Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Passages & Praises» by Mary Bone
Excerpts from «Passages & Praises» (Xlibris, 2008) God’s Sweet LoveSeeking to gain,Gaining to seekShunning pain,My eyes leak.Living to love,Loving to live.God’s sweet loveEncompasses us all.Let’s Stand TogetherI think the world needs changing-Something for the good.Maybe some re-arranging,Ffor the brotherhood.If we can stand together,And hold each other’s hand,No matter what the…
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“Poets hover at the intersections of life and all it encompasses”—An Interview with Shirani Rajapakse
Shirani Rajapakse is an internationally published, award-winning poet and short story writer. The author of four collections of short stories and three collections of poetry, her work appears in many literary journals and anthologies. It has been translated into Spanish, Farsi, French, and Chinese. A humble person, she rarely shares…
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Nolcha Fox’s Interview with Kelly Moyer: «Hushpuppy»
NF: Tell me about your personal writing journey. What drew you into writing? KM: I remember as though it were yesterday, the moment I realized I wanted to be a writer. It was a Friday. I had gotten up early to put the finishing touches on a poem I was…
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Introducing «Robinson Crusoe Maybe» by Colin Gee
I stowed away on Trinidad to escape the pirate life and return to my young family, but such was my luck that that same forty-two-cannon King’s own man-of-war was improbably outgunned in the open sea by a young buccaneer name of Wilmot, who stood upon a deck of four-and-twenty only,…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 3
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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“Talk about synchronicity” by John Yamrus
Talk about synchronicity…and blind, stinkin’ luck! Every now and then, I seem to do something right (no matter what my wife says). Here’s the story: I recently published a book called CAPTAIN BEEFHEART NEVER LICKED MY DECALS OFF, BABY. It’s a really short book (trust me), but I had high…
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Featuring «Delirium» by László Aranyi
Excerpts from «Delirium» «Delirium» includes poetry in English and Hungarian. Faint-like, Numb Sleep; Out of the Ordinary Dream Under the cracked chitin shield the size of many. Continents there lies the smoldering pile of landfill. On its habitual heavenly route dragging its damaged abdomen the overpopulated Earth. Faint-like, numb sleep;…
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Dawn Pisturino Reviews “The Lost Book of Zeroth” by Barbara Leonhard
This collection of masterfully-penned sci fi poetry opened a whole new world of quirkiness for me. Bravely original, unusual, and imaginative, Leonhard speculates about a future world where Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, and technological breakthroughs will be as common as humans (Biologicals). In that world, AI robots view themselves as…
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Featuring «Square Peg in a Round Hole» by Robbie Cheadle
The Visitor“Hello, lovely humanIt’s good to see youThe back door was openSo, I popped in for a visitI hope you don’t mindOh dear, I can seeWhere you’re lookingSorry about the messMy breakfast alwaysGoes straight through meIt’s a bird problemYou understand, don’t you?I knew you wouldYou’re a kind humanAll the birds…
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Publisher Spotlight: LJMcD Communications
LJMcD Communications focuses on publishing experimental and really out there literature. It was founded in 2022 by Lachlan J McDougall and publishes both his work and that of other international contributors. They are actively accepting submissions for poetry and prose, including fiction and non-fiction, and are interested in work that pushes the boundaries…
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“Road Trip” by Barbara Leonhard and Nolcha Fox
Barbara’s text is in italics, Nolcha’s is in what’s left. The moon is a vacancy sign, and I want to pull in for a rest. But the parking lot is full of stars, their headlights blinking through the dust my tires kick up. No room, no room. I must drive…
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Featuring «Good Job, Lightning» by Tony Brewer
The Guy in the Clutch Tshirtfor Jason RybergSomewhere between spicy IPA & some flavorless Schlitza car is born idling both feet ready to burn rubber — both pedalsoptions on the constant road& the voice is a burnout popped out of granny gear all the way to red line back to…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 2
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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The Unbecoming of Metaphor: Book Review by Hugh Blanton
In Isa Arsén’s second novel The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf she continues with the poorly contrived plot points, anachronisms, and risible metaphor that littered her debut Shoot the Moon. Set in the 1950’s, Unbecoming is about two up-and-coming Shakespearean actors, Wesley Shoard and Margaret Wolf. They’ve just had a successful run with Twelfth Night and Macbeth is coming up…
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Featuring «MIDDLER» by Marlene Lee
Excerpt from «MIDDLER» by Marlene Lee I knew the letter was from my daughters the minute I opened the mailbox. I stopped to read it beside the highway. The Kansas day was hot and yellow, like the day before and the day before that. But standing on the dirt shoulder,…
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Not a Review of John Yamrus’ Book «Don’t Shoot the Messenger» by Ken Tomaro
THIS IS NOT A REVIEW! A couple of days ago, I ordered and received a copy of John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany (see, do you see what I did up there?) I’ve been a fan of his writing for years, but for whatever reason, I put the books down. I…
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