rest of us, to tell the stories that need to be told, to witness and testify whilst we can. --Kirk Robertson, Poet, essayist, publisher, editor, and artist