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New Poetry! - Barefoot in the Snow by Julia Nunnally Duncan >> “She has a way with a memory, does our Julia Nunnally Duncan. She may illuminate it so that it throws a forward light over a lifetime, as in her title poem. She may use it to preserve swift pleasures like cherries in sweet wine, as in "The Woods Watched Us." She may crystallize its essence to a drop of amber, as in "Wooden Shoe Dance." Whatever her approach, she never injures what she loves. Barefoot in the Snow is pungent proof that her heart does not forget.” —Fred Chappell
Medicine Woman of Jazz
by Golda Solomon
Golda Solomon, poet and spoken word performer, is the founder of Po'Jazz (Poetry in Partnership with Jazz), most recently in residence at The Cornelia Street Café, Greenwich Village, NYC. She also gigs around NYC and goes on the road with a fabulous roster of jazz musicians including Christopher Dean Sullivan, Michael TA Thompson, Joe Giardullo, Saco Yasuma, Lisa Parrott, Kelvin Bell, Eri Yamamoto, Bernard Purdie, Tony Jefferson, JD Parran, Will Connell, Jr., and Larry Roland. Golda has performed at Arts for Art Vision Festival, University of the Streets, Baha'i Center, and the Evolving Voice series and she has brought her words to festivals and universities in California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC. She is a founding member of IWJ (International Women In Jazz) and two-time awardee performing at All Nite Soul at St. Peter's, NYC, the "jazz" church and at IWJ's Inaugural Women In Jazz Festival. Golda's first collection of poetry was Flatbush Cowgirl, for which she pro-duced a companion CD, First Set. A second CD of her poetry, Word Riffs, was recorded with Center Search Quest and Saco Yasuma. She also co-produced the CD, Po'Jazz: Takin' It To the Hollow. Her work has appeared in the anthologies The Mom Egg and Heal (Clique Calm Books.) Golda created "From Page To Performance" workshops for emerging poets and "ready to come out of the closet" writers and delivers innovative, on-site organization specific arts programming to workplaces, schools and other organizations. She is a member of WOMENWRITE, nyc, bringing poetry in performance to the tri-state area. Golda is a proud poetry outreach mentor for City College (CUNY) and the annual CCNY Poetry Festival, and a teacher for Learning to See™, The Brenda Connor-Bey Legacy Workshop Series. She is poet-in-residence at Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY where she facilitates "ArtSpeak: Responding to the Walls" creative writing workshops, partially funded by Poets & Writers. Her latest project, the Jazz and Poetry Choir Collective conducted by Michael T.A. Thompson, had its inaugural performance at The Cornelia Street Café in May, 2011. www.jazzjaunts.com / gs@goldajazz.com
Sonnets: Darklight and Echoes
by Michael V. Massari
Forged in the fires of a heady education and sharp intellect, the poems in Michael Massari's 'Sonnets: Darklight & Echoes' ring with the drumbeat of metal on metal - true and straight and balanced. Voices from the ancient world - Io to the Naiads, Antony to Blake - join in conversation with more modern passions and observations ("Even from a cage the moon is special"), and the many voices create a chorus of ritual and pleasure and delight in a world felt as much as heard, lived as much as remembered. These are poems over-flowing with sensuous fecundity.
– Kyle Torke, PhD.
Poets are mad enough, but for a 21st century poet to present readers with a sonnet sequence is to go into territory not for the faint of heart. Something new must be born. In Darklight & Echoes, Michael V.Massari stirs a witches' brew. Using slant rhymes, eye rhymes, true rhymes, & whatever else comes to mind, the sonnets vibrate with strangeness, lines both clear and obscure. I was particularly drawn to lines such as: " . . . . In the shallows a white/ heron wades moonslow, the satin water/ even calm with each step. Quick a flicker/ I never see is death and life in flight". Moonslow is just one exhibit of the rich vocabulary the poet lays before us. Be brave. Give these sonnets a chance. You'll have much to think about. The poems thrive in darklight and they echo.
– Prof Louis Phillips
Book
by Martin Burke
Poetry of Martin Burke.
Already There
by Richard Weekley
"As clear-seeing as a dustless mirror angled into a school of sun fish, the tiny poems of this book carry a multitude of reflections bright as mica, consummately free in spirit, and in equal measure comic and profound."
– Jane Hirshfield, poet, translator, essayist After-"Best Book of 2006," Washington Post
"Just what we need, and just when we need it: a holy madcap who wears ancestor Ikkyu's sandal for a rain hat, meets the world with wonder, laughs himself and everyone else awake, and prays your name like the petals of a rosary. When you look for him, he disappears; when you forget him completely, he startles you with a kiss. Richard Weekley's Already There is right on time."
– Peter Levitt, author of Within Within and Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom in addition to other books of poetry and translation, and founding teacher of Salt Spring Zen Circle on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
"...Zen Nam frolics down the trail of life, tossing petals of wisdom in his whimsical wake... reminding us it is the journey that matters because the arrival never comes."
– Donald McLeod, widely published haiku poet and Butoh Artist (www.zenbutoh.com) Winner of the Haiku Society of America's International Book Award.
Darklight Sonnets
by Michael V. Massari
The sparkling intelligence of Michael V. Massari's mind pushes through these poems. His is a mind that provokes reality to bring forth its most challenging - 'A clean touch of the forbidden' - that scoops out our emotions from their deepest well. 'Abiding thirst comes shivering', and we are captivated, drawn into this temple of rhythm with all of passion's ferocity. These sonnets evoke the centuries of this noble form, infusing it with individuality and love. 'We'll chat again about great wisdoms / in the streams and that chapel on the hill / above our smoking heads. They'll say we strove / for Light. Meantime, let us tend the flowers.' Embrace his art, allow it to flow through you.
– Cindy Savett, author of Child in the Road.
The Petrarchan sonnet is the perfect vehicle for Michael V. Massari's stirring and resonant depth. His syntax and imagery are at once both esoteric and familiar, expressing sacred desire - the touch of something just beyond reach, just beyond reckoning.
– Richard Manchester, author of Home to Barcelona.
Cats Creep the Fire to Art
by Matthew Glenn Ward
The poems of "Cats Creep the Fire to Art" were penned between 1992 & 1996 by poet Matthew Ward at Newcastle University, Australia. They represent the work of a young poet searching for identity, as well as an understanding of his culture, religion, and country.
Shall We Have Magic?
by Alan Baxter
Shall We Have Magic? is a book of poems by Alan Baxter, featuring the artwork of Tom Romano, and edited by Kyle Torke. "I usually write about the eternal happenings in nature, but in my poems the Divine usually turns up in areas not usually expected." - This is what Alan Baxter states in the interview given him in Richard Ramson's documentary Bohemia: The Life of a New York City Poet. In Baxter's book Shall We Have Magic? you will not only find very interesting poems about nature's grandeur, but you will also find a skewed universe where God's awesome presence can be felt in a college lecture hall gun-downed by an insane young student, in a kinky, raves- after- hours NYC party hosted by a suicide-minded doorman, and in the whisperings within "the loneliness of the lover/aching for his passionate partner." As poet/songwriter Robin Small-McCarthy says: "Alan Baxter's poetry is a delightfully eclectic, enlightening smorgasbord of humor, pathos, and social commentary - wonderfully subversive." Alan Baxter is also a film-maker whose career began in the mid-1970's with the making of a short 16mm film entitled "Dakota".
The Kilroy Sonata
by Louis Phillips
"History is elegiac/ But who can remember a year half as bad as the last one?" Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 35 books for children and adults. Among his works are: three collections of short stories - A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE (SMU Press), THE BUS TO THE MOON (Fort Schuyler Press), and THE WOMAN WHO WROTE KING LEAR AND OTHER STORIES (Pleasure Boat Studio). HOT CORNER, a collection of his baseball writings, and R.I. P. (a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; THE ENVOI MESSAGES, and THE LAST OF THE MARX BROTHERS' WRITERS, full-length plays,(Broadway Play Publishers His books for children include: THE MAN WHO STOLE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN (Prentice Hall & Camelot Books), THE MILLION DOLLAR POTATO (Simon and Schuster), and HOW TO WRESTLE AN ALLIGATOR (Avon). His sequence of poems -The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness of the Place -was the co-winner in the Swallow's Tale Press competition (l984).
Crossing Over
by Dr. Frank Romano
"This collection of poetry by the author of Storm over Morocco reveals a young and a mature man's inner journey as he travels from California to Paris and the Mediterranean, discovering Italian and French identities. Particularly moving are the poems "Ma Fille" and "Held you", both exploring the poet's relations to his children."
– Mary Ann Frese, Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, North Carolina State University
"Frank Romano throws himself headlong-physically and spiritually-into the world. In Crossing Over, Romano generously extends himself through language to make his experiences our own."
– Martha Witt, Author of Broken As Things Are Professor of Creative Writing at William Paterson University
"Impossible not to feel more alive after reading Frank Romano's volcanic bursts of poetry".
– Ruth Wire, Poet, HayWire Writers' Workshop.
Ghosts, Gods, Goblins, Geodes
by Pamela L. Laskin
Amazon Review:
by Mona Dotti "Lit Marvel" (CT, USA)
Absolutely necessary read.
Beautifully addresses societal issues with a global perspective.
I highly recommend it!
American Elegies
by Louis Phillips
Amazon Review:
by Ernest Dempsey "ED" (Pakistan)
Phillips' view takes for its reference Johnny Inkslinger (Paul Bunyan's smart chef), implying a sharp eye and good consideration for the subject adopted into verse. Johnny Inkslinger engages in virtual travels, rendezvous, and memories of people, places, things, and events - all American - that left a mark on American thought. Battles, Native American land and animals, Hollywood, sports, politics, art and literature, and more - Johnny Inkslinger makes sure not to miss on anything.
The Collected Poetry of Hugh Fox, 1967-2007
by Hugh Fox, Ph.D.
To the Prairie and to God
by Harold Gray
A collection of poems written by a talented poet between 1936-41 that cover a wide swatch of humanity, as well as nature and the poet's native state of Kansas.
Kings: Five Poems for the Theatre
by Martin Burke
The following is from the author's introduction: "In spite of the break which the twentieth century made with it, the link between poetry and theatre is ancient and enduring. Kings does not seek to single-handily restore that link; it is part of that verse tradition which poets have applied to the theatre in situations not always favourable to its reception. Even so, and perhaps never more so that at the present, the theatre is in need of the recognition of its roots and the re-admittance of poetry to its core may well do a lot for its fortunes. This is not to say that prose has failed. It hasn't. It has given splendid works, and the body of politics and culture would be all the poorer without them. This is also an enduring legacy, and not something that should be sough to be replaced with something else. Prose and poetry have their function and it is a function to which they both can bring their insights and their strengths."
Across My Silence
by Jack Cooper
Stephen D. Chandler, author of "The Story of You," writes about "Across My Silence, "One need not be a passionate conservationist or lover of animals to be charmed by Cooper's admiration of them. The awe he feels in "The Turtles of La Escobilla" for the turtles' unstoppable life force in the face of human cruelty runs deeper than an environmentalist's tantrum. And that, in the end, is the deep place where only poetry can go. Beyond the topical and beyond the political into the eternal. Cooper's poems are all tickets to that deep place."
Islands of Illusion
by Ernest Dempsey
Ernest Dempsey is a published author of a collection of satire and wit and his poetry is sure to amaze and delight.
Amazon Review:
"Breakers Leeward!"
by Textcontext "JMP" (Central Pennsylvania)
This fabulous collection of poems swirls through an archipelago of potential moorings. Readers can take each composition as an insular excursion, in itself, or they can sail the spaces between the poems for an expedition into questions of meaning and perspective, a voyage that has been traditionally reserved for the philosopher of the linguistic bent. But a poet can quickly change magnitudes, abandon the unsolvable, and sharply focus on images or horizons that an essayist must present in orderly, if abstract, prose ...
Still in Soil: A Collection of New Poems
by Kyle Torke, Ph.D
Still in Soil explores the body and its cycles to pull together the shards of life by detailing the physical world with deft particulars in lush, dense and rich poems. Throughout, Kyle Torke affirms family life, describing "the small offices of love" such as clean dishes or pieces of cut fruit. Ordinary experiences like taking sons to a soccer field to fly airplanes sustain individual life by linking it to the larger natural world. What other poet "knowing how dark passages require touch" has frozen a dead guinea pig to teach his sons about death? Providing perspective, "memory is the bullet" which penetrates the collection with a dark humor to make it vivid and hard edged. United throughout by passion and an intelligent perceptive mind, the collection reminds us that in spite of family, personal connections, each person is finally alone and left with desires that are not to be fulfilled in this world. Ultimately, however, "the movement of green is the grass bending for spring." The intense and compelling poems in Still in Soil will grab hold first of your mind, then remain in the recesses of your heart. Vivian Shipley, four time Pulitzer Prize nominee, editor of Connecticut Review, Distinguished professor at Connecticut State University, and author of twelve collections of poetry.
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