January 6th, 2018 by admin
New poem by Kim Shuck
2017 Poet Laureate of San Francisco
Drought Break
Weaving of water is layered
Sitting in the rain
Feet dragging in the runoff
I know there are trees coming down tonight
Drought tired
Clots of soil run free
Sailors still catch...
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Tags: Francisco X. Alarcón, James Downs, Joe Milosch, John Peterson, Kim Shuck
Posted in: Forever Journal
January 2nd, 2018 by admin
Poetic Matrix Press'
20th Anniversary Authors' Anthology
246 pages, Price $20.00, available from Small Press Distribution (SPD) www.spdbooks.org
With material from our 60 books and 45 authors (including new pieces from many) this is a true reflection...
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Tags: Peter and Donna Thomas, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Alex Landon, Anne Whitehouse, Arthur W. Campbell, Ashley Pinkerton, Bonnie Joanna Gisel, Brandon Cesmat, Charles Entrekin, Chris Olander, Diana Festa, Elaine Halleck, Francisco X. Alarcón, Gail Entrekin, Grace Marie Grafton, Hassan El-Tayyab, J.P. Linstroth, James Downs, Joan Michelson, Joe O'Connell, Joel Netsky, John Peterson, Joseph Miloach, Joseph Zacardi, Kim Shuck, Leroy Moore, Lyn Lifshin, Molly Weller, Mun Duk-su, Patricia Nelson, Peter Gibson Friesen, Rayn Roberts, Reverend James Fox, Ruth Rosenthal, Sandra Lee Stillwell, Tomás Gayton, Yearn Hong Choi
Posted in: Poets Comment into the World
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...
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Tags: Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
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...
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Tags: James Downs, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
May 25th, 2017 by admin
Join J.P. Linstroth in his Indiegogo Campaign
Production costs for the publication of the Book of Poetry: The Forgotten Shore by J. P. Linstroth
https://igg.me/at/linstrothpoetry/emal/16507486
J. P. Linstroth is an Adjunct Professor at Barry...
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Tags: J.P. Linstroth, Press Note
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
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...
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Tags: Anne Whitehouse, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
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...
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Tags: Joe O'Connell, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
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...
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Tags: Dan Tharp, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
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,...
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Tags: Diana Festa, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
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...
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