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kelli-russell-agodon's picture
Aug.29.2011
Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room is a bright, funny, touching meditation on loss, love, and the power of words. Her genius is in the interweaving of God and Vodka, bees and bras, astronomy and astrology, quotes from Einstein and Dickinson, a world in which gossip rags in checkout lines...
collin-kelley's picture
Aug.23.2011
Number Four in the ReBound Series. Originally published by Metromania Press in 2006; published in a new second edition with an introduction by Karen Head: “. . . Here is a poet who is considering, in a self-conscious but not self-indulgent way, how to survive in the world–a...
joan-gelfand's picture
Aug.17.2011
j-barrett-wolf's picture
Jul.06.2011
"Your poetry is an open artery that bleeds out love, hope, sorrow and truths rarely told with such honest abandon - the kind that makes my own pages turn while touching the scars of your past as if they were my own. And as different as we are, your Muse and my Muse become one when I read your...
marilyn-kallet's picture
Jun.14.2011
This is the first English translation of Surrealist Benjamin Péret's key book of poems, The Big Game (1921).   Kallet's introduction places Péret in the context of modern poetry, and renders his poems into lyrical, witty, idiomatic English.   
stewart-florsheim's picture
May.28.2011
"Mother...wants to know why I keep writing," Stewart Florsheim says in his moving and heartbreaking poem, "Mother Wants to Know."  "It's not about me I hope," she adds.  Well, it is about her, and about us, and about hope, and the interrelation of life and art.  I...
lee-juslin's picture
May.27.2011
Daisy is a Scottish Fold cat that came to us with some baggage. Very skittish and fearful. Funniest thing, though, is the face she makes if she is displeased or annoyed. Very much like a teenager. So, I wrote this limerick style poem the first Christmas she spent with us as a kind of spoof of Twas...
lee-juslin's picture
May.27.2011
A poem written in limerick style that catches the essence of a terrier, particularly a Scottie dog. I wrote this as a tribute to my first Scottie, Celtic Pride, who was just the best friend ever.
alissa-valles's picture
Apr.20.2011
Collected poems of the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, Translated by Czeslaw Milosz, Peter Dale Scott and Alissa Valles
bill-vartnaw's picture
Apr.12.2011
Poems from American poets with Finnish ancestry.  From a reading given at United Finnish Kaleva Brothers and Sisters, Berkeley Lodge No. 21 on 10/24/2010.  Available from: Don Hagelberg, 193 W. Verano Ave. #107, Sonoma, CA 95476