Pond 38 - 2018 |
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The 4th Annual Poetry Contest is officially over. Thanks to all who submitted poems.
I'm introducing a new feature - Vote for your Favorite Work. Very simple. Just read through this issue then click on the Vote image below to choose your favorite piece. I'm considering running an ongoing contest based on user voting, so I'd like to see how it goes. I'd also like to welcome Susanna Lang to Author's Row. Check out all the excellent books available from StC authors below. Enjoy pond 38, which includes new Carpwork. It’s stocked to the gills! - Ken
SPECIAL NOTE: Poetry is for everyone. Help me spread its beauty 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
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S H O R T S T O R Y
If you’ve stayed with StC for any length of time you know Ken Poyner is one of my favorites. Once again, prepare for a mental ride in his ‘Chickentown’.
S H O R T S T O R Y
Grady May’s ‘Elvis Ex Machina’ combines humor, social commentary, and a touch of sci-fi regarding a subject I’m sure many readers will connect with.
P O E M S
You know what the best art does, whether it’s artwork, music, or poetry? It makes you feel bigger inside. Case in point: Richard Weaver’s ‘Painted Turtle’ and ‘Diminution’.
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C.S. Fuqua’s ‘The Pool Game’ paints an entire story with a Tom Waits brush. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, google it.
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John Kristofco’s ‘War Games’ packs so much timeless commentary into just a couple stanzas.
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Think a poem about our healthcare system would be just an awkward screed in disguise? Wrong. Check out Joanne Kennedy Frazer’s ‘World Class Health Care System’.
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Who would have thought the names Hulk and Hamlet could be used in the same, well, anything. ‘The Hulk as Hamlet’ by Terry Wright does it perfectly. You’re in for a real treat.
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Don’t tell me about love, show me love. Carol Tyx’s ‘At Least’ does just that, and packs an entire backstory into its first line.
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ARTISTS and SHUTTERBUGS I’m looking for original artwork and enhanced photos featuring Carp (including Koi) for the Carpwork Gallery. See the Submissions page for details. |
Author's Row
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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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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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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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