Appalachian Review - Spring 2020
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features a special section of Pandemic and Protest poems by Frank X Walker; writing from Bethany Holmstrom, Vanessa Van Besien, Rebecca Hazelwood, Jenn Blair, and L. Renee; a conversation with Carter Sickels by Robert Gipe; and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Damn The Pain!
Love, Life and LordA peak into one person's perspective. Walking through life we participate and witness many different experiences. Others may agree or disagree but the fact of the matter is, "it is what it is." Share the experience through poetry, song, and essays.
Appalachian Review - Spring 2021
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features fiction from Laura Marshall and Erin Miller Reid; creative nonfiction from Jake Maynard, Elaine Neil Orr, and Shawna Kay Rodenberg; poetry from Chris Cocca, Jimmy Long, Laura Neal, Natasha Pepperl, Adam Tavel, Carolyn Wilsey, and Gerald Yelle; and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Appalachian Review - Summer 2020
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features writing from Ansel Elkins, Kathleen Driskell, Angela Jackson-Brown, Mark Powell, Benjamin Cutler, and Jason B. Crawford, a conversation with Ansel Elkins, a craft essay from Jessie van Eerden, and more. Cover image "Satsumas with Leaves" by Amanda Greene. and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Negative Capability, 2021
The 37th issue of Negative Capability Journal edited by Sue Brannan Walker and curated by Megan Cary features numerous talented poets, writers, and visual artists from around the world approaching the topic of food from a variety of perspectives. This full-color issue will provide you with a visual experience and thoughtful conversation.
Another Year of Living Under the Dragon Stars
I've learned to read Jeff Cannon; First a read through to get the general feel of the poem, then I go back and do a line-by-line slow read to try and get an idea of the poet's feeling/motivation to have written these, invariably, graphic images of pain, mourning and revulsion that, to me, are reminiscent of the work of Jos矇 Clemente Orozco."Day and night dance together in the silence of a desire that sought more than a sip of pleasure"When he launches against the dark soul of the "Caucasoid empire", he does not pull back the punches, which, by the way, are not sterile or blind rage expressions of innocence lost or nostalgic feelings for a life that is no more. Jeff is as relentless as the sick system he indicts, with the big difference that the poet, unlike that corrupted and corrupting force, offers us a glimpse of hope in a humanity not quite totally lost, not quite totally empty.I read his poetry and feel exhausted, but not drained, exposed but not shamed, edified but not through false hope, enlightened but not tempted into orthodoxy - and always in awe of someone who knows his self and is willing to expose himself in the splendor of his nakedness.As I understand his poetic purpose, he does not intend to hang the reader out to dry and closer to suicide (personal or collective), but rather as he honestly exhibits the emperor without clothes, you see a tender and loving heart that's beaconing us, warning us of the pitfalls, toils and snares we' have already come through, not only not to stumble with the same rock time and again, but to remove or at least clearly mark the obstacles for the benefit of the reader.His poetry is, therefore, one of deep compassion and love.-Alfonso Maciel, Alfonso knows poetry, feels poetry, knows color, feels color; feels the color of people; the texture of their want for freedom to live the wondrous art of their lives.
Bend In The Road
Dr. George Winter was born in 1930 in Heatherdown, Alberta, Canada. His life began on a desperately poor farm surrounded by equally poor farm neighbours during the Great Depression.MEMORYSome old folks have memories vast For times that they enjoyedWith details of a laughing past Before they were employedTheir siblings who were sometimes there Recall events quite differentThey have to question when and where Arose a memory so magnificent.Leonard Cohen wrote: "Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."Enjoy this work of Canadian poetry: scroll up and order today!
Archway
Archway: Life Before Dreams is a comprehensive anthology of literature preceding, paralleling, and following the works of Archwway's Six Year Book Of Dreams and Archway's Lifetime Rhymes. In autobiographical memories, essays, stories, speeches, plays, radio scripts, and budding ideas, Archie Anderson takes us on a tour of a life interrupted by war. This is a sampling of what happens and what might have happened to a writer when a war intervenes to change lives. Unfortunately, amazon's page limit policy has resulted in the deletion of about 20 pages of this book. If you would like to read the pages deleted due to amazon, please contact amazon and ask it to allow the few missing pages to be published in this book. There is no censorship issue. This is simply a matter of inflexible computer programming.
Life/Slices
Stories, stories, and more stories. Some are family tales from long ago, some record his experiences on the road, some are rooted in Maine. Many come from conversations with the variety of folkshe encounters in his daily outings in Brownsville, his hometown-counter clerk, midwife, sex worker, mailman, cancer patient. In stores, at the bus station, on the street, he listens, responds. Hetells friends some of them, and many he retells as poetic slices. Whether rooted in his personal life or the lives of others, these poems take an unflinching look at being human.
Corpus Christi Writers 2021
This anthology features a mix of poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction. All the works are written by the residents or natives of the metropolitan area of Corpus Christi, Texas. Youthful exuberance coexists with polished style. Chupacabras reappear. Talking animals take a hiatus, but the chatty squirrel will not be denied. People who live on the edge share time and space with those who support traditional values. Surprisingly, there are no stories of a dystopian future, but the search for love and meaning remains universal-and elusive. Some strive for sexual identity; others find passion in unexpected places; a few accept isolation and self-reliance. Sometimes, a harsh physical environment tests one's mettle and underscores internal conflict.
Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women
Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive to learn more about these amazing creative mujeres. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are: Camila Henr穩quez Ure簽a, Rhina Espaillat, M矇lida Garc穩a, Osiris Mosquea, Josefina B獺ez, Aurora Arias, Yrene Santos, Marianela Medrano, Sussy Santana and Rosa Silverio. Aside from poetry, fiction, and microfiction, this book includes literary texts of fictional and anecdotal nature, which celebrate the writers' genius, talent, or a special aspect of their lives. Writers with outstanding literary careers wrote the tributes that introduce each of the women writers. Moreover, there is an exquisite drawing-homage of each Dominican women writer made by another talented Dominican artist, Nathalie Rodr穩guez. It is a privilege to give you a compilation of texts that vary in genres, time periods, literary trends, styles, motivations, and topics; texts from and for women writers who due to their talent, their art, their education, their persistence, their strength, their love, and respect for writing have become pillars of our literary canon.This book was originally published in Spanish under the title 10 dominicanas de letras: homenaje & antolog穩a (DWA 2019), and today we present it to you in a beautiful translation by Prof. Kadiri J. Vaquer Fen獺ndez.
Essays in Cuban Intellectual History
Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of Jos矇 Mart穩, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine Or穩genes, the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury.
Bluetongue and Other Michigan Stories
"The characters in Bluetongue and Other Michigan Stories recall those of Jim Harrison or even Hemingway; their circumstances are shot through with tragedy, both befallen and self-inflicted. Engaging and surprising, and told in prose remarkable for its sentence-by-sentence loveliness as well as its precision, these linked stories are exactly what good fiction should be: satisfying but also heartbreaking."Set against the region's beauty - its farms and woods and lakes, its still-wide swaths of wilderness - these stories show us not just cautionary tales, the case and effect of lifetimes of choices, but imperfect, grace-filled human lives."- Hadley Moore, author of Not Dead Yet
Poes穩a Latinoamericana hoy
Una selecci籀n de poes穩a latinoamericana actual de cincuenta autores, de veinte pa穩ses de Am矇rica Latina. Es una muestra viva de la poes穩a que se est獺 escribiendo y publicando hoy d穩a en latinoam矇rica, con una gran variedad po矇tica, expresiva y tem獺tica en donde hay poemas de corte l穩rico, de expresi籀n pol穩tica, en prosa, de exloraci籀n del lenguaje, de influencia cinematogr獺fica y de los diferentes medios de comunicaci籀n, firmados tanto por autores consagrados como por j籀venes poseedores de una voz ya madura. El libro demuestra que la poes穩a latinoamericana pasa por un gran momento hist籀rico.
Esperman
Esperman: Colaborador De Vida es un poemario tem獺tico y est獺 dedicado a la reflexi籀n sobre la importancia de la influencia del padre en la formaci籀n del ni簽o, algo que en nuestra sociedad est獺 un tanto descuidada y reprimida gracias a la mediocridad sociocultural que existe, debido al machismo reinante; y, por esa raz籀n, "Esperman" busca ser una cr穩tica al "macho alfa" que se endiosa, cuando simplemente es un gran colaborador de vida, logrando reducir de este modo su orgullosa grandeza a lo que es: una de las dos fuentes de la materia prima que logran la vida; y por ende, comparte la misma dignidad con la mujer, o sea, ni m獺s ni menos.
Soul Cry
This series earned Olivia Shaw-Reel several awards and award nominations, and served as her second #1 best-selling book!Since she was a little girl, Jamaika Owens has been trained to be the perfect God-fearing and submissive wife, and has the life everyone wants. Lavish living, a handsome husband, and she never has to lift a manicured finger. But behind her facade and dimpled smile, she lives a lie that not even her closest of kin knows. When infidelity arises and deception enters her marriage, she realizes her happiness is most important and is not to be compromised. She falls for a man who changes her entire perception of love and answers her soul's cry.About the Author Olivia Shaw-Reel began writing short stories at 7, completed her first full-length novel at 9, and was published by 10 years old. In 2015, she released her first novel, Soul Cry, which sat at #1 for 16 consecutive weeks on the Amazon Top 100 charts. Additionally, Olivia has garnered two additional #1 best-selling books, entitled What God Has Joined Together and Matters of the Hart: A Tale of the Dysfunctional Hart Sisters. To date, she has written and self-published over 25 books and counting.Olivia also enjoys helping others accomplish their literary dreams through her faith-based consulting company. More than 100 authors have published under her imprint. She resides in Milwaukee with her husband, Paris, and together, they host The Reel Love Podcast.
Obsessions
Obsessions is a collection of poems on various topics which touched the author from romance, African American civil rights and racism, pursuing an acting and writing career, self perception and the challenges of legacy, the journey we all maneuver which is our life, and the tragic arcs of the controversial icons Muhammad Ali and OJ Simpson. The author opens a window into his mind and the many subjects which obsess him from an age when much of the future lies ahead and doubts and second thoughts about what is past are hard to ignore. As much as anything, these poems reflect what all human beings ask at one time or another, why are they or anyone else placed on this planet? These verses beg the deeper question, is it helpful to ask or just better to accept what is and move on? Reviews "Obsessions by Chris Haley "stirring poetry collection"A stirring poetry collection that poses questions of desire, fate, and identity. "How do you know who you are?" questions the poet. Through a potential lover's gaze? Through a public persona? Through family history and heritage?Organized in sections; Me, Christmas Suite, Afrocentric, Career, The O.J. Suite, and Brief Thoughts, the poems respond with emotional intensity in The biggest obsession, to analytical detachment in Independence Day. The obsession underlining the book is revealed in the question posed in the most personal, and stunning of the poems, Roots: The part of me. Chris Haley is the nephew of Alex Haley, author of the blockbuster book, Roots: An American Saga, which kicked off the modern genealogy craze. "What do you do to be you?" Chris asks, as might anyone wrestling with a strong family narrative that has framed their life. Well, you can write.Connie Harold, Writer" "We are many, and we are one."Chris Haley's "Obsessions" touches the deep consciousness within one's soul. As he effortlessly and skillfully writes moments in time, one revisits many personal thoughts never given a voice yet roams freely within our hearts. We are then immediately captured in a reflection yet learning how to appreciate each particle of this journey called life. We are many, and we are one. - Parris Lane, Singer, Author. "ability to expose what lingers underneath"Chris Haley's ability to expose what lingers underneath each and every one of our sub-consciousness is beyond comforting; an exhale even. Themes depicted in his beautiful poetry in the form of questions we silently ask ourselves and lovers are brought to surface on these pages. Time passes; we reflect, we regret, we reminisce, we revisit, and we continue to ride the wave called life.- Kashayna Johnson, Actress
I Am What I Am
A prairie chicken's story? Let's go. Aren't there more than enough interesting topics besides this one? Are you ready to become the leader you were always meant to be? No eagle should live their life like a prairie chicken, and neither should you! It's time to let go of your old habits and the practices that have been holding you back and grow into the leader you need in your life. Like the author, do not let appearances fool you! Go beyond the first impression, scratch a little, and you will grasp the lesson that the author wants to teach you. This book will be the portal to your personal and professional development. If you read the entirety of this story, you'd find that the author denounced a whole anthology of evidence by throwing them in your face. These pieces of evidence are too obvious because they mirror the thoughts others impose on us and the truths that we avoid discussing because they are, as they say, the truth. The moment has come. You need to break out of your comfort zone, discover your personality whether introverted or extroverted, and determine your purpose as a successful leader! The analysis of this folktale about the eagle and the prairie chickens delves into human nature. By twisting this text in all directions, the author extracts an exhaustive list of behaviors that must be preserved, and all of this is in the service of an exhilarating leitmotiv: I AM WHAT I AM.
muddle-bubble-mates
The preview of the book From the poem Newness Hate size Hate size is larger than tender without tolerate with full tempe rhalf-dozen-shape kick-ass conduct our life to many mass some kick-ass nightmare changes our existence share a brief shake of sublime now such an acceptance of our vow just move your chemical balance to be able to shift perturbance a certain crucial interval never acceptable in festival, the circle of darkness encompass, when permission, our inner massin a heck of a lot of trouble breathing deeply blots many stumble, pale toes undulating in wateras soon as becoming self-master self-beingis a drop of water how can becomes self-master newness From The poem "be like Abram!"Recognizing usclearly from others, sometimes difficultto know our mothers before dry ink on any paperas soon asserenity dominate temper feeling relax other times suffer sadness or joy choose the offer burning up aura with many pain how I convert it to just fain?Blood surges in all my face how I can finda real pace?If you are Namrod don't go to fire be!Like Abram to not be tired, the sights enslave me wholeheartedly I cannot escape even partly, my head is whirling in an edd yon my body covers light tidy my racing heart will take flight all the muscles are cramping tight, get wall!Out of my sightit makes tendons From the poemNewness"no hands."No hands for shaking so bad no armsfor cupping so sadno shoulders for slapping warm nobody for embracing charm no cheeks to pate by finger, no lips to kiss by temper, no eyes to stare more sympathetic so warm, tender, exotical lwalls ceils cement around iron, bars cages on ground horror in my heart screams inside my heads treamsit would beend of the time intensely suffer also a dimenot cool, clearor bright any letter to feel more delight, already have lostall talents dissatisfied, lazy, indolent, I should surely toss me up maybe to find any hopelack of light and awarenessstate of sleep unconsciousness From the poem Love"my shrine."Soldier blanket is my shrine sometimes my meditation cubicleTibetian Gum-pa like under blanket, place of my calmness, I touch you in dark smelling hugging touching, kissing you, on the time of tremendous missingI refuge to my shrine a strong wave-like sense surge through mea shiver of aspiration fulsomely solitary confinement doesn't make me solitude, I am merging with youunder soldier blanket. From the poem Love, "ripple of dew."Floating on blue hues drifting on blueberries scattering scent of our sensationon all dull land sulky land waking up inert spirittopsy-turvy like, I see a ripple of dewon your dimple, it was excellent even temporary even short even shriekingly but enthusiasm-fully shaking like Shirly chance like chantingly, passing you between my legs salsa dance like then on my shoulders, pivoting embracingly, four hands playing rubbingly in Antalya's full flowers pond pools touch fullstrikingly cupping digging squeezing coinogingly, life the poem-symphony, in Venice gondola'son shoulder slove vortex longingly, creating volumein Brussel, Istanbul, Louver new wide, dimensionless verge lessfull feel free cherry-shape-chirp cheat-chatting-chantfeet rubbingly in Sarnich under table till sun raise defining new endure ofexploding sensation fully stopless, nowI touch ripple of dewon your dimplefull of enthusiasm.From the poem Love, "stream-mate."Miracle started to persuade our endocrines impeccablyit will exist with Love gigglingly surrounded transmitted to reach openness courage-summoning, palsy-walsy like, submitting to loveis extra sublime even with wishy-wishy sense, wholeheartedly love flesh, bones neediness body language readiness, soul houndish verge-matesaura-matesmoment-mates
American Wild
It wasn't fairy dust that created the American Wild. A story about where freedom lives - that though a world was in turmoil, many of valor took an immeasurable chance to plant the seed that would blossom into the greatest symbol of freedom on Earth!Some things are certain in the American Wild like rows of rolling strawberry fields, it is the bright red that beats within that makes us one of a kind. A little history, a lot of hope and delightful illustrations spotlight the resilient spirit innate to "Little Wild Things" and how this is at the heart of the pursuit toward happiness for all. Freedom lives in the "Little Wild Things" for they do not bear America's birth and growth as a burden but as unwavering beams of light rising over darkness. Nothing Replaces Freedom and that will always be stronger than fairy dust.For when they read, they defeat giants. From the author of The Christmas Sea Sleigh and What's Inside the Christmas Tree is a remarkable tale of the American Wild.
Tall Dark and Bad III
Saf is growing and learning about herself as she wafts through her new relationship with Jason, she discovers things about herself that makes her question whether or not, this is the right move for her.
Poemastro
Poemastro, publicado en marzo de 1983, hace ya 38 a簽os, signific籀 entonces para su autor, una b繳squeda y m繳ltiples hallazgos po矇ticos que hoy se reorganizan en este volumen especial. Con el paso del tiempo, la poes穩a de Jos矇 Alejandro Pe簽a, ha alcanzado niveles de maestr穩a que la privilegian, ganando as穩 un espacio muy especial entre sus lectores, dentro y fuera de su pa穩s de origen.
In Spite of the Dark
In Spite of the Dark features both light and dark themed stories, many created in 2020 at a time when the world was facing severe challenges and we longed for reassurance. The theme of this collection is that even in dark places, there can be hope. There is life in spite of loss. There is creativity in spite of pain. There is light in spite of the dark. Authors and poets include: Alice M. Batzel, Betti Avari, Dede Mattix, E.B. Wheeler, Joseph A. Batzel, Kathy Davidson, Keri Montgomery, McKel Jensen, Mike Nelson, and Valerie Odenthal. In Spite of the Dark is the recipient of the 2022 Gold Quill Award from the League of Utah Writers.
Capsule Stories Autumn 2021 Edition
Featuring poetry and prose, Capsule Stories Autumn 2021 Edition explores the theme Dancing with Ghosts. These stories, poems, and essays grapple with home, history, and identity. Read about digging up family secrets, listening to the whispers of a place's memories, grieving someone who's gone but not dead, and making space for the unknown and unknowable. Capsule Stories Autumn 2021 Edition is the perfect book to curl up with on a chilly autumn day.Dancing with GhostsThere was a small cutout in the wall of a place you used to call home. You would sit in the hole, surrounded by walls and space, walls that were close together, space that felt limitless. Sometimes you would sit there and just think, let your mind wade through the distorted memories, seeing your life played back, rippling, as if you were underwater. Eating at the dinner table, engrossed by the sequel of a book you loved. Staring out into the small audience at your spelling bee, the absence of your parents weighing heavily. Sitting on the concrete with your back against the wall, silent, the noise of your classmates fading into the background, as the wind stirs a pile of dead leaves beside you.You are a mosaic of the people who have let themselves into your life, of what they did to you, for you, around you. You let others make a home inside you to avoid feeling empty. You have always been more of a wallflower, waiting for things to happen to you, not feeling like you had the agency to make things happen for yourself. You might get the occasional rush of inspiration, the adrenaline propelling you to move forward. These are the moments that you want to be perceived by, but not the moments that you believe you are made of. These moments that pass through you, that happen to you-will you ever learn to grasp them before they dissolve?
Shadowed Hourglass
Time rushes past like a river, sculpting us as it flows. The award-winning stories and poems in this collection explore how we change as the sands run through the hourglass, and the knowledge we gain from those experiences. Featuring work by Amanda Barusch, Cherie Butler, Jayrod P. Garrett, Krystal C. Gerber, Claudene B. Gordon, Donna Graves, Kam Hadley, Josie Hume, Lorraine Jeffery, Grace Diane Jessen, Sue Stevenson Leth, C. H. Lindsay, M.H. Lopez, Vicky Oliver, Cara O'Sullivan, David Rodeback, Elizabeth Suggs, Marie Tollstrup, Sara Wetmore, Johnny Worthen, and Bryan Young.
Guy Stories
This is a collection of four short stories Richard wrote many years ago and sent them to us to look at, as he wanted to publish them as an anthology he called Guy Stories. With this small collection of his short stories, we celebrate Richard and the amazing friend he was. We honour his creativity, his compassion, and his quirky sense of humour.
Love and Mayhem
After months of planning the ultimate dream wedding, Shana and Malik find their love once again tested by the lies of friends and family. Although everything seems perfect, beneath the surface lies and shocking revolutions puts Shana and Malik on opposite sides in their once loving relationship.Malik Reed is trying his best to be the greatest father and husband to Shana despite lacking a positive role model to follow. But when past relationships and dark secrets reveal the true intentions of others, Malik is forced to reevaluate the man he thought he was and the sacrifice he made to be a better man for Shana in order to keep his secret from seeing the light of day.Shana Hampton has finally gotten the man of her dream. The past year has been filled with ups and downs, but in the end, Malik has continued to prove himself worthy of her love. But just like Malik, Shana to is holding in a deadly secret. When a blast from her past shows up to disturb her peace and sanity, Shana will stop at nothing to keep her family intact even if it means signing a check she can't cash.Edgier Marie Reed has been hiding a shocking secret from her son for many years. After some persuasion from her brothers Harvel and Jerry, she forces the only man she loves out of her and her son's life after dealing with years of abuse. Reverting to telling her son the same lie that his father passed. But now after years of being ghost, her husband pops back up with one thing on his mind, and that's to get to know his son. Can Edgire continue with the lie she's been feeding her son or will Kenneth's shocking news force her to see he deserves another chance at fatherhood?Join The Reed Family and some new colorful characters as they maneuver around the lies, decide and disloyalty thrown their way in this installment of Love and Mayhem.
Appalachian Heritage - Spring 2017
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features writing from William Kelley Woolfitt, Joseph Bathanti, Julia Campbell Johnson, Janet S. Holloway, Noel Smith, an interview with Connie May Fowler, a craft essay from Scott Honeycutt, and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Appalachian Heritage - Summer 2014
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features writing from Sonja Livingston, James Braziel, Mark DeFoe, Pauletta Hansel, an interview with Richard Hague, a craft essay from George Ella Lyon, and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Appalachian Heritage - Summer 2016
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features writing from Jesse Graves, Jane Hicks, Rita Quillen, Elizabeth Savage, Laura Leigh Morris, an interview with Sonja Livingston; a craft essay from Amanda Jo Runyon, and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Appalachian Heritage - Fall 2015
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features new work from bell hooks and a conversation between hooks and actress-advocate Laverne Cox; writing from Jessi Lewis, Leatha Kendrick, Beth Newberry, Marcia L. Hurlow, Lucien Darjeun Meadows, and Pamela Murray Winters; and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Appalachian Heritage - Winter 2017
This issue of the Appalachian Heritage features writing from Michael Croley, George Ella Lyon, Courtney Balestier, Ryan Kauffman, Tasha Cotter, an interview with Julie Hensley, a craft essay from C. Williams, and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Blasfemias de la flauta
Entre los poetas m獺s resaltantes de los 繳ltimos a簽os, figura, sin duda alguna, Jos矇 Alejandro Pe簽a, voz sustanciada y madura que concita el asombro. Due簽o de un discurso novedoso, entero, elaborado con firme vocaci籀n de trascendencia. Jos矇 Rafael Lantigua?ltima Hora, s獺bado 4 de julio de 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Al leer la totalidad de los poemas de Pe簽a, (...) uno se apercibe que el poeta tiene una propuesta que hacer, la cual es, reconstruir, bajo una iron穩a implacable, un mundo po矇tico distinto.""...el libro (Blasfemias de la flauta) de Jos矇 Alejandro Pe簽a, poeta de la generaci籀n del 80, le coloca, por la pulcritud de su lenguaje (...) a la vanguardia de ese grupo." Roger Reynoso y Di籀genes C矇spedesCultura, El Siglo, 10 de junio del 2000
When There Were No Borders
Ra繳l S獺nchez's long-awaited 2nd book is a gift, a gateway, a harvest. These poems present and re-present our "tongue," our "language," our "culture and pride." Steeped in history and "blood blood blood" unforgotten and dignified, these poems are never what you expect yet are as familiar as an ancestral landscape. Deeply layered like culture itself, this book es una flor, multi-petalled, many-voiced - sin frontera and utterly unique. From rich love poems to Nerudaesque declamaci籀nes to canciones and cantos, this book represents as we were, and are, When There Were No Borders, by presenting the multiverse that is US of America through the voice of one, Ra繳l S獺nchez, crossing borders.
Black Diamonds and other stories
A collection of short stories written by participants in the Ottawa Writing Workshops, 2021.
The New Negro
First published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhibiting the brilliance of early twentieth-century African American writers, "The New Negro" has been cited as one of the most important texts in the Harlem Renaissance movement. This collection includes nonfiction essays, poetry, and fiction by prominent African American writers and in its totality provides a literary rebuttal of the claims that African Americans were inferior to their white contemporaries. Throughout the compilation there is an examination of the changing roles and identity of African Americans not only in artistic life but in society more broadly speaking. In these works we find an important examination of the history of African Americans and a forceful advocacy for the expansion of civil rights and for challenging the negative racial stereotypes that have plagued the African American community. Works by such prominent writers as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer are included in this volume. With illustrations and designs by Winold Reiss, "The New Negro" represents a landmark work in the Harlem Renaissance movement. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Palm Circle Press Short Story Anthology
This collection of written works serves as a compelling patchwork of American culture. From love-torn hillbillies to unflinching sociopaths to aliens from another planet, this jaw-dropping fiction unites the utopian with the dystopic, the hilarious with the horrifying. The result is a stunning and nuanced collection of some of today's most powerful writers. Not one story in here leaves you easily. Featured Writers: Janet Bohac - Lonnie Byrde - Holly Carignan - Daniel Damiano - Sidney J. Dragon - Gladys Dubovsky - Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons - Stuart Ginsberg - Vicki Hendricks - Jack McCleland - Jim Moss - Leonard Nash - Jessica Oesterle - Rory Penland - Debbie Shannon - Caroll Sun Yang
Boundless 2021
FlowerSong Press presents Boundless 2021, the official anthology of the 14th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around Texas and the U.S.A., with contributions by poets from around the world. A Youth Anthology is also included! The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (V.I.P.F.) is held annually in deep south Texas. www.valleypoetryfest.orgEdited by Sarah Joy Thompson, Gabriel Gonz獺lez N繳簽ez, and Edward Vidaurre
The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading feminist thinker of her age, is best known for her novella "The Yellow Wallpaper" which is a chilling description of post-partum depression. This volume also contains "Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'", "Herland" (a novel set in a society consisting solely of women), "Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution", and a selection of her verse.
Capsule Stories Second Isolation Edition
Featuring poems, stories, and essays, Capsule Stories Second Isolation Edition reflects on the isolation we've experienced this past year in the pandemic. Read about connecting with strangers over Zoom meetups, feeling trapped in your apartment, drifting apart and falling back in love with your partner, watching your child forget what the world was like before all this, learning to love your body again, running in the heat just to feel something, screaming into the sky because it's been a day. Within this literary magazine's pages are words to help you feel less alone during this lonely and isolating time.Second Isolation EditionYou think of how naive you were just a year ago. How worried you were about things like running out of toilet paper, your career never recovering, your loved ones falling deathly ill. You're still anxious, but it feels different now. It feels longer. Less urgent, less panicked. Days melt into weeks. You open your laptop one groggy Saturday morning thinking it's Thursday. You place your laptop at the foot of your bed and sleep upside down, just to add some variety to your life. Is it too risky to go get a haircut? When was the last time you saw a stranger smile at you? These are the questions nowadays-forget about the experience you should be capturing. Now, all you know is that awkward silence before the video call ends, as you frantically try to press the button, wearing a fake smile on your face.But one venture outside will tell you that even though it felt like your life had paused, the rest of the world kept moving. People you know, or don't know, have been lost forever. There's noisy construction on streets you knew intimately, new restaurants replacing your old favorite ones. People are going out as if nothing happened. You feel like the only person who remembers what life was like before, what life is like now. But you'll never forget how the world changed, how you changed. How alone you felt. You will always remember this.
Shadows Uplifted Volume II
A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.Collected here for the first time in a single volume are three personal narratives: Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, Harriet E. Wilson's 1859 critical look at Black life in the northern states and long considered to be the first novel published by a Black American woman.Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself, Harriet Jacobs's 1861 stark account of the journey she took to free herself and her children from enslaved life.Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, Elizabeth Keckley's 1868 autobiography detailing her life as a dressmaker for First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln."Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway
Cuts
Statements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism. Just as Carl Andre's sculptures are "cuts" of elemental materials, his writings are condensed expressions, "cuts" of language that emphasize the part rather than the whole. Andre, a central figure in minimalism and one of the most influential sculptors of our time, does not produce the usual critical essay. He has said that he is "not a writer of prose," and the texts included in Cuts--the most comprehensive collection of his writings yet published--appear in a wide variety of forms that are pithy and poetic rather than prosaic. Some texts are statements, many of them fifty words or less, written for catalog entries and press releases. Others are Socratic dialogues, interwoven statements, or in the form of questionnaires and interviews. Still others are letters--public and private, lengthy missives and postcards. Some are epigrams and maxims (for example, on Damian Hirst: I DON'T FEAR HIS SHARK. I FEAR HIS FORMALDEHYDE) and some are planar poems, words and letters arranged and rearranged into different patterns. They are organized alphabetically by subject, under such entries as "Art and Capitalism," "Childhood," "Entropy (After Smithson)," "Matter," "My Work," "Other Artists," and "Poetry," and they include Andre's reflections on Michelangelo and Duchamp, on Stein and Marx, and such contemporaries as Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, and Damien Hirst. Carl Andre's writing and its materiality--its stress on the visual and tactile qualities of language--takes its place beside his sculpture and its materiality, its revelation of "matter as matter rather than matter as symbol." Both assert the ethical and political primacy of matter in a culture that prizes the replica, the insubstantial, and the virtual. "I am not an idealist as an artist," says Andre. "I try to discover my visions in the conditions of the world. It's the conditions which are important."
Searching for Dandelion Greens
The first collection - 90 poems - from the winner of the STEVE KOWIT POETRY PRIZE 2020.
Anti_Nocturnos del Caribe
***?PERA PRIMA. MIRADA DIASP?RICA. SIGNIFICADO DE CUBA PARA EL AUTOR*** "癒Viva este telar variopinto de palabras concebido por un talentoso escritor donde la african穩a, lo cubano, lo griego y el Caribe, perfuman con maravillas reales y filibusteras el coraz籀n de qui矇n se adentra a sus p獺ginas! 癒Por ello; y con la honestidad que segundo a segundo intento plasmar en mi vida te recomiendo, lector, no privarte de sentir entre tus manos a: "Anti-nocturnos del Caribe"!" Ar穩stides Naranjo Garc穩a Una 籀pera prima no habita desprovista de g矇nesis, m獺s bien funge como superficie, punta de iceberg, magma, centro o esencia si se quiere yaciendo dilatada hacia su propio pasado. Esta referencia retroactiva de la obra se簽ala las diferentes 矇pocas de mi vida en que redact矇 estos inacabados versos. Son parte de lo que fui y lo que no ser矇 m獺s, por eso los archivo, los expongo. Autor: Jorge Gabriel M. Vera "Gast籀n Baquero ten穩a raz籀n cuando expres籀 en la dedicatoria de su emblem獺tico libro Poemas Invisibles (1991): "A los poetas que llegan y seguir獺n llegando. A los muchachos y muchachas nacidos con pasi籀n por la poes穩a en cualquier sitio de la plural geograf穩a de Cuba, la de dentro de la Isla y la fuera de ella", porque Jorge Gabriel M. Vera es de esos bardos cubanos que "llegan y seguir獺n llegando", sum獺ndose y enriqueciendo la continuidad de la l穩rica cubana." Felipe L獺zaro "Una voz po矇tica y diasp籀rica, errante que mira desde lejos esos espacios interiores en constante relaci籀n con el afuera...el misterio de la palabra se funde con el misterio del "decir"...tantas relaciones que s籀lo un caribe簽o puede proponer de manera poetica, filos籀fica y r穩tmica...Dif穩cil para nosotros que suene nuestra voz cuando estamos bajo b籀vedas esteladas marcadas por las se簽ales de Lezama, Acosta o Guillen..." Yohan Jim矇nez
The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
A crisp, intimate chronicle of a nation in formation. The Day Of Sir John Macdonald brings readers into the mind and measures of Canada's first prime minister, a figure whose leadership helped shape a federation and a polity still felt in today's political landscape. This is more than a biography; it is a chronicle narrative that mingles political history with intimate portraits of decision, pressure, and ambition. Joseph Pope's portrayal sits at the intersection of Victorian Canada and late nineteenth century statecraft, offering a clear lens on early Canadian politics through the lens of leadership, policy, and the forging of federal institutions. The book serves as both historical biography and library reference guide, inviting history students, scholars, and curious readers to explore the formative era of the Canadian federation. Significance is innate: a window into how portraits of statesmanship were formed, and how public life, private motive, and archival memory intersected to craft a national story. For casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike, this volume presents a refined, accessible doorway into a pivotal period. Selling points: out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions; restored for today's and future generations; more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. A timeless addition to any bookshelf of historical biography, political history, and colonial Canada biographies.
The New Negro
The New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Locke himself. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke's writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke's New Negro came to represent a break from an inhumane past, a means toward meaningful change for a people held down for far too long. "[F]or generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being-a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be 'kept down, ' or 'in his place, ' or 'helped up, ' to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden." Identifying the representation of black Americans in the national imaginary as oppressive in nature, Locke suggests a way forward through his theory of the New Negro, who "wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not." Throughout The New Negro, leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance offer their unique visions of who and what they are; voicing their concerns, portraying injustice, and illuminating the black experience, they provide a holistic vision of self-expression in all of its colors and forms. This edition of Alain Locke's The New Negro is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins
The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins (2021) compiles several iconic works of fiction by a pioneering figure in American literature. Contending Forces was Hopkins' first major publication as a leading African American author of the early twentieth century. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America's first monthly periodical covering African American arts and culture, Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest is a groundbreaking novel that addresses themes of race and colonization from the perspective of a young girl of mixed descent. Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice is thought to be the first detective novel written by an African American author. Also included in this collection is "Talma Gordon," an influential short story, and Of One Blood, Hopkins' final novel. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest opens on an island in the middle of Lake Erie, where White Eagle-recently displaced after the dissolution of the Buffalo Creek reservation-has built a home for himself and his African American wife. Adopting her son Judah, White Eagle establishes a life for his family apart from the prejudices and violence of American life. Their daughter Winona grows to be proud of her rich cultural heritage. Set just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice takes place on the outskirts of Baltimore. When Hagar Sargeant returns home after four years of study at a seminary in the North, she meets Ellis Enson, an older gentleman and self-made man who resides at the stately Enson Hall. After a brief courtship, the pair are engaged to be married. As the wedding approaches, Hagar's mother dies unexpectedly, leaving Hagar the family estate. When a man from the deep south arrives claiming the young woman was born a slave, their lives are changed forever. Contending Forces is the story of Charles Montfort, a planter from Bermuda who moves with his family and slaves to North Carolina. There, he plans to free his slaves, drawing condemnation from his neighbors and risking violent retaliation. When a rumor spreads regarding his wife's ancestry, Montfort suspects Anson Pollack, a former friend, of planning to dispossess him. In these wide-ranging tales of race, class, and social convention, Hopkins proves herself as a true pioneer of American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in a nation founded on slavery and genocide. This edition of The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
