Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring “The Tavern on Old Log Cabin Road” by Ray Whitaker
According to the Author “The Tavern on Old Log Cabin Road” is a series of narrative poems spanning 240 years, from 1777 to 2025, when one family owned The Tavern. The place is fictional, as are the people. The book is based on actual places in Randolph County, North Carolina, following the…
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Featuring «Our Wolves» by Luanne Castle
Book Description by the Judges for the Eric Hoffer Award: In this bold recasting of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, a traumatic adventure unfolds, and the expectations one has for reality are shattered. An air of mystery pervades each poem, but beneath that mystery, worlds of forced silences exist.…
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ALCHEMY OF KUSHAL PODDAR’S CREATIVITY
Kushal Poddar(KP) has authored ten books, the latest being «A White Can For The Blind Lane.» His works have been translated into twelve languages. He has been a sub-editor of Outlook magazine and the editor of Words Surfacing. He does some illustrations and sketches for various magazines. Amit Kamila(AK), the…
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Featuring “Dreamescapes” by Jorge López Llorente
From the Author “Dreamescapes” is my first poetry book fully in English. It navigates the volatile interplay between the poetry of imagination and the numbing churn of capitalist routine, with waves of dreamlike and sea imagery. I’m a big daydreamer, and the sea appears in most of my daydreams, especially…
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Poet Talk with Loralee Clark
Solemnity Rites is a collection of poetic works by Loralee Clark, published in June 2025 by Prolific Pulse Press LLC. Structured into two parts, the book explores profound themes related to life, death, and humanity’s connection to nature and the cosmos. To purchase Loralee’s book: Paperback eBook:
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Featuring «Tony Danza Sucks» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Sample Poems Tony Danza SucksI just realized Tony Micelli from Who’s the Boss?is just a bad Arthur Fonzarelli impersonation.Tony Danza sucks,I think to myself.The old Redpath Sugar siloa few streets awaysitting oddly stoic just after midnight.(First appeared in Cajun Mutt Press)The TrollHe lives in a tent under the bridgeacross from…
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Nicole Sara Reviews “Pieces of Me” by Maggie Watson
Summer is soon to turn into autumn in this part of the world, light is taking on its golden fall attire… August days are getting us there step by step… transforming, becoming. I could think of no better moment to share my Review of a book I recently purchased and…
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Featuring «Whitestone Bridge» by Pete Mladinic
Notes on Culture A quiz show host, my show You’re Doing ItAll Wrong, before contestants come on,I throw to the audience, not my clip-onbow tie and fake jewelry, but culture.Here, have some Camille Paglia,a little Alice Walker, how about some DickYates. Over here, for you, a Mark Rothko.Here’s some Bertrand…
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Jolene Rice Reviews “Thoughts on White Paper” by Krista Phillips
Saturday, June 6th, I went to the Poke Sallet Festival in the Harlan County hills. The title of this book got my attention; “Thoughts on White Paper.” Poetry! It’s a book of poetry. Not something I’m used to seeing at festivals. So yes, I bought one. Her poem, “My Face,”…
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Dawn Pisturino’s “The Mystery of the Pink Poodle” Is Available for Purchase!
Prologue from the Book The old woman tried to climb out of bed, but she was old, so dreadfully old. She should’ve died long ago, like the rest of her family, but the memory of her husband, Henri, nourished her, giving her life. And there was something else—the pink poodle.…
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Featuring «Ink Stained Love» by Ernest Federspiel
Amazon Book Description «In this honest and heartfelt collection, Ernest Federspiel explores the messy beauty of the human heart. With a raw, conversational voice, the poems navigate the highs and lows of love, from the exhilarating rush of first encounters to the aching pain of heartbreak. Through vivid imagery and…
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Featuring “The Roman Bath, York, and ‘Through the Nethergate’” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle
In the city of York, beneath The Roman Bath Pub, are the remains of a caldarium, or steam bath, from the Roman city of Eboracum. This city was built by the 9th Legion Hispana in 71 AD and occupied by the Romans for nearly 350 years. During our 2018 trip to…
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Featuring «Fly Traps» by Sterling Warner
Praise for Fly Traps Flytraps are reader traps. You start and want to know more. Warner is ‘whistling downwind’, and his notes are hanging onto ‘gusts, travelling like light-speed’; there is nowhere Warner won’t go. From ‘geese in flight’ to ‘playing with Ouija Boards’, ‘seated at your deathbed vigil’ and ‘shooting…
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What Does Phil Repko Say? Poet’s Pause – BCTV – Interview from 2022
Phil Repko is author of «Pieces of April,» a poetry book that comes from a cherished family tradition. Every April, which is National Poetry Month in the United States, Repko and his two sons, Philip (38) and Ian (33), challenge themselves to write a poem each day throughout the month.…
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Featuring «Into Eternity» by Richard M. Ankers
What is the Book About? Queen Serena and her allies have fled the massacre, taking Princess Linka with them. For Jean, it’s heartbreak; for his friends, far worse. Leaving the Arctic ice behind, Jean and the others must come to terms with their losses, as they close in on the…
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Meet Ignatius Fernandez
Ignatius Fernandez is a double postgraduate in Chemistry and Business Management – M.Sc., MBA. He holds a certificate for higher English from Cambridge University, UK, where they found him to have a high level of performance in written English. Rising through the ranks, he held positions of General Manager, Director,…
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