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Matthews follows the winding path, reflecting on poetry, folklore and psychology while receiving wisdom from the mythical Ariadne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1619741949526-P9MDDHC4ZAJIVN0XUZBL/SECA+front+cover.jpg Home - Dale Winslow's poetic vision cuts to the core of human bodily experience: The struggle of psyche and spirit to escape the unremitting reality of the physical and material. The tension between fission and fusion that renders and heals and lends life its fugitive frisson. Uncertainty and entropy in a fateful dance with the organic and orgasmic. The mechanistic prism and prison walls that the conscious heart beats against again and again. The quisquous quiddity of mortal form and substance against the blinding clarity of the mind's eyes, and ears, and touch. And the dark wings of language that lift and soar while at the same time casting a deep, dense shadow on the surfaces of the earth below. Heed now my warning: This is poetry that transports and transforms. Read these poems and you will be different. Read these poems and you will be changed. Read these poems and you will never be the same. —Lance Strate, author of Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610152711165-RUYALEOVMK62D3DCM841/The%2BCharge%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGlobal%2BMembrane.jpg Home https://www.neopoiesispress.com/authors daily 0.75 2024-02-22 https://www.neopoiesispress.com/nonfiction daily 0.75 2023-08-26 https://www.neopoiesispress.com/nonfiction/the-charge-in-the-global-membrane monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609292552410-J9SUZQQIUY5MD5RCCSIV/The%2BCharge%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGlobal%2BMembrane.jpg Non-Fiction - The Charge in the Global Membrane “B. W. 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This very readable and accessible volume should greatly assist new readers of McLuhan and remind long time students of just how challenging and exhilarating his explorations were. —Philip Marchand, author, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger https://www.neopoiesispress.com/nonfiction/writing-myself-into-existence monthly 0.5 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761355525-JT32XYO067JWTS8GA8KO/image.jpg Non-Fiction - Writing Myself Into Existence - About the Author Arthur Asa Berger is the author of more than one hundred articles and more than seventy books on pop culture, media, cultural studies, humor and tourism. If you count second, third, fourth and fifth editions of books, he has published more than ninety books. His books have been translated into ten languages, with fourteen of his books translated into Chinese and five into Farsi. One of his favorite articles was titled "The Evangelical Hamburger." It was a study of McDonald's hamburgers and American culture, published in 1964. He also wrote an article published in the Los Angeles Times about some sexual aspects of video games. His book Bloom's Morning psychoanalyzed kitchen appliances and other household objects and rituals and includes drawings he made for each chapter. When he gave a reading on the book in Vietnam, someone in the audience asked him if the book was a work of fiction. That is the way many serious scholars in the United States look upon all his writings. He delights in taking obscure theories generally written in impenetrable prose by European scholars and pushing them to absurd results. He has explained the way he writes as follows- "I make everything up as I go along and throw in charts and diagrams to fool social scientists." Jean Baudrillard writes in his Fragments, "He who speaks of himself should never say the whole truth, he should keep it secret and divulge only fragments." 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Whether you are in the English-speaking world or in China, you'll admire this "assassin of academics" legendary experience, profound knowledge and thoughts, great humor, and critical thinking that shines a light of wisdom throughout the book." —Junchao Wang, Professor of Media Criticism at Tsinghua University https://www.neopoiesispress.com/nonfiction/ariadne-then-and-now monthly 0.5 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1660595009678-HP7GV1E27HV9ALN7CIYV/Carol+Matthews.jpg Non-Fiction - Ariadne Then and Now - About the Author Carol Matthews, retired after four decades of work in hospital, community and academic settings, now spends her days reading, reviewing, ranting and writing. She has published a collection of short fiction, five books of non-fiction and memoir, and has edited a collection of dog poetry. Her short stories, articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of literary and academic journals. Her blog, Carol Matthews These Days, is an outlet for her rants and community activism. She has been recipient of various prizes and awards including the Order of BC and an Honorary Doctorate from Vancouver Island University. Carol lives on Vancouver Island on the traditional unceded territory of the Coast Salish people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1660595301184-2G0JADKCQ5AI2W9AV22X/ariadne+front+cover.jpg Non-Fiction - Ariadne Then and Now Turning to Ariadne, the Mistress of the labyrinth, the author asks for advice about how to face the end of times: aging and death. Just as the Cretan story of the Minotaur describes a journey towards death, Matthews travels labyrinths with her husband and others while consulting with her imaginary guide about what lies ahead. Unlike a maze which can trick and deceive you, leading to blind alleys and dead ends, the labyrinth is a trustworthy route on which you cannot be lost. Matthews follows the winding path, reflecting on poetry, folklore and psychology while receiving wisdom from the mythical Ariadne. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/nonfiction/lunch-with-the-american-people monthly 0.5 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/041dfbba-f442-42a2-970f-9071699c07d4/Marty+Levinson.jpg Non-Fiction - Lunch with the American People - About the Author Martin H. Levinson was born in New York City and grew up in Brooklyn, a place known for wisecrackers who specialize in sarcasm and satire. He has published ten books and numerous articles and poems. He is a member of the Authors Guild, National Book Critics Circle, PEN America; book review editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and contributing editor to The Satirist. He particularly enjoys writing satires, and has been penning them for as long as he can remember. He also enjoys walking in the woods on the North Fork of Long Island and kicking back with a chilled Riesling along with chill discussions on the state of this wonderful, woebegone, wacky world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/53589318-88e9-40d1-a218-55b7e6c96945/Levinson_front+cover.jpg Non-Fiction - Lunch with the American People Lunch with the American People is a satirical tour de force that is high in irony and humor and low on platitudes and boring observations. Reading it will satisfy your hunger for smart, information-packed commentary on subjects ranging from politics and social affairs to self-improvement hucksterism. Holding up vice and folly to ridicule and scorn, Lunch with the American People continues satire’s great tradition of supplying constructive social criticism wherever needed. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/nonfiction/into-the-arms-of-the-goddess monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761160311-OUF9GFNTRSX0I69H7YFR/Peter%2BNelson%2B1.jpg Non-Fiction - Into the Arms of the Goddess: A Kundalini Awakening - About the Author Peter Nelson was born to a musical family in England and moved to Canada in 1964 at ten years old. Discovering Jane Roberts and the Seth Material in the early 70s changed the direction of his life, leading to an ongoing journey of self-discovery and expansion of awareness through lucid dreaming and out-of-body states. In 2007 a meeting with an old friend began a series of extraordinary events leading to a profound Kundalini Awakening and the dissolution of normal everyday reality. Into the Arms of the Goddess is the personal journal of someone learning to accept the greatest gift of all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609282409065-UR18SWWIRUPT426QEQRL/iag%2Bcrop.jpg Non-Fiction - Into the Arms of the Goddess: A Kundalini Awakening "This spirituality had snaked through all of my lives like a lit fuse, slowly burning down from one life to the next, sometimes sparking brightly and other times almost accidentally being trodden out, and now it was about to find its source. The umbilical cord had almost led to the mother of the universe. I was about to meet God." https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry daily 0.75 2024-02-27 https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/nirvana-haymaker monthly 0.5 2021-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610759859010-5UI8DMXYOT67UPAJXQAA/Frank%2BReardon%2B2.jpg Poetry - Nirvana Haymaker - About the Author Frank Reardon was born in 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts and spent his first 28 years living there. Since then, he has lived all over the country, in places such as Alabama, Kansas City and Rhode Island. He currently lives in the Badlands of North Dakota, still looking for a way to get out. Frank has been published in various reviews, journals and online zines. His first book, Interstate Chokehold, was published by NeoPoiesis Press in 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609962872809-JO68I2HSYHLC3J6A1KRH/Nirvana%2BHaymaker.jpg Poetry - Nirvana Haymaker "Read Frank Reardon at your own risk. 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He completed a BA and MA in English at York University, where he studied with Irving Layton, Eli Mandel, Miriam Waddington and Frank Davey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602807964766-271W353T0GIS7ALRZEJX/All+That+and+a+Bag+of+Neurons Poetry - Mata Hari's Lost Words From the Introduction Sometime in 2017, hundred-year-old secrets will be uncovered. They detail the trial and execution of one of the most notorious and enigmatic women ever. Who was she? And what exactly was she guilty of? The life of Margaretha Gertruuida Zelle, also known as Mata Hari, inspired this sequence of poems. Like Marilyn Monroe’s, her legend grew after she died in middle age. Both were more complex than their popular images suggest: Mata Hari was an independent, accomplished woman whose spying was her least successful venture. Today, the name “Mata Hari” connotes a glamorous, man-destroying woman spy, a curvier James Bond with eye make-up. 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Most of the poems in Marshmallows & Despair were first heard on NPR’s All Things Considered, the Firesign’s gold-medal-winning XM Satellite program, Fools In Space, and the web’s Radio Free Oz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609359215166-701EDK54NV5NHR8F6QC2/Marshmallows+%26+Despair.jpg Poetry - Marshmallows & Despair David Ossman's shocking, awesome, poetic coverage of 21st Century War and Politics, tales of neo-noir nights in strange places, poems of aging, dying, and seeking refuge. This definitive collection celebrates Ossman’s 79th birthday and features a captivating cast that includes Beat St. Jack, Banana Clip Republicans, Funny Skydivers, as well as an Elegy to Rock Snot. You’ll be sold on Presidential Butts In Butter, exposed to Heisenberg at Holmes Harbor, visit the House of Garden Gnomes, and celebrate the Tulku’s Birthday. Enjoy a healthy dose of Ossman's Firesign humor matched with his own outrage, anguish and hope. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/human-co monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610757921034-JHD35ZQMWI9EQUPSE7U0/Rich%2BFollett.jpg Poetry - Human & Co - About the Author Rich Follett is a High School English, Theatre, and Mythology teacher who has been writing poems and songs for more than 35 years. His poems have been featured in numerous online and print journals, including BlazeVox, Four Branches Press, The Montucky Review, Paraphilia, Exercise Bowler, Leaf Garden Press and CounterExample Poetics, for which he is a featured artist. He lives with his wife Mary Ruth Alred Follett in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he also pursues his interests as a professional actor, singer/songwriter, playwright and director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609358700996-FDUVVM1L815FXX8Q0U3P/human%2B%2526%2Bco..jpg Poetry - Human & Co "human & c. by Rich Follett traces the harmonies of our human experience. As small moments expand into the innumerable consolations of a creative life. Follett borrows voices and uses forms of verse, word play, sounds; pure intelligent joy runs through its sorrowful play. ‘America /still sings - /(lilac will, /sweetly scent /dooryards /many millennia /hence).’ These poems are sounded out of lyric fragment, narrative shard an enduring mosaic of our times. Words squeeze, seep, obtrude and collide like the traumas and exudations they describe. The poems create mayhem on unremarkable language and utterances in order to revitalize them. ‘[S]omething there is /about compassion.’" —Geoffrey Gatza, author of House of Forgetting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/4b5fb7b8-bf0c-4bc0-9f20-ff2cbf91df94/geminations_front+cover.jpg Poetry - Human & Co - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218590849-YK3S2S6W0L62UKUTWYMQ/Responsorials.jpg Poetry - Human & Co https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218696154-EMWHFWJLREDUJOUNNRA9/Silence+Inhabited.jpg Poetry - Human & Co https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/this-wonderful-perpetual-beautiful monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603898526508-Y9D8U3YJ0C4QJY16P5ZJ/Stephen+Roxborough.jpg Poetry - this wonderful perpetual beautiful - About the Author Stephen Roxborough (aka roxword) was born in New York to a Canadian father and American mother. He’s a past board member for the Washington Poets Association, co-founder of Burning Word poetry festival, and Head Poet for Madrona Center on Guemes Island. An internationally acclaimed, award-winning performance poet, Rox has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2003, 2006), appeared at the Skagit River Poetry Festival (2004), Brave New Words (Whidbey Island, 2009) and co-edited radiant danse uv being, a poetic portrait of bill bissett (2006). He is the author of making love in the war zone (2001), so far all the very long important subversive mind-expanding long ones (2002), impeach yourself! (2006), blurst (2009) and son of blurst (2010). His spoken word cd, spiritual demons (2002) is available at amazon.com and cdbaby.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603898638081-SPN2ER7YG08F6CHV8GNC/this+wonderful+perpetual+beautiful.jpg Poetry - this wonderful perpetual beautiful "In the form of postmodern Buddhist meditations or mantras, these poems are about simple human happiness. Created out of a pop sensibility and in a pop modality, they're fashioned to free minds and shuffle off some of the weight of contemporary life. They cheerfully bend and blend the clichés and methods of contemporary consumer culture, but send it in a fresh direction. The pleasures here are wise and simple." —Jamie Reid poet, activist, publisher, co-founder of TISH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1708635916610-K0F8EU74011GHOROB6S1/cover+seahorse+final.jpg Poetry - this wonderful perpetual beautiful - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217954702-DD8FI4CFK63JNMEAFF5B/Ego+to+Earthschool.jpg Poetry - this wonderful perpetual beautiful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611770868024-OALPCHJU70X5NFT7M82A/Open+Heart+Sutra+Surgery.jpg Poetry - this wonderful perpetual beautiful https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/the-tongue-has-its-secrets monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760895166-FTAX28A8CI6C1IR0J6T0/Donna%2BSnyder.jpg Poetry - The Tongue Has Its Secrets - About the Author Donna Snyder’s work as an activist lawyer advocating on behalf of indigenous people, immigrant workers, and people with disabilities has garnered multiple prizes and recognitions. In 1995 she founded the grassroots, not-for-profit Tumblewords Project in the West Texas/Southern New Mexico/Northern Chihuahua region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603892842966-FTIITWIOJA3H016JTQNU/The+Tongue+Has+Its+Secrets.jpg Poetry - The Tongue Has Its Secrets "Snyder is a poet who tongues the language of birds, delves into the minds of sybils, explores connections with animals. She tests the boundaries of nothingness and somethingness. Donna Snyder’s poems are like Nüshu: secrets cast skywards like a cipher for those who know, to read." —Susan Hawthorne, poet and author of Lupa and Lamb https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/the-time-we-have-misspent-100-sonnets monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760786595-CIUSLE4GE3KVW4ACZ6CM/Meir%2BRibalow.jpg Poetry - The Time We Have Misspent 100 Sonnets - About the Author M.Z. Ribalow was a poet, playwright and author. He had 24 of his plays receive some 180 productions worldwide, including at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and numerous times in London and NY. They have won awards in London, New York, and regionally. He also won national awards for fiction, his widely published poetry, and musical lyrics; cowritten ten children’s books; and published articles on sports, music, theatre, literature, film, travel, and chess. He is co-author of three books on sports, and is Director of an award-winning sports website. Several of his screenplays have been optioned; he was film columnist for The Sciences magazine, and has appeared as a film historian on The Discovery Channel and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films including High Noon and Sergeant York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603892558204-IR8OLG9NOH4Y8C7T5HHN/The+Time+We+Have+Missspent.jpg Poetry - The Time We Have Misspent 100 Sonnets “With this collection of sonnets, Meir Z. Ribalow takes his rightful place alongside the likes of Frost, Millay, Shelley, Keats and – yes, I’ll say it – Shakespeare, as one of our rare masters of the English language sonnet form. The evident joy with which Mr. Ribalow plays with language in each gem contained in this volume shows the freedom he feels where others find constraint; in the mere fourteen lines allotted him, Mr. Ribalow manages to take his readers on journeys as deep and as intimate as they are epic. You will be delighted, charmed, moved and awed by what you find in this collection. It is nothing short of astonishing.” —Rhona Silverbush, co-author, Speak the Speech! Shakespeare’s Monologues Illuminated https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610219731019-J75B17KTOCLZBBOOWJN8/Redheaded+Blues.jpg Poetry - The Time We Have Misspent 100 Sonnets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217810174-EE8ZWDT0GZXR2RSA9E5B/Chasing+Ghosts.jpg Poetry - The Time We Have Misspent 100 Sonnets https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/the-smoke-of-dreams monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760725535-WJAEJC6GYP8UVZKTTE08/Reena%2BRibalow.jpg Poetry - The Smoke of Dreams - About the Author Reena Ribalow was a poet and writer living in Jerusalem, Israel. She was born in New York City and educated at the Yeshiva of Central Queens, Hunter College High School and Queens College. She attended the University of Iowa Ph.D. Program and Writer’s Workshop on a Danforth Foundation Fellowship. She was First Prize winner of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, the Margaret Reid Poetry Prize and The Golden Prize. Other awards include the Keats Poetry Prize, the Stand Magazine International Short Story Competition, and The New River poetry prize. “Winter Street With Figure” was a finalist for the Cutthroat Joy Harjo Poetry Award; “Voices of the Dead” was a finalist for Cutthroat’s Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, and appears in Cutthroat’s Fifth Anniversary Edition. Her work has been published in The Jerusalem Review: Ariel: The New York Quarterly: Shirim: The Literary Review: Midstream: The Jerusalem Post: The Keats Prize Anthology: Voices, Israel: Arc and Israel Short Stories among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609359287406-XMN6W0DGDK5RI1XA52ZT/The+Smoke+of+Dreams.jpg Poetry - The Smoke of Dreams "The poems in Reena Ribalow's brilliantly precise yet lyrical new collection give us the sweeping arc of one woman's life (and many women's lives), in the erotic revelry of first love, the grounding in marriage and child-rearing, with its joys, fears, and questions; the wrench of endings, mourning, and most of all, the pain of survival. Ribalow uses her beloved Jerusalem as biblical and literal backdrop, as inspiration and also metaphor, with an immediacy and intimacy reminiscent of Yehuda Amichai. These are essential poems that should be read and savored and reread; I could not put it down." —Sharon Pomerantz, novelist, author of Rich Boy https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/the-medium-is-the-muse-channeling-marshall-mcluhan monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609973611409-DSDDPTLJBYOALMX5I3ZM/The+Medium+is+the+Muse.jpg Poetry - The Medium Is The Muse [Channeling Marshall McLuhan] Oracle of the electronic age, Marshall McLuhan believed artists could wake us and offer new windows into the world. This diverse collection brings together twenty-nine poets, writers, and artists who channel McLuhan as both medium and muse. Like McLuhan's work, this volume will delight, divert, provoke, incite, and inspire readers to channel McLuhan in their own imagination and creative endeavors. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/the-grand-national-lobotomy-including-the-last-picasso monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603890658079-T69OZ85QWO46MA34VWFX/John+Watts+1.jpg Poetry - The Grand National Lobotomy, Including The Last Picasso John Watts’ career has included over 20 albums & 3000 concerts festivals worldwide. His family were singers. He developed his musical career in punk clubs while studying clinical psychology and working in mental hospitals. He and his band Fischer-Z were signed by UA Records alongside The Buzzcocks and The Stranglers. The band toured Europe and North America with artists such as Bob Marley, The Police and Dire Straits. European success increased exponentially with Red Skies Over Paradise (1981), establishing John Watts as a “political commentator in song.” His first three solo albums included the experimental The Iceberg Model (1983). A second Fischer-Z era included single success, ‘The Perfect Day’ and the political ‘Say No’ single. During this period Watts performed to 167,000 people at a Peace Festival in East Berlin alongside James Brown. He made Destination Paradise (1991) at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios and his next 3 albums continued to highlight some of the darker areas of human exploitation in their lyrics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603890758495-K4ZNDA1ZHCXARYXOMUPB/Grand+National+Lobotomy.jpg Poetry - The Grand National Lobotomy, Including The Last Picasso The Grand National Lobotomy is a two-way book comprising an anthology of poetry and the script of John Watts' play The Last Picasso. The poetry is divided into sections including Life & Death & Philosophy, Up & Away Characters Observed, 10 Poems in a Day; all reflecting John’s sardonic humour. The Last Picasso is the story of a writer resolving things with his daughter before his death. In exchange for helping him, Picasso is allowed to return to earth and create one last great artwork! https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/sunday-morning-spiders monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760659046-LE91T3XN38WRFVU3U2RY/Victoria%2BFotios.jpg Poetry - Sunday Morning Spiders - About the Author Victoria Fotios is a poet and author who currently divides her time between London and her family in Hampshire. She was Online Poet of the Year 2008 and has been published collaboratively, including in Candy by NeoPoiesis Press (2009). Sunday Morning Spiders is her first poetry collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603890412296-BZ1QSVI774JEA1WJLVDS/Sunday+Morning+Spiders.jpg Poetry - Sunday Morning Spiders “There is a gentle revelation that comes with the gift of another’s carefully crafted vision; with these poems, there is not a sense of the hypocrisy of a vicarious experience, there is a sense of shared consequence. Her words draw us into a world where a certain shaping of the imagination is required to enter the portal.” —Amanda Joy, poet, sculptor, installation artist and songwriter, author of Not Enough to Fold https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/wisdom-and-dust monthly 0.5 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603967245132-4G0ZHPH2QHFXYYPAMPD5/Neil+McCrea.jpg Poetry - Wisdom & Dust - About the Author Neil McCrea is a poet and author living in the Pacific Northwest. His work has most recently appeared in Knock, Etc: a Review of General Semantics, and in the NeoPoiesis anthology Candy. Wisdom & Dust is his first poetry collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611105212769-9XM9OLFLWU5MTH4Z2QIN/Wisdom%2B%2526%2BDust.jpg Poetry - Wisdom & Dust "Like water into wine, McCrea consistently and effortlessly transforms the quotidian into the revelatory. Wisdom& Dust dazzles and surprises with its pathos, wit, and insight." —Jonathan Evison, author of All About Lulu and West of Here https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/sugar monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609968678721-6IEG2F1YN4XAF47KRN46/Steve%2BSzewczok.jpg Poetry - Sugar - About the Author Steve Szewczok stems from the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. With a background in theatre and music, Steve has performed in over 50 theatrical productions as well as working in radio and film and writing for the theatre. Steve currently lives in Montreal with his two children and works on the production side of the film industry. Sugar is Steve's debut book of poetry. He is currently working on his second collection of poems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603889975417-EEBXAX9PZF9ER9DRE3FG/Sugar.jpg Poetry - Sugar A memory piece served up in sequence, Sugar is a fifty part, long-form poem which tells the story of one woman's struggle with her own vices. Though Sugar contains the themes of drug abuse, alcoholism, and hardcore sexuality, they are used to explore the human condition, in particular ideas on loss, and how one copes with the solitude of heartbreak. Sugar is in fact a love story that asks the important questions: Where do people go when they leave you? How small can love get? https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/spirit-under-construction monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760567836-CB76N0MCWXSJ3DRM2DR8/Jerry%252BHarp.jpg Poetry - Spirit Under Construction - About the Author Jerry Harp grew up in southern Indiana, where he studied English at St. Meinrad College (BA), a seminary run by Benedictine monks. He went on to receive degrees from St. Louis University (MA), the University of Florida (MFA), and the University of Iowa (Ph.D.), where he specialized in Renaissance literature. He has taught at prep schools in St. Louis and at Kenyon College, and he currently teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife, Mary Szybist, and their cat, Anime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603889569849-A4K6MD2QY1ISUAPJXSQC/Spirit+Under+Construction.jpg Poetry - Spirit Under Construction "With a clear, unsentimental lens on the past, Harp’s smart and captivating poems dissect the remnants of time and what grief charges us with daily. Lyrically powerful and unique in their stark American landscape, these vibrating poems serve as ropes that pull us back into the river and out again towards a safer shore." —Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things: Poems https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/silence-inhabited monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760489776-GKD9HXYXJQBW4WIX9958/Rich%2BFollett.jpg Poetry - Silence, Inhabited - About the Author Rich Follett has recently returned to writing poetry after a thirty-year hiatus. He lives in the sacred and timeless Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he joyfully teaches English and Theatre Arts for high school students. His poems have appeared in numerous contemporary journals and e-zines including BlazeVox, Paraphilia, Exercise Bowler, Calliope Nerve, Sugar Mule, Four Branches Press and Counterexample Poetics, for which he is featured artist. He is the co-author of Responsorials (with Constance Stadler). His haiku/photo combination Aurora's Adieu received first place honors in the first international iPoetry Poe-Tography Competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602822774560-60MRM7JKL7H0XF0M85CK/Silence+Inhabited.jpg Poetry - Silence, Inhabited From the Foreword “To call this a book of magnificent poetry would be wildly inadequate. While it is that, it is also much more. On this journey, we travel with the poet on a most complex, believable path from a childhood filled with the vilest horrors to an adulthood steeped in healing grace. It is a wonder to behold; it is a wonder as well to arrive so firmly in the knowledge that this work will help thousands who have endured such abuse and who seek affirmation to begin walking or the strength to continue walking on similar paths.” —Constance Stadler, author of Tinted Steam, Sublunary Curse, Paper Cuts, Rummaging in the Attic, and Responsorials (with Rich Follett) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/4b5fb7b8-bf0c-4bc0-9f20-ff2cbf91df94/geminations_front+cover.jpg Poetry - Silence, Inhabited - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611103218755-RSEW50L3BDA3KQ1EAEDS/Responsorials.jpg Poetry - Silence, Inhabited https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218049556-X01PVW0DJWB9W89SWN7Z/human+%26+co..jpg Poetry - Silence, Inhabited https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/seven-suns/seven-moons monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760400560-9PLTZP70R2UPHS8QHWA7/Michael%2BDylann%2BWelch.jpg Poetry - Seven Suns/Seven Moons Michael Dylan Welch lives in Sammamish, Washington. When he isn’t writing, he likes to ski, play racquetball, hike, take photographs, plan outings with his wife and two children, build his music library of great guitar solos, read books, and tend to his website at www.graceguts.com. Michael is especially active with haiku poetry, and he’s published his writing and translations in dozens of books and hundreds of journals and anthologies in at least twenty languages, including on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760439980-R92CJ3T07BB3PNQ7QIGC/Tanya%2BMcDonald%2B1.jpg Poetry - Seven Suns/Seven Moons Tanya McDonald is known for her love of haiku, chickens, and bird-watching. Fond of wearing bright colors and drinking tea, she lives with her husband and their orange cat in a house full of books in Woodinville, Washington. An active member of Haiku Northwest, she was one of eighteen poets featured in A New Resonance 7, and was one of four featured readers at the twenty-fifth annual Two Autumns haiku reading in San Francisco. When she’s not writing haiku, she’s busy working on a trio of young adult novels set in the Seattle area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602822236193-U8XUMPCKVCW5VIV42M71/Seven+Suns+Seven+Moons.jpg Poetry - Seven Suns/Seven Moons “Michael Dylan Welch is known for his fresh takes on haiku and readers will be delighted by this new collection, a serendipitous collaboration with Tanya McDonald. For readers of this book, the sun and moon will never be the same—they will become mantras for encountering each day’s noteworthy events.” —George Swede, cofounder of Haiku Canada and former editor of Frogpond https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/salt/water monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602820857893-I6CX1EYPL7JRQX15UZ14/Will+Marshe.JPG Poetry - salt/ /water - About the Author william marshe is an Island son of Cape Breton, on Canada’s east coast. He spent his early years immersed in a vibrant culture of artists, writers, singers and thespians, where he wrote, directed, acted in and designed many productions. Like many of the youth of the economically challenged area of Sydney, he left his home as a young adult to seek gainful employment elsewhere and now resides in Toronto, Ontario, working as a millwork designer for luxury homes, locally and around the globe. He continues to write when every moment presents itself. salt/ /water is william’s first collection of poetry. His work has appeared online and in the journal ETC. as well as in the collection The Medium is The Muse [Channeling Marshall McLuhan] published by NeoPoiesis Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609964854505-CFRXF2Y9UISC3OC4USTU/salt+water.jpg Poetry - salt/ /water “In this, his first published collection, Cape Breton native William Marshe gives us poems that could be a read as the map of an internal landscape. Frequently rooted in nature, Marshe’s verse explores the complexity of love and the inevitability of loss. It is, at turns, sensual, startling, melancholic, funny and chilling as he searches for that which is greater than the Known. Throughout this collection he is, as he writes in Bridal Path, ‘coaxing a dream from beneath the bed’. In that he succeeds, wholly. This is a beautiful book of poetry.” —Ed Macdonald, author of Spat the Dummy and Atomic Storybook https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/release-the-hounds monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760262309-HBF7OM9DS0SKHN8SIXCJ/Misty%2BCosgrove%2B2.jpg Poetry - Release the Hounds - About the Author Misty Cosgrove has a long history of being successful at life. She’s taken home the first place ribbon at the Georgia State Fair Chili Cook Off, TWICE, and is currently the reigning Champion of the Women’s Southeast Division Mud Wrestling Association. This is her first book of poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609964105307-XQ0N35KQO5DBAZS1NN9D/Release%2Bthe%2BHounds.jpg Poetry - Release the Hounds “Cormac McCarthy once opined that he wrote few women characters because he did not understand them. Misty Cosgrove’s poetry provides the voices that McCarthy’s novels lack, while providing a similar aesthetic. Each poem has a great sense of time and place, but still manages to tap into the universal. Misty provides us with a litany of grotesqueries and casual atrocities, but never fails to provide some hope scraped from the bottom of the barrel. I can think of no one better suited to provide empathy for both martyrs and monsters, and isn’t that what literature is for?” —Neil McCrea, author of Wisdom & Dust https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/ravel monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602818491204-YY8YDRRES07WW5VNJF78/Bonnie+Kwong.jpg Poetry - ravel - About the Author Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a poet and software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has lived in nine states and two continents. Writing is a way for her to traverse seen and unseen geographies. She speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, some Japanese, English, ruby, and javascript. Kwong’s poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Among her projects is a digital anthology, The Taste of Each, curated around references to oranges and bananas in various literary and artistic works across the world. Kwong’s first poetry collection, ravel, spans wide and invites readers to interrogate boundaries. It has been listed as a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602818524184-I85XCYRQDB4XSTBPPOIA/Ravel.jpg Poetry - ravel "In ravel, Bonnie Kwong weaves from the disparate--from the quiet intimacies of love to the cruel depredations of history—an elegant fabric. Kwong’s poems are spare, restrained, yet at the same time made rich by her knowledge of multiple languages and cultures. “How much sweetness do we need to swallow the bitter?” asks one speaker." —Leslie McGrath, author, Out From the Pleiades https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/orpheus-in-our-world-new-poems-on-timeless-forces monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760151000-WVMALQG3QXT8GE9BDA98/Patricia%2BKeeney.jpg Poetry - Orpheus In Our World: New Poems On Timeless Forces - About the Author Patricia Keeney is an award-winning poet, novelist, theatre, and literary critic. Born in the UK to a Canadian father and a British mother, she moved to Canada with her parents at the age of three and grew up in Ottawa and Montreal. A graduate of McGill University, she later did doctoral studies in the UK subsequently returning to Canada where she began teaching Creative Writing and English at Toronto’s York University. A well-known critic for many years for CBC Radio, Canadian Forum, Scene Changes, Canadian Theatre Review, and Canadian Literature, she continues her critical work both nationally and internationally in journals such as Arc and online, Critical Stages, and Critically Speaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602817291415-7MYU6M15FXVD2KQR585S/Orpheus+in+Our+World.jpg Poetry - Orpheus In Our World: New Poems On Timeless Forces Based on the oldest of Greek songs in verse – the so-called Orphic Hymns, written even before Sun and Moon became gods in the pantheon, this breakthrough volume is a conversation between ancient and modern worlds, between myth and contemporary reality. The poetry of the gods enters into an active dialogue with Male and Female in a unique mix that is at once poetry and theatre. Keeney’s Orphics speak to the eternal connections between the grandeur of the cosmos and the intimacies of human psychology. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/ordinary-words monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760047871-R38OJYTEFMZESSCJ19MT/Si%2BPhilbrook.jpg Poetry - ordinary words - About the Author Si Philbrook spent twenty years working in the care sector for people with autism. He was also a chef, a night porter, call centre worker and petrol station attendant. He lived in Brighton, UK. His poetry has been published in collections, journals, e zines and magazines in the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK. He was shortlisted for the 2010 Erbacce Poetry Prize. This is his first collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609361639312-SJXSCOJB6TFHZO3RC3KS/Ordinary%2BWords.jpg Poetry - ordinary words "Si Philbrook holds a rare voice, one that speaks the joy of discovery and the pain of experience with equal wonder. This is poetry of our times." —Kiersty Boon, author of The Poet Busker https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/open-heart-sutra-surgery monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602811539263-YIDTQXGJJF64KLSEQM0J/Stephen+Roxborough.jpg Poetry - Open Heart Sutra Surgery - About the Author Stephen Roxborough has been a backyard weedpuller, molybdenum mine mechanic's helper, two-time Canadian champion, tree surgeon assistant, librarian's aid, English major, art history minor, waterpolo goaltender, paper mill rollbucker, Eddie Silver & the Supersonics harp player, park attendant, photographer, skywatcher, adland copywriter, dishwasher, cross continent bicycle rider, marketing consultant, book reader, birdwatcher, bartender, art collector, stoveman, busboy, airline catering kitchen quality assurance, Las Vegas lifeguard, armchair philosopher, British champion, Buddhist monastery afternoon bellringer, movie house relief manager, right fielder, co-founder of a poetry festival, tree planter, house husband, food critic, frisbee tosser, book editor, photographer, bodysurfer, guitar noodler, ad agency creative director, vegetarian, dual citizen, Aladdin doorman, world traveler, meat cutter, artist, cook's helper, teacher, student, son, brother, father, lover, poet & hopeless romantic. He was once fired for his too short haircut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602811558798-S9KD8S2XAZ7I84W1R07D/Open+Heart+Sutra+Surgery Poetry - Open Heart Sutra Surgery sum uv th most romantik poetree evr writtn shakespeare elizabeth barrett browning n rumi wud love as i dew open heart sutra surgery deels with zanee prsuayuns n hot physical needs delite in passyun yerning n finding th marvels uv langwage n desires satiaysyun betrayl distans ing loss is it all random what role duz our doomd intensyunalitee play whats goin on can we know mantra 4 opn life love lerning unlerning book a great book a great reed —bill bissett, poet, painter, teacher, mystic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1708635916610-K0F8EU74011GHOROB6S1/cover+seahorse+final.jpg Poetry - Open Heart Sutra Surgery - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217954702-DD8FI4CFK63JNMEAFF5B/Ego+to+Earthschool.jpg Poetry - Open Heart Sutra Surgery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611770906444-H4VQQIJ4ZPVK1S7WMGNI/this+wonderful+perpetual+beautiful.jpg Poetry - Open Heart Sutra Surgery https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/tinderbox monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761084456-XDDRTAMX5IHTP7Q41U5P/Dale%2BWinslow.jpg Poetry - Tinderbox - About the Author Dale Winslow has explored life as an interpretive naturalist, wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, editor, publisher, writer, photographer, and painter. She resides with her family on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and continues to be interested in pretty much everything. She hopes one day to have her own microscope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611104445138-QYLTSQT0RBETH3GDB6ZR/tinderbox.jpg Poetry - Tinderbox "Dale Winslow's Tinderbox shows a sure, mature touch with words and styles. Many of the poems herein blend symbolist style with contemporary rap: a rap without the theatrical ranting and bling. And from time to time one can hear or glimpse in the background an e.e. cummings, a John Skelton. Entertaining and thought-provoking.” —Eric McLuhan, author of Electric Language, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake, and co-author with Marshall McLuhan of Laws of Media, and Media and Formal Cause. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/one-foot-in monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602811235240-Y1E0HJIIHMP9OVBKEBL2/Jeff+Pew.jpg Poetry - One Foot In - About the Author Jeff Pew is a high school counsellor and creative writing teacher. He is co-editor, and Pushcart Prize nominee, for radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett (Nightwood Editions, 2006). His poetry and journalism have appeared in various magazines, BC’s Poetry in Transit, and on CBC radio. Jeff lives in Kimberley, BC with Alison. They have two sons, Kalum and Noah. One Foot In is his first collection of poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609963089622-5JHFS31IPC16TK4IHHJL/One%2BFoot%2BIn.jpg Poetry - One Foot In "Jeff Pew’s poems are full of play, curiosity, wisdom, and pain. He’s a generous poet whose work ranges from the beautifully banal to the bizarrely surreal. You should read him, and read him to your friends on the phone." —Stuart Ross, author of A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/modes-of-persuasion monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602809965754-GVIZTQ033MQ2SYHOZKKM/Erin+Badough.jpg Poetry - Modes of Persuasion - About the Author Erin Badough earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Environmental Engineering from Texas Tech University. Erin's poetry has been published in ETC, The Poetic Pinup Review, various e-zines, and she was co-editor and contributor to the poetry anthology Candy. In her spare time, Erin enjoys yoga, baking cookies, and travelling around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602810019137-3ZU08MKXPLZ2OXLD734R/Modes+of+Persuasion.jpg Poetry - Modes of Persuasion "Modes of Persuasion is a seductive collection of poems and prose to light emotion on fire, and soothe the savage sentiment of the reader’s subconscious. An essence of Nin and cummings hover throughout the fierce suggestions, subtle nuances and exploration of form within this collection. Badough does the reader a sublime justice holding a balanced poetic sway. And tethered between a tightrope of lyrical content and the severed edge, the ravens sing their cacophony, the nymphs dance, and satyrs stir." —Apryl Skies, editor, Edgar & Lenore’s Publishing House https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/maos-mole monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602805984335-54X3RCF229GQWKNM6XDL/Marc+Vincenz.JPG Poetry - Mao's Mole - About the Author Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British, was born in Hong Kong, and currently divides his time between Zurich, Reykjavik and New York. His work has appeared in many journals, including Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, The Potomac, The Canary, Saint Petersburg Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Guernica. Recent collections include: The Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees(2011); Gods of a Ransacked Century (Unlikely Books, 2013) and forthcoming, Beautiful Rush (Unlikely Books, 2014) and a meta-novel,Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014). A new English-German bi-lingual collection, Additional Breathing Exercisesis forthcoming from Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich (2014). Marc is Executive Editor of Mad Hatters' Review and MadHat Press and Coeditor-in-Chief at Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609359075308-VGC0ADCLDRR1T5IB0UHP/Mao%27s+Mole.jpg Poetry - Mao's Mole "China throws long shadows.Somewhere between Mao's revelation of the use of the vast Chinese masses, and between Colonel Sanders and Steve Jobs' revelation of the same masses and their use, nothing happened. The masses died, mostly, quickly in battle or slowly by toxins, and the wisdom of monks in the caves stayed the same. The masses and the monks in their caves play an ancient game in Marc Vincenz verses, a complex game of poetry Go, born of the poet's encounter with real people who are at the same time a mass. China's paradoxes breathe in his poems." —Andrei Codrescu, author of So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/love-notes-from-a-soldiers-diary monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602805373173-63NC5PSDFXCT81QC3S9J/Craig+Podmore.jpg Poetry - Love Notes from a Soldier's Diary - About the Author Craig Podmore is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and director from Manchester, UK. He is the author of I am a Gun and The Abattoir Heavens and The Holy Ghost. His work has appeared in various journals and e-zines including Gloom Cupboard, The Plebian Rag, The Scottish Poetry Review, Epic Rites, Ditch, Poetry, Danse Macabre, Calliope Nerve, Horror, Sleaze, Trash, Sein Und Worden, Sex and Murder Magazine, Gutter Eloquence and Fashion for Collapse.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602805401119-BQ6PPJBYDQKOU3KR6YLO/Love+Notes+From+a+Soldiers+Diary.jpg Poetry - Love Notes from a Soldier's Diary From the Dedication For a love one never inherited, for a love one will always have in the stains of one’s memory, for a love one will always ache for… https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/it-broke-anyway monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602472516354-68H5V6TXVV9ABPK5O7AZ/April+Bratten.jpg Poetry - It Broke Anyway - About the Author April Michelle Bratten was born in Marrero, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. April was a finalist for the Best of the Net award in 2009 and was nominated again in 2010. She was also nominated for the 2010 Pushcart Prize. Her work has been widely published in both print and online, including the journals Istanbul Literary Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, Southeast Review, Gutter Eloquence, Kill Poet, The Orange Room Review, and Dark Sky Magazine among others. She co-edits and writes book reviews for the online literary journal Up the Staircase Quarterly, which can be found at www.upthestaircase.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609358886636-NDH9U1VU3X4435MIZXM7/It%2BBroke%2BAnyway.jpg Poetry - It Broke Anyway "April Michelle Bratten blasts in with her potent, no-holds barred tongue and obliterates the marrow of the insulated inertia, uncorks the rabid subterfuge of day-to-day existence and lures us like a river into deep rapids. Bratten’s collection is fearless, captivating, drops us down into those parts of ourselves we are terrified and yet excited to penetrate." —Meg Tuite, author of Domestic Apparition and Disparate Pathos https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/interstate-chokehold monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610758984793-LENM8LBMWSZ5H47E4NZ9/Frank%2BReardon.jpg Poetry - Interstate Chokehold - About the Author Frank Reardon has published several poetry collections including Cancer Face, Exorcism Of The Con-Artist and Rival Tongues. His work has appeared in such magazines and webzines as New York Quarterly, Quillbillies, Black Listed, Epic Rites, Denver Syntax and Kill Poet. Interstate Chokehold is his first major collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602471739193-Z6JPMCMRG4LRDQHKGCKH/Interstate+Chokehold.jpg Poetry - Interstate Chokehold “Frank Reardon works words like a hungry young prizefighter, creating killer combinations that produce knock out verse. Areal contender, the kid’s a triple threat with heart, style and class. An up and comer to be reckoned with.” —S.A. Griffin, Co-Editor, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218320821-R6K1AKXFR6OZICRS5A2X/Nirvana+Haymaker.jpg Poetry - Interstate Chokehold https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/haematograms monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602468915511-LKEIMEWVL1DIE23YEAUJ/nigel+ellis+3.jpg Poetry - haematograms - About the Author nigel ellis (aka bruce dorlova) is a poet, songwriter and author. He has published in numerous print and online journals, and is perforce currently based in Brisbane Australia. (drawing of nigel ellis by Sade Maaret Webb) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602468941373-E1HHYPO28FKIIJHRBL5E/haematograms.jpg Poetry - haematograms https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/fire-in-the-marrow monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602467789227-C9ZGYPO7LV11M6LK4B07/William+Crawford.jpg Poetry - Fire in the Marrow - About the Author William Crawford has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently including, Counterexample Poetics, The Criterion, Danse Macabre, Differentia Press: Corporeal Manifestations, Leaf Garden, Luciole Press, Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Fire in the Marrow is his first poetry collection. William lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is an animal rights activist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609358575624-NJN93KKCRSC0CC75X5KO/Fire+in+the+Marrow.jpg Poetry - Fire in the Marrow From the Introduction "Crawford creates unforgettable, aqueous supralunary scapes. To see these expanses and intimacies he imagines, is to immerse completely, to permit wave upon wave of exquisite original beauty, rarefied insight, and sublime musicality to wash over you, till you cannot remember life apart from this sea of tranquil splendours and agonies. The truths are that elemental." —-Constance Stadler, author of Tinted Steam, Sublunary Curse and Paper Cuts, co-author (with Rich Follett) of Responsorials https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/ego-to-earthschool monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602466556157-2S191OEEC01846O7L1RR/Stephen+Roxborough.jpg Poetry - Ego To Earthschool - About the Author Stephen Roxborough has lived in three countries, 9 states & 2 provinces. He's inspired by many of the people he meets, including Duke Eillington, Andy Warhol, Willie Mays, Daniel Lanois, bill bissett, Johnny Weismuller, Jorge Luis Borges, Gordie Howe, Karl Blau, Pierre Trudeau, Joe DiMaggio, David Ossman, Terrence Blanchard, Alex Colville, and his mother & father. With Jeff Pew, he co-edited radiant danse uv being, a poetic portrait of bill bissett (Nightwood Editions). He's the author of three full collections of poetry, 10 chapbooks, and one CD. Rox also explores the poetry of photography and has mounted art shows in Toronto, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Whidbey Island, Anacortes, and Seattle. He is currently Creative Director & Editor for NeoPoiesis Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602466598250-CZKF6RFO51NLCY79HL79/Ego+to+Earthschool.jpg Poetry - Ego To Earthschool "Encyclopaedic in scope, seriously playful, uncanny and witty, often very funny, always wise, rarely solemn, seasoned with more than a dash of righteous fury, Roxborough’s luminous poetry (re)makes the world by letting us hear things we thought we knew by heart being spoken for the first time." —Geoff Inverarity, screenwriter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1708635916610-K0F8EU74011GHOROB6S1/cover+seahorse+final.jpg Poetry - Ego To Earthschool - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611770868024-OALPCHJU70X5NFT7M82A/Open+Heart+Sutra+Surgery.jpg Poetry - Ego To Earthschool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611770906444-H4VQQIJ4ZPVK1S7WMGNI/this+wonderful+perpetual+beautiful.jpg Poetry - Ego To Earthschool https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/underground-sun monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1603966618925-ENKF1Z0GKF4A2JMS23K7/Lee+Pricer+2.jpg Poetry - Underground Sun - About the Author Lee Edward Pricer lives “on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611103622364-RYUAONPUTSAP57EBLIK2/Underground+Sun.jpg Poetry - Underground Sun "A ride down a well-crafted waterfall of words. An edgy yet soft puzzle of poetry. Lee weaves his words from an enduring and unique fabric. A true modern poet." —Karla Bush, poet, Road Scholar https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/decoding-dust monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609810450288-27SATDJ9RZPS2VUUOXZ9/BW+Powe+1.png Poetry - Decoding Dust - About the Author B.W. Powe is a poet, philosopher, storyteller, and essayist. In 1995, B.W. Powe began teaching in the Department of English at York University where he taught first year introduction to literature courses as well as two additional courses entitled Visionary Literature: from Hildegard von Bingen and Dante to Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Two Canadian Theorists. In July, 2010, Powe was promoted to Associate Professor of Literature at York and given tenure. Powe was the program director of the Creative Writing Program at York University during the 2013-2014 semester. At York he currently teaches courses on Modernism and Post-Modernism, and divides his time between researching visionary traditions (Visionary Literature: from Dante to Bob Dylan is still offered) and continuing the McLuhan Initiative for the Study of Literacies. On June 7, 2014, B. W. Powe was married to Maria Auxiliadora Sanchez Ledesma in Cordoba, Spain. They currently live in a small town outside of Toronto, and in Córdoba, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609359008445-7ZHC4GJAHL0639HJ86F6/DecodingDust.jpg Poetry - Decoding Dust “What’s B.W. Powe: A Poet, an aphorist, a lyric philosopher-historian, a master of the post-modern-essay cybot…? Well, anyway, one of our best writers…” —A.F. Moritz, poet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611773485581-3EJKENVGQ74YDMACQRWX/The%2BCharge%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGlobal%2BMembrane.jpg Poetry - Decoding Dust https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/compatible-aspects-of-the-disparate-endeavor monthly 0.5 2021-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602463637759-W0K5T08FVXPO845SMAT4/Felino+Soriano.png Poetry - Compatible Aspects of the Disparate Endeavor - About the Author Felino A. Soriano (B. 1974) was a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to various idioms of jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. For information, including his 40 print and electronic collections of poetry (most recently Differences of the Parallel Devotion, Desperanto, 2011), over 2,500 published poems, interviews, and editorships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602463703320-304P3FZK9ERQ4TGMA6Z0/Compatible+Aspects.jpg Poetry - Compatible Aspects of the Disparate Endeavor From the Introduction "How does one find harmony in an unequal endeavor? This is the question that Felino A. Soriano places before us in the title of his collection Compatible Aspects of the Disparate Endeavor. In this case the “disparate endeavor” is to find a relatable face within the painted lines and ink markings of paintings that, for the general layman, are faceless." —Billy Burgos, poet/illustrator and radio show host https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/chasing-ghosts monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610757836406-08W0QKNJOWAQVV2QDE2J/Mier%2BRibalow Poetry - Chasing Ghosts - About the Author M.Z. Ribalow was a poet, playwright and author. His novel Peanuts and Crackerjacks and his play Masterpiece are 2011 publications, and his short fiction appeared in an anthology on Luck in 2010. His two dozen plays have received some 180 productions in a dozen countries; four have been published. His work has been anthologized and has won prizes in London, New York, and regionally. He was series editor of the Plays from New River volumes (McFarland Publications) and also co-wrote ten children’s books and non-fiction books on sports, baseball and chess. He wrote frequently on film, theatre, literature, music, and appeared as a film historian on The Discovery Channel and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films. He was Artistic Director and co-founder of New River Dramatists, which has for the last decade successfully developed hundreds of new plays and screenplays while discovering and nurturing gifted writers, and which also presents poetry, fiction and drama on the New River Radio Show on Art International Radio online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602461587744-1K085S0DMIWTW3QL42RV/Chasing+Ghosts.jpg Poetry - Chasing Ghosts “M.Z. Ribalow is a poet of real distinction. His work is precise, perceptive, and provocative—in the best sense available to the mind and heart. I strongly recommend Chasing Ghosts. Discover it, and you will return to it again and again.” —N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize Laureate, author of Again the Far Morning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218935945-2ADT3ABQQD22Z5SR71EW/The+Time+We+Have+Missspent.jpg Poetry - Chasing Ghosts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610219731019-J75B17KTOCLZBBOOWJN8/Redheaded+Blues.jpg Poetry - Chasing Ghosts https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/seeing-the-experiment-changes-it-all monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1620166662388-XGF0KQSSGU61FXG4O2PZ/Dale+Winslow+2.jpeg Poetry - Seeing The Experiment Changes It All - About the Author Dale Winslow lives with her family on beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. She loves to learn and is interested in pretty much everything. She has explored life as an interpretive naturalist, wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, editor, publisher, writer, gardener, photographer, and painter. Dale is the author of another book of poetry called Tinderbox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1620166883570-DHDAK0VU3ZGKM8BE8772/SECA+front+cover.jpg Poetry - Seeing The Experiment Changes It All “Dale Winslow's poetic vision cuts to the core of human bodily experience: The struggle of psyche and spirit to escape the unremitting reality of the physical and material. The tension between fission and fusion that renders and heals and lends life its fugitive frisson. Uncertainty and entropy in a fateful dance with the organic and orgasmic. The mechanistic prism and prison walls that the conscious heart beats against again and again. The quisquous quiddity of mortal form and substance against the blinding clarity of the mind's eyes, and ears, and touch. And the dark wings of language that lift and soar while at the same time casting a deep, dense shadow on the surfaces of the earth below. Heed now my warning: This is poetry that transports and transforms. Read these poems and you will be different. Read these poems and you will be changed. Read these poems and you will never be the same.” —Lance Strate author of Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1620168812977-NTULIM1156VYPUKUUCS5/tinderbox.jpg Poetry - Seeing The Experiment Changes It All https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/a-theory-of-roots monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/80f4189a-4453-4a57-ac5c-400e6453819d/Vincent+Spina Poetry - A Theory of Roots - About the Author Vincent Spina is from Brooklyn, NY and now resides in St. Petersburg, FL. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in South American Literature with a specialty in Andean culture. He is the author of El modo épico in José María Arguedas. He has written four books of poetry: Outer Borough, Dialogue, The Sumptuous Hills of Gulfport, and Sundial. He has also published in various magazines and some of his poems can be heard on “The Poetry Channel”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1666223075743-ZYM5Z8KRDRDY974D1GEO/A+Theory+of+Roots_front+cover.jpg Poetry - A Theory of Roots Amid the tangle of growth that takes place in a semi-tropical parcel of land left to its own, a yellow butterfly could remind one of a yellow flower, each there with a similar purpose: to be. Stumbling on the roots of a strangler fig that runs across the path you are walking; how can you not think of your own roots, born in a past prior to your birth and continuing into whatever impact you leave on the earth after your passing? The strangler fig will eventually choke the tree around which it grows. The fig itself ultimately becomes a micro-ecological system, housing birds, reptiles, mosses—thus, the process we know so well: death to life and back again. Through a poetical homage to Boyd Hill, one of Florida’s beautiful nature preserves, Vincent Spina explores the circle of life and death, the influence of our origins, and significance of what we leave behind. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/first-letter-of-my-alphabet monthly 0.5 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/5eea730b-4647-4e3f-9636-e6849b3d6f42/Lance+Strate+2023.jpg Poetry - First Letter of My Alphabet - About the Author Lance Strate is the author of 10 books, including 2 other books of poetry, Thunder at Darwin Station (2015), and Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality (2020). Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya, and several of his poems have been set to music. He currently holds the title of Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is also President of the Institute of General Semantics, and is a past president and board member of the New York Society for General Semantics, the New York State Communication Association, and the Media Ecology Association, as well as the Senior Vice-President of the Global Listening Centre. Dr. Strate held the 2015 Harron Family Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and received an honorary appointment as Chair Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Henan University in Kaifeng, China, in 2016. Lance Strate served as President of Congregation Adas Emuno, a Reform synagogue in Bergen County, New Jersey, for 6 years, and is a member of the temple’s Board of Trustees. On occasion, he serves as lay leader for Friday evening Shabbat services, and delivers sermons that are sometimes said to be thought-provoking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/2e211643-f78d-4e84-bde7-2f7a5803c558/front+cover+lance+letter.jpg Poetry - First Letter of My Alphabet This third collection of poetry by Lance Strate is his most spiritual, and his most intimate. First Letter of My Alphabet is a personal pentateuch, populated by a diverse cast of characters that include Adam and Eve, Moses, Saul, Qohelet, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Brigitte Bardot, Max Weinberg, an assortment of superheroes, the Tailors of Eternity, angels and avatars, and the Supreme Being in myriad manifestations. Flashes of humor mix with bittersweet memory, poignant longings for escape are juxtaposed with calls for resistance and transcendence, sound and vision, speech and inscription, language and symbol, history and memory, past and present, the particular and the universal, the intellectual and the ineffable, all come together in a volume that speaks to flesh and blood and mind and soul as one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610219029343-AVAGQWVCANHKPYO1BT3Z/Thunder+at+Darwin+Station.jpg Poetry - First Letter of My Alphabet https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/thunder-at-darwin-station monthly 0.5 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/5eea730b-4647-4e3f-9636-e6849b3d6f42/Lance+Strate+2023.jpg Poetry - Thunder at Darwin Station - About the Author Lance Strate is the author of 10 books, including 2 other books of poetry, First Letter of My Alphabet (2023), and Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality (2020). Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya, and several of his poems have been set to music. He currently holds the title of Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is also President of the Institute of General Semantics, and is a past president and board member of the New York Society for General Semantics, the New York State Communication Association, and the Media Ecology Association, as well as the Senior Vice-President of the Global Listening Centre. Dr. Strate held the 2015 Harron Family Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and received an honorary appointment as Chair Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Henan University in Kaifeng, China, in 2016. Lance Strate served as President of Congregation Adas Emuno, a Reform synagogue in Bergen County, New Jersey, for 6 years, and is a member of the temple’s Board of Trustees. On occasion, he serves as lay leader for Friday evening Shabbat services, and delivers sermons that are sometimes said to be thought-provoking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610219029343-AVAGQWVCANHKPYO1BT3Z/Thunder+at+Darwin+Station.jpg Poetry - Thunder at Darwin Station Thunderation! Open up this post-atomic cocktail of poems by Lance Strate and let it shake you up! Thunder at Darwin Station blends Huxleys with Darwins, evolves with jolts of Joyce and a double DNA dose of Wells and Watsons, spins the reverberations of a blues apocalypse with a green sprig of enlightenment, and delivers you a Galloping Galapagos. Drink up, it will serve you right! —David Ossman author, actor, member of Firesign Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1697763188507-7QUENRY2VQVMTBL6VTOX/front+cover+lance+letter.jpg Poetry - Thunder at Darwin Station https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/geminations monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/bc0b2ab1-95ce-415f-9b33-68ad9b41a159/Stadler+2023+bw.jpg Poetry - geminations - About the Authors Constance Stadler is the author and co-author of eight books of poetry in print and online format, including Descending Upward (NightWing Publications) and Responsorials (with Rich Follett, NeoPoiesis Press). She was awarded honors in the 2023 International Erbacce Prize competition, which numbered over 14,000 submissions. Constance holds a doctorate in International Studies from New York University and lives in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Her relationship with poetry dates back to early teenage years, when she was given a copy of The Collected Works of Dylan Thomas, which still sits, dog-eared, on her bookshelf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/ad0461fd-fb7d-4a84-9f5e-702010805fbb/Pic+for+Geminations+B.jpg Poetry - geminations Rich Follett is a Middle School Theatre Arts teacher who has written poems and songs for more than fifty years. He was born on Long Island and moved after college to Virginia, where he serves as the official Poet Laureate for his adopted hometown of Strasburg. His poems have been featured in numerous online and print journals, including BlazeVox, the Montucky Review, the Willows Wept Review (Pushcart nominee), and the late Felino Soriano’s CounterExample Poetics, for which he was a featured artist. Rich co-authored Responsorials with Constance Stadler (2009) and two solo collections, Silence, Inhabited (2011), and Human &c. (2013) through NeoPoiesis Press, and Photo-Ku (2016) through NightWing Publications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/4b5fb7b8-bf0c-4bc0-9f20-ff2cbf91df94/geminations_front+cover.jpg Poetry - geminations In this volume, Constance Stadler and Rich Follett remind us that poetry is not some solitary, solipsistic pursuit. Rather, it is a dialogic and social activity, one that involves collaboration, and yes, competition, but most importantly a conversation among the living, and with those whose voices have long since been silenced, but still echo across the ages through words inscribed on pages. Here they demonstrate the literary power of language made visible, and memory made palpable, summoning the demons of trauma and the angels of delight. But most of all they show us the strength we can gain from communing with the muses that are available to all of humanity, if we would only open ourselves up to their inspiration, as Stadler and Follett have done. —Lance Strate, author of Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611103218755-RSEW50L3BDA3KQ1EAEDS/Responsorials.jpg Poetry - geminations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609358674980-8MWW4ZMJTPIYUDYLSPQB/human+%26+co..jpg Poetry - geminations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218696154-EMWHFWJLREDUJOUNNRA9/Silence+Inhabited.jpg Poetry - geminations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/songs-of-a-psychic-seahorse monthly 0.5 2024-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/13f4a821-df72-472d-a57c-d24c09beef23/rox+2024.jpg Poetry - Songs of a Psychic Seahorse - About the Author Stephen Roxborough is the middle of three children. What are the odds of his older brother growing up to be the world’s foremost oddsmaker and his younger brother a Catholic Mormon? He was raised by his Canadian father, business executive, and age group swim coach, and his American mother who made whipped wax candles, fabric angels, award-winning quilts, and 14 different kinds of Christmas cookies. They were married 64 years. His Canadian grandfather graduated as far as grade 8, yet became Chairman of the Toronto Board of Education. His American grandfather was an inventor for Bell Telephone, and secretly wanted to become a minister. The author raised two boys from diapers to high school. He knows there’s no retirement from parenting, and works at writing, photography, and being a better father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1708635916610-K0F8EU74011GHOROB6S1/cover+seahorse+final.jpg Poetry - Songs of a Psychic Seahorse Former kid, current codger, Stephen Roxborough has learned a few things and survived the plotline to come back with another collection of Beat-infused jazz-smoked-hymnblast-meditations, and rants on the lost arts of patience, with all the vacillations, and ambivalences of aging. —Geoff Inverarity, author of All the Broken Things https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217954702-DD8FI4CFK63JNMEAFF5B/Ego+to+Earthschool.jpg Poetry - Songs of a Psychic Seahorse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611770868024-OALPCHJU70X5NFT7M82A/Open+Heart+Sutra+Surgery.jpg Poetry - Songs of a Psychic Seahorse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611770906444-H4VQQIJ4ZPVK1S7WMGNI/this+wonderful+perpetual+beautiful.jpg Poetry - Songs of a Psychic Seahorse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/bandana-wasteland monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610757643074-1GCTZLU0NCBHXBWMEPD8/Carly%2BBryson Poetry - Bandana Wasteland - About the Author Carly Bryson is a native Texan raised in the oilfields of west Texas somewhere between the Edwards Plateau and the Guadalajara desert. Currently residing in Houston, she writes poetry and prose dealing with politics, current events, nature, and family dynamics. She has been published in Carcinogenic Poetry, Calliope Nerve, The Shine Journal, Red Fez, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, NothingNoOneNowhere, and several anthologies. Bandana Wasteland is her first collection of poetry and contains poems which address an increasingly dystopic and Orwellian society forming amidst an age of war, disinformation, media bias, environmental decline and propaganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609808246463-77TOME5MIXFTGWFWJQTU/Bandana%2BWasteland.jpg Poetry - Bandana Wasteland “The ground is so dry / fireflies set off small grass fires / in sidewalk cracks” ”Bryson’s poems reek of Texas. Each piece is imbued and informed by a landscape which tests, but never tames her protagonists. In scenes sharply observed, her characters move through an adversarial world and while her narrators may not know for what they search, they are never without a moral compass. “... you stand outside your car / as the wind blows dirt into your mouth.” Whether environment or relationships, life is struggle. This ain’t chick lit, kids. It’s the human situation.” —Doc Sigerson, poet, essayist and translator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217511001-COJAIWVT7HYI4BZBT5WQ/All+That+and+a+Bag+of+Neurons.jpg Poetry - Bandana Wasteland https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry/all-that-and-a-bag-of-neurons monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610757458943-DRV81PUCIC4V06IZUD5S/Carly%2BBryson Poetry - All That and a Bag of Neurons - About the Author Carly Bryson lives in Houston, Texas and writes poetry and prose about cracked dirt, the desert, lonesome highways, dirty rotten wars, nasty city air, pending dystopia and the frailty of the human condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609358454623-BCPSKYDVDWZH109S3XGR/All%2BThat%2Band%2Ba%2BBag%2Bof%2BNeurons.jpg Poetry - All That and a Bag of Neurons "Carly Bryson has accomplished a lot in a short amount of geological print, and online time. Carly's original poetry doesn't hesitate to "blow dirt in your mouth..." as she continues her literary ascent soaring beyond underground kingpins, and entrenched academic carnivores alike." —David S. Pointer, poetry editor for As You Were: The Military Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1611773888216-KHHYGVT3PHK31C7CPPMM/Bandana%2BWasteland.jpg Poetry - All That and a Bag of Neurons https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry-cont daily 0.75 2023-11-17 https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry-cont/amulet-cypher monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610757523219-VCWM05FUWYFQWT1E5Z67/David%2BArshawsky Poetry Continued - Amulet Cypher - About the Author David Arshawsky has designed and sculpted many toy lines including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, and Earthworm Jim. An artist who has worked in cake design, sculpture, painting, illustrating and more, he is now sharing his gift for writing poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217573736-YM32PQXOVP62D7ZQZAR3/Amulet+Cypher.jpg Poetry Continued - Amulet Cypher Amulet Cypher, David Arshawsky's first collection of poetry, is frequently abstract, continually unexpected, and permeates the reader's imagination with the most inspiring of images and concepts. The inclusion of a selection of his accomplished and unique artwork makes this book a welcome addition to any collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610398890835-B224R9LXP8L8NS9E9NBD/Executive+Severance.jpg Poetry Continued - Amulet Cypher Executive Severance Robert K. Blechman illustrations by David Arshawsky “Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery--engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.” —Marleen S. Barr, author of Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry-cont/candy monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217775075-F5K5J9ZX1D3D5JL1BILY/9780981998404-cvr+copy.jpg Poetry Continued - Candy Candy: A Collection to Satisfy Your Sweetest Cravings, is an eclectic collection which ranges from the romantic to the taboo and from the intimate to the voyeuristic. With sensitivity, passion and at times humor, these poems capture the delights of sex, sexuality, love, lust and fantasy. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry-cont/responsorials monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218590849-YK3S2S6W0L62UKUTWYMQ/Responsorials.jpg Poetry Continued - Responsorials The complex relationship between masculine and feminine, explored consistently throughout the history of poetry, offers fertile ground for collaborative creation. In discussion of the inherent possibilities we realized with astonishment that, in a milieu where authenticity is venerated as a hallmark of quality, the lion’s share of published poems exploring this duality have been written from a singular rather than a dialogical perspective. The poems in this collection represent a resultant ongoing effort to break free from the bonds of such limitations; specifically, this is a collection of poetic dyads (responsorials) intended to reveal the myriad facets of the masculine/feminine adventure. —Rich Follett and Constance Stadler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610760331587-LRNOS4FFBGEJGHYMSYRZ/Rich%2BFollett.jpg Poetry Continued - Responsorials Rich Follett is an actor, musician and teacher who has recently returned to writing poetry after a thirty-year hiatus. A founding member of the Shenandoah Valley’s premiere poetry group The Aubade Circle, his work has been published in several issues of Paraphilia and Calliope Nerve and in a ‘Featured Poet’ capacity at Counterexample Poetics. Rich has been repeatedly recognized for his artistry in spoken word, most notably at the inaugural summer poetry festival in Middletown, Virginia and on blog talk radio. The poet Duane Locke has publically recognized the excellence of his poetic artistry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1602819442994-TSHZ6ECD9PDF6ZHSFX2S/Connie+Stadler+1.jpg Poetry Continued - Responsorials Constance Stadler has been writing, publishing, and editing poetry from the “prehistoric” epoch of print journals to modern e-times. She was a former editor of South and West and is currently a contributing editor to the e-zine Eviscerator Heaven and Review Editor for Calliope Nerve. She has published over 300 poems and three chapbooks in her ‘first manifestation’ as a poet, and has just released her first two chaps in 20 years, Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) Sublunary Curse (Erbacce) and an eBook, Paper Cuts (Calliope Nerve Media). Her most recent work appears in such 'zines as BlazeVox, ditch, ken*again, Pen Himalaya, Rain Over Bouville, Clockwise Cat, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Hanging Moss, Neonbeam, and Gloom Cupboard. Recently, she has been “Featured Poet” for the Guild of Outsider Writers, Counterexample Poetics and The Poetry Warrior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/4b5fb7b8-bf0c-4bc0-9f20-ff2cbf91df94/geminations_front+cover.jpg Poetry Continued - Responsorials https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry-cont/with-the-patience-of-monuments monthly 0.5 2021-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609976203386-3PAG6322DTRIPXVJCMO3/Jack%2BHenry.jpg Poetry Continued - with the Patience of Monuments - About the Author Jack Henry lives in the high desert of SE California. Published in numerous journals, he also has six chapbooks to his name. with the Patience of Monuments is his first full length collection of poetry. Jack Henry is the pen name of Thomas Kenney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609976241454-B9Q2XX2GCDKKLU41KI14/with+the+patience+of+monuments.jpg Poetry Continued - with the Patience of Monuments “Jack Henry marches across the desert with one eye on the ground and one on the Beat heavens, unafraid of his own pain or humiliation, fearful for our communal future. Continuing the great tradition of American poetry that runs from Whitman through McKay and Ginsberg and Bukowski, he prefers the raw to the cooked, the unborn to the dead, and roads with little signage.” —Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (FSG) https://www.neopoiesispress.com/poetry-cont/bells-for-her monthly 0.5 2021-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610757766926-QFYCLC9TPYBQC6X5VA8U/Sam%252BLedger.jpg Poetry Continued - Bells for Her - About the Author Samantha Ledger is a poet and photographer currently living on the outskirts of London. She is the author of Everybody Else’s Girl, and her work has been featured in numerous publications including Up the Staircase, Heroin Love Songs, Osprey Journal, Luciole Press and ETC: A Review of General Semantics. Bells for Her is Ledger’s second collection of poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217739551-V6ZBUPI8RYI0SWYRIH8S/Bells+for+Her.jpg Poetry Continued - Bells for Her “Ledger’s approach to abuse and the patriarchal oppression of the feminine is never treated with pseudo-heroism or self-victimisation; rather her poems are strikingly honest and core-cutting, depicting love-hate relationships and painful ties. With effective, emotive accuracy, Ledger bravely explores the scope of rage, injustice, damage and sacrifice to appease and expiate the need of the perpetrator as well as the masochism of the abused - something not many have the courage to approach so openly.” —Petra Whiteley, author of The Nomads Trail and The Moulding of Seers https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction daily 0.75 2020-12-14 https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/executive-severance monthly 0.5 2021-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761679775-UK2S63UIBP4CXJCDTZUE/Robert%252BK%252BBlechman.jpg Fiction - Executive Severance - About the Author Robert K. Blechman is not a cartoonist. —That’s Robert O.— Robert K. was born at the start of the turbulent 1950s and spent the first 17 years of his life in a house on the western boundary between Maryland and the District of Columbia, that is, on the demarcation line determining voting and non-voting citizenship. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in English Literature and went on to earn an MBA in finance and a Ph.D. in Media Ecology from New York University. During the Viet Nam War, Dr. Blechman received a moderately high draft lottery number and so avoided military service. He was gassed once during an anti-war protest in Chicago, but otherwise emerged unscathed. Until recently he held a senior technology position at a major medical school. He has worked a variety of jobs, including summers as a counselor at Camp Zakelo in Harrison, Maine, and several semesters as an adjunct professor of media studies at Fordham University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610397929663-OCIG7XWY0U1TV695RFZ3/Executive%2BSeverance.jpg Fiction - Executive Severance “Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery--engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.” —-Marleen S. Barr, author of Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/redheaded-blues monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761819992-0ZIX3D4HKSG4G0EC4JIE/Meir%2BRibalow.jpg Fiction - Redheaded Blues - About the Author M.Z. Ribalow has had 24 of his plays receive some 180 productions worldwide, including at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and numerous times in London and NY. They have won awards in London, New York, and regionally. He also won national awards for fiction, his widely published poetry, and musical lyrics; cowritten ten children’s books; and published articles on sports, music, theatre, literature, film, travel, and chess. He is co-author of three books on sports and is Director of an award-winning sports website. Several of his screenplays have been optioned; he was film columnist for The Sciences magazine and has appeared as a film historian on The Discovery Channel and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films including High Noon and Sergeant York. M.Z. Ribalow was Artistic Director of New River, which in the past decade has developed some 400 new plays and screenplays, almost half of which have already been produced or optioned worldwide. New River writers have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Medal of Arts, the August Wilson Prize and the $100,000 Simonovitch Prize, among numerous other honors. He was Director of The New River Radio Show on Art International Radio, and series editor of the anthologies Plays from New River and Currents: New River Fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609286293424-TSCYD74794LFMCASDZB1/rb%2Bcrop.jpg Fiction - Redheaded Blues "Equal parts Billy the Kid and Lucinda Williams, Casey Cassidy is an iconic American heroine in the classical mode—wide-eyed, hopeful, wise, wounded, reckless, savvy, and really, really good with her weapon—or she would be, if there was a precedent for her. Redheaded Blues may be a Tall Tale, but the story it’s telling is closer to your own than you might expect, and it will hurt you—sweetly—and it will make you laugh—often, and it will remind you why we tell tales, tall or otherwise, in the first place." —Glen Hirshberg, author of American Morons and The Book of Bunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218935945-2ADT3ABQQD22Z5SR71EW/The+Time+We+Have+Missspent.jpg Fiction - Redheaded Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610217810174-EE8ZWDT0GZXR2RSA9E5B/Chasing+Ghosts.jpg Fiction - Redheaded Blues https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/oy-feminist-planets monthly 0.5 2021-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761764483-CE9SCZVCYZCDVVBC73DK/Marleen%252BBarr%252B2.jpg Fiction - Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir - About the Author Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the humorous campus novel Oy Pioneer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609287685886-CKWSW8BNYGH4EPHND5G1/Oy+Feminist+Planets.jpg Fiction - Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir Joyce Carol Oates defines “the bibliomemoir” as “a subspecies of literature combining criticism and biography with the intimate, confessional tone of autobiography… [It] represents a risky appropriation of an exalted subject, and . . . fearlessly casts the memoirist’s shadow over the text.” With this juxtaposition in mind, I describe my forays into fiction as SF/memoir. I combine science fiction with the facts of my life. I take risks. I appropriate alleged subliterary (and definitely not “exalted”) science fiction genre tropes and bravely combine them with my reality. This combination results in a newness: an imaginary shadow text version of my real life. *Oates, Joyce Carol. “Deep Reader.” The New York Times Book Review. January 26, 2014, 1, 22-23. https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/memoirs-of-a-modern-she-noodle monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609285231033-BSEQ0QNX49YUTQ1CEY0N/SheNoodle.jpg Fiction - Memoirs of a Modern She-Noodle In the tradition of Delta of Venus & Fear of Flying, She-Noodle navigates the relationship minefields of the burn-your-bra ’70s in a rock ’n roll romp through the backstreets, bedrooms, and broken dreams of Los Angeles. Unprotected & unadulterated, She-Noodle manipulates, manhandles, and discovers the cost of free love. A cautionary tale ripe with outrageous escapades, and comical capers, She-Noodle presents a loophole into the perfect escape. And more... https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/josephine-the-outlaw-king monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609283367223-0HHY161TA1VDP06TT9QM/Jeannette+Kantzalis.jpg Fiction - Josephine The Outlaw King - About the Author Jeannette Louise Kantzalis (aka, A Brokeheart Pro) is an accomplished songwriter/musician born and raised in the working class, southern California suburbs known as the Inland Empire. Known for her unique voice and clever lyrics, it was an easy transition for Kantzalis to move from composer to author. Her story of Josephine began as a blog over five and a half years ago on her MySpace music page. Jeff Vintar (I, Robot ), became a fan of her writing and suggested she make the Josephine saga into a novel. You’ll find Jeannette still living in the Inland Empire with her husband and two sons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609283459374-RNJVLB3RUMJO60UADL3U/Josephine+the+Outlaw+King.jpg Fiction - Josephine The Outlaw King Josephine Lilliwhite, a middle-aged woman with a quiet demeanor and a curious past happened upon love and motherhood late in life. In her early 40′s she found herself starting over with a new man, a new home, and a 2nd son on the way. It seemed she’d finally found some light. With that light came the dark. When her jealous ex hears about Josephine’s newfound joy, his anger can only be sated by her death. As he whispers, “Congratulations” into her forgiving ear, he spits a bullet from his unforgiving gun. He leaves her for dead but Josephine has other plans. She decides not to end. She promises her family to begin, to rise and to return as the Outlaw King. Josephine heals anonymously deep inside the pulpy-noir haunts she grew up in: biker bars, betty brothels and the borrowed beds of the broken-hearted. In her kingdom, the landscape of the Inland Empire is as much a character as the Saint, the Monster, Cortez the Killer, The Black Knight Beauties & the Pennybrides. All hail Josephine! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1607925741429-X59L1U08DBTUTDGS2XJ0/b897916ae7f513e4ffff80bcffffd502.jpg Fiction - Josephine The Outlaw King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1607925937376-HBEO41L24UWZAJQ5NIS1/b897916ae7f513e4ffff80bbffffd502.jpg Fiction - Josephine The Outlaw King https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/death-by-triangulation monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761588910-PUSOCG87Z3ZV3K0CRUOR/John%2BOughton.jpg Fiction - Death by Triangulation - About the Author John Oughton was born in Guelph, Ontario, a block away from the home of John McCrae (author of “In Flanders Fields”). When his father was seconded to the World Health Organization, John spent two years living in Egypt and Iraq. He completed a BA and MA in English at York U., where he studied with Irving Layton, Eli Mandel, Miriam Waddington and Frank Davey. After a half-year stay in Kyoto, Japan, he worked at Coach House Press and as a journalist and corporate communicator. He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and served as a research assistant to Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. John began teaching English in community colleges, and is now Professor of Learning and Teaching at Centennial College. He has published five books of poetry, most recently Time Slip (Guernica Editions), several chapbooks, and over 400 articles, interviews, reviews and blogs. John is a long-time member of the Long Dash writing workshop. He is also a photographer with three solo shows and several book and magazine covers to his credit. For fun, he plays guitar and drums. Until recently, he did ride an old Yamaha motorcycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609283002490-K18BSWR4YG607FF451PB/Death+by+Triangulation Fiction - Death by Triangulation Motorcycle-riding poet Aaron Miles makes some of his daily bread as a cultural investigator. He likes nice little cases with an element of art or literature, and no violence, thank you very much. But a wealthy Toronto family hires him to wrap up the affairs of their recently deceased black sheep uncle, a notorious anti-Papist and man of letters. In particular, they want him to erase any traces of a past conspiracy the uncle had alluded to. Rich families hate scandal. Against his will, Miles uncovers a plot, both large in scope and decades old, to keep the lid on the truth about a major mystery of the 20th century. Set mainly in Prince Edward County, the story accelerates to Toronto, upstate New York, and the Dominican Republic as Miles tries to stay ahead of the secret's shadowy enforcers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610218232362-4T4E690T9YGHUXKB4HMV/Mata+Hari%27s+Lost+Words.jpg Fiction - Death by Triangulation https://www.neopoiesispress.com/fiction/a-pleasure-jaunt monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1610761463291-K9NKAIV0ZHCDFJJUPM2H/c1b87cb953a62e73ffff802dffffd523.jpg Fiction - A Pleasure Jaunt With One of the Sex Workers Who Don't Exist in the People's Republic of China - About the Author Tom Bradley received his novelist's calling at the age of nineteen. He climbed into the moonlit mountains around his hometown, where he got an unambiguous vocation with physical symptoms and everything, just like Martin Luther in the electric storm. He doesn't recall being on acid at the time. He buzzed permanently off from America in 1985, moved to Red China, and has lurked around the left rim of the Pacific ever since, in a successful search for sinecures that steal virtually no time and absolutely no mental energy from his writing. Further curiosity can be indulged at tombradley.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7b823d05213f1d4755c740/1609280346361-1Y9Z6QPMVKQDYQVTSPSF/APJcrop.jpg Fiction - A Pleasure Jaunt With One of the Sex Workers Who Don't Exist in the People's Republic of China Visit a relocation center for spastics, mental defectives and political derelicts in the jungle outside Foo-Chow. Help prepare Japan's Crown Princess for “bridal breach” in the Togu Palace. Watch youngsters being exposed to elemental mercury in a Soviet kindergarten. Poke around for uncollapsed blood vessels with a junkie tart during High Mass in China's underground church. Learn how to make a movie from absolute scratch using only stuff you can find in the back yard.