Pond 60 - December 2020 |
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The Ekphrasis Poetry Challenge was a success so I’ll be doing similar poetry challenges in the future. Thanks to all who participated.
And congratulations to Linda Eve Diamond. Her winning poem Fish Story will be featured in the next pond. I also want to call out that StC is always open for submissions of artwork, images, you name it, for the Carpwork Gallery. See the submissions page for details. Continue to take care and care big. - Ken |
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FLASH
Jeff Burd - At the Turn Around
POEM
Barbara Daniels - Fully Nude
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Steve Cullen - The Lecturers
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Mike Neis - There Goes the Bride
FROM THE EDITOR
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SHORT STORY
Kevin J. Binder - A Fraud Abroad
POEM
Vern Fein - Tolkien Died
SHORT STORY
Chris Cooper - Finn Almost Buys a Goldfish
POEM
Richard Weaver - Mr. Rat twitches his whiskers
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Author Profile
A.C. McGrath 
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Mind of a Poet
Barbara Daniels 
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A gentle gaze...
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. |
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Authors' Row
Click on any image to order.
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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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Annette Sisson
“Annette Sisson’s heart-driven poems are clear, well-shaped and loaded with sharp imagery. A Casting Off mixes metaphor with landscapes which become spiritual in-scapes filled with wonder and mystery, loss and grief.” –Bill Brown, poet
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Carson Pytell
"Carson Pytell’s First-Year is a moving collection of quiet and contemplative poetry. With deceptively simple narratives, Pytell captures the weight of our personal histories and the hidden significance of our trifles..."
- Brian Geiger (Founder/Editor, Vita Brevis Press) |
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Vincent J. Tomeo
My Cemetery Friends is timeless. Walk with renowned author and poet Vincent J. Tomeo through garden pathways of life. Along the way, encounter other travelers trekking a similar trail, embrace new acquaintances, and this will make all the difference.
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Carol Roan
A small New Jersey farming town survived a brutal invasion by the British in 1776, but now it faces another invasion, this time by artists. The eponymous story in this linked collection was first published in Pond 22, 2016.
(Available at www.snakenationpress.org.) |
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 |
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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. |
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. |
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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John Michael Flynn
John Michael Flynn’s language dazzles to a very real end: the exploration and delineation of the free-floating breakdown known as “America.” The range of tones and locales he uses is impressive but more impressive is the feeling invested in what almost inevitably slips through time’s fingers. Anyone wondering where the Whitmanesque impulse has gone need look no further.
—Baron Wormser Visit www.basilrosa.com. |
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 |