Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Maiden Rock» by Peter Mladinic
Poetry from Maiden Rock by Peter Mladinic SnapperRain falls in needles in the river,Thin as needles in a gunin a tattoo parlorforming on skin a snapper.The snapper rears its head.Black shellof zigzag edges,it crawls, leaves claw tracksin blue-black silt of the riverbank.The river curves. Trees on both sides,the willowacross the…
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Featuring “Potholes and Perogies” by Ken Tomaro
From the Author Why did I publish Potholes and Perogies? Oh boy, lots o’ reasons. It was my first book published through a small press (Alien Buddha Press) rather than throwing it on Amazon myself. I learned very quickly I know nothing of the process, so I was more than…
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Featuring “Ichnographical: 173” by Duane L Herrmann
These poems sing of our human experience, no matter how painful it may sometimes be. And, at the same time, in the same voice, is joy and exaltation in life and being human spiritual beings. We are all of this. These new poems will take the reader on a human…
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Featuring «Hunter Hunted» by Richard M. Ankers
What Is the Book About? Hunter Hunted is Book II in the Eternals Series. A world of darkness surrounds Jean and Princess Linka. The Nordic royalty – albino Eternals of myth – transport their guests deep beneath the Arctic ice, to the legendary city of Hvit. They are offered sanctuary,…
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Read And Review It’s Review of “Hollow Men (The Windshine Chronicles)” by Todd Sullivan
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Peter Lingard Reviews “Diary of a Somebody” by Brian Bilston
I frequently see Brian Bilston’s poems on Facebook and am usually amused by them. When I learned he had published a book, Diary of a Somebody, I bought a copy. I have a rule that if I’m not enjoying a book by page 60, I gift it to someone. I…
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ReadersMagnet Interview of Danielle Martin
“Kissing Shadows: Caribbean Love Poems” is an intimate weaving of life and love experiences. It is a brilliant anthology from the pen of the Caribbean’s newest literary poet.“Kissing Shadows: Caribbean Love Poems” published three years ago (3) seemingly existed in the far-reaching pockets of literary darkness. However, in spite of…
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Featuring «Faces of the Seraphim» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Sample Poems Lucky BreakI am walking into the Foodland along Hillside Drive Southin Elliot Lake. This middle-aged woman outsideon her smoke break.Jaundiced and wrinkled down the arms.So many liver spots she could be confusedwith a careless child’s colouring book.I cannot read her name tag and it doesn’t matter.Sitting on two…
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Featuring “Remnants of a Life: Poems” by Duane L. Herrmann
What People Are Saying Herrmann writes conscientious personal poems in this collection. His writing is quite original. He juxtaposes two times in one of my favorite poems in the book “Intersection” delving into the Pony Express and a modern day Kansas Highway. He offers up a variety of poems from…
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Featuring «Cancer Courts My Mother» by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
What is the Book About? In «Cancer Courts My Mother,» a daughter becomes caregiver to her abusive, soul-scorching mother, discovering that tending to the dying can unexpectedly heal the living. In this intimate drama, cancer plays Casanova—a relentless suitor determined to steal a mother from her family. Mistrustful of the…
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RNE Audio interviews Jorge López Llorente about “Dreamescapes”
https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/english-language-broadcast/english-language-broadcast-look-into-poetic-world-of-dreamescapes/16683317/ Purchase here:
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Tears in the Fence Reviews “What I Meant to Say Was” by Gary Grossman
Gary Grossman’s What I Meant to Say embodies the spirit of radical wonder. https://tearsinthefence.com/tag/what-i-meant-to-say-was/
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Featuring «Masques» by Sterling Warner
Amazon Book Description Masques presents an eclectic collection of flash fiction and short stories ranging from tales rooted popular culture, dysfunctional relationships, and dystopian societies to stories touching upon the pathos of death, humor/irony of situation, and joy of new beginnings. Praise for Masques Masques…What a revelation of possession and…
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A Review of Ray Whitaker’s “The Tavern on Old Log Cabin Road” by John Yamrus
Let’s get this out of the way right up front…book reviews are very often a great big circle jerk. You know what I mean…I liked yours…did you like mine? And they’re even more jerky and even more circle-y (is that even a word?) when the offending reviewer has his name…
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Jolene Rice Reads Her Poems
Communicating with my dog Dark Clouds Stillness Watch the rain For more videos by Jolene: https://www.youtube.com/@jolenerice2217/featured
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The Zingara Project Interviews KJ Hannah (Channie) Greenberg
Writing is like lifting weights; begin slowly, don’t overdo, yet push yourself to your maximum, whether that maximum is language, nuance, i.e. layers of meaning, poems’ shape, whatever.
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