Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Ken Anderson’s “The Goose Liver Anthology” Is Available for Purchase!
The Goose Liver Anthology seamlessly weaves together two distinct literary traditions: the English in Mother Goose and the American in Spoon River Anthology. It is a cynical look at doom with flashes of love and spunk. Many characters are doomed by mere chance, others by the fate of human nature. Age and…
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Featuring «Sunflower Tanka» (Editors Robbie Cheadle and Colleen M. Chesebro)
The following garland tanka by Robbie Cheadle is from Sunflower Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka, Tanka Prose, and Experimental Tanka. (Unicorn Cats Publishing Services, 2024) Painter’s challenge (garland tanka) by Robbie CheadleAnguish reflectedBut not absorbed by waterWhich also soaks upEssence of trees and buildingsFor serene contemplation***Natures pain entrappedWithin deep, inky…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 1
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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Review of Colin Gee’s “All you want (a series of lies)” by Nolcha Fox
“All you want” is a collection of remarkable poetry by Colin Gee. Each poem is fueled by a wild imagination, liquor (lots of it), and food. Don’t expect introspection or philosophy. These poems are earthy, a sharing of wonder at worldly goings-on with a good friend. This book is well…
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Featuring «Sun Haiku» by Dawn Pisturino
21.sun sinks behind hillspeach daiquiris sipped slowlyjacuzzi bubbling22.pink marshmallow cloudsraindrops glisten with sunlightfairy serenades23.january snowsparkles with sun-lit crystalsmaking angel wings24.jerusalem brightwith golden sunlight undercanopy of peace25.autumn leaves rustlein the wind — burned red and goldby apollo’s fireCopyright © 2025 Dawn PisturinoThese poems are from Dawn Pisturino’s best-selling collection Sun Haiku:…
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«Fishing Expedition» Part 2 by Christine Chin and Jerome Berglund, and a Kyōka by Jerome Berglund
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga! Thanks to Jerome Berglund for his kyōka!
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Interview of John Yamrus by Ray Whitaker
John Yamrus is widely recognized as master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry. In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, he has had more than 3,500 poems published in books, magazines and anthologies around the world. His writing is often taught in college…
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«Fishing Expedition» by Christine Chin and Jerome Berglund
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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Featuring «Preserving the Past for the Present» by Terry Allen
Flying Squirrels Can’t Really Fly For Larry (1947-2023) Like carnival clownsthat aren’t quite human,that appear in the darkthen bounce about too quickly,first here then there, a blurof loss, of death and infection,unpredictable, hard to pin down,hard to hold in one’s mind, his brittle memories,dry as cicada shells,crumble awayin rolling sand stormsout of reachbeyond…
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«Sight Unseen» Part 2 by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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«Sight Unseen» by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga
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«Missing Persons» Part 2 by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
(revised post) Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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3 Poems from “My mind is a cherry pit withering in the sun” by Ken Tomaro
Grounded the generation gap, more like the Grand Canyonand there are peoplewho will never understandhow easy things wereGod has gone digitaleverything is a mess of wires,things to be plugged inrechargedbut we’ve forgotten how toplug ourselves in and our souls are at 3% *** Bad reception a stroke of lucka stroke or…
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«Missing Persons» by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga! Comparte esto:
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Beauty in Action, Video 2
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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“The Stars Will Remember, a Review of End of Earth by Nolcha Fox and Art by Mike Armstrong” by Peter Mladinic
Perhaps in a future that is ions away, the stars will remember life on Earth, the life of planets, animals, and humans, which is precisely what Nolcha Fox is writing about in End of Earth, a document of that life in poetic lines about people, places, and things in her…
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