Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Poetry from “Our Loveliest Bruises” by Robert Okaji
Ashes To sweeten the dish, add salt. To bear the pain,render the insoluble. She envied the past its incursions, yet the past yields to all,avoidance to acceptance, trees to smoke. My mother brought to this country a token of her death to come. Now it sits on my shelf bearing implements of music.In her…
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«Sun Reflected off the Bus Windows» Book Review by Caroline Goodwin
Right out of the gate, Mladinic’s textured collection of poems invites the reader to sit up and pay attention. The striking cover, Klee’s «Senecio,» sets me up for a world that’s both humorous and dead serious. I enter this world with one eyebrow raised, a little off-kilter and alert to…
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“My Pelvis Wants to be Elvis” by Nolcha Fox: A Review by Barbara Leonhard
Who hasn’t heard of Nolcha Fox? She’s one of the most prolific contemporary U. S. poets. Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in more print and online journals than I can count. She’s a nominee for 2023, 2024, and 2025 Best of The Net and nominee for 2023 and 2024…
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Review: «The House of Spirits» / Isabel Allende by C. J. Anderson-Wu
Revealing the Formation of Social Strata: —The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Because it is the history of a family, The House of the Spirits is often compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Indeed, readers are frequently reminded of the latter when reading the former. However, one aspect…
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Humanity, Pete Mladinic’s Review of “Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy” by Heath Brougher
Heath Brougher’s Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy is militant, not in a doctrine sense, but militant for humanity, militant for standing up for equality and human dignity, for the dignity of all living things; and against the inhumane, which, in these poems, takes shape in a police officer’s baton used…
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Listen More, Talk Less: An Interview with Dawn Pisturino on Collaborature
Melissa Lemay (ML), Editor for Collaborature, interviewed Dawn Pisturino, (DP) best-selling poet. ML: Hi Dawn! It’s a pleasure to have you with us today. For those who might not know you, will you share a bit about your writing journey? DP: I’ve been writing since I was eight years old,…
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“Cleopatra” by Dawn Pisturino
Ptolemy’s daughter gently traced the carvings on the wall and said, «Papa, teach me how to read the sacred language of the gods.» The Pharaoh smiled, proud of his precocious offspring, and said nothing. Ptolemy’s daughter unrolled the delicate temple scroll and pleaded, «Please, Papa, teach me the sacred language…
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Interview with Selma Martin: In the Shadow of Rainbows
Selma Martin is a retired English teacher with 20 years of teaching children ESL. She believes in people’s goodness and in finding balance in simple living. She lives in Japan with her husband. In 2018, Selma participated in a networking course whose final lesson was to publish a story on…
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“Glass Awash” by Ken Gierke: A Review by Barbara Leonhard
What immediately impresses the reader about is the cover, which displays stones hewn into glass by water and time. Different shades of blue and green, shaped into tears. On the back cover, one stone, a ruby, represents the heart embraced by shadows. When I open the book…
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Ken Tomaro’s “Standing Lonely in the Alley” Is Available for Purchase!
You walk out the door for work on a Monday morning and immediately drop your coffee in the apartment hallway. You take a bad step on the stairs and almost do the splits. It’s raining and your umbrella is in the car which is in the parking lot 500 feet…
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Interview with Loralee Clark
Check out Loralee Clark’s recent interview!https://carafinnegan.substack.com/p/author-interview-loralee-clark You can purchase her most recent book here: Her book launch is June 28. Sign up to attend here:https://forms.gle/KVsvKNaagMpUiJGd7
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About That Dead Cat on the Lawn, a review of John Yamrus’ «People (and other bad ideas)» by Pete Mladinic
Close your eyes, and you’ll be on the glossy lanes of the bowling alley with Paul, on the living room floor sitting cross-legged with Leda, and in the classroom of inattentive young students and the elderly lady in the back, listening, whose mouth looks like “a ruined white flower.” John…
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#Review: When the Angel of Death Tells Bedtime Stories // Sabine Meyer by Olga Nuñez Miret
Hi, all: I bring you today a book I’ve found through Reedsy Discovery. I am unsure about the availability. When I first got the book, it was scheduled for release as an e-book in early June. I checked on the supposed date of publication, and the book only appeared as…
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«sometimes,» by John Yamrus
sometimes, the most unexpected thingabout beauty, isfinding it gone. Copyright © 2025 John YamrusAll Rights Reserved
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Review BookBlog: Bridge of Dreams. A Speculative Triptych // Kevin P. Keating by Olga Nuñez Miret
Hi, all: I bring you another book I’ve discovered through Rosie’s Book Review Team, and it is a pretty special one. Bridge of Dreams. A Speculative Triptych by Kevin P. Keating Comprising three interlinked novellas, Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych centers around a young woman who embarks upon a spiritual…
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