Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Without Wheels» by Sterling Warner
WITHOUT WHEELS (2005) offers a wide variety of poems ranging dealing with, life, love, social barriers, and death, to metaphysical and reflective verse. Available on Amazon in Paperback Author Biography Author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, Sterling Warner has several publications. His recent ones include: Visions Across the Americas (8th…
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Featuring “The Lion’s Share of Ourselves” by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Channie’s latest book of poetry and art, “The Lion’s Share of Ourselves,” includes “Contrapuntal,” a poem that was originally published in Chewers by Masticadores! Contrapuntal Relational counterpoint, amid ample purulent discourse, seems to lackParochial, else insular links among family members. Meaning, tooOften rather that mild squabbles, personalities fulminate. Independent melodic…
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Featuring «Eye Flusher» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
A new RQF collection! Dumpster Fire Press! That’s all you need to know! Powerhouse poet Ryan Quinn Flanagan like a machete wielding cross between Bukowski and BB King does not bow down before the Eye of Horus but is the elastic eye of the divine god-king himself through portraits of…
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«The Horses Arrive Wearing Mirrors (Francisco Bravo Cabrera)
THE HORSES ARRIVE WEARING MIRRORS 4 a.m., the cathedral burns in the rain.Nobody notices. The women smoke beside the river.A child sells counterfeit halos from a backpack. Time for the guards to change.You can hear it inside the peaches,and the television snow,empty noise from saints left too long underwater. Subway…
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Kill the War: Peter Mladinic Reviews “tombboy” by Mykyta Ryzhykh
“tombboy,” a book of 46 concrete poems out of the Ukraine, is not a translation. Readers can rightfully assume English is a second language for its author, Mykyta Ryzhykh. Simply put, he is very good at it. In his book, as in books of poems written in poetic forms and…
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The Persistence of Memory: Peter Mladinic Reviews “Far From Uncertain: One Woman’s Life of Crime and Other Righteous Deeds” by Teddy Jones
Is the character of Margaret Kenyon based on the life of one person, or is she a composite of several people, or purely made up? She lives in Amarillo, Texas, and in the pages of this very true-to-life novel, with its frame structure: a third-person narrator telling Margaret’s story and…
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Featuring «The Eternals» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Praise for The Eternals Well, it seems that Flanagan has finally opened the casket.And inside?We find an inflatable doll instead of your average everyday, unoriginal boring corpse. But in this case with lines of poems that range from sarcasm, humor and wit to even the whimsical and undertones of serious…
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Featuring «A Trip Wire for the Soul» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Interviews on Spotify about «A Tripwire for the Soul» Social Yet Distanced podcast interview 1 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/socialyetdistanced/episodes/Social-Yet-Distanced-Pod-Collective–Ryan-Quinn-Flanagan-and-A-Tripwire-For-The-Soul-e14a53j Social Yet Distanced podcast interview 2 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/socialyetdistanced/episodes/Video-Replay-Social-Yet-Distanced-Pod-Collective–Ryan-Quinn-Flanagan-and-A-Tripwire-For-The-Soul-e1berjc Paperback on Amazon Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his…
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Featuring “Blood Stew” by Todd Sullivan
In a world of swords and sorcery, illusionist Kim Nam-Gi has a dream: to become a hero. Born in the land of South Hanguk, cursed with a malformed spine, Nam-Gi longs to prove his worth against dragons and monsters. Instead, he toils in his family’s restaurant while studying advanced spells…
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Featuring “Chico the Muse: My furry inspiration” by Jolene Rice
Chico came to live with me in 2015. Not only did he work is way into my heart. But as I have developed by writing, he has found his way into every aspect of my work. From poetry to stories and my attempts at art, Chico is there. This is…
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Featuring «On the Other Side of Walls» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Video review by Hugh Blanton of On The Other Side Of Walls Available on Amazon in Paperback Format Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has been published both in…
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Featuring “Discovering Sea Glass” by Brian Mahoney
A long passage of time and creativity are blended together in this 2nd poetry collection by Brian Mahoney. Brian showcases changes in his own life and in society from the 2010s to the early 2020s. There is an authentic focus on the resonating power of one’s own memory, personal/professional milestones,…
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Featuring “Poetry Treasures 6: Seasons”
Spring bursts from the pages of a book, … by Teagan Riordain Geneviene Open the coverand you will discoverPoetry Treasuresfrom the guests onRobbie Cheadle’s 2025“Treasuring Poetry”blog serieson Writing to be Read. Join poets Robbie Cheadle, Cindy Georgakas, Freya Pickard, V.M. Sang, Michelle Ayon Navajas, Marsha Ingrao, Nolcha Fox, Joy Neal…
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Featuring «Momento Mori: A Chapbook Redux» by Sterling Warner
MEMENTO MORI offers poems by Sterling Warner that present observations and tributes to life and death. Originally published in 2010, the newer edition of the text, MEMENTO MORI REDUX, includes over a dozen additional tributes to people, places, and eras gone-by. Available on Amazon in Paperback Author Biography Author of…
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Featuring “DOING CARTWHEELS ON DOOMSDAY AFTERNOON” by John Yamrus
“DOING CARTWHEELS ON DOOMSDAY AFTERNOON” came out a million years ago…in 2010. I had already been publishing for 40 years (my first book came out in 1970, which officially makes me older than snot). I bounced around the small presses, never staying for long with any publisher, mostly because of…