Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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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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Munmun “Sam” Samanta’s Review of «See Saw» by Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox
“Seesaw” is a captivating and engaging poetry collection sharing the collaborative efforts of Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox, who blend their distinct voices to explore the themes of love, loss, and memory, sauteed with a quirky sense of humor. “Why am I so hard on myself?That’s it, today’s the day!I’m…
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Featuring «Gunilla’s Garden: Poetry» by Sterling Warner
Amazon Book Description Stepping beyond conventions,in Gunilla’s Garden Sterling Warner fondly reexamines relationships and heart wrenching explorations of lifetime convictions once viewed with philosophic distance but now seen through the lens of loss where renewed longing finds solace among strangers, as well as memories that never fade. Praise for Gunilla’s Garden: Poetry…
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Meet Marzia Rahman and Her Book “Dot And Other Flashes : Where Dhaka Meets Kolkata”
Marzia Rahman is a flash fiction writer, an author, and a translator. She has been part of the Chewers by Masticadores family since 2024. Marzia’s books include: Marzia recently co-edited a Bangla book titled “Atith Theke Adhuna” (the bio of sixty-five women writers of Bengal and Bangladesh), and an international…
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Featuring DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER by John Yamrus
the place smelled like the blues itsmelled ofsweat and povertyand last night’s turnip greens. but,it’s where hedid his best writing. poemsfilled with sadness andthe agony ofa shot glass left emptyin a sink filled with dishes,tears and more than a little regret. ……………………………. ya gotta love it… i wasrejectedthis morningby a magazine aboutThe Beats and Beat Life. it…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 5
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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Thank You, Lesley Scoble!
Thanks so much to Lesley for illustrating the cover of “Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry!” This is a reblog of her post: Broken Rengay Anthology: my book cover illustration Book Illustration Just thought I’d show off my cover for the brand-new release of Broken Rengay, a poetry collection by the brilliant…
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Olga Nuñez Miret’s Book Review: «Like Frail Boats on the Sea» (Little Sister Island Series Book 4) by Caren J. Werlinger
I write this review as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team (author, check here if you are interested in getting your book reviewed) and thank her and the author for this opportunity. I have read and reviewed several of Caren J. Werlinger’s novels and enjoyed them all, but I must admit…
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Featuring «The Silver Wind» by Nellie Shulman
Excerpt from «The Silver Wind» Elle Beneath his feet lay the warm wood of the walkways. Mosquitoes buzzed around the yellow swamp flowers and spindly birch trees. The hills, overgrown with ancient pines, obscured the lake where Michael went, following a path strewn with fallen needles and gnarled roots. After…
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