Download or read book Bar Napkin Poetry written by S. W. Watts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: not provided

Download or read book Songs From the Barroom Floor written by Dane Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's just imagine you are getting ready for bed and you have a nightcap that proves to be one too many. You suddenly find yourself on the bathroom floor humming. The acoustics in the bathroom are so good that you can't help but sing. Makes for a fun night. Now imagine you had that nightcap at the club and never made it home. You sing along with the band and try not to get kicked. Another fun night. You just don't have clean teeth. Imagine how good that cool floor feels, and how nice the jazz trio sounds, "Oh, I know that one!" so you sing along. That's how you will feel about the poetry in this book! You will want to sing along. Bring your reading glasses and a nice snifter of your favorite spirits. Pour one for me, too.

Download or read book Classic Cocktails Liquid Love Poems written by Genevieve Sourlie and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genevieve, a poet, and Sean, a bartender, wrote this literary affair between classic cocktails and love poemsan adventure into the romance and libertine spirit of classic cocktails, including fabulous recipes from the 1920s with modern variations. Hemingways advice to write drunk and edit sober describes their creative process as poems were written under the spirit of each drink. The cocktails provide the metaphors for a poetic love story, giving the history, secrets, and mystique of each drink. What started as a single poem, using the martini as a metaphor for love and life, grew into a merger of many classic cocktails with the developing romance. Key social issues of the times were also swept along with it as the poems invite the reader along on their journey. Classic Cocktails: Liquid Love Poems is a tribute to the slower styles of earlier times, linking classic cocktails with important issues such as liberty, freedom of choice, love between men and women as equals, and honoring previous generationsfor whom everyone should be grateful to as part of the evolution of the human species. These issues are still present in modern culture, and now more than ever people need poetry, romance, and spirituality in their lives. With the quick pace of life and dependence on technology to communicate, people need to slow down and take time to get in touch with their natural selves; who we were before the social conditioning around survival, money, and materialism cemented people into false identities or stereotypical roles. Everyone needs time to just beto reconnect with ones spirit and allow creative urges and inspirations to express themselves freely. This reconnection can truly be a spiritual journey to not only connect with our selves, but also with each other. Hemingway has a lot to say about this in the last poem, The Liberty Bell.

Download or read book Drunken Rhetoric Useful Bar Napkins written by Brian Little and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, rantings, and unusual standpoints Charles Bukowski or Jim Morrison would have been proud of.

Download or read book Sloppy Second Stories written by Michael Kornbluth and published by Michael Kornbluth. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloppy Second Stories is a collection of really short funny stories that don't suck.

Download or read book Bar Napkin Sonnets written by Moira Egan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Love Amari written by Marilyn D. Ewell and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, deception, unrelenting desire all come together in this sizzling romance about the love lives of the beautiful graphics designer, Amari St. John and sexy R&B singer, Malik Santana. Amari has been unlucky in love. Now her best friend awakens her from another romantic dream about her favorite singer, Malik Santana, with devastating news. Her boyfriend of more than three years is scheduled to marry her long-time enemy that very day. Encouraged by her two best friends, Amari decides to crash the wedding and confront them. Similarly, Malik, a popular and successful singer from Brooklyn, New York, is experiencing his own problems with love. Growing up he was very shy and sensitive, but with fame and fortune came confidence and cynicism. He becomes disillusioned with the music business and the shallow people who come along with it, especially the women. He prays that one day he will meet the right woman. Fate brings these two people together. Will Amari be that special lady Malik is looking for? Will Amari's bad luck in love finally change and bring her a long-awaited happy ending? This steamy and drama-filled romance reveals how two very different people can find the love of their dreams. Author Marilyn D. Ewell says she has found her passion in writing, and plans to continue to write more romance novels. She is a single mother with two children and four grandchildren. Ewell was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, but now resides in Henrico, Virginia. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ToLoveAmari.htm

Download or read book Bend written by Nancy J. Hedin and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorraine Tyler is the only queer person in Bend, Minnesota. Or at least that's what it feels like when the local church preaches so sternly against homosexuality. Everything changes when a new girl comes to town. Now Lorraine may have a chance at freedom and real love.

Download or read book Shifters written by Edward Lee and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sciftan: a proper noun of ultimately unknown origin, taking from the Old Frisian alt. transitive: sciff: to mutate, and tannin: one who. Modern English translation: Shifter Richard Locke is a poet. He hasn't written much since Clare, the woman he was going to propose to, told him she wasn't in love with him anymore. Captain Jack Cordesman is investigating a series of murders in which the victims appear to have been partially eaten. So far the only evidence linking these murders are the red, female hairs found at the crime scenes and a bar napkin with one of Locke's poems scribbled on it. With a rundown mansion, priceless automobiles, and guest houses filled with brutalities the likes of which you'll never forget, Shifters is full of fun time gore…and monsters.

Download or read book Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago written by James Conrad and published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the vibrant backdrop of Chicago, this is a story of science and poetry, manipulation and intrigue, and the lengths to which people will go for their passions. The Yucca Mountain Project deep in the Nevada desert is the first planned long-term nuclear storage facility. The project is designed to contain nuclear waste for ten-thousand years, the amount of time it will take for the waste to no longer be radioactive. It is an ambitious project, especially in light of the fact that in this century alone we lacked the foresight to anticipate Y2K. Given this daunting responsibility, the project employs an artist, a botanist and an architect to contribute visual warnings to the site, in a manner decipherable to future generations. Conrad imagines an influential poetry professor who insists that the project also include a poem, a great poem, an epic poem. It is this poem that brings us to the center of an extended circle of minor poets who are continually upstaging, back-stabbing and falling in and out of love with one another. "... Conrad’s novel recalls another comic first work: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces." - Nashville Scene

Download or read book Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club written by Kevin Cantwell and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club includes a poet laureate of Georgia and of the United States¿and the poet who read at President Clinton¿s second inauguration. The oldest was born in 1905 and the two youngest in that ominous year of American history, 1968. The Pulitzer-winning Stanley Kunitz wrote a famous poem about the Indian Mounds. Miller Williams, father of the Grammy winning Lucinda Williams, lived in Macon in the early 1960s and became a friend of Flannery O¿Connor. In the late 1970s, soon after his Mercer days, David Bottoms writes the poems for Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump and wins the Walt Whitman Award. Jud Mitcham wins the Devins Award for his first book, Somewhere in Ecclesiastes, and Seaborn Jones is doing his stint with Mister Rogers¿ Neighborhood and would later connect, in San Francisco, to one of the last pure lines of surrealism in American expression. Several poets came out of Macon or arrived in Macon soon after. Between Mercer University and Macon State College the activity of poetry in Macon thrived. Adrienne Bond wrote her seminal poems and started up the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Judith Ortiz Cofer passed through Macon State at the brink of her position at the University of Georgia and in American letters as an important artistic spokesperson for women¿s experience. From Bruce Beasley and his hybrid poetics, to Stephen Bluestone and his learned craft in the lyric poem, this book presents a selection for all students of Southern Literature some of the best poems of other poets, too, like Anya Silver, Amanda Pecor, Marjorie Becker, and the late Reginald Shepherd who was as well-known at his early death as any poet of his generation. Many of these poets studied with and knew the important poets of their time. The poems, nevertheless, speak for themselves.

Download or read book Season of Flowers and Dust written by Gregg Mosson and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Season of Flowers and Dust explores through poetry a seasonal cycle of fall, winter, and spring in the Pacific Northwest. The close observations found here in fall and spring poems and winter sonnets offer readers a strong engagement with the natural world.¿A tango of heart-stringsthrows an awning of notesbetween them and the night.Matt imagines he should go to river¿s edge,and dance, and watch.¿ ¿from ¿Descent Into Light¿¿Not since the writings of Robert Hass and Barbara Hurd has there been a poet who so tributes the natural world in poetry. Gregg Mosson follows the strange stars of our seasons with the attention of a birdwatcher and passion of a lover. His human responses create a brilliant tapestry of snow, sky, and leaf, detailed like an article of faith. Reverence to nature is as ancient as time, but what remains is the poet who touches this territory the way the wind sings our language.¿¿Grace CavalieriPoet and producer of ¿The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress¿ "Gregg Mosson¿s Season of Flowers and Dust carries me into a universal season, one with subtle sensuality and the veiled love and violence which life holds. These poems have just the right blend of spirit, light, darkness, and as Marianne Moore would say, `Real toads in imaginary gardens.¿ ¿¿Carol FranksPortland State University

Download or read book Hot Flash Sonnets written by Moira Egan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Women's Studies. Poet Moira Egan finally turned fifty, and her poetic journey has gotten ever sweatier and sexier. In her latest collection, HOT FLASH SONNETS, she explores the sultry joys and humorous indignities of becoming a woman of a certain age.

Download or read book The Wedding Book written by Mindy Weiss and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Idea Book. The How-to Book. The Everything Book. It’s the ultimate wedding planning bible from the ultimate wedding planner. From getting engaged to getting to the altar to taking off for your honeymoon to preserving the memories forever, this is the book to help you bring your dream wedding to life, no matter how big or small your budget. The Wedding Book is: Your fashion consultant, menu planner, etiquette expert, and floral designer An insider source for stretching budgets and negotiating contracts A digital-savvy friend for making the most of Instagram, Etsy, Pinterest, and wedding planning websites and apps A wise shoulder to lean on when sticky family issues come up Whatever the subject—cakes, stationery, dress shopping, lingerie, tents, Uber, insurance, porta-potties, party favors, the toasts, looking great in photos, tipping, and thank-you notes—The Wedding Book has the answer. Includes lists, schedules, budgeting tools, and timelines.

Download or read book Drinking with Men written by Rosie Schaap and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR “Best Books of 2013” BookPage Best Books of 2013 Library Journal Best Books of 2013: Memoir Flavorwire 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013 A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters’ fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be. In Drinking with Men, Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattan’s TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself. In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms. Drinking with Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that have been Schaap’s refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best.

Download or read book IRL written by Tommy Pico and published by Birds. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.

Download or read book Austerity Measures written by Karen Van Dyck and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I remember caresses, kisses, touching each other's hair. We had no sense that anything else existed' - Elena Penga, 'Heads' 'Nothing, not even the drowning of a child Stops the perpetual motion of the world' - Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy' Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and originality are being written by native Greeks, émigrés and migrants alike. They grapple with the personal and the political; with the small revelations of gardening and the viciousness of streetfights; with bodies, love, myth, migration and economic crisis. In Austerity Measures, the very best of the writing to emerge from that creative ferment - much of it never before translated into English - is gathered for the first time. The result is a map to the complex territory of a still-evolving scene - and a unique window onto the lived experience of Greek society now.