Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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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…
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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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