Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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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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Featuring “The Tavern on Old Log Cabin Road” by Ray Whitaker
According to the Author “The Tavern on Old Log Cabin Road” is a series of narrative poems spanning 240 years, from 1777 to 2025, when one family owned The Tavern. The place is fictional, as are the people. The book is based on actual places in Randolph County, North Carolina, following the…
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Featuring «Our Wolves» by Luanne Castle
Book Description by the Judges for the Eric Hoffer Award: In this bold recasting of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, a traumatic adventure unfolds, and the expectations one has for reality are shattered. An air of mystery pervades each poem, but beneath that mystery, worlds of forced silences exist.…
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ALCHEMY OF KUSHAL PODDAR’S CREATIVITY
Kushal Poddar(KP) has authored ten books, the latest being «A White Can For The Blind Lane.» His works have been translated into twelve languages. He has been a sub-editor of Outlook magazine and the editor of Words Surfacing. He does some illustrations and sketches for various magazines. Amit Kamila(AK), the…
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Featuring “Dreamescapes” by Jorge López Llorente
From the Author “Dreamescapes” is my first poetry book fully in English. It navigates the volatile interplay between the poetry of imagination and the numbing churn of capitalist routine, with waves of dreamlike and sea imagery. I’m a big daydreamer, and the sea appears in most of my daydreams, especially…
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Poet Talk with Loralee Clark
Solemnity Rites is a collection of poetic works by Loralee Clark, published in June 2025 by Prolific Pulse Press LLC. Structured into two parts, the book explores profound themes related to life, death, and humanity’s connection to nature and the cosmos. To purchase Loralee’s book: Paperback eBook:
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Featuring «Tony Danza Sucks» by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Sample Poems Tony Danza SucksI just realized Tony Micelli from Who’s the Boss?is just a bad Arthur Fonzarelli impersonation.Tony Danza sucks,I think to myself.The old Redpath Sugar siloa few streets awaysitting oddly stoic just after midnight.(First appeared in Cajun Mutt Press)The TrollHe lives in a tent under the bridgeacross from…
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Nicole Sara Reviews “Pieces of Me” by Maggie Watson
Summer is soon to turn into autumn in this part of the world, light is taking on its golden fall attire… August days are getting us there step by step… transforming, becoming. I could think of no better moment to share my Review of a book I recently purchased and…
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Featuring «Whitestone Bridge» by Pete Mladinic
Notes on Culture A quiz show host, my show You’re Doing ItAll Wrong, before contestants come on,I throw to the audience, not my clip-onbow tie and fake jewelry, but culture.Here, have some Camille Paglia,a little Alice Walker, how about some DickYates. Over here, for you, a Mark Rothko.Here’s some Bertrand…
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