Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Poetic Waves of Poetry» by Tamikio L. Dooley
Book Description «Poetic Waves of Poetry» is a stunning collection of poetic short stories focused on poetry and the water in all its natural beauty. Even in ruin, a shipwreck can be breathtakingly beautiful amidst tranquil, crystal-clear waves, its silent form narrating tales of past bravery or tragedy. Author Tamikio…
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Featuring «Late for the Gratitude Meeting» by Paul Hostovsky
Excerpt from Late for the Gratitude Meeting Life Is a Banjo Just ask the banjo players and they’ll tell you they didn’t choose the banjo so much as the banjo chose them–and now they carry it around with them, this conjoined twin whose big round head, pale skin, funny-looking…
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Featuring “Word Magpie” by KJ Hannah Greenberg
From the Author This book is a quirky collection of art and poetry. Since society’s activities will forever connect us in propitious and inauspicious ways, it’s beneficial to swig together. We are the communal heirs of tasty, as well as unsavory ideologies. Let’s sup on them together. Samples Paperback: eBook:
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Featuring “Winter Season” by Jolene Rice
Excerpt from the foreword “Winter Season” is the story of Oscar, a school teacher, held to his small-town place by his family, by his memories, by his insecurities, and especially by his mother, who wants him to marry her chosen bride and create grandchildren. There’s also religion in “Winter Season.”…
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What Does Phil Repko Say? Studio B
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 “Poetry for Living an Inspired Life: Poems as Spiritual Meditation” by Michele Harvey
Through the eclectic use of poetic form and genre ranging from prose poems, elegy, lyric and narrative poems, as well as haiku, sonnets and more, Poetry for Living an Inspired Life takes the reader on a poetic journey through the evolution of the human spirit while embracing fully the duality…
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Featuring “The Mystery of the Pink Poodle” by Dawn Pisturino
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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«Clouds of Pink» Video 10
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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John R.C. Potter’s Review of Tezer Özlü’s «Cold Nights of Childhood»
A well-known saying is that you cannot judge a book by its cover. In the same vein, one should not judge a book by its length. Cold Nights of Childhood by the Turkish author Tezer Özlü is a slim volume. Although a short novel, it is also weighty in terms…
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Featuring «The Prototype of Rebirth» by Camellia S
Description of «The Prototype of Rebirth» This text is a book of poems but it’s beyond that. It’s a voice, a journey to-and-fro in metamorphosis. This book is separated by stages of transformation: from love and heartbreak, to finding oneself, from exploring one’s depths transcendentally, to exploring, feeling, and finding…
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“Discoveries by Being” Peter Mladinic’s Review of «Sojourns» by John Drudge
Just as there is a sojourn in time and space, there is also a sojourn across and down the page. Each poem is a sojourn of explorations and findings in language; each poem is a place in the imagination. In the first half of the twentieth century, the poet William…
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Review of C.J. Anderson-Wu’s «Endangered Youth»
C. J. Anderson-Wu’s «Endangered Youth – Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine» extends her longstanding engagement with questions of authoritarianism, memory, and survival by situating youth at the center of political and historical upheaval. Known for her fiction that probes the legacies of Taiwan’s White Terror, Anderson-Wu here broadens her scope to…
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Featuring “Smokin’ a rabbit out of a hole: 52 poems about how emotions SUCK!” by Jolene Rice
When thinking about a title for this collection of poems, I was reminded of a story often told about my dad and his best friend trying to smoke a rabbit out of a hole, circa 1930. What these industrious young men succeeded in doing, the story is a little fuzzy?…
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Featuring «Held Inside the Folds of Time» by Merril D. Smith
Praise for Held Inside the Folds of Time “Held Inside the Folds of Time by Merril D. Smith is a luminous collection of poetry that invites readers to journey through the layered terrain of memory, identity, and time. With vivid imagery and lyrical precision, Smith weaves personal reflection with cultural…
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Featuring «Waiting on the Last Train» by Terry Allen
Copyright © 2025 Terry Allen Enjoy this You-Tube reading from “Waiting on the Last Train”. First a description of the YouTube reading: David Jibson, Editor of Third Wednesday: A Quarterly Journal of Literary & Visual Arts, created opportunities for writers who have published with them to promote their new books by…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 9
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