Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Lion Speak» by Robbie Cheadle
Playing with Food We’re not at all hungryBut we still huntedWe took down a young wildebeest; deliciousRomping around will helpBuild our appetites The sun is getting hotAnd uncomfortableWe collectively decide to move our killTogether we drag itUnder a large bush Hunger finally knocksBut before we eatOne sister takes a stroll…
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A New Literary Magazine Is Looking For Your Work!
My friend and fellow editor, Kelly Moyer, started a new literary journal this month called “Circle of Salt.” She is looking for the esoteric — work that expresses the spiritual, the magical, the mystical, and the seasons and their changes. Submit up to 3 pieces of unpublished poetry (under 10…
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Robert Fillman’s Book Review of John Yamrus’ “Twenty Four Poems”
John Yamrus has built a reputation around his unpretentious affect and stylistic restraint, which he has honed for over five decades and across 29 volumes of poetry, including this one published in December 2022. Despite the author’s leaning toward minimalism, Yamrus’s latest offering, Twenty Four Poems, lands like a punch in…
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Featuring «Fragments in Time» a Memoir by Snigdha Agrawal
The Ballad of Tuuta: The Debonair Cat One birthday morn, a surprise delightIn a shoebox, soft cotton-linedArrived a kitten, palm-sizedA Siamese dude with a squinty eye. From a litter of eight, the finest got.A furry bean with a purring plot.Baba and Ma, on feeding patrolFed him milk in soaked Cotton…
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Featuring «Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry» By Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay and Barbara Leonhard
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, Barbara and Nolcha collaborated on…
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Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld Interviews Barbara Leonhard, Melissa Lemay, and Nolcha Fox About “Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry”
Congratulations on your collaboration resulting in Bro ken Rengay: Unruly Poems. With this big release, I know you must feel much anticipation and excitement. Tell us about Bro ken Rengay. So, what’s “rengay” anyway?” NF: Other than alternating 3-line/2-line stanzas and a startling lack of punctuation, I’ve written them several…
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«Clouds of Pink» Video 4
Thanks to Christina Chin for creating this video! Thanks to Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin for their collaboration!
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Nolcha Fox’s Interview with John Brantingham and Jane Edberg: «My Dead»
NF: How did the two of you connect? JB: My wife and I ran a program up in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks that combined art and poetry. I was always shocked at the high level of writing and art that happened there. Jane probably surprised me the most…
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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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