Feel free to link to your book(s) ****but on this thread only****

[Caroline]

J.S. wrote: "At Jen's suggestion, I am adding the following post -

This post is not really about a specific poetry book, but there isn't a section for recordings. Basically there is a recording of me reading ..."

Lovely to hear this.

[Vincent]

Fishing for a Poem: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ8ZTKO


If You Should Ask Me Why I Love You: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYAQX7M


The Jesus I Know: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LJ2TO1Y

http://www.amazon.com/How-Aliens-Fall...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/vince...

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/poetvincentb...

[Angel]

Here are the links to my poetry book Corridors of My Mind:

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00O4KZI8Q -Amazon Author Page

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NLOM0HI

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/corri...


http://www.booksamillion.com/search?i...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...



https://www.facebook.com/angel.chadwi...

http://twitter.com/chadwick_angel

www.facebook.com/authorangel.chadwick

[Nissa]

I have a new e-chapbook of my poetry, surly petunia. It is available for free at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Here is the official description: Sail away in an indigo inkwell to a poetic world where paper dragons worry about their flammability, opium grows on cacti, poison mushrooms are delicious, and atomic bombs wonder about their victims. Dropping in to a vat of melted lawn furniture, you will meet neophyte carpet prostitutes and motorcycle gang accountants, Buddhist spiders and crucifix heroes and a local bolshevik tsaritsa. 24 poems.

I'd really like it if people could review this book, either at Goodreads, Amazon.com or Smashwords. I'm not asking for 5-star reviews, I don't believe in them. I'm happy with anything from 4-stars down to 2-stars, whatever the reviewer feels like.

[Elizabeth]

Hello Everyone.. :)

I have written two ebooks so far.
Available for download on my website and also on Amazon..

My first ebook is http://elizabethblade.com/product/in-...

and my 2nd ebook is

http://elizabethblade.com/product/a-r...



and



You are also welcome to follow or add me as a friend if you so wish.
I thank you all for your time. :)

[Christopher]

Not Aloud

My new poetry collection Not Aloud from MoonPath Press is now available (direct from Author, Amazon, request from your indie bookstore/library).

Not Aloud presents some 30 plus years of Christopher J. Jarmick’s humorous and deeply emotive poetry covering an expansive thematic territory-—family, relationships, the art of writing, philosophy, his patented poem starters, and much, much more. His language is musical, approachable, and memorable. Not Aloud is a collection you’ll want to return to again and again.

- - Lana Hechtman Ayers (author-Little Red)

Short Bio:

Author Christopher J. Jarmick is a former TV producer and screenwriter who relocated to Seattle in 1994 and became a poetry activist. He continues to organize, host and publicize poetry reading and events throughout Washington State involving locally and nationally known writers. Follow his PoetryIsEverything blog (google it) https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com

Social Media:
Not Aloud Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PoemStarter

All Things Not Aloud Blog Page: https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/al...

GoodRead Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ChrisJarmick

Poets and Writers Directory Page: http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D...

Book Info:
Not Aloud by Christopher J. Jarmick – 208 pgs. – ISBN: 9781936657193 $20.00 – MoonPath Press Publisher- 9/2015
http://moonpathpress.com/news.htm


Short Poem from Not Aloud :

Bitter Appetizer
By Christopher J. Jarmick

Too rash,
too angry,
too soon!
Truth is better
served for dessert
and with sweets

2 Free Autographed Copies are being given away (through September 12, 2015)

Goodreads Book Giveaway Link:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

[Jenna]

Dear friends, I just wanted to let you all know my poetry collection A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, which will be released by Anchor & Plume Press in February 2016, is available for preorder now! http://anchorandplumepress.com/shop/a...

Please click on the link to see the incredible cover art, by artist Scott Bluedorn. Here's the book synopsis: "49 million years ago, the ancestors of modern whales left their terrestrial habitat to embrace the unknown perils of an oceanic existence. In this new poetry collection, Jenna Le reflects with wit and lyricism on the ways that land and sea creatures alike are defined by their predecessors’ immigrant narratives. In doing so she writes from a wide variety of perspectives, including her own as a second-generation Asian-American, daughter of Vietnam War refugees, and physician in the melting pot of the Bronx. Here is a book of verse steeped in the aromas of sea salt and ambergris, blood and antiseptic, love and death."

[Yvonne]

Congrats!

[Joan]

Great news, Jenna. I look forward to reading it.

[Jen]

Huge congrats, Jenna! Love the art and the book sounds fascinating.

By the by, sorry I've been absent here recently. Life stuff. Hope to be back in poetry review reading action soon.

[Debbie]

Congratulations, Jenna! How exciting, and what a lovely cover!

[J.S.]

Very pleased for you!

[Jenna]

Thanks so much, dear fellow book reviewers and book review lovers. I love the cover, too -- the artist's name is Scott Bluedorn, and his art blows me away.

Hope things are well, Jen. I'll be happy when you're back in the poetry reviewing action, but I totally understand how real life can sometimes overwhelm.

[Jan]

Congratulations, Jenna! It looks gorgeous.

[Toni]

I have 5 published books of fully illustrated narrative poetry. Twists and Turns, Birds, When My Mind is Empty, and Together and Apart were all published by Xlibris. The Voice of Dance was published by Dorrance.
They are available from major book sellers and directly from my web site, accessiblepoetry.com. Ebooks are available in Goodreads.

[Jen]

What a fascinating collaboration, Toni.

[Toni]

Jen, Thank you. My illustrator is an amazing person and her work has always inspired me. These poems have taken me on a fascinating journey.

[Jen]

Thanks for making us aware of your press, Michelle. Feel free to list other titles as they're published.

[Jenna]

Thanks for making us aware of your intriguing collaborations, Toni.

And thanks for making us aware of Platypus Press, Michelle -- what nicely designed book covers you have!

I just wanted to let any interested parties here know that the free Goodreads giveaway for my forthcoming poetry book A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora is now open, through February 29: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

[Toni]

Jenna
I appreciate your comments!
Toni

[Alice]

http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Batchelor...

[J.S.]

I admit to being a wee bit excited: my new poetry collection, Years Ago You Coloured Me, is due out next month (that's March 2016), from Lapwing Publications.

Years Ago You Coloured Me (ISBN 978-1-910855-15-7) is a poetry collection echoing with things, times, places and people lost and not quite lost, as well as those never lost while memory lingers. These are poems of influence and resonance, both past and current, capturing personal and broader histories, and the shadows that sometimes follow. What is history, after all, if not selective, recorded memories? The past tells stories as we choose to recall them. The personal is there, plus the wider matters that shaped it. We have only to remember to remember. That is an art.

Included amongst the poems in the collection are: Bonedancing, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Wells Literary Festival International Poetry Competition; Green Rushes, nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize and View From Sheep Field Barn, Much Hadham, which won won third prize in the Yeovil Literary Prize for Poetry 2015.

I will post a proper link when the book is published.

[Jenna]

Congrats, J.S.! Wonderful news!

[Ken]

Awe and some! There's nothing like a book with your name on it.

[J.S.]

Thanks Jenna and Newengland. This will be the fifth book with my name on it, but the excitement doesn't seem to get any less. I wonder if Stephen King still gets excited?

[Ken]

His bank account does!

[J.S.]

Newengland wrote: "His bank account does!"

:-)

[Alarie]

Here are lengths to my full-length poetry collection, Running Counterclockwise

http://smile.amazon.com/Running-Count...

and my earlier chapbook, Spiraling into Control

http://smile.amazon.com/Spiraling-int...

[Jen]

Congrats to J.S. and Alarie! So great to see our members getting published. Thanks for sharing your success!

[Jawanza]

Here is the link to my two poetry books:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_...

[J.S.]

Jawanza wrote: "Here is the link to my two poetry books:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_..."

Your latest collection has some rather fine reviews!

[Sarah]

I have a new chapbook out called "Heiress to a Small Ruin."

http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/produ...

I'll probably run a giveaway in the group once I have my copies, which is going to take some time because they're going to my mom's in the US, since I'm visiting there in late March. Anyways... Dancing Girl Press does a number of chapbooks a year and always has a worthwhile bundle deal if you're interesting in introducing yourself to a few women poets in one fell swoop. :)

[Jen]

Cool things going on here!

Jawanza, your work looks very worthwhile. I've put both books on my wishlist. I don't think we've had any other lawyer poets in this group.

Congrats, Sarah! Perfect timing since this is my year for reading chaps! Do you have another book with them? I may get a bundle. (Wish they had a sort "by author" in their A-Z tab.)

[Sarah]

I have three chapbooks with them! Inksuite, Heiress to a Small Ruin, and Excuse me while I wring this long swim out of my hair.

[Jen]

Great! This may be the Summer of Sarah's chapbooks.

[Jawanza]

Thank you Jen.

[J.S.]

As promised, this is the link to my newest collection Years Ago You Coloured Mehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Years-Ago-You...

Technically March is the launch month, but there's only one more day to go...

[Rochelle]

Four Degrees of Separation

Four Degrees of Separation is out!

60 poems.

Read some of my poems here, only then decide to review the book. http://www.poemhunter.com/rochelle-po...

The blurbs says:

Potkar speaks with the cutting clarity of a woman wholly engaged with the world. She writes from the gilded moment vulnerability becomes knowledge, and then when knowledge becomes wisdom. The result, in all cases, is the poem: clever and crafted to a kind of broken perfection—the cracks show, but the shattered places are dusted with powdered gold. “If a day is a life, a word is a story,” Potkar writes. Her poetry condenses life into a gilded day, a story into a single word, as only a masterful poet can do it, or a woman can feel it.

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta

Four degrees of separation is a book to be opened like pulling down the covers of a lovers’ bed, pages of poems like sheets to be inhaled, scents that will invade dreams. Jaguars stalk through these poems; mangoes, the sweet, salty vinegar of bodies in love, bodies falling out of love–and the city of Bombay too is omnipresent, ripe with cats and blossoms, heaps of saris, “anklets clinking to camel bells.” This book is a conversation, an invitation to heed the advice of a wise grandmother, who says, “Don’t love a man more than he knows what to do with it/like chocolate over a child’s face/or a small body in a large shirt….love him a little less/So he comes, wagging his desires.” This book is also a cry of lament to a grandmother who “cherished sons over daughters.” The tangles of lovers, of love lost, and of family relationships, all fuel these poems. We are all connected, for better and for worse, these poems insist, as an aunt “searched for zeros in every person/like ingredients in a soup.” “A grudge is a wound that never seeks healing,” writes Potkar in one of the many wise observations guiding this collection, where even amidst the chaos of life and love, “every tree holds the silence of the earth/under its armpits.”

Rachel Rose

This books is available for worldwide distribution only at this site:
https://www.paperwall.in/books/78/Fou...

[Brendan]

Go
Hi all!

Excited to announce the release of my second collection, 'Go' (Aldrich Press). 'Go' grapples with nothingness, the primal ecstasy of movement, and the variance of human consciousness and desire. The focus begins on Lao voices--those of a foreign speaker interacting with Lao monks and women planting rice, a quiet observation of an unknown but familiar place. It moves to South Korea, inhabiting the voices of two Koreans and an outsider at odds with a foreign culture. Finally, the collection ends in the United States, the former home of a speaker who feels empty but sees flashes of brilliance on road trips and in day-to-day life. Ultimately, the collection reconciles its longing with movement, finding answers outside of concrete explanations, but through the act of doing and being purely in the flesh.

The collection is available from Amazon and Kelsay Books. Feel free to reach out with any thoughts or questions!

[Ken]

The Indifferent World

What can I say. Some of us are late bloomers.

[FutureCycle]

Ken wrote: "
The Indifferent World

What can I say. Some of us are late bloomers."

Those late blooms can be the most surprisingly beautiful!

[Ken]

Aw, shucks. Thanks, Future, for making my present!

[Sarah]

Congrats Ken! Lovely to see this.

[Ken]

Thanks, S. Remember your first one? Kind of... surreal. I'm sure it will become pedestrian in no time....

[Jen]

Congrats Ken!

[Debbie]

I've been out of town and just saw these latest posts.....Congratulations, Ken!

[Ken]

Thanks, Jen and Debbie. My box 'o books just arrived yesterday. Today I was hawking them at school like the guy selling hot dogs at Fenway: "Hey, get your poetry book he-ah! Poetry book!"

When a teacher raises her hand, I toss it down the aisle to her. Then she passes money up the row and, by the time it gets to me, I pocket the two bucks.

Welcome to publishing, Ken.

[D]

[D]

My book came out in April, poetry from the mid 1800's, great reading

[Sumeet]

Inviting all of you to indulge in my own poetry book titled "The Tide Of The Pensieve" available on Amazon!! Do buy, read, review and share the details with all! Thank You!

Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/148286...

Amazon India:
http://www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/14828678...