“Cancer Courts My Mother” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo “When medicine has nothing more to give, There’s only daughters and morphine prescribed By doctors never seen. She can’t describe Her suffering but seems less combative Since Cancer came a-courting. He’ll forgive Coy hesitance. All patients yield to bribes Of pain relief, embrace the death of light. Seductive, […]
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“You’ve Got it All Wrong” by Ken Tomaro. “I cleaned the apartment today, changed the lightbulb in the refrigerator and made stew from the leftover lamb my sister didn’t eat I’m tired, it’s cold and dark here and I am afraid of what’s out there beyond the glass of the balcony door beyond the neighbor
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“I leave the me who loved him. to rest upon his body. Now I am someone entirely new. A black dog, a broken heart.” (”Keep Things Simple”) Nolcha Fox is synonymous with experimentation, as evident in her collaborations with Mike Armstrong on “End of Earth” and Ken Tomaro on “Seesaw, Quirky Poems.” She startled, amazed,
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“101 Stories of Love” by William Waldorf caught my attention because I expected an anthology of love stories. But love takes many forms, and Waldorf shows this in his beautifully crafted poetry. In his collection, love echoes through many voices, sometimes as an isosceles triangle or baked in the desert like forgotten toast. William Waldorf’s
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“Solemnity Rites” by Loralee Clark is a visceral, myth-infused poetry collection that weaves the themes of womanhood, ritual, ancestry, and the struggle for finding significance in this insignificant world. “Solemnity Rites” reclaims poetry as a site of sacred remembering and communal witnessing. It is not just a book but a rite in itself. “It’s a
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‘Bonne Année’ is a French phrase meaning “Happy New Year.” Yasmin S. Brown’s “Bonne Année Of Success, Life, and Poetry” is a lyrical voyage across the emotional landscapes of the human soul. Divided into seven evocative parts, each rich with metaphor, imagery, and profound thematic resonance, the book slogans for resilience, hope, faith, and celebration
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“boats glide over swells
dusk darkening the Hudson River
waves rolling off their backs
late autumn chill gathering power
approaching day of the dead”
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“Why am I so hard on myself?
That’s it, today’s the day!
I’m going to write a book called
On Being Sympathetic
To the Apathetic Empath.”
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“Mother
who rocked me in arms, as I slept,
whose body vessel brought me this shore.”
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banned books
can be more powerful
than armies”
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