Becoming Bone, a collection based on the life of 19th-century American poet Celia Thaxter, was published in 2005 by the University of Arkansas Press.
Thaxter (1835-94) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and lived for many years in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Much of her poetry pertains to the Isle of Shoals, where she spent her childhood.
Nest of Thistles, published in 2005 by the University Press of New England, focuses on Annie Boutelle’s childhood in Scotland.
Nest of Thistles won the 2005 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize from Northeastern University Press, an award given annually to an American poet for his or her first or second book of poems. Nest of Thistles is Annie Boutelle’s second book of poems.
