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Donald Wheelock, 'Worthless'
What a worthless thing is poetry, a product of hard labor I adore; a counter full of year-old toiletries will always fetch considerably more. A merchant selling gift-wrapped bars of soap will come away with profit and some change; to sell a poem is no more than a hope washed clean of what a market can arrange. Here! Have a few of mine, two for a quarter— a dime apiece—the bargain of the day… just…
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"Vivia: the Legend of Vivia Thomas" by Linda Neal Reising
A character-driven historical fiction that speaks to the poet in all of us.
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Vivia: The Legend of Vivia Thomas
Linda Neal ReisingKelsay Books (2023)ISBN: 978-1639803699Reviewed by Leslie Anne Smith for Reader Views (11/2023)
“Vivia: The Legend of Vivia Thomas, A Novelette in Poems” is the newest project from award-winning author Linda Neal Reising. Steeped in American history, “Vivia: The Legend of Vivia Thomas” shows readers an intimate portrait of a little-known…
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New Book Release - Meggie Royer
Thank you to Kelsay Books for publishing my newest full-length poetry collection, If the Darkness is Lacking. This book comes 10 years after my first full-length book, and 8 years after my last!
This collection centers around my fascination with memory, true crime, nostalgia, my fear of mortality, and my experiences as a survivor who works in the domestic violence field.
You can purchase my book here: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/if-the-darkness-is-lacking
More info about my writing: https://meggieroyer.com/
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Dormant by Harriet Ribot
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Harriet Ribot was born in Brooklyn, became a Registered Nurse at twenty, married at twenty-two, raised four successful sons through the seventies and eighties, and then earned her long-desired BA, with a concentration in Journalism, at Rutgers-Newark in the1980s. She also collated the works and biography of composer Frantz Casseus into a book of sheet music for solo guitar: The Complete Works of Frantz Casseus (Tuscany Publications, 2003). Her chapbook, Willow Tree, was published by Finishing Line Press, and her collection of poems, Ember, by Kelsay Books. #life #poetry #selfdiscovery
PRAISE FOR Dormant by Harriet Ribot
In Dormant, Harriet Ribot’s deeply honest first book of poetry, the reader is invited to share a writer’s late life self-discovery. With children long ago raised and husband gone, Ribot doesn’t over-romanticize her lived experience. “When your brain/has lain/dormant/what torment/to waken this thing” she tells us in the title poem. In another she writes, “Patience is time spread thin over peaks of frustration/and mounds of buried dreams, still visible/as one looks back over many years.” A deep and playful affection for language lace together love, loss and painful awakening throughout this lovely book.
–Roy Nathanson is author of Subway Moon, and teaches music at the NYU Gallatin School.
“I write to share” writes Harriet Ribot in her new book of poems, Dormant.Words tumble gently down the page. An occasional rhyme gives a boost. But the poems always land, gently, in the heart. Maybe, as “The Little Imp” says, “The whole world has a common bond of loneliness.” Maybe, as in “The Net,” There are “structures/holding us together in delicate balance.” In this “keep-moving world” where we “drink from the fountain of kiss,” Harriet reminds us that when you are on “the corner of somewhere to someplace else” that “life’s what you choose—not what you’ve found.” “Loosen up…” she urges, “live it up…show love to someone else!” Reader, follow the advice in these poems, and join with our Poet, saying “Having loved, I can face the future.”
–Bob Holman, activist, poet and filmmaker, is author of 17 volumes of poetry, most recently (Un)spoken and Life Poem, is founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and host of Language Matters
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EkphrasticChallenge2024 Day Thirty. Congratulations to all contributors on completing this adventure. Thankyou for your amazing fecundity of creativity, and the bright inspirations of all artworkers. Tomorrow will be a Bonus Day in celebration. Please join Margaret Royall, Emily Vernalls, David Southwell, Mick Jenkinson, Matt Guntrip, Merril D Smith, Gaynor Kane, Tim Fellows, Anjum Wasim Dar, Kevin MacAlan, Emma Datson, Ivor Daniel, Francis Powell, Diane Lowman, Michelle Barnett, Donna Faulkner, and I as we respond to the daily artworks of Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Sara Elizabeth Bell and Robert Frede Kenter. April 30th.
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Karen Pierce Gonzalez
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River…
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Note to Self: Undeterred
On my knees
in my petticoat
I dig in mud
in the gap
between call
and response
of doves—
my mouth
an empty vowel.
The poems of Anastasia Vassos have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. She is the author of Nostos (Kelsay Books, 2023) and Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (Nixes Mate, 2021). Find her work in RHINO Poetry, Whale Road Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, The…
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Stearn's Motor Inn / David Jibson
My friends in Ludington, Michigan will recognize this place. A stay here is like travelling back in time (in a good way). This poem, originally pulished in 3rd Wednesday, is also in my collection, Protective Coloration, Kelsay Books, 2020.
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Kelsay Books: Monday, February 5th, 8:00 p.m. ET: Marc Frazier wsg Steven Ostrowski. PLEASE JOIN US!! Kelsay Books: Join us at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, February 5th to enjoy selections from both authors’ new books!
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Wild and Tame / Nancy Jo Allen
Watch Nancy Jo read from Wild and Tame on 3rd Wednesday’s YouTube Channel.See the book at the website of Kelsay Books.
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Reading “Joy of Wine”, poems by DeWitt Clinton.
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"The Mall" and Other Poems by J. C. Jackson
"The Mall" and Other Poems by J. C. Jackson
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021). Recent poems are in Stirring, Vilas Avenue, and *82 Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com)
J. C. Jackson has been previously featured by In…
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Using form: Experimental: Edmund Conti, 'Solace'
I know, I know it’s tough.I know. It’s tough. I know.It’s tough. I know it’s tough.I know. I know. It’s tough.I know it’s tough. I know.It’s tough.I know.
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Edmund Conti writes: “I guess I like because it uses just four words to say a lot.”
Edmund Conti has recent poems published in Light, Lighten-Up Online, The Lyric, The Asses of Parnassus, newversenews, Verse-Virtual and Open Arts…
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"Sonnets of Love and Joy" by Paul Buchheit
Love in All Its Forms
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Sonnets of Love and Joy
Paul BuchheitKelsay Books (2023)ISBN: 978-1639803637Reviewed by Natalia Kavale for Reader Views (09/2023)
“Sonnets of Love and Joy” by Paul Buchheit is a delightful collection of sixty sonnets that explore themes of love, joy, family, nature, and more. These sonnets, thoughtfully categorized into seven topics, offer readers a journey through different emotions, capturing…
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My Newest Poetry Book is Out!
It's pub day! Thank you to Kelsay Books for publishing my newest full-length poetry collection, If the Darkness is Lacking. This book comes 10 years after my first full-length book, and 8 years after my last!
This collection centers around my fascination with memory, true crime, nostalgia, my fear of mortality, and my experiences as a survivor who works in the domestic violence field.
You can purchase my book here: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/if-the-darkness-is-lacking
More info about my writing: https://meggieroyer.com/
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: NOW, SOMEHOW by Judith Terzi
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Now, Somehow begins with a poem about the poet’s colon cancer surgery on October 26, 2018. Some of the poems in this collection relate specifically to that cancer and the treatment that followed. Others present, in a more general way, the challenges and vagaries of confronting any health crisis. This includes poems inspired by the personal and societal behavioral adjustments that must be made during a pandemic.
Author of Museum of Rearranged Objects (Kelsay) and five previous chapbooks, Judith Terzi‘s poetry appears in a wide array of literary publications. For many years a teacher of French language and literature in Southern California, she has also taught English at California State University, Los Angeles, and in Algiers, Algeria. She lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and cockatiel, Gris-Gris.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR NOW, SOMEHOW by Judith Terzi
Judith Terzi’s Now, Somehow perfectly captures the Proustian moment—a carefully calibrated record of the backwards look. In the very first poem, she imagines her oncologist cutting into her colon as a way to question what remains, what’s left behind in this rearrangement of organs: “No memory of all the little madeleines / and Sunday’s flow of hours. Slippery / fingertips straining to hold onto a waltz.” The focus on recovering the body also includes the Covid pandemic, as the final words of the book lament “putting on a little black dress to go nowhere” when what she really longs for is to “Put on yesterday’s refrains.” It is no accident that Terzi’s last word is “refrains,” the repeated lines of songs, for it is this impulse to sing again—to re-verse—that is at the heart of this astonishing collection.
–Linda Dove, author of Fearn, This Too, O Dear Deer, and In Defense of Objects
Now, somehow, in the times of Covid, aging, failing marriages, cancer, isolation, and always the memory of more innocent, hopeful times, in the midst of life, real life—we are going to put on our little black dress, favorite necktie, and we are going to go dancing. Now, Somehow, a chapbook of poetry by Judith Terzi—poems of skill, tough lyricism, humor, and solace, the solace of poems beautifully wrought.
–Richard Garcia, author of The Chair, The Other Odyssey, and The Persistence of Objects
Judith Terzi speaks in tongues and trusts her readers to look up a thing or two. She reminds us that frailty and the limits of medicine plop us down in the middle of life, even as they pluck us up from our lives. She knows that her days are under threat, and that no one else can tell her story. I give her especial props for using the repetitions of form to enact the accumulation of being overwhelmed that illness brings, and, in so doing, to go meta on us. She gives us a furnished world where every tchotchke has a story to tell, and where inner life and outer events hold conversations. Welcome to a full place.
–Karen Greenbaum-Maya, author of Kafka’s Cat and The Book of Knots and Their Untying
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EkphrasticChallenge2024 Day Twenty-ninth. Please join Margaret Royall, Emily Vernalls, David Southwell, Mick Jenkinson, Matt Guntrip, Merril D Smith, Gaynor Kane, Tim Fellows, Anjum Wasim Dar, Kevin MacAlan, Emma Datson, Ivor Daniel, Francis Powell, Diane Lowman, Michelle Barnett, Donna Faulkner, and I as we respond to the daily artworks of Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Sara Elizabeth Bell and Robert Frede Kenter. April 29th.
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Karen Pierce Gonzalez
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down…
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