Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «The Street» by John Yamrus
Amazon Book Description «Memories are like leaves on a tree… and they fall at different times, at different speeds, in different ways… eventually, no matter how they fall, they end up covering the ground.»– john yamrus Back in print for the first time in several years…MEMORY LANE and RMA, the memoirs by…
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Cara Finnegan Interviews Loralee Clark
Now, about this author interview. My first victim, er, “featured author,” is writer and artist Loralee Clark, whose first book of poetry, Solemnity Rites, is out now from Prolific Pulse Press. Loralee and I met in graduate school at the University of Maine. (Go Black Bears!) Back then we immediately connected as…
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Featuring «Serpent’s Tooth» by Sterling Warner
Praise for Serpent’s Tooth In SERPENT’S TOOTH, «Sterling’s poems witness texture and digging into memory and imagination, something for everyone: to make us laugh and cry and ponder—a voice that loves sound, meaning, and wordplay. His poems vibrate off the page as expressions and discovery: dense and airy, fluid and…
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Featuring «The Poetry of Pronouns: She. He. They.» by Richard M. Ankers
Amazon Book Description 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. Love is…
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Featuring «Ujjain» by Steffen Horstmann
Praise for UjjainSteffen Horstmanns book Ujjain is a remarkable collection of Ghazals in Eng-lish. Steffen uses an ancient form of poetry to express the sensibility of a modern day poet, and by doing so, he crosses the boundaries of languages, cultures, and traditions. Agha Shahid Ali couldnt have been more…
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The Madrid Review Reviews “Dreamescapes” by Jorge López Llorente
Dreamescapes is worth seeking out for its nifty way with recurring themes – beaches and boats and the ubiquity of home refurbishment television programmes. https://themadridreview.com/f/dreamescapes-by-jorge-l%C3%B3pez-llorente-a-review?blogcategory=News Purchase here:
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Featuring “Do Not Compete with Evil Doers” by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Introduction: On the Road Again Twenty years ago, when my family made aliya, my primary responsibility was caring for our children. Blessedly, those boys and girls have since grown into young men and young women, some of whom already have children of their own. Accordingly, at present, my main familial…
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Cameron Trost Reviews “A Soul a Day” by Todd Sullivan
In terms of genre, I would classify A Soul A Day as noir more than any other. Is “supernatural Korean noir” a genre? Well, I guess it is now. Todd, who is an experienced English teacher familiar with South Korea, has given us an action-packed supernatural thriller which is rich…
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“A Ghost and His Gold:” The Siege of Ladysmith by Roberta Eaton Cheadle
Background The siege of Ladysmith, a town in British-controlled Natal, was a lengthy engagement between the British and the Boers during the Great South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War). When the negotiations between the two Boer republics and Britain broke down, and war was declared on the 11th of October 1899,…
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A few odes: Still time for a little rhyme? by Joe Polacco
The “Odes” in this newsletter title refer to poetic odes to loved ones and places, and except for the last one, they’re in poetic RHYME. Now, does poetry mean rhyme? I have been to enough readings in and around Columbia, Missouri, to realize that most poets do NOT speak in…
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justbringbooks’ Review of “Hollow Men (The Windshine Chronicles)” by Todd Sullivan
Synopsis Men from South Hanguk undertake quests to gain social standing, to stand above their peers, to make names for themselves. To become heroes. Few ever return. Ha Jun, sixteen years old, possesses a glyph sword crafted in foreign lands. Alongside a soldier, a knight, and a monk, he travels…
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Pre-Order Now! “Scrap: Salvaging a Family” by Luanne Castle
The hybrid flash memoir Scrap: Salvaging a Family explores the stain of childhood fear and anxiety on the adult spirit and the experience of reconciling with an aging or dying parent. A daughter has grown up in a household with an angry and abusive father. He keeps the secret of…
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Prolific Pulse Press Podcast: Poet Talk with Danielle Martin
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lisa-tomey/episodes/Poet-Talk-with-Danielle-Martin-by-Lisa-Tomey-emiav2
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