Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Tina Hudak’s «Frannie: Memoir of a Friendship» Is Available for Purchase!
This memoir covers a three-year, high-school friendship of two young women through their shared ups and downs, before one is killed suddenly by a drunk driver on the cusp of her seventeenth birthday. The brief prose and poetry speak of the deep affection and trauma, as seen through the eyes…
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Featuring «100 Haiku» by Kevin Cowdall
Excerpts from 100 Haiku © Kevin Cowdall Praise for «100 Haiku» Kindle (and hardcover and paperback) Author Biography Kevin Cowdall was born in Liverpool, England, where he still lives and works. In all, over 300 of Kevin’s poems have been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and on web sites,…
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Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine
Are you looking for a literary magazine to submit to? Check out Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine. From the Editor, Arvilla Fee I started Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine to invite and encourage both new and established authors and artists to showcase their work. My motto for the magazine is…
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Featuring «Cancer Isn’t Just a Constellation» by Nolcha Fox
Between Countries My grandparents pack their suitcases in the country of the dead. They board a vortex to the border town between life and death. They open a hole in the wall of her hospital room so my mother can step through. My mother sees the hole. She sees her…
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Featuring “You’ve Got It All Wrong: Poetry Collection” by Ken Tomaro
From the Author: Why did I write You’ve got it all wrong? For the same reason I’ve written all the others. We are living on a giant, crusty rock spinning at 1,040 miles per hour, 8 billion of us, each with a story/stories to tell and if as a writer…
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Featuring “On the Rocks” by Taylor Dibbert
“On the Rocks” is a poetry collection about relationships, conflict, love, and other observations. It covers Peace Corps stories, family drama, the heartbreak of losing a dog, and more. It’s a book about navigating loss and negotiating the everyday. Taylor Dibbert is a writer and poet in Washington, DC. Over…
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Room With Us: Peter Mladinic’s Review of “Writing Between the Lines” by Nolcha Fox
Room with us because it’s only when you get close to these poems that you see how good they really are. As it should be. All good poems command our full attention. It’s as if the poet were saying, “Take the time and care to read these poems that I…
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Featuring “Perigee Moon: Poems from a Pagan Summer” by Clarabelle Fields
A re-release of a poetry collection first published in 2012 by The Moon Publishing and Printing, Perigee Moon is a paean to the beauty and magic of nature, a sequence of poems that center around the night sky, the goddess Diana, and the poet’s internal journey towards elevated understanding. Elegant,…
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“Clouds of Pink” Video 8.5
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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Featuring «Square Peg in a Round Hole» by Robbie Cheadle
Sample Poem from Square Peg in a Round HoleShe Stalks (99-syllable double ennead)Feline slinks cautiouslyThrough agapanthusProud of her stealth and hunting proficiencyShe eyes avian pestsTime to take them down***Loeries feast unperturbedPeach juice runs and dripsFruit left mangled in the wake of gorging beaksBirds look preoccupiedBut are quite aware***Cat measures the…
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“Clouds of Pink” Video 8
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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W. M. Pienton’s “Swampscott Fitzgerald” Is Available for Purchase!
“The price is your childhood magic. If you agree, your worldview will change radically. You’ll see things very differently.” Swampscott Fitzgerald is a seven-year-old boy. He sees a world of magic. When his cat is killed in an accident, he leaves on a quest to bring it back to life.…
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Featuring «White Knuckle» by Steven Bruce
Excerpt from «White Knuckle» NursingPushed from the womb.Into rat-infested squalor.Where the lights didn’t burn,and the water didn’t flow.Into a world of drug and domestic abuse.Where father held fire under the spoon,and mother wept through bruised eyes.Into physical and emotional abuse.Where beatings broke the skin,and we suffered piss-taking daily.Into sleeping rough…
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Featuring “CAPTAIN BEEFHEART NEVER LICKED MY DECALS OFF, BABY” by John Yamrus
John Yamrus’ bio changes as frequently as his socks. He recently released “DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER JUST GIVE HIM A GOOD PLACE TO HIDE” and now “CAPTAIN BEEFHEART NEVER LICKED MY DECALS OFF, BABY”. Both books are published by Anxiety Press. To introduce CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, John is sharing the masterful introduction by Sarah…
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Reviews for Phil Repko’s «Pieces of April»
Each chapter in «Pieces of April» chronicles the themes and concerns for the calendar year in which they were written. Starting in 2023 and working backwards to 2016, the poems are rife with references to the cultural concerns of the day, while also incorporating the joys and sadness of daily…
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Featuring “Hidden Worlds” by K.R. Moore
Book 2 in the Bizarre Short Stories series. Hidden Worlds explores five tales of bizarre mysteries and secrets to discover. Dive in to read through each story below and embark on journeys unlike any other! Memorable Midnight Melodies – Alo must rediscover his passion for music whether he wants to or not, after…