Beverly's love for poetry dates back to childhood when her mother instilled in her a love for the english language. From her   mother, she learned verse and recited memorized poems every Sunday at church.

 A grassroots advocate for the preservation of farm land and the rural lifestyle, Beverly describes her work as revealing the importance of preserving the history of Ohioans and their varied traditional cultures.  She does this by sharing her own childhood experiences, where she lived in the richness of her families struggles and poverty.

Written in narrative free verse, Beverly's chap book mirrors the rural nature and culture that surrounded her childhood and shaped her life. It presents us with the unique and wonderful opportunity to travel the woods, farmlands, and meadows with her, in this exciting and much anticipated release of her work, in her award winning chapbook "Pick a Way".

Jennifer Bosveld of Pudding House Publicaitons says:
"Zeimer represents an important population rarely archived in Ohio books and chapbooks. She has preserved in Pick a Way, an intimate and detailed look at the lives of tenant farmers, a family story that will be cherished by the thousands who have lived  anything like this and those who have always wanted to come closer."

                                                   M.L.Schurch - The Ohio Poetry Association