David Anthony Sam's Blog, page 173
August 11, 2017
Four of my poems have been accepted for publication on The Raven’s Perch:
Two of my books will be on Kindle Countdown sale from August 13 through August 20
Two of my books will be on Kindle Countdown sale from August 13 through August 20.
https://www.amazon.com/David-Sam/e/B00K82RUTY/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1502493025&sr=1-2-ent
August 8, 2017
Glen Campbell: A great artist and one helluva guitarist!
Glen Campbell: A great artist and one helluva guitarist!
August 6, 2017
My poem “The Exile before his Desk” can be read online at Dual Coat Magazine.
My poem “The Exile before his Desk” can be read online at Dual Coat Magazine.
August 5, 2017
Writing IS Rewriting!
Writing IS Rewriting! The New York Times looks at six contemporary poets at work.
August 2, 2017
My friend Pat Bradley has started a new humor video YouTube channel.
My friend Pat Bradley has started a new humor video YouTube channel. Subscribe to Laughative—if you are not easily offended.
The Wayfarer will publish my poem “The Crows and the Dove” in their next issue.
The Wayfarer will publish my poem “The Crows and the Dove” in their next issue.
July 29, 2017
Afterland by Mai Der Vang – An eloquent Surrealism.
Afterland by Mai Der Vang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Mai Der Vang’s “Afterland” manages to make surrealistic and visionary poetry accessible. She writes from biography and family history but speaks the universal. Images collide and morph into each other and language and syntax warp away and back into common tongue. I particularly liked:
– Another Heaven
– Original Bones
– After All Have Gone
– Gray Vestige
– This Heft upon Your Leaving
– Three
Sometimes a poem stretches too far and fails from the surrealism and the warped syntax. But the collection as a whole is a fine one.
Can poetry save reading?
"You can[image error]t zoom through poetry; it forces you to slow down, think, concentrate, relish words and phrases," writes Phillip Yancey in the Washington Post. "Nevertheless, neuroscience proves what each of these busy people have found: it actually takes less energy to focus intently than to zip from task to task. After an hour of contemplation, or deep reading, a person ends up less tired and less neurochemically depleted, thus more able to tackle mental challenges."
July 26, 2017
Alternative Facts have a long history
Soviet Prosecutor Andrei Vyshinsky: "We have our own reality."
Soviet censor: "You can't say that because it is true."
Writers must always be a threat to the powerful.
