Pond 70 - August 2022 |
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Come dip the toes of your mind into our little literary pond. It’s rich in poetry nutrients, with a flash and CNF lilies floating around. Enjoy!
- Ken
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John Tustin - From One Window
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Deborah Bayer - Concrete Square
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Gabby Gilliam - Empty Doesn’t Mean Fallow
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Frank Finney - Scarecrows
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FLASH
Jimmy Lis - It’s Not You, It’s Paprika
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Colin Ian Jeffery - Lion Tamer
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KB Ballentine - Dr Tarr’s Trout Farm
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Carolyn Fallert - Dancing in the Moonlight
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Author Profile
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Mind of a Poet
John Tustin 
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Authors' Row
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Kim Malinowski
Home explores grief and belonging as Kim Malinowski writes with her own star-pen discovering that home is a process and that we carry it within us. We take home wherever we go and through whatever trials we face.
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Terry Tierney
Set in the Vietnam War era, Lucky Ride tells the story of a recent veteran, an unraveling marriage, and a hitchhiking trip steeped in hippie optimism, post-war skepticism, and drug-induced fantasy.
“A bang-zoom road trip novel with the queasy high-flying pace of Easy Rider and the breakneck prose of On the Road” --Douglas Cole, author of The White Field. |
Charles Springer
Nowhere Now Here is a collection of prose poems that read and feel whimsical on the surface, with solid and brilliant imagery, but underneath this surface lay undercurrents of grit and pathos. It's a standout collection of ordinary lives and their seemingly ordinary moments made extraordinary.The collection has received many wonderful endorsements from the likes of David Keplinger, David Shumate, Gene Twaronite, Michael Martone, Barbara Henning, Rebecca Kinzie-Bastian and Matthew Lippman. Available from the publisher, Radial Books
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Annette Sisson
Without its "hue and profusion," Annette Sisson reminds us, "the world is an orphan." And often these poems seek to clothe some austere loneliness in the multiplicity of life's visions and illusions. ... Like all good poetry, Sisson's shows that everything that matters, whether tragic, as in her poem "Eclipse," or buoyant, as in her poem "Résistance," takes place on earth, in our world. This book is a loving celebration of the connections and tensions that help us to live our lives. - Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry and Dailiness
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Richard Sipe
In his new book of poetry Richard Craig Sipe explores what happens in the aftermath of a life, a town, or a love. These are the LOVELY DREGS: what is left over, what remains, what is never the same, except that, somehow, oddly, it is.
LOVELY DREGS is available from Atmosphere Press |
Karlo Sevilla
Released in 2018 by Soma Publishing, this is the first full-length collection of poems from widely-published and award-winning poet Karlo Sevilla. Based in Quezon City, Philippines, his poems appear or are forthcoming in Philippines Graphic, DIAGRAM, Small Orange, Radius, Spank the Carp, Matter, Eclectica and other literary journals, anthologies and platforms worldwide.
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John Michael Flynn
The stories in Off To The Next Wherever examine desires to know those greener pastures, that comfort zone, a lasting sense of rootedness and belonging just around the next bend. They speak of wanderlust as solace, of place as identity, grounded in the question of how to live beyond mere survival as we make tracks inward or else try to escape from ourselves.
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Terence Gallagher
After seven long years, James Ward is reunited with his childhood friend Cornelia and back among the Dragons, a nation of travelers with roots in the distant Celtic past. This time he is living in the heart of the secret kingdom; but a sudden reversal of fortune throws the Dragons' world into peril and forces James to step up into a new role to save it. (Sequel to Lowlands)
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Peter Dabbene
Complex Simplicity reprints the first 101 entries from Peter Dabbene's monthly column in the Hamilton Post newspaper, plus assorted essays focusing on comic books, movies, social media, politics, mixed martial arts, astronomy, and more. With humor and style, these pages probe the important and not-so-important issues of everyday life in New Jersey, and America at large.
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William Quincy Belle
A post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi thriller.
Antigravity: floating cites. Pandemic: 80% dead. Flesh-eating disease: artificial body parts. Insects as food. And murder in dystopia. |
Patrick T. Reardon
This exceptional book enables us to see, as if for the first time, something that is right under our noses. It is almost impossible to imagine downtown Chicago and the Loop ‘L’ without each other, and Patrick T. Reardon explains just why that is so in a lively narrative full of information and insights.”
—Carl Smith, author of Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City |
Patrick Reardon
In “Requiem for David,” Patrick T. Reardon wrestles with the suicide of his brother and the pain they shared as the children of demanding and emotionally absent parents. Novelist-poet Sandra Cisneros calls Reardon's book “the heart’s howl,” and poet Haki Madhubuti writes: “Reardon’s poetry reminds me of the great poet and Catholic priest, Daniel Berrigan.”
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Ken Poyner
A collection of fantastical mini-fictions. A man who encounters mammoth rustlers. Houses that begin to move on their own, forcing the inhabitants to finally introduce themselves to their neighbors. Giant chickens that are hunted for processing in the chicken sandwich industry. And much more.
Humor, irony, mythical realism, surrealism, soft science fiction. |
Fred McGavran
"McGavran’s are stories of obsession and experience. They are the stories of characters who are nearing death and who are thinking about what they will leave behind. They are deeply human, and entirely serious, with a touch of humor and a little bit of magic to light the way." - Anna Kasik, Englewood Review of Books
Hear Roberta Schultz's review on WVXU |