Surfacing / Emily Tuszynska
Tag: Contributor Books
Murmur / Shakiba Hashemi
Ordering Information
ISBN: 9781625494443, Published by Word Poetry on October 3, 2023, 30 pages, softcover $15.25 (+ shipping)
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Local Congregation / Phillip Sterling
Wild and Tame / Nancy Jo Allen
Watch Nancy Jo read from Wild and Tame on 3rd Wednesday’s YouTube Channel.
See the book at the website of Kelsay Books.
Like Wind Into Air / Joanie McLean
Joanie McLean reads from Like Wind Into Air on 3rd Wednesday’s YouTube Channel.
Visit the Author’s website at: https://www.joaniemclean.com/https://www.joaniemclean.com/
Visit the publisher’s website at: https://redhawkpublications.com/
Metes and Bounds / Jane Blanchard
With Metes and Bounds, her sixth collection in seven years, Jane Blanchard extends her admirable consistency. Whether in sonnets, quatrains, or couplets, epigrams, sestinas, or terza rima, she artfully manages meter and rhyme while ingeniously keeping her lines conversational. Her subjects are diverse—religion, marriage, art, people-watching on a cruise—and her portrayal of illness is especially poignant. Metes and Bounds gives resounding proof that Blanchard is not only a prolific formalist poet but also one of our best.
— Matthew Brennan, author of Snow in New York: New and Selected Poems
Jane Blanchard’s lovely, bittersweet poems, in her latest collection, meditate on the mystery of pleasure and pain and their everyday side-by-side existence. As noted in “Camellias,” “buds / . . . bloom one day and fall the next.” In “The Kahler Grand Hotel,” a Southern accent in a restaurant near the Mayo Clinic makes for a gently humorous glitch in the ordering process; this, against a possibly quite-threatening medical backdrop. And in the brief “sub rosa,” in the midst of blood tests and bone scans, “the mind remains / the marriage thrives / the memory of love survives.” There is technical mastery here and a good deal of music. And meaning, too, implied by the “metes” and “bounds” of the book’s title: the sorrows of the world are not without limits known to faith. “You trust,” as another poem says, “that God can sort all of it out.”
— Charles Hughes, author of Cave Art and The Evening Sky
Publisher: Kelsay Books, 68 pages, $20.00
Also available from Amazon.com
Rubber Time / Terry Allen
Periodic Boyfriends / Drew Pisarra
Inside Our Days / Michele Merens
Available from Amazon and Muriel Press in print and e-book formats.
More about Michele Merens.
On Shifting Shoals / Joanne Durham
On Shifting Shoals, chapbook by Joanne Durham
Order now at https://www.joannedurham.com/poetry-books, Kelsay Books, or Amazon
Joanne Durham’s new chapbook, On Shifting Shoals, ends with a poem originally published in Third Wednesday, “Christmas Tree Recycled in the Dunes.” Joanne is a 2023 winner of the Third Wednesday Annual Poetry Contest.
“The poems in On Shifting Shoals feel as cleansing as the ocean, as essential and elemental as water itself. In each one, Joanne Durham urges us “to listen/between roar and purr,” and to “savor” those in-between moments of observation and close attention that she brings shimmering to life on every page. I could not be more grateful for her deep presence in this work, and in the world.” –James Crews, Poet and Editor of The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection & Joy
“I love the humor, the finesse, the wisdom in Joanne Durham’s On Shifting Shoals. Her evocative language immerses us in every aspect of the beach town where she lives. We are up early “…to watch… / yolk spreading across the sky, / nourishing us more than anything / scrambled up in kitchens.” She goes head-to-head with a man carping about “a creepy old guy” digging through garbage at 6 a.m. Her response: “…salvage the bounty / that belongs / to us all. Scrounge / through rubbish to find it…” Deeply aware of the environmental perils facing the ocean, she concludes the poem “The Mayor Supports Oil Drilling off Our Coast” with, “Startled on our seaside stroll / by sudden shadows thrown across the sand, / we look up to a perfect pod / of pelicans, swooping overhead.” Durham’s brain is wise. Her heart supple. Read her and clap for joy.” –Dannye Romine Powell, Author, In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver
“Joanne Durham brings the personal and the intimate to her keen observational poems of the natural world. From watching orange butterflies and blossoms “blend into one,” to noticing how a Christmas tree repurposed on a dune still “shines as the graced/do,” to observing ghost crabs emerge from tunnels on the beach at night disturbed by “humans/with menacing eyes….,” Durham’s poems compel us to marvel, and feel deeply, about the world around us.” —Georgia Heard, Co-author, A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort, and Hope; founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.
$17.00 ISBN: 9781639801503 Publication Date: January 1, 2023
Purchase online at https://www.joannedurham.com/poetry-books, Kelsay Books, or Amazon
Contact the author (readings, interviews, reviews, workshops, signed copies) at joanne@joannedurham.com
https://www.instagram.com/poetryjoanne/
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022). She in a winner of the Third Wednesday 2023 Annual Poetry Contest. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry South (Pushcart nomination), Poetry East, CALYX, Whale Road Review, Gyroscope, and many other journals. She is a retired educator living on the North Carolina coast.
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