Serena Agusto-Cox's Blog, page 31
April 1, 2022
National Poetry Month 2022
This is the 2022 winner of The Academy of American Poets poster contest. Lara L. is an eleventh grader from Saunders Trades and Technical High School in Yonkers, New York. As always, poetry is coming this month on the blog. I am eager to share poetic events and some poetry with everyone. For those looking […]
March 31, 2022
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
Source: NetGalley Paperback, 96 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire is a collection that pushes readers to their limits with her beautiful, tragic poems. Their dark beauty with their sometimes violent images reach inside us, pull out our hearts, and ring them […]
March 30, 2022
Accusing Mr. Darcy by Kelly Miller (audio)
Source: Purchased Audible, 13+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Accusing Mr. Darcy by Kelly Miller, narrated by Stevie Zimmerman, is part romance and part murder-mystery in which Mr. Darcy becomes accused of compromising/attacking Elizabeth Bennet! How can that be? Elizabeth Bennet is visiting her cousin Rose at the Kendall Estate, and Mr. Darcy has […]
March 29, 2022
Forces by Lisa Stice
Source: GBF Paperback, 122 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Forces by Lisa Stice explores the push-and-pull of different forces, desires, and outside drivers can have on our individual lives. From the operational forces of our daily obligations to the gravitational forces of imagination and the magnetic pull of the muse. In the opening poem, […]
March 27, 2022
Mailbox Monday #676
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
March 24, 2022
Granddaughter of Dust by Laura Williams
Source: Publisher Paperback, 128 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Granddaughter of Dust by Laura Williams explores imagination and reinvention, as Williams takes on iconic characters from fairy tales and literature and enlivens her poems with child-like imagination. The collection opens in that child’s perspective in “‘The Horse Fair,'” in which an observer is in […]
March 23, 2022
Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden
Source: GBF Paperback, 80 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden is an exploration of devastating, sudden loss as it relates to the 2011 Tōhoku magnitude 9-9.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. The disaster caused more than $300 billion in damages and more that 15,000 deaths, and […]
March 22, 2022
Flowers Grow on Broken Walls by Farena Bajwa
Source: Author Marketing Experts Paperback, 244 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Flowers Grow on Broken Walls by Farena Bajwa is of the Instapoetry variety that are easily read in a short period of time and provide an emotional reaction to broken relationships and the recovery that follows. The collection also includes a series of […]
March 21, 2022
Mailbox Monday #675
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
March 17, 2022
Ariadne Awakens: Instructions for the Labyrinth by Laura Costas
Source: GBF Paperback, 103 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Ariadne Awakens: Instructions for the Labyrinth by Laura Costas reimagines the Greek myth of Ariadne in short prose poems. There’s no need to worry if you are not familiar with the myth because Costas provides you with an introduction to her character as it was […]
