June 11th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
Light in All Directions
Brandon Cesmat
Light in All Directions
I felt your gaze all day as you drove the road toward me.
That night in the observatory, we leaned into the telescope,
held our breath to focus on Jupiter with five moons
each lit like half-closed blind...
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May 27th, 2017 by admin
Refining the moment
Reach out a quavering hand to touch rock
bird bones may be Hollow... but they are heavy
.
colors of Fall are proportional to colors of Spring
there's a giant in the Sky prepared to roar
.
find yourself in company of No less than three
Genealogy tells only part of a...
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May 25th, 2017 by admin
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Production costs for the publication of the Book of Poetry: The Forgotten Shore by J. P. Linstroth
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J. P. Linstroth is an Adjunct Professor at Barry University. His main academic research interests...
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
BLESSINGS AND CURSES
poems by Anne Whitehouse
BLESSING XVI
There is something to be said
for being a renter,
of watching over a place
without the obligation
to improve it.
The Native Americans
made it a practice
to leave little trace of themselves
on the landscape....
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
Dingle Day
poems by Joe O’Connell
Music-energy
In Flanders fields
Did Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band
Buoy us up on a Spring morning
With a driving force,
Ebullient, hoarse and sound,
Prophetic energy about nothing much really
Or everything
That a young sub-prime...
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
A ROSE IN THE BRIAR PATCH
poems by DAN THARP
Oscar
We dropped his ashes from the bridge
into the Canadian River below;
left our words upon the breeze and
watched the current
sweep him away…
followed soon by two car
and an empty can of beer.
...
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From the forth coming 20th Anniversary Anthology
The Gathering
poems by Diana Festa
Odors
After Umberto Eco’s
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The soil’s peculiar smell,
fog filtering into clusters of trees,
rain on pavement,
the earthy odor of artichokes,
sweetness of sage, salt in sea air,
pungent...
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March 22nd, 2017 by admin
Lament
And are you gone from me?
And are you dead?
Who loved me always
and now prefer the wind.
And is it spring
with an untimely frost?
And are the bushes sticks?
And berry-flowers dew?
And do I waking wake?
And is this floor the earth?
And do I breathe in smoke?
And is this wind?
Oh are you not...
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March 22nd, 2017 by admin
New pieces from the 20th Anniversary Anthology posted in Forever Journal:
Diana Festa
Dan Tharp
Joe O'Connell
Anne Whitehouse
Poetic Matrix Press was founded in the high mountain beauty of Yosemite in 1997, and has since grown into a press that is producing full-length books as fine as any that...
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