Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Jolene Rice Reviews “Thoughts on White Paper” by Krista Phillips
Saturday, June 6th, I went to the Poke Sallet Festival in the Harlan County hills. The title of this book got my attention; “Thoughts on White Paper.” Poetry! It’s a book of poetry. Not something I’m used to seeing at festivals. So yes, I bought one. Her poem, “My Face,”…
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Dawn Pisturino’s “The Mystery of the Pink Poodle” Is Available for Purchase!
Prologue from the Book The old woman tried to climb out of bed, but she was old, so dreadfully old. She should’ve died long ago, like the rest of her family, but the memory of her husband, Henri, nourished her, giving her life. And there was something else—the pink poodle.…
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Featuring «Ink Stained Love» by Ernest Federspiel
Amazon Book Description «In this honest and heartfelt collection, Ernest Federspiel explores the messy beauty of the human heart. With a raw, conversational voice, the poems navigate the highs and lows of love, from the exhilarating rush of first encounters to the aching pain of heartbreak. Through vivid imagery and…
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Featuring “The Roman Bath, York, and ‘Through the Nethergate’” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle
In the city of York, beneath The Roman Bath Pub, are the remains of a caldarium, or steam bath, from the Roman city of Eboracum. This city was built by the 9th Legion Hispana in 71 AD and occupied by the Romans for nearly 350 years. During our 2018 trip to…
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Featuring «Fly Traps» by Sterling Warner
Praise for Fly Traps Flytraps are reader traps. You start and want to know more. Warner is ‘whistling downwind’, and his notes are hanging onto ‘gusts, travelling like light-speed’; there is nowhere Warner won’t go. From ‘geese in flight’ to ‘playing with Ouija Boards’, ‘seated at your deathbed vigil’ and ‘shooting…
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What Does Phil Repko Say? Poet’s Pause – BCTV – Interview from 2022
Phil Repko is author of «Pieces of April,» a poetry book that comes from a cherished family tradition. Every April, which is National Poetry Month in the United States, Repko and his two sons, Philip (38) and Ian (33), challenge themselves to write a poem each day throughout the month.…
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Featuring «Into Eternity» by Richard M. Ankers
What is the Book About? Queen Serena and her allies have fled the massacre, taking Princess Linka with them. For Jean, it’s heartbreak; for his friends, far worse. Leaving the Arctic ice behind, Jean and the others must come to terms with their losses, as they close in on the…
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Meet Ignatius Fernandez
Ignatius Fernandez is a double postgraduate in Chemistry and Business Management – M.Sc., MBA. He holds a certificate for higher English from Cambridge University, UK, where they found him to have a high level of performance in written English. Rising through the ranks, he held positions of General Manager, Director,…
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Featuring «Evolution for the Hell of It» Gerald Yelle
Amazon Book Description «She dreamed her father was the hero in a war between meat-lovers and vegans. He was the veganhero, of course. He was the one who figured out how to fight without hurting the enemy. The way it was done was so top secret he couldn’t tell it…
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Featuring «Jalsaghar» by Steffen Horstmann
Sample Poem ForeverDo you seek, like Jonah, to be elusive forever–To live like an ascetic, reclusive forever?You traversed deserts & abide in a mirage,Within the shade of a fig & olive forever.The temple scribe said you were fated to strayIn radiant absence, as wind lisps its narrative forever.Sand rises around…
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Book Launch for “Solemnity Rites” by 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: Paperback eBook:
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Featuring «Gambol the World» by Silvia Kofler
Excerpt Connotations Some words carry heavyburdens like the German word for leader,Führer.Consequently, I chooseLeiter for leader in my translationfrom English into German.Just like the English version for mein Vaterland,my homeland,makes me bristle from past connotationsas homeland security echoes historical commandsof history’s despots.Unfortunate word choicesconjure connotations of conquestsof native lands.Cry Wolf…
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wittysarcasticbookclub’s Review of “Hollow Men (The Windshine Chronicles)” by Todd Sullivan
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Smitha Vishwanath Reviews «Daughter of Dust» by Wendy Wallace
Rating : 5 Stars It’s been a month since I wrote my last review. October was a month of festivals. That, and the fact that I began reading books I couldn’t finish because they were either too slow or didn’t keep me engaged, slowed my reading. ‘Daughter of Dust’ by…
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