Elizabeth Powell

Pamplemousse, formerly known as The Gihon River Review, published biannually, was founded in the fall of 2001 as a production of the BFA program at Johnson State College. Starting in the Fall of 2010, its production became based in a Literary Publishing class offered at the college by the BFA program, conducted by Professors Elizabeth A. I. Powell and Jensen Beach. Pamplemousse publishes high quality, forward thinking, innovative, and well-crafted writing in many genres and styles. We relish discovering new voices, as well as featuring established favorites.

Math is fun when toys are teaching tools This entertaining and accessible book covers indispensable concepts such as shape recognition, number words, size comparison, and counting within a story about searching for a gift in a toy store. Carefully selected photographs closely correlate with the text and are sure to appeal to young readers.

Mathematics is a major part of sports, from scores to spatial relationships. In this fun narrative, readers tag along to a soccer game and are invited to count objects, identify shapes, and compare quantities. Simple text, along with colorful photographs, aid in reading comprehension and help readers focus on the achievable concepts.

In this entertaining volume, a class trip to the zoo is the backdrop for introducing and reviewing foundational math concepts such as comparing quantities, sizes, and lengths. Readers will love seeing their favorite animals such as tigers, giraffes, penguins, monkeys, and even a baby koala They'll be encouraged to recognize mathematics in similar situations in their own lives.

Female executives of large companies are still in short supply in the U. S., but they have made great strides in recent years and their number is growing. Patricia Werhane and four other leadership experts interviewed twenty-two prominent women—including executives at Kraft, Boeing, and Harley Davidson—to uncover their leadership styles, reveal their most effective practices, and find out how they broke through the glass ceiling. This celebration of stellar executives highlights their achievements, the values and visions that guide them, and the contributions they've made to both their companies and industries. Besides enjoying fascinating stories, readers—both men and women—will gain insights that help them manage and lead better. Despite enormous strides in the status of women in business, female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies can be counted on two hands, and less than 15 percent of Fortune 500 board seats are held by women. These daunting statistics, however, belie another phenomenon: The iceberg of male domination in the boardroom is beginning to break up and melt. More and more women are assuming positions of real leadership. And it's none too soon. With the increasing diversity of the workforce, businesses need the wisdom successful female executives can offer. To encourage more women to step up to the plate, this book tells many stories of perseverance and inventiveness. But it digs deeper to reveal common qualities and characteristics that reflect a style of leadership that is in stark contrast—in every major dimension, from communication styles to team building to crisis management—to the traditional, white-male model that has dominated practice, theory, and management education. While men tend to be transactional leaders, the women profiled in this book are nothing less than inspiring, transformational leaders. The result is an incisive, engaging, thought-provoking, and ultimately empowering narrative that will serve as a guide for women now entering, progressing, and leading in the workplace—as well as the men with whom they work.

The Republic of Self is a meditation on both the public and private American self. Elizabeth Powell's serious yet sexy and entertaining poems attempt to reconcile the divisions, diversions, and prospects of the self as we know it. Throughout her spirited investigation the poet enlists poems in prose--within the larger, more lyrical narration--to comment on the self's predicament, much as one of Shakespeare's fools might comment upon a play. Indeed, the self is a fool of sorts, as the poems infer through their wit, gravity, wistfulness, and desires. The Republic of Self becomes a field guide to all that lives within: nymphs, satyrs, Greco-Roman gods, even the icons of mass media and government are here in this, our forever new/old republic still inventing itself. Elizabeth Powell brings us a wise, outrageous, and surprisingly tender view of who we are.