Ask the River to Talk About the Horses (Paperback or Softback)

"In Ask the River to Talk About the Horses, Judith Waller Carroll shares beautifully written poems about growing up in Montana. Her poems travel in time, and as I read them, I feel like I'm walking through history. She skillfully takes you inside the physiology and the psyche of the horses she loves: "How their hoof beats scattered the leaves / that fell from the trees each autumn." Her poems reveal new ways of seeing, poems that move the way horses do, "their manes flowing like wind / each sigh and nicker echoing across the sky."

-Diane Frank, author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems

"Judith Waller Carroll's poems caught me from the first lines of the first poems. She encapsulates her stories in brief anecdotes, snatched moments, and does so brilliantly."

-Joan Leotta, author of Feathers on Stone

Judith Waller Carroll grew up in Montana, spent thirty years in the San Francisco Bay Area, sixteen years in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, and currently lives in the Portland area in Oregon-all locales that inspire her work. Carroll is the author of Ordinary Splendor (MoonPath Press, 2022), What You Saw and Still Remember, a runner-up for the 2017 Main Street Rag Poetry Award, The Consolation of Roses, winner of the 2015 Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Prize, and Walking in Early September (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac, published in numerous journals and anthologies, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is retired from a career in public relations and fundraising.