Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Soul Songs» by Nolo Segundo
Amazon Book Description Many of these poems show the poet’s most impassioned moods, and are characterised by impressive felicity of style and subtle diction. The poet in several poems shows a high degree of excellence. The mere verbal felicity of style adds to the beauty of these highly impassioned and…
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Humanity, Pete Mladinic’s Review of Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy by Heath Brougher
Heath Brougher’s Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy is militant, not in a doctrine sense, but militant for humanity, militant for standing up for equality and human dignity, for the dignity of all living things; and against the inhumane, which, in these poems, takes shape in a police officer’s baton used not to…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 7
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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«The Lament of the Sunken Ship» by Fizza Abbas Is Available for Purchase!
If you’ve ever been captivated by the mysteries ships took to their watery graves, you’ll enjoy «The Lament of the Sunken Ship» by Fizza Abbas. Following are two samples from the book: R.M.S. CarpathiaWe often remember the Titanic’s heroes and victims, but forget the ship that answered its call.R.M.S. Carpathia…
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Featuring «In the Jaguar Valley» by Lorraine Caputo
Excerpt from «In the Jaguar Valley» Midnight EchoesA solitary church bell across the valley encircled by mountains & snow-peaked volcanoesSlow one toll then another & … of this hourFoot falls down grimed brick sidewalksPast a towering basalt crossAcross the worn grey stones of the plazaPast the gated fountain still spillingStray…
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Featuring “ain’t done yet!” by John Yamrus
AIN’T DONE YET! is a collection of 40 brand new poems, all written after the release of his last book, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART NEVER LICKED MY DECALS OFF, BABY. It’s got an incredible introduction by the legendary musician Jeff Cotton, who played guitar on Trout Mask Replica, the album John wrote…
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Review of Sandra Tyler’s «The Night Garden of My Mother” by Elizabeth Gauffreau
One of the reasons I enjoy reading memoir is that the form lends itself to so many different approaches to writing about significant times in a person’s life. Sandra Tyler’s The Night Garden of My Mother is a case in point. I’ve never read a memoir quite like it before. Night Garden opens…
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Farming on a Volcanic Rock: Hugh Blanton’s Review of Nathaniel Ian Miller’s «Red Dog Farm»
Iceland and its archipelago were formed by the magma erupting from the separating North American and Eurasian tectonic plates; or more accurately, are still being formed. As recently as April 1, 2025, a fissure ruptured on the Reykjanes Peninsula, releasing magma and forcing the town of Grindavík to evacuate. Iceland…
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Munmun (Sam) Samanta’s Review of “Writing Between the Lines” by Nolcha Fox
“I leave the me who loved himto rest upon his body.Now I am someone entirely new.A black dog, a broken heart.” (“Keep Things Simple”) Nolcha Fox is synonymous with experimentation, as evident in her collaborations with Mike Armstrong on “End of Earth” and Ken Tomaro on “Seesaw, Quirky Poems.” She…
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Featuring «Why I Wear My Past to Work» by Chris Campbell
Amazon Description Chris Campbell’s full-length poetry collection explores fatherhood and a male perspective of family life. The 48 poems cover universal themes including life’s stages and struggles, with remorse and self-questioning, all while appreciating its joys. It is a book that touches on the past, its effect on the present,…
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“The Sun Rises” in Celebrating Poetry by Cindy Georgakas
The sun rises in the darkest of times peeking its ray of hope and sunshinereminding us that spirit has a lot to teach us.The clouds and storms wash away all our dismantled parts so we can see the truthof our heart connections.The moon rises, illuminating the truth of our existence…
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Featuring «Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry» by Melissa Lemay, Nolcha Fox, and Barbara Leonhard
Book Description by the Publisher Bro ken Rengay is a collaborative poetry collection by Barbara Leonhard, Melissa Lemay, and Nolcha Fox. Inspired by the rengay form-created by Garry Gay in 1992 as an alternative to renga and renku-this book follows the six-verse linked structure while playfully breaking its traditional rules. Originally,…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 6
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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What Does Beth Brooke Say? Interview by Sam Szanto
A chat with Beth Brooke about her book A Long Way Down (Dempsey & Windle, 2025) How would you describe A Long Way Down in one sentence? A Long Way Down is an exploration of my father’s life as a soldier and how his experiences also shaped me and my…
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Featuring «Mystical Greenwood» by Andrew McDowell
Book Description Dermot is a fifteen-year-old boy in the kingdom of Denú. He has always longed for more in life. Then everything changes after he sees a gryphon and crosses paths with a reclusive healer. Soon, he and his brother Brian have no choice but to leave their home. They…
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Featuring “Random Riffs” by Ken Gierke
New Heights, with Coltrane Ascension (album) / John Coltrane that voice, among a frenzied pulseof voices in Ascension,their window brief each branch outreaching the next,never reaching the eagle as it banks,passing overhead as the tires drone, alivewith a pulse that thrives,even as it succumbs to a pulse that riseseven as it falls,no missed…
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