Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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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
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration! Deja un comentario
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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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