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Tag: 2021 Publications

A woman 's face with pink lipstick and green eyes.

O’Riley

November 17, 2021 Jacar Press

Isabelle Doyle

Available on Kindle.

“…obsessive, inventive, mysterious, lyrical, horrifying, and even funny.”

Jill S. McDonough

from O’Riley

But it was your mouth that moved to meet mine and made the moon slice herself into snow and made strings tie …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Book-Length Poem, Chapbook, Isabelle Doyle, Women Poets
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Dream of the River

October 25, 2021 Jacar Press

Ed. Natalie Eleanor Patterson

Available on Kindle.

These poems are about the people we love and the sometimes cruel, sometimes joyful world we live in. We celebrate the joy and acknowledge, and mourn, the suffering. When we write we reclaim …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Anthology, LGBTQ+ Poets, Natalie Eleanor Patterson
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IN/DESIDERATO

Jacar Press

Jon D. Lee

IN/DESIDERATO is a poetic meditation on what remains of us, and what has been left behind.

As refracted through the battlefields of WWII and the War on Terror, and equally through the deepest ocean depths and the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Book-Length Poem, Full-Length Collection, Jon D Lee
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This Document Should Be Retained as Evidence of Your Journey

June 29, 2021 Jacar Press

Colleen Coyne

“THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE RETAINED AS EVIDENCE OF YOUR JOURNEY begins with a strange kind of urgency, ‘When the dead speak, we have to listen.’ I’m compelled to lean in, listen, get a closer look into this book’s …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Chapbook, Colleen Coyne, Women Poets
A painting of the sky with the words " of inedible things " written on it.

Earth of Inedible Things

March 22, 2021 Jacar Press

Joshua Martin

Available in Kindle too.

“At times an homage to icons of western culture such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and at other times the honest tracing of workers leaving the poverty of small farmers for the grinding struggle of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Joshua Martin
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