Poetry | Poetry
Dec.06.2012
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New and Selected poems by Ren Powell.
“ Ren Powell takes the world in whole, ‘negotiates a new language,’ and gives it back to us in all its terror, strangeness, pain and beauty. Many of these poems read like fable: a woman with a gown of...
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Dec.03.2012
These 28 poems are Barbara Jane Reyes at her urban political and poetic best. Of the collection, M. Evelina Galang, author of HER WILD AMERICAN SELF and ONE TRIBE, writes: "Scribe of global soundscape, Reyes builds upon the heartbeat of literary and blood ancestors, feeding her 'mythic...
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Dec.03.2012
This collection spans geographies of war, homelessness, homemaking, longing, and hope as it travels through Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, American and other landscapes. Informed by depth of experience and a resilient humanism, these poems seek to transform landscapes of devastation to...
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Oct.16.2012
The narratives of Karen Head’s Sassing are mournful but defiant tales, seeking a place of repose “somewhere between/the smoldering ruins of Atlanta/and a base near the Berlin Wall.” Head’s poems find that elusive place in their hard-edged music.
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Sep.26.2012
No Hurry, the author’s eighth book of poems, is a book of poems written in mid-age, which focuses on the amalgamation, and synthesis, of life experiences that might, or so we would like to hope, lead to wisdom The title is meant as an...
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Sep.14.2012
Last year I wrote you of my foolhardy pledge to write one rhyming political poems per day on Twitter, from that point (June 2011) to the 2012 election. I should've counted that it would be 499 days of tweets; I should've vowed five days a week in stead of seven...but have stuck to that promise and...
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Aug.27.2012
Invisible Mink by Jessie Janeshek is a book of poetry. The poems deliver verses on seductive female stars from the films of the 1930s and beyond.
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Aug.13.2012
Some people have that insatiable urge to see what is over the next hill. I was infected with that bug. My grandmother told me "Son don't let the grass grow under your feet." I went off to explore the world and ended up living on six of the seven continents. I saw brutality, love and incredible...
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Jul.18.2012
Poems to bring you peace...Here are poems as meditations, meditations as poems, all in the zen spirit of Smith.
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“There’s a Buddha in Larry Smith’s Ohio garden. Peaceful, watchful and...
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Jul.18.2012
Poetry says things that cannot be said any other way. This collection looks at relationships and our place in them, from the personal to the impersonal. Technology, politics and iconography also play a role in our lives and these poems. The poems in this collection slowly seep into you, becoming...
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