Anne Harding Woodworth's poems trouble the senses and the intellect, offering new encounters with the world we see and thought we knew.

The delightful poems of Merely Players belie the weighty concerns that are at their foundation.

In Anne Harding Woodworth's THE EYES HAVE IT, all eyes are on the things of the world, viewed, embraced, celebrated with an aye.

Anne Harding Woodworth's The Spare Parts Saga is the journey of her book, Spare Parts: A Novella in Verse (Turning Point, 2008), as it is goes from Washington, DC, to a place between Co. Tipperary and Co. Clare, Ireland. It is not an easy trip. The poet chronicles her book's several transatlantic crossings. The U.S. Postal Service's daily tracking provides her with the titles of the poems, which prompt Anne to remember her past and to comment on life during the Covid pandemic, as well as to deride the USPS for the book's circuitous travel.

In Gender, the sexes are everything. Anne Harding Woodworth has brought together two novellas in verse that share a look at the role of male and female. In Martin/Martina a young woman dresses as a man, is accused of fathering a child, and as the boy's father, raises him. In Aftermath, a member of an asexual group-among three survivor groups that have formed after cataclysm has destroyed most of civilization-becomes pregnant. Two not dissimilar landscapes set the stage for these stories, somewhere in (perhaps) a Mediterranean place of the eleventh century, as well as one of today and of the future. Regardless of time frame, the atmosphere in both novellas lures us into lives of sex, parenting, labor, confusion, and friendship, all in a mixture of free verse, form, and rhyme.