Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring “Morning Glory Moon” by Casey Robb
Author Synopsis This book reflects a kindling of poetry passion that emerged in middle age. I always loved poems that rhymed or at least were accessible to non-poets, to ordinary people. At that time, a new movement called Neo-Formalism was afoot, bringing back forms for modern topics. I fell in love with villanelles…
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Featuring “tombboy” by Mykyta Ryzhykh
What Readers Are Saying “In his book, as in books of poems written in poetic forms and free verse, language moves through a pattern, and the basic organizing unit is the line. In tombboy, the line may be a syllable, a sign, an image, or even a dot… Readers may rightfully…
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Featuring «These Many Cold Winters of the Heart» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
These Many Cold Winters of the Heart Editorial Description These Many Cold Winters of the Heart is dancing splinters of Life, and that inevitable experience of Death that our common humanity demands we all share. A book of blue-collar poetry, with a surrealist bent, this work is also a reminder of the…
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Featuring “Shelter In Place” by Laurie Kuntz
Author Synopsis Every poem is a journey and every journey, a poem. The poems in Shelter In Place all begin with a journey to places of the heart and mind. Shelter In Place, as the title implies, is a collection of poems reflecting on finding a place of safety and acceptance while grappling with societal and personal…
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Rose Mary Boehm Reviews “Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear” by Gary Grossman
In Grossman’s poetry one does a lot of reading ‘between the lines’ because his lines do that to the reader, and we get a sense of a strong and loving relationship with his wife, as though this love has been the healing for a man who had to overcome a…
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Featuring “Home Stretch” by Phil Repko
Phil Repko is excited to release his second volume of poetry with Anxiety Press. “Home Stretch” serves up a series of contemplative, ironic, and/or insightful verses built on the lingering thought that we have plenty of race to run, even when we have recognized that we aren’t running the race to win it. …
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Featuring “Beneath the Deep Wave” by Andrew McDowell
Author Synopsis Beneath the Deep Wave is the sequel to Mystical Greenwood and the second book in the planned One with Nature trilogy. As I was developing my first book, I didn’t originally intend for it to be epic fantasy. But when I realized it was going in that direction, I decided to go with…
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A Poetic Collaboration: «The Road»
The Road by Francisco Bravo Cabrera and Gabriela Marie Milton The road bends furtively round the passing years,avoiding those who stubbornly remain,like a mouse caught in a maze… The silent path curls back on itself, Like those who linger lost, within the flames of our Spanish maze. Like a ribbon pulled…
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Home Remedies: A Review by Peter Mladinic of Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
What Is the Book About? «Cancer Courts My Mother» gives voice to the creativity borne out of the experience of late-stage cancer from the perspective of a caregiver and a daughter. Written with candor, warmth, and heart-wrenching grace, these poems explore universal themes of sorrow, resiliency, relationships, anger, hope, and love. This collection is for…
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“A Silent Scream in Four Corners,” Review of John RC Potter’s “The General Store at Four Corners” by Krin Van Tatenhove
I’m a big fan of John RC Potter’s writing, so I was excited to open his recent novella, The General Store at Four Corners. It’s one of three pieces featured in Body Lines, an annual journal published by Subtle Body Press. I was not disappointed! This is a tale of…
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Edward Ahern Reviews “The Illyrian Way” by Dearta Logu Fusaro
I picked up this book expecting a pleasant travelogue, and was blown away. Firstly, by the physical book. Fine books these days are mostly leather bindings, gilt lettering, and shaded paper. Not this one. The in-your-face front and back covers each have four differently sized cut-out circles, emblematic of the…
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Featuring «Abraxas» by Sterling Warner
Praise for Abraxas Sterling Warner’s Abraxas is a magical mystery world. The poems are snapshots of free spirits, a wide-ranging and vivid observation, appreciation, and exaltation. Music and philosophy weave through this wonderful book by a poet of singular vision and voice. These poems are “moon phases/tides & planet positions for…
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Total Quality Reading Interview of Todd Sullivan for “There Will Be One: The Windshine Chronicles, Book 2”
TQR: From your BA at Georgia State to your MFA at Queens College to … Taipei? That’s quite a leap, sir. What made you pull chocks and fly off to such a far flung, exotic destination? TS: First, I want to thank TQR for taking the time to speak with me. So, there’s actually…
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Featuring «Kiss the Heathens» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Sample Poems Tippi Hedren CalledTippi Hedren called,I said.She wants her birds back.The woman I was with tried to shushme with a finger to my mouth.The pet shop kept the lizards beside the birds.In these tiny little cages like loneliness under a hot light.Some toothy sales kid on commission walked up…
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Featuring «The Poetry of Pronouns, Too» by Richard M. Ankers
What Is This Book About? Two friends will become lovers. A relationship revealed in the words exchanged back and forth through a cellular, glass divide. In this digital age of courtship, their story grows from the giddy joy of «What if?» to the finale of «What next?» and everything in-between.…
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Fisheries Reviews “My Life in Fish: One Scientist’s Journey” by Gary Grossman
You will learn how Grossman’s early life challenges were overcome and contributed to his worldview. You will read about his challenges connecting with family. https://academic.oup.com/fisheries/article-abstract/49/2/90/7810778?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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