When I was nine years old, I longed to become a mystery novelist. When I was fourteen, I also wanted to become a poet with a published book of poems. How blessed I am that both of these dreams have some true. 2010 saw the publication of my Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery. Now, as my first book of poetry is newly available to purchase from Finishing Line Press, my publisher has honored me by selecting Sisters in Time as their "Chapbook of the Day." Purchases made during the pre-sales period, which lasts until April 24, win the customer a discount -- and my eternal gratitude. The release date for the book is June 19, 2026, after which books will be shippeed.
I am blessed in the support that I have received from three distinguished poets.
Robert Pinsky: " I enjoy and admire Rosemary Herbert's fresh way of thinking about the past with all the resemblances differences and revelations it offers the present. The one pagan girl buried along with 96 Christians. Shaped poems and sonnets, archaeology and mystery. I salute this poet's distinctive wit and intensity."
Jeffrey Levine: "Marrying the archeologist's patience with the poet's heightened gift of perception, Rosemary Herbert Reminds us that all our histories are entangled in mystery....Long established as one of our pre-eminent prose stylists, for Rosemary Herbert, this is something new, rare, and wonderful, this most profoound of poetry debuts, marveloous, wholly present, and ours for the taking."
Deborah Leipziger: In this brave and deeply original work, Rosemary Herbert invites uis to befriend the past, hear history's call, and become more patient in the face of death....the poet brings a tenderness akin to reverence' to her work of weaving wonder and washing skulls. Here we commune with the dead and find a way to rescue them from oblivion. We become witness to history, the athe archeologist's accomplices."