Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring “Rhyming Dreams” by Nicole Sara
Rhyming Dreams is an enchanting and engaging collection of poems about the heart’s winding journey through deep wistful longing towards bliss and belonging along the meandering road of love and loss, hope and healing. This book is for anyone who dreams a lot, loves deeply, and has both good and bad…
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Featuring «Bricolage» by Richard Stimac
Excerpt BricolageMy mom reconstructed our lives from junk.Unbleached cardboard Orisha beaded masks,glass-shard mosaics of proud Mary’s face,a twisted crown of bottle caps and barbed wire,found relics, littered our tar-paper house,each objet d’art, a fetish, meant to stavethe shame of being poor. We ate, each night,on painted plates of resurrecting suns.She…
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Featuring «Appalling Behavior» by Stephen House
«Le Marias» is an excerpt from Stephen House’s monologue play, ‘Appalling Behaviour’, which has been widely performed and published by Australian Plays Transform. Excerpt Le Marais her voice caresses my moment and i snap too – shaken back from the fog to this moment in Le Marais, where i have stopped…
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Review of Annie Sokoloff’s “Oh! So Many Balls” by Nolcha Fox
I giggled all the way through Annie’s book, “Oh! So Many Balls,” because it was funny and so relatable. The book sheds light on all the relationships women have to juggle to avoid a cerebral hemorrhage. Annie masterfully points out the differences between men and women. But she’s quick to…
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Featuring “Another Another” by Richard LeDue
The purgatory between each Guinnesshelps an empty glass turn to hellwhile an unopened can becomes god.His compassion even more intoxicating Another Another is Richard LeDue’s ninth collection with Alien Buddha Press and a quietly resonant testament to his belief that, even when it isn’t much, poetry still matters. Born in…
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Featuring “Pouring Light on the Hills” by Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Somewhere a thousand years ago or so, renga emerged in Japanese literature as a courtly form of linked verse. Poets in the eight islands transplanted cuttings from the palaces into more public domains and tanka and haiku evolved. There is something sensible about these structures that allowed them to thrive…
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Featuring «The Enormity of Existence» by Nolo Segundo
Amazon Book Description My poems are written rather simply, and clearly. In this I know I goagainst the grain of much modern poetry that like, its counterpart,abstract art, tends to the recondite and is often so idiosyncratic that thereader may left wondering, what does it mean? I know the zeitgeist…
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“Interview with John Yamrus” by Peter Mladinic
In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 39 books. He has also had more than 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is…
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Featuring “FINDING CRISTINA: TREASURES ON EARTH” (Book 3) by Emilia Rosa
It is 1933. Cristina and her family live on a farm, in the southernmost state of Brazil—the land of the proud Gaúchos. Early in 1929, they sell their property in New York, convert the money to gold, and move to Brazil, thus avoiding the Wall Street Crash. Their bucolic farm…
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Featuring “Chico’s Place (Chico the Chihuahua)” by Jolene Rice
A picture book for children. Chico’s place is about his home and the things around it. What Do Readers Say? Jasmine and Jaxon enjoyed the book very much, very easy to read and understand. – Geri Dozier Nunn ~~ Wonderful little picture book about a wonderful little dog. – Shawn…
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What Does Phil Repko Say? Poet’s Pause – BCTV – Part 2
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 «Rooted and Winged» by Luanne Castle
Book Description The poems of Rooted and Winged explore the emotional and physical movement of flight and falling. They are of the earth, the place of fertile origins, and of the dream world we observe and imagine when we look upward. Golems and ghosts that emerge from the ground, as…
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Varied Expressions: A Review of «The Power of Words 2 Book Review» by Sushant Thapa
Amazon Description This book is the sequel to The book The Power Of Words. The meaning of The Power Of Words 2 is that it is never-ending. One book finishes, and another arises as the sequel. The ideas as well as the imaginations of the writers make us feel alive…
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Featuring Danielle Martin’s “Sweet Talk”
“Sweet Talk: Caribbean Culture” is a collection of fun short stories exploring witty banter and bold, playful, flirtations used by Caribbean men (especially men in Danielle’s country of Trinidad and Tobago) to win women over. Trini men have the BEST pickup lines ever. Written from the female perspective, Sweet Talk…
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