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Lots of action at StC recently. We have our first Patreon patron, William Quincy Belle. Many thanks to you sir. Also the website, as you can see, has a new look and feel. Hopefully you'll like it. We also have our first ad placed at the right - thank you Roger and please take a look at his great artwork.
And finally, I’m honored to feature a special Author Profile of E.E. Cummings written by Dr. Alison Rosenblitt, member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. She literally wrote the book on Mr. Cummings (see Author’s Row) and has provided us with wonderful insight into his personality and poetry. Enjoy the issue, and as before, I’d appreciate if you took a minute to fill out an anonymous survey to help me improve StC. Click Here - Ken
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‘Burn’ by Kristen Ruggles is a wonderful pre-love poem, not overdone, that simply portrays that feeling when you meet someone more than just special.
F L A S H
Louis Bourgeois’ ‘Strange Fish’ captures that feeling of fear and excitement young kids, myself included, felt seeing those first big lunkers.
P O E M
Sound and symmetry work together in ‘Dwelling’ by J. Thomas Burke to portray that sense of history we sense in not only our homes, but in our passing lives.
SPECIAL NOTE: Poetry is for everyone. Help me spread the beauty of poetry beyond StC. If you know of a local newspaper that might be amenable to publishing poetry, or if you have direct connections to such an outlet, please let me know. Either contact me at [email protected] or have them contact me. - Ken S.
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Another love poem, free verse this time, ‘Karaoke Night’ by Adrian S. Potter captures that crazy mood, simultaneously wonderful and horrible, that a relationship sometimes evinces.
P O E M
Jen Dracos-Tice’s ‘Ode to the Girl Cardinal’ is a wisp of poetic beauty, in sound, in concept, and in meaning.
F L A S H
I’m a classic movie buff, and ‘Lionel Ding, Thespian’ by Richard K. Weems gave me that feeling of melancholy one gets reading about silent movie stars after the talkies came along.
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AUTHOR'S ROW
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J. Alison Rosenblitt
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Patrick Reardon
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This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings’ engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. In E.E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet. Oxford Univ. Press
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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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William Swarts
Readers praise William Swarts’ latest poetry collection, Harmonies Unheard: for example, ”Bill Swarts rewards us with poetry of an often delightful earthiness and much ironic humor,” says Black Buzzard Press publisher and poet Bradley Straham. “This is a book not to be missed.” And, University of Vermont English Professor Emeritus Richard Sweterlitsch agrees, “His verses resonate with rich images; his themes are universal.”
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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. |
Ken Schweda
If you enjoy thought provoking, unusual science fiction, that might not even make sense the first time you read it, then this book of short stories is for you.
A summary for them might be: first contact, pig, birds and black holes, conspiracy, more birds, lunacy (or not?), lost time. Your reaction to each story might be something like: ? ? ? , , , ? . . . !!! , , ? |
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Peter Dabbene
You've got spam! And so does everyone else. But what happens when you reply to those spam e-mails?
Peter Dabbene poses as his alter ego, Dieter P. Bieny—a man who gives spammers just enough hope to keep them coming back for more abuse. |
Fred McGavran
The Butterfly Collector has more Fred McGavran stories like those in Spank the Carp.
“The humor is understated and often wicked.” William Pratt, Miami University, World Literature Today. |
Jacqueline Jules
“Jules’ gift is in finding the small moments — green paisley pajamas, carrot cake, the giggle of a nine-year-old boy — and gracefully elevating them to tell the story of a life. If half of all marriages end in widowhood, Stronger Than Cleopatra is a manual for how to go on.”
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Jeanne Julian
The changing seasons provide a framework for these poems that explore the loss and rebirth in the natural world and in the spirit. "These poems challenge and resonate; the reader will be haunted by them." - David E. Poston, author of Slow of Study
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Ken Poyner
Forty-two surreal, irreal, subreal fictions of master bird races, nine foot tall women, chickens and their cell phones, the collection and consumption of oxygen, a surrogate lover for a mermaid.
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Brett Stuckel
Guided by Shadows: A Westward Walk on Spain's Camino de Santiago. Discover the absurdity of Europe’s most famous pilgrim path (a Kindle eShort, ~15,000 words, also available for Nook and Kobo).
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Carol Roan
When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50 offers nonfiction, fiction, and poetry that range from the heart-wrenching to the hilarious. Who better to bear witness to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than writers over 50?
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Carol Roan
Speak Up: The Public Speaking Primer is an inspirational guide through the thickets of stage fright, in all its forms, to the freedom of speaking up. The journey begins with a breathing exercise and wends its way through practical advice about the use of space and energy.
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William Quincy Belle
Fate can be kind. Fate can be cruel. However, every once in a while, fate can be funny. This is the lust love story of how one man met the most unusual of women in the most unusual of circumstances.
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