Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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«Life’s Colors» by KJ Hannah Greenberg
A big congratulations to Channie for her latest book! This artist’s book embraces the glory of creation by images of landscapes, plants, and animals. This collection is divided by the rainbow’s hues. After all, sometimes, a single image can better convey meaning than an assemblage of words. While descriptions are…
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Another Lovely Book Review for «Twenty Four Poems» by John Yamrus
You can read it here: ps://www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/08/20/twenty-four-poems-by-john-yamrus/ In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 35 books. He has also had more than 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. His newest book is Twenty Four Poems (Meat For Tea…
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Introducing “Standing Lonely in the Alley” by Ken Tomaro
Will we remember when we’re gone? I remember one of the sillier things as a childthat seems so strange nowshe would hang plastic eggson a tree in the front yard for the Easter holidaydozens of themlike you or I would decorate a Christmas treeit just didn’t seem like herbut after a…
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“CLOUDS OF PINK” by Christina Chin & Uchechukwu Onyedikam
ripened rice fieldautumn moon stands in guarda ragged scarecrow watchesthe farmer separatesgrain from straw You can find this poem in “Clouds of Pink,” available at:
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Getting to Know Mike Armstrong, Artist and Collaborator for «End of Earth»
Recently, Mike Armstrong, the artist for «End of Earth,» responded to Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld’s interview questions. L: Please tell us a bit about yourself and your journey as an artist. What inspired you to start creating art? How would you describe your artistic approach, style, and the themes you often explore…
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Interview with Colin Gee about ‘The Penult’ by Nolcha Fox
Colin Gee (@ColinMGee, he/him) is the founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette (@GorkoThe), teacher and writer. Originally from Wisconsin, he has been in Mexico since he got there. Nolcha Fox: Why did you decide to put this collection together? Colin Gee: Patrick Trotti at LEFTOVER Books wanted to publish my story…
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Peter Lingard’s “Three of a Kind” published in CafeLitMagazine!
What happens when the government decides identical twins must become identical triplets? Congratulations to Peter Lingard for the publication of his short story in CafeLitMagazine! https://www.cafelitmagazine.uk/2025/07/three-of-kind-by-peter-lingard-twins.html
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Meet Juan Re Crevillo, Founder and Head Editor of the Masticadores Magazines!
Enjoy this short interview with Juan Re Crevillo, and find out about the beginning and purpose of the Masticadores family of magazines. Click here: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-juan-re-crivello/
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“Overdose January 2, 2023” by Sharon SingingMoon
he left us drowningswimming in a raging seahis love a needle foil wrapped pills – unknownorigin – or a bottlestolen from Breaktime a year or two or more – no contactthen desperate calls“send a ticket- bus or planeit’s raining, coldin Californiamiss seeing you at ChristmasI’m tiredin jail in Indianain Tennesseein…
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Launch for Ken Tomaro’s “Standing Lonely in the Alley”
Available for purchase here! https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/standing-lonely-in-the-alley/
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Munmun Samanta’s «Yellow Chrysanthemum: Short Story Collection» Is Available for Purchase!
Set in contemporary India, «Yellow Chrysanthemum» is a stirring collection celebrating the lives of Durga, Uma, Tihar, Somlata, Mridula, and fifteen other women from rural villages to bursting cities. These women are not passive victims but survivors and warriors who have the courage to challenge the status quo of society,…
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“Payne Comes for Tea” by Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard
Nolcha and Barbara fought Google Gremlins by writing poetry together daily. Barbara’s verses are in italics. Nolcha’s are the rest. Uninvited again.Slaps my ailing knee.“How’s it goin’?Not up and about yet?How ‘bout a jog around the block? What!Can’t do gravel for weeks? How can I help? Dishes?Oh, my arthritis is…
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Jorge Lopez Llorente’s “Dreamescapes” Is Now Available for Purchase!
“Dreamescapes” navigates the volatile interplay between the poetry of imagination and the numbing churn of capitalist routine. Waves of dream images break into various characters’ minds before they break down like the surf, from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drowning Girl” to a Walter Mitty-esque jaded travel agent, washing away gray reality but…
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3 Poems from «Volverse / Volver» by Mark Statman
stranger exiled language exiledspirits who listento far off voices questionswhat why seagreen the world happenswe write in notebookson amate on papyrussweat clay spermletters and pictures ofunknown flora faunaweaknesses for thestrange weakness forconquest arrivingand burning boatssacrificed and fireanimals childrensay no and no and noall in flamesin waves and terrormeditation beads thegods…
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Poetry by Gary Gautier from “The Day We Met in Earthly Time”
A measure of heartbeatsstone path, water, lamplight in branches spread over a bridge a measure of heartbeats*****Hero and Leander (the lamp and the water)I still walk to that lake, the surface now still,absence of geometry, ache of tranquility,a voice but a whispersoothing, sad, a silverthorn in the side of love.What love creates,…
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Barbara Harris Leonhard’s «The Lost Book of Zeroth» Is Available for Purchase!
«The Lost Book of Zeroth» was inspired by a news story that Hanson Robotics’ famous humanoid AI robot Sophia wanted to have a baby. AI robot Sophia is a citizen of Saudi Arabia and the Ambassador for Tourism in Abu Dhabi. She travels the world and gives speeches. Hanson Robotics…