Anita K. Boyle is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, editor, publisher and poet in Bellingham, Washington. She is always busy in her studio working up a new approach to a project, or beginning a new painting, refining a poem, or organizing an assemblage.

Boyle spent over twenty years on five acres off Noon Road with a pond and a small woods. The pond in the middle of her land is a tenacious source of inspiration—in the spring, the sound of the courting frogs is deafening; in summer, water lilies bridge the surface; during autumn a quiet descends on the dark mirror; and throughout the winter, all life submerges and considers change. These important occurances are naturally documented in Boyle's poems.

Publications:

BOOKS

Bamboo Equals Loon
Egress Studio Press, 2001
square-spine, 32 pages

ANTHOLOGIES

Red Sky Morning
Red Sky Poetry Theatre, 2004
The eight poets included in this volume were winners of a statewide competition; the letterpress cover was printed by Paul Hunter (Wood Works Press), 52 pages

MAGAZINES

"Hillary"
Cranky Literary Magazine, Vol. 1 1, No. 6, 2005
failedpromise.org

"Unveiling the Marlboro Man"
The Raven Chronicles, Fall/Winter 2001
reprinted in Mirror Northwest, Summer 2005
http://www.wenval.cc/mirrornorthwest/contemporary/boyle.htm

"Just a Moment"
Spoon River Poetry Review, December 2004

"The Emotion Eaters" and "The Eggs These Days"
StringTown, Issue #7, Sept. 2004, pg 8 and 74

Stories With Grace, Spring 2004

"Under Scrutiny" and "Listen. The Birds Speak"
StringTown, Issue #6, Summer 2003, pg 27 and 51

"Daily Defamations"
Crab Creek Review, Spring/Summer 2002, pg 80
http://www.crabcreekreview.org/

"Bamboo Equals Loon" "Scent of Lavender" and “Ancestor Salsa”
StringTown, Issue #4, 2001, pg 12, 16 and 22