Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 7 written by Last Stanza Poetry Association and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue #7 features poems of voodoo, Native American spirituality, ghosts, witches, fairies, portents, folk medicine, familiars, tree spirits, celestial musings, ancient gods, tricksters, tarot cards, and the unexpected. Poets in this issue: David Allen, Peter Anderson, Michael Ansara, Jaya Avendel, Ruth Aylett, Jan Ball, Lois Baer Barr, Marilyn Baszczynski, Roderick Bates, Mahasweta Baxipatra, Mandy Beattie, Michelle Blake, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Maureen Brustkern, Rebecca Byrkit, Dan Carpenter, KJ Carter, Luanne Castle, Alys Caviness-Gober, Jan Chronister, W. B. Cornwell, Say Davenport, Bruce Ducker, Russell duPont, Martin Goldie, James Green, Will Griffith, John D. Groppe, Gary Grossman, Jan Hall, Chris Hasara, Elizabeth Hill, John Hinton, Kaela Hinton, Gil Hoy, Kyle Hunter, David James, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, JL Kato, Jordan Krais, Norbert Krapf, Lucy J. Madison, Guna Moran, Jacob R. Moses, Rich Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy, Lylanne Musselman, James Nolan, Thomas Alan Orr, Jacky Pugh, Stephen R. Roberts, Marjorie Sadin, Prartho Sereno, Mary Sexson, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Michael E. Strosahl, Diana Thoresen, Theresa Timmons, Mary Kay Turner, Rp Verlaine, Ron Welburn, J. T. Whitehead, Matt Whybrew, Marilyn Wolf, Hiromi Yoshida, Judy Young. The featured artist is Amy Brewer-Davenport.
Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 1 written by Jenny Kalahar and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue #1 includes poetry from: David Allen, Kitrell Andis, Matthew Brennan, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, Jared Carter, K J Carter, Alys Caviness-Gober, Ginger Chriss, Alice Couch, Mary Couch, W.B. Cornwell, Curtis L. Crisler, Luke Austin Daugherty, Linda Eaton, Shelly Gambino, James Green, Josetta Lynn Gregg, Carter Anderson Herndon, John Hinton, Shillin Hite, LeAnn Jones, Michael Joyce, Ruth Justice, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, JL Kato, Jordan Krais, Tracy Mishkin, Donna Monday, Sarah E. Morin, Lylanne Musselman, Zorban Norgog, Joe Ottinger, Jessica Reed, Stephen R. Roberts, John Sherman, Nancy Simmonds, Christopher Stolle, Michael E. Strosahl, Theresa Timmons, Dennis L. White, George Wylie, Judy Young, and Joyce Zephyrin.
Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 2 written by Last Stanza Poetry Association and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets in this issue: David Allen, Shalom Galve Aranas, Michael Brockley, Michael Brownstein, John Cardwell, Dan Carpenter, K J Carter, W. B. Cornwell, Mary A. Couch, Dick Dalton, George Fish, James Green, John D. Groppe, Lois Hambleton, John Hinton, Liza Hyatt, LeAnn Jones, Jordan Krais, Oliver Lake, Jim Landwehr, Lucy J. Madison, Tracy Mishkin, Donna Monday, Guna Moran, Lylanne Musselman, Thomas Alan Orr, Bruce Reed, Mary Sexson, Michael Strosahl, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, J.E.A. Wallace, Michael T. Young, and Joyce Zephyrin. Illustrations are by Bre A. Domescik.Each of these poems has a backstory, a side note, previously unrevealed truths, or specifics about their inspiration. I've always loved discovering the pain, joy, loss, love, drama, or unusual experience that went into creating works of art: paintings, songs, novels, and poetry. I asked contributors to let readers look behind the curtain for this issue, and the results are magnificent. Poets are, by nature, brave. Shards of their souls are on display with each piece of writing. With these postscripts, we are allowed to see even deeper into their hearts.
Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 4 written by Last Stanza Poetry Association and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictionary is an excellent resource, but sometimes the very proper words in the dictionary aren't the ones you need to precisely describe a person, place, thing, or emotion. Edward Gorey and Lewis Carroll never needed to explain their nonsense words-either they were understood or not, but a sense of them tickled the surrounding lines and gave their writing a new color and flavor. Readers may not understand every undictionary entry in this issue, but they may quite like the poems' textures as you chew. Poets in this issue: David Allen, Lois Baer Barr, James Bowden, Jonathan Bracker, James Bradley, Jerry Bradley, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, Lucas Carpenter, Alys Caviness-Gober, Jan Chronister, Kathryn Dohrmann, Bruce Ducker, Katey Funderburgh, Daniel Godward, James Green, John D. Groppe, Gary D. Grossman, Helmut Haberkamm, Cynthia T. Hahn, Danielle Hanson, Karen Head, Tim Heerdink, John R. Hinton, Peter Huggins, Joseph Hutchison, Colin James, David James, Marc Janssen, Michael Lee Johnson, Arnold Johnston, Patrick Kalahar, Chuck Kellum, Norbert Krapf, Lylanne Musselman, Noble Poets, Levi Noe, Noreen Oesterlein, Deborah Ann Percy, Teresa Pruitt, Carlos Reyes, Warren Sidwell, M. E. Silverman, Robert Simon, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Kim Stafford, Michael E. Strosahl, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, Nagueyalti Warren, James Eric Watkins, Bill Yarrow, Hiromi Yoshida.Illustrations are by Christina Hollering.
Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 3 written by Last Stanza Poetry Association and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets in this issue: David Allen, Susie Beiman, Mark Blickley, Kimberly Anne Bolton, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, K J Carter, Jan Chronister, Alice Couch, Mary Couch, Curtis L. Crisler, Kim Denning, George Fish, Daniel Godward, James Green, John D. Groppe, John R. Hinton, Liza Hyatt, Kenneth Johnson, Arnold Johnston, LeAnn Jones, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, Jordan Krais, Norbert Krapf, Jim Landwehr, rob mclennan, Lylanne Musselman, Matt Nagin, Noble Poets, Stephen R. Roberts, Kit Rohrbach, Bonita Cox Searle, Mary Sexson, Michael E. Strosahl, Diana Thoresen, Theresa Timmons, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, James Eric Watkins, George Wylie, and Hiromi Yoshida. These are unusual times. What has altered in your life or the lives of those around you? What angers you? What is better this year than in the past? What will never be the same going forward? Those were the questions asked of poets for this issue. The world is divided along several lines as we head into 2021. The pandemic is unlike anything experienced before. Tensions are running high between coworkers, educators and those they teach, neighbors, and even lifelong friends and family members. Relationships are dissolving Left and Right. The masked and unmasked glare at each other. The air we breathe and the surfaces we touch and the people we love are all potential killers. It's a plexiglass world, muffled and fogged. Family dynamics have shifted dramatically. And that which seems to be salvation-the vaccines-may not end social distancing for a very long time to come. We communicate via screens and signs and tears of longing and frustration. This will undoubtedly be the start and end of too many things. There is likely no one who doesn't know someone who was infected by the coronavirus-or killed by it. Poetry can't solve the toughest problems of society, but maybe it can offer a new perspective on them. There are off-topic poems herein, as well. Touching and funny, surprising and philosophical-they offer the chance to take a break from the stresses and strains eating into every aspect of our daily lives.
Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal written by Jenny Kalahar and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poetry from the Last Stanza Poetry Association.
Download or read book Last Stanza Poetry Journal written by Jenny Kalahar and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poetry from the Last Stanza Poetry Association.
Download or read book Her Addiction An Empty Place at the Table written by Mary Sexson and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a poetry collection that will break your heart, but also make you grateful you read it. Mary Sexson tells the story of her daughter's addiction(s) honestly, sometimes painfully, with grace and love. The first time I read the powerful and moving manuscript I sensed it could be a challenge for her to find a publisher. As the author of a book of poems about surviving abuse by a priest, however, I also had faith that some wise publisher would admire a poet who confronts difficult topics and stories like the one that Mary Sexson has the courage to tell about herself, her family, and their struggles. Sometimes she is patient, sometimes frustrated, impatient, exhausted, angry, but always she is honest. Remarkably, her love of, and loyalty to, her undependable daughter is everywhere evident. The most moving part of the story is her and her husband's having to raise their grandson, a toddler, while his mother, in her thirties, is in and out of treatment, somewhere in an alley looking for a fix, causing a traffic accident, or temporarily back home before relapsing again. Sexson makes it clear that for everyone in the family there is "a heavy toll to pay." At first, the grandson is unaware of what's going on, but eventually his grandmother observes him playing "The Dinosaur Game," with "a family /of triceratops," then realizes, "I buy him the dinosaurs / he configures / into the family he does not have." Later the little boy asks his grandmother a series of questions, including: "Why is [my] mommy not here?" On his bedside table, a "Big Ironman" stands, whose job is "to keep him safe / until her return." It's no surprise that the grandparents find it difficult to share this painful story with others, which makes the telling of so much truth in these eloquent poems noteworthy. "The price we all pay / for this level of intimacy is staggering," Sexson admits. "I ache for monotony...the comfort of it." In "Map of My Fears," she says: "Your addiction draws lines / on my face, deep and distinct." She becomes "tired of writing about [her] in my head." Finally, the grandparents start to "whisper" the story of their daughter's addiction, telling others the "facts / bare and ugly as they were." In the last poem, "The Words," Sexson reveals all that she would like to be able to tell her daughter on her 37th birthday. The last message is this: "Tell her / that you learn the truth about love / every time you are with her." The poet is too wise to tell us, directly, what that truth is-the poems in this outstanding collection deserving of a wide audience have already made us see and feel it. Mary Sexson's exquisite artistry makes forgetting her family story impossible. -Norbert Krapf, Former Indiana Poet Laureate
Download or read book Indebted to Change written by Stephen Falconer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The date, the time, the place are obscure, but of what we can be certain is that the Beggar Poet is in no position to call himself a "noble person" or a "superior man." He lives his life as would a mendicant writer or a solitary seeker--one who has tasted love, joy, and the depths of human despair. Like most of us, really. In fashioning his life to the changes of the I Ching, each of the sixty-four hexagrams, he is faced with challenges and riddles, thresholds to broach, subtle variations of insight from which, by living through them sincerely and with an unrelenting gaze, he can be said to be living an evolving revelation of consciousness. Anyone who has taken time to turn the pages of the I Ching will realize that as well as discovering uplifting and spiritually profound moments, there are those we truly fear and spend our lives trying to avoid. Instead of trying to maintain constantly a higher spiritual eminence--a perfect sense of proportion--we come to know by experience, if Heaven wills and for only brief interludes in an otherwise fulfilling life, its opposite, making our luminous spiritual flights all the more poignant and precious.
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Download or read book Volume 7 Tome III Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries Literature Drama and Aesthetics written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of Kierkegaard's life corresponds to Denmark's "Golden Age," which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark's most important writers, philosophers, theologians, poets, actors and artists flourished. Kierkegaard was often in dialogue with his fellow Danes on key issues of the day. His authorship would be unthinkable without reference to the Danish State Church, the Royal Theater, the University of Copenhagen or the various Danish newspapers and journals, such as The Corsair, Fædrelandet, and Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post, which played an undeniable role in shaping his development. The present volume features articles that employ source-work research in order to explore the individual Danish sources of Kierkegaard's thought. The volume is divided into three tomes in order to cover the different fields of influence. Tome III is dedicated to the diverse Danish sources that fall under the rubrics "Literature, Drama and Aesthetics." The Golden Age is known as the period when Danish prose first established itself in genres such as the novel; moreover, it was also an age when some of Denmark's most celebrated national poets flourished. Accordingly, this tome contains articles on Kierkegaard's use of the great Danish poets and prose writers, whose works are frequently quoted and alluded to throughout his writings. Kierkegaard regularly attended dramatic performances at Copenhagen's Royal Theater, which was one of Europe's leading playhouses at the time. In this tome his appreciation for the art of Denmark's best-known actors and actresses is traced. Finally, this tome features articles on the leading literary critics and aesthetic theorists of the Golden Age, who served as foils for Kierkegaard's own ideas.
Download or read book Poet s Market 34th Edition written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updated Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than Poet's Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book and chapbook publishers, print and online poetry publications, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the completely updated listings, the 34th edition of Poet's Market offers: • Hundreds of updated listings for poetry-related book publishers, publications, contests, and more • Insider tips on what specific editors want and how to submit poetry • Articles devoted to the craft and business of poetry, including how to track poetry submissions, perform poetry, and find more readers • 77 poetic forms, including guidelines for writing them • 101 poetry prompts to inspire new poetry
Download or read book The Journal of Negro History Volume 7 1922 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meme Measure written by Rich Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German philosopher Byung-Chul Han defines poetry as “luxury in language,” and where Andre Breton in his Manifesto on Surrealism claims that “only the marvelous is beautiful,” Han states, “I cannot conceive of the beautiful apart from the foreign. All genuine beauty is foreign.” The marvelous, the foreign transport the reader to the experience of being alive. Poetry, for the author, remains an attempt to slow the reader down and pull the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and cliché of everyday language, providing a foreign lodge, a “house of being” and dwelling with ironic wit: the sublime poem. From beginning to the end, it provides a world of thought to expose the contemporary cynicism and foster vision for tomorrow. The seventy-four poems in Meme Measure have as an initial impetus Rene Girard’s writing on mimetic theory, mimetic rivalry, and scapegoat. I see the collection as lodges for dwelling on the various implications for us today, while attempting to plumb emotion as subjective and objective within Homo sapiens.
Download or read book Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume IV 1832 1834 written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson's decision to quit the ministry, arrived at painfully during the summer and fall of 1832, was accompanied by illness so severe that he was forced to give up any immediate thought of a new career. Instead, in December, he embarked on a tour of Europe that was to take him to Italy, France, Scotland, and England. Within a year after his return in the fall in 1833, his health largely restored, he went to live in the town of Concord, his home from then on. The record of Emerson's ten months in Europe which makes up a large part of this book is unusually detailed and personal, actually a diary recording what Emerson saw and did as well as what he thought. He describes cities, scenes, and buildings that he found striking in one way or another and he gives impressions of the people he met. During his travels he made the acquaintance of Landor, of Lafayette, and of Carlyle, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, all of whom stimulated him. In Paris he was so much stirred by a visit to the Jardin des Plantes that he determined "to become a naturalist." On his return to America, still without a profession, he reverted in his journals to the more impersonal form they had taken in his days as a minister, focusing on his inner experiences rather than on external events. Notes start dotting the pages once again, this time not so much for future sermons--although for years he did a certain amount of occasional preaching as for the addresses of the public lecturer he would soon become. Through the thirty-four months covered by this volume, the journals continue to he the advancing record of Emerson's mind, demonstrating a growing maturity and firmness of style by compression and aphorism.
Download or read book Father s Day written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As seen in the The New York Times Book Review ""In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation."" —The New York Times “[Zapruder] presents powerfully nuanced and vivid verse about the limitations of poetry to enact meaningful change in a world spiraling into callousness; yet despite poetry’s supposed constraints, Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review “Zapruder’s new book, Father’s Day, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post The poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court, watching a child grow off into a distance, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. "
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: