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

[Anahit]

WHERE I MEET MYSELF: ANAHIT'S MUSE Paperback – Large Print, July 9, 2019

[Alarie]

My new book was released this month. I hope you'll check it out.

Three A.M. at the Museum by Alarie Tennille

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

I don't know how the rest of you posted your covers, but if you click on the link above, you can see mine.

[Ken]

Alarie wrote: "My new book was released this month. I hope you'll check it out.

Three A.M. at the Museum by Alarie Tennille

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5......"



Huzzah, Alarie!

(They actually used to say that. "Huzzah," I mean. Not "Alarie.")

[Sally Boots]

Congratulations, Alarie!

[Alarie]

Darn, Ken. Maybe I can convince friends to exclaim, "Huzzah, Alarie!" and revitalize the expression.

Thanks, Sally.

[Jan]

Huzzah, Alarie!

[Alarie]

Thanks, Jan!

[Sarah]

Alarie wrote: "My new book was released this month. I hope you'll check it out.

Three A.M. at the Museum by Alarie Tennille
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5......"

Woohoo! Congrats Alarie.

[Alarie]

Thanks, Sarah!

[Ken]

A little late posting this, but my third collection of poems hit the streets (not sure of which city) a few weeks back on the 13th of July (for good luck, apparently).

Official announcement: It's a book! One called Reincarnation & Other Stimulants (class picture below).



Also, my daughter built me a new website that looks something like this. Kids these days. They know a thing or two (that I don't) about technology. Impressive!

[Sally Boots]

Congratulations, Ken! And the website is gorgeous.

[Ken]

Sally Boots wrote: "Congratulations, Ken! And the website is gorgeous."

Thanks for checking the site out, Sally. And for acknowledging the book!

[Jan]

Ken wrote: "A little late posting this, but my third collection of poems hit the streets (not sure of which city) a few weeks back on the 13th of July (for good luck, apparently).

Official announcement: It's ..."

Congratulations, Ken! Fine website. Going to want to see those short stories.

[Ken]

Jan wrote: "Ken wrote: "A little late posting this, but my third collection of poems hit the streets (not sure of which city) a few weeks back on the 13th of July (for good luck, apparently).

Official announc..."

Thanks, Jan. Short story writing taxes both familiar and previously unused "muscles," I'm finding. And I take breaks by writing more poetry, too, but I'm convince it's good for me and recommend mixing it up!

[Jan]

Ken wrote: "Jan wrote: "Ken wrote: "A little late posting this, but my third collection of poems hit the streets (not sure of which city) a few weeks back on the 13th of July (for good luck, apparently).

Offi..."

Great, Ken! I like mixing it up, too.

[Jenna]

Sorry I haven't been around on this group much recently: I've been going through some physical health things and general life things. But I wanted to share, in any case anyone here is interested, that through 4/22, my book Manatee Lagoon, out from Acre Books this fall, can be preordered from Barnes and Noble for 25% off! https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mana...

[J.S.]

Jenna wrote: "Sorry I haven't been around on this group much recently: I've been going through some physical health things and general life things. But I wanted to share, in any case anyone here is interested, t..."

congratulations on the book

[Ruth]

My fifth poetry book, What’s Left Over, is now available. It was a long time aborning. Probably because it’s my most personal book, written in the years following the death of my beloved husband. He was caring, gentle man, super smart with a great sense of humor. A lot of the fun went out of my life when he died. Sometimes I didn’t think I could bear it, as I gradually scratched my way to a new normal. But here I am.

Print or Kindle. Use the link below. For some reason Amazon search returns a bunch of cookbooks if you type in What’s Left Over. Ha!

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Left-Ove...

[Jan]

CONGRATULATIONS, Jenna and Ruth!!!! Great title and gorgeous cover, Jenna.

[Jenna]

Thanks, J.S. and Jan! Jan, I love my cover, too -- the Acre Books folks do such a great job with all their covers! I love the cold crisp lines, the unexpected sort of haunted-amusement-park-at-night aesthetic, the allusion to the historical connection between manatees and mermaid myths (which is something that comes up in the book), the way the mermaid seems to take on a coy agency in hiding her face. I'm happy my book is part of the Acre family.

And congrats on your book, Ruth -- it sounds quite special.

[Ruth]

Thanks, Jan and Jenna.

[Alarie]

Ruth, I added your book to my Amazon Wish List and Goodreads Want to Read list. I need to wait for my book pile to go down a bit before ordering.

[Ruth]

Thanks, Alarie!

[Ken]

Looking forward to reading!

[George]

The Blood is on Your Hands: Poems against gun violence
"The Blood is on Your Hands" Poems Against Gun Violence
"The poems are beautiful and visceral. It is clear that Cook feels passionately about this subject, and he knows how to communicate that passion across the page." From the Union County (NJ) Local Source newspaper.

[George]

The Blood is on Your Hands: Poems against gun violence "The Blood is on Your Hands" Poems Against Gun Violence

"The poems are beautiful and visceral. It is clear that Cook feels passionately about this subject, and he knows how to communicate that passion across the page." From the Union County (NJ) Local Source newspaper.

[Jenna]

My publisher, Acre Books, just added blurbs for MANATEE LAGOON, my forthcoming third full-length poetry collection, to their website, so I can now share them here, too! Hard to think of a single praise word that makes me viscerally gladder than "bioluminescence," the way Matt uses it here :-)


“Jenna Le’s poems navigate between science and imagination, political awareness and lyric timelessness, Vietnamese cultural heritage and American pop culture sensibility, traditionalist’s mastery of craft and rebel’s assaults on complacency. Frank and raw and smart and funny and enormously talented, Le is one of my favorite contemporary writers. A new book from this busy physician-poet is a cause for celebration.”
—Julie Kane, author of Mothers of Ireland


“To wade into Jenna Le’s Manatee Lagoon is to happen upon the bioluminescence in a bloom of plankton in the darkest of times, when you can’t tell sea from night, when you need something bright and beautiful to show you a way out of drowning. With a lyricism that is sometimes the night-light you want, sometimes the lightning you deserve, Le masterfully weaves poems out of inherited forms and meters that are at once surgically precise and organically necessary. They will whistle you past the sickbed of American xenophobia, misogyny, and misanthropy and remind you that ‘In this new world, we must protect each other.’ Read this book as a light back into yourself and onto a world that threatens to stay dark.”
—Matt W. Miller, author of Tender the River



And there are now three ways to preorder (the book will arrive in October):

-from the distributor, University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
-from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Manatee-Lagoon...
-from Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mana...

[J.S.]

Jenna wrote: "My publisher, Acre Books, just added blurbs for MANATEE LAGOON, my forthcoming third full-length poetry collection, to their website, so I can now share them here, too! Hard to think of a single pr..." Excellent comments. Congratulations.

[Jenna]

J.S. wrote: "Jenna wrote: "My publisher, Acre Books, just added blurbs for MANATEE LAGOON, my forthcoming third full-length poetry collection, to their website, so I can now share them here, too! Hard to think ..."

Thanks, J.S.!

[George]

Check out my 2 new books! Both available in paperback and for #kindle & #KindleUnlimited

The Blood is on Your Hands: Poems against gun violence : https://amazon.com/dp/B0B3S6BK5W

LOVE: A Collecton of Love Poems: https://amazon.com/dp/B0BCS7NMMX #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrycollection

[J.S.]

I have a new poetry collection (my third full collection and my fifth poetry publication, as well as my ninth book) coming out from Lapwing Publications in Winter 2022. It's called Underword. I don't know the actual publication date yet, but will let you know when I do.

In the meantime, I can tell you that in an age where we can talk about anything, we remain reticent about death. It is an integral, complex, unavoidable part of life, the one guaranteed thing all of us will experience, but it remains our final taboo. Underword is a poetry collection that is not afraid to examine death from many angles and viewpoints. Loosely following the narrative flow of the story of Orpheus, the poems of Underword explore life, dying, death, mourning, moving on, hell and the afterlife, hope, disintegration and despair, and endings. Death is as limitless and as limiting as life. Its stories are many.

[Ellen]

J.S., This sounds like an important book. I'm eager to see/read it.

[J.S.]

Ellen wrote: "J.S., This sounds like an important book. I'm eager to see/read it." Oooh, thank you.

[Jenna]

Congrats, J.S.! Agree this sounds like an important and worthy theme.

[J.S.]

Jenna wrote: "Congrats, J.S.! Agree this sounds like an important and worthy theme." Thank you

[George]

Check out mt latest book LOVE: A Collecton of Love Poems (The White Cover Poetry Series)



LOVE, a collection of poems about all kinds of love.

Love of another, love of a child, and love of family.

Poems about heartache, marriage, and a few silly poems thrown in.

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCS7NMMX

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDDKS8GS

[J.S.]

So, I think it's safe to say that Underword, my third full poetry collection (and fifth poetry book) is now out and about in the big, wide world.

You can buy a copy from my website, via Amazon UK (although it is listed under Underwood not Underword and Amazon haven't changed it, despite requests) or from the book's publisher, Lapwing Publications.

Want to know more? Check out
https://www.jswatts.co.uk/p/publicati... and scroll down to find Underword.

In an age where we can talk about anything, we remain reticent about death. It is an integral, complex, unavoidable part of life, the one guaranteed thing all of us will experience, but it remains our final taboo. Underword is a poetry collection that is not afraid to examine death from many angles and viewpoints. Loosely following the narrative flow of the story of Orpheus, the poems of Underword explore life, dying, death, mourning, moving on, hell and the afterlife, hope, disintegration and despair, and endings. Death is as limitless and as limiting as life. Its stories are many.

[J.S.]

So, as per my previous post, I have a new collection out, Underword. I was interviewed about it on local (to me) radio a week ago and read a couple of poems from it. The interview is only 11 minutes long. If you would like to hear a bit about Underword or hear two of the poems from it, this is the link https://cambridge105.co.uk/leigh-cham...

[Ellen]

J.S., Thank you for the link. Neat to hear you read your poems.

[J.S.]

Ellen wrote: "J.S., Thank you for the link. Neat to hear you read your poems." Thank you.

[George]

My fourth book of poems, An Abundance of Caution, publishes tomorrow (May 9, 2023) from Unbound Edition Press. Please consider ordering and supporting the work of this dynamic new publisher. Thank you!
An Abundance of Caution

[George]

Kirkus Review for my new book An Abundance of Caution:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...

An Abundance of Caution

[Jenna]

For people who are into e-books, the e-book version of my latest poetry collection, Manatee Lagoon, is currently on sale for only $4, as are all other titles published by Acre Books and a number of other presses distributed by University of Chicago Press:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...

[George]

Lovely piece in NJ Monthly by Tom Wilk about An Abundance of Caution and writing poetry on NJ Transit:

https://digital.njmonthly.com/njmonth...

An Abundance of Caution

[Sojourner]

I published my first book this summer.

From the Yellow House and On is a memoir through poetry. The poems of this collection create a camera-like image of the writer's childhood and adolescence in Ohio. Topics of abuse, love, disability, race, gender, and sexuality are meditated upon from the adult child's perspective. The poet connects these topics by interweaving themes of love, longing, and acceptance. Ultimately, From The Yellow House And On is about moving forward after trauma, accepting what's broken, and appreciating the tender moments. A poetry collection for readers of Rio Cortez and Fatimah Asghar.

Order Link: https://bookshop.org/a/94259/97982182...
Website: www.tendingverses.com
Instagram: @tendingverses
Reedsy Discovery: @sojournerdavidson

[Alarie]

Congratulations, Sojourner, and welcome to our group. I look forward to seeing more of your reviews.

[Jimmy]

* I will be the moderator for a special Zoom launch by my friend Oakland poet Jan Steckel of her new book of stories Ghost and Oceans this Saturday, October 14, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, 2:00 PM Pacific Time. Everyone is invited. There will be an open mic. Just contact me on GR for the link and to sign up for the mic. Here is a little about Jan:
http://www.jansteckel.com/about.html

[Jan]

Jimmy wrote: "* I will be the moderator for a special Zoom launch by my friend Oakland poet Jan Steckel of her new book of stories Ghost and Oceans this Saturday, October 14, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time, 2:00 PM Pac..."

Can't wait, Jimmy. Also looking forward to tomorrow's Joe Hill episode. And oops, that website's sadly out of date-- will try to modify it later tonight to reflect current reality, LOL.

[Anahit]

Free until 14 December
https://www.amazon.com/Autumn-Songs-N...
Autumn Monologue

The sky is afraid of being frozen.
The autumn sun floats in it.
The fallen leaves cover a bench.
I wonder whose bench it is.
Maybe a couple hugged on it in one spring.
The empty bench may remember them.
The autumn rain washes the footprints.
What else can it wash away?
A monologue is afraid of being stolen.
I wonder whose monologue it might be.
Is it one episode from a movie
which appears on the autumn screen?
Some leaves rustle to reply to the winds.
They haven't letf either their bushes or trees.
Do they care for the silence of the fallen leaves?

[Suzanne]

Excited to share that my new book WHIPSAW has a Goodreads page! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...