Thanks to George, Word4Word Poets is now an international group as he is our very first member residing overseas.
Contact George to order his new book or to send a warm word of encouragement.
Here's how George describes his book. "The poems in this book are based on me, family, friends, doctors and other people involved in my life. This first time effort is my way of demonstrating that life goes on, regardless of personal circumstances. A shaking right hand makes my writing meander and hence I call that 'poetry in motion'."
The book will be available to Dutch and Belgium residents through the Free Musketeers website. For the US, the book will only be available from George's forthcoming website. The proceeds from the book go to those in need suffering from Parkinson's disease and heart problems.
George is interviewed on BlogTalk Radio's PDTalk Live.
Ann is an inspiring poet. The work included in her first book of poems is beautiful as well as accessible. She paints for us a world as fragile as glass, as honest as a real woman, and as humorous as trading places with Barbie.
Readers are placed centerstage, sharing introspectively. For example, in Gray Confusion, the speaker laments there is no time to "look into the eyes of grandparents, find what it is of them that's lasted."
Ann's poems succeed by connecting with her audience in ways we'd expect from a close friend. The truths she reveals include both the painful as well as the painfully funny.
The loss of a loved one, pets, rejection, love. Bill uses these and other universal themes to touch our hearts. In Circular Logic the speaker has a faith larger than history allowing him to fall in love again.
The Human Touch is a triumphant journey artfully expressed in daily life experiences. It is a journey you'll want to join over and over again.
The latest book of poetry from Virginia's acclaimed Poet Laureate, 2006-2008!
From the publisher:
In Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda's recently published poetry collection, River Country, eastern Virginia's Tidewater region serves as a microcosm of pristine areas undergoing radical changes detrimental to the environment. The speaker of these poems, through her observations of the changing character of the rural setting, recognizes a deep connection to nature and the need to contribute to its survival.
Jill Winkowski's prose is also poetic. Here's a sample from Chapter 3:
"The third rail becomes a long strip of red clay like the rich clay of Virginia. You can smell it. It smells like home. A sandy shore, a strip of beach. A split rail fence, a field being cleared, long lines of lumber. Past Baltimore, past Aberdeen, a gutter, broken bridges, a wild cat arching, broken trees, long steel pylons, flat and parallel."
The story of Olive's journey is rich in imagery and Jill's narrative, pure poetry. This is a story of love, freedom, and hope. Reading, The Third Rail we share the emotions and experience important events as if we stood in the sun or felt the burst of air and heard the growing rumble of a passing train from the edge of the platform at a train station. This is a story of real people facing truth and in truth, Jill's work is a success.
In How Far is Ordinary, Nancy Powell paints the speaker's every day like Claude Monet. In The Dining Room at Dawn the speaker leans against her shadows, ""as if the act could put me/ close enough, so he would brush me/ in paint, swallow me like fresh fruit, . . ."
Nancy's work is at times sensual, courageous. We've been to Ordinary at some point in life and these beautiful poems are far from it.
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
From the publisher:
In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. The poems highlight how the speaker's rebeginning in this relationship has come about in part because of two couples' respective losses.
Skipping Stones is an annual anthology of Hampton Roads, Virginia poets, artists, and photographers.
From the publisher:
"Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy.
A prize-winning poet’s account of the irreparable damage and the new understanding that tragedy brings to his Filipino American family, Pineda’s book is a remarkable story...
—University of Nebraska Press
El Público en Escena (The Audience On Stage) is a collection of short stories in Spanish.
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Enrique Ferrer Corredor is a Colombo-Venezuelan author, teacher, and academic. He divides his time between literature, economics, political science and his love of soccer. He received an MA in Linguistics and Literature and a PhD in Spain. He is a professor of universities: National Pedagogical of Colombia and the Colombian School of Engineering. He taught the Latin American poetry chair at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo. His story, The Other Death of Salazar garnered second place in the City of Florence's short story contest. A tireless traveler and contributor to various national and international publications, among them Samsa's Dream and Joint Presence. Founder and director of the journal, Papeles he also contributed to writers' workshops at the Central University in Colombia and Zaranda in Venezuela. His first collection of poems, Moon Ash was published in 1994 and had two editions in 1998.
From the publisher:
"Sofia Starnes' subtle lyrics are hushed ceremonies of spiritual awakening — as slowly as wisdom. The soul sweet-talks/its way into the throng/of lung, ribcage, hip. The lips/are doorsill, in and out;/I do not know which-way./What kills a rose? But this climactic instant of beauty is not a death since the rose bush lives on in thorny branches and the classic image resonates in memory. Distances ends with a wasted whiff that strikes/heart, a little beyond. Beyond the commonsense reality we all whiff.
As in her third collection, Corpus Homini: A Poem for Single Flesh (2008 Whitebird Award, Wings Press), Fully Into Ashes maps an open landscape where both the spiritual and the physical are intimately wed. These poems evoke the holy spirits in nature toward the divine elevation of all that is real. Never sanctimonious, their religious roots and humble saints inhabit a poetic garden flowering with a second innocence."
—San Antonio Express-News 04/24/2011.
Editorial Review:
"The true tales of leadership and courage that set the standards for Navy sailors of all ages fill the pages of this exciting book. The twelve exploits that are recounted in these well-researched and easy-reading poetry forms explain why the term sailor carries such deep respect in the United States Navy. The first story begins with John Barry in 1776; the last with Stephen Decatur in 1816. All fought their battles under sail in wooden ships in the harsh environment of stormy seas. The boldness and valor of these patriots gives meaning to the word patriotism."
Winner of 2005 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
The judges praised Glasser's book: "Her arresting images derive from observation and sensation at once singular, as though each were an epiphany, and yet freighted with layers of knowledge that could only acrue over years. Enter into the most stunning of these poems and come away without words, because words have been transformed into events of pure being."
I say, "Breathtaking."
From a Review on Amazon.com:
"Words that tug on the soul. This is more than a book of poetry, this is a book that resonates with the soul on a deep level.
Richardson is very talented and brings the reader to a place of questioning, yet, at the same time a place of serenity in Likeness of Being. Thoughts and emotions are stirred, issues are evoked, and deeper faith instilled. Only a gifted writer, which is emotionally invested in the writing, can convey all the messages at the same time in one poem. Richardson is this gifted writer."
—Irene Watson for Reader Views
The Poet's Domain is an anthology of theme-driven poetry published in the fall. The theme for Volume 24, Then a stretcher will come from grace..., is from Zero Circle by the Persian poet Rumi.
Serena's poems spark the mojo and the blues. They ride hard on motorcycles at night. Her poems play cards, drink and love too much, blow through hollow bone. Most importantly, they remind us we have forgotten the alphabet of foxes when we "grew too tall to crawl under the wild roses."
Alphabet of Foxes seduces with its earthy music. The work gives haunting voices to those secrets in the brush. Secrets we long to revisit and relearn.
Author Linda Mose Meadows received rave reviews for her book The Blessedness of Believing: A Devotional Journey of Life’s Lessons and God’s Promises (Tate Publishing). Inspirational Author, Blogger and Columnist of Urban Views Weekly, Linda Mose Meadows’ collection of heartfelt devotionals passionately and honestly captures the daily complexities faced by many. Ms. Meadows is transparent in sharing her challenges and the personal benefits of appreciating hope and reliance on God’s promises.
Connect with the Author and be encouraged to embrace a new outlook on this year’s spiritual journey with lessons for living. The book is available from Tate Publishing, online bookstores like Amazon.com and others, and in local book stores.
From the publisher:
"In Rinsewater River, poet Patricia Vermillion splashes through a river from source to mouth, pausing at family pastiches, beloved paintings and more to present poems that are vivid presentations of a well rained upon landscape."
From the publisher:
"Rucker's poems are wonderfully liberating in not falling for the stylistic monomania of so much contemporary poetry."
From the publisher:
"This Side of Forever is the narrative of the loss of a wife and the accompanying grief of her spouse. In language laced with searing, original imagery the author relates the progress of his mourning for three months after her death. Without pandering to pity or sentiment, he traces the psychological journey from the deathbed to memories of their thirty-six year marriage."
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