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
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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...
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Tags: James Downs, Poetry
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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...
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Tags: Anne Whitehouse, Poetry
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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...
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Tags: Joe O'Connell, Poetry
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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...
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Tags: Dan Tharp, Poetry
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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,...
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Tags: Diana Festa, Poetry
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February 1st, 2017 by admin
If you are going to be in the Bay Area do stop by for this concert. Raphael's poetry is beautiful as is David's music, the two together is a real treat. You can pick up Raphael's book as well; Stings Shining Silence: Earth-Love Poems. ...
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Tags: Concert, music, Poetry, Raphael Block
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June 14th, 2016 by admin
Spiraling Forward
Let the dance of the sacred Spiral carry you on a journey through the cycles of Life.
Ashley Pinkerton
This is an invitation to support Ashley Pinkerton and Poetic Matrix Press in publishing her new book Spiraling Forward. Check...
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Tags: Ashley Pinkerton, Poetry
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June 14th, 2016 by admin
Morning
Reluctant night after a brooding duty, slowly retreating
The earth in gray, some dim shades still hovering
Dawn strides out leisurely to wake every farm
The sleepy sun, in liquid light, making the sand warm
Morning nymph rising from the ocean...
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Tags: India, Poetry, Sandeep Kumar Mishra
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June 14th, 2016 by admin
Use This Day
Use this day
For love, for friendship, for rage,
For justice, for hope,
For worship, if your gods are worthy of it.
Use it
To build, to create,
To bring meaning,
To fight the void and navigate the flux.
Don’t shirk, don’t slouch.
Use it....
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Tags: Clifford Browder, Poetry
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April 27th, 2016 by admin
Born
Some of this is make believe.
Or at least, it starts that way,
as a faraway dream,
a dream of all that we can be.
So it is inside every me.
Life ain’t always easy.
In fact, it’s often quite stinky
heartbreakingly.
Rhymes often fail at the line,...
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Tags: Joe Bisicchia, Poetry
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April 27th, 2016 by admin
NOW THAT I’VE MADE IT HERE
Pink sheets of pleasure
open like petals,
float across bare knees.
My head adrift in pillow,
yours warming my naked chest,
serenity keeps us in mind
for moments like this.
Love-making over,
I taste the wine of the results,...
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Tags: John Grey, Poetry
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March 4th, 2016 by admin
Bilingual hearts
In memory of Francisco X. Alarcón
From the East to the West
From the snow to the hills
where life becomes
a fairy tale
Your gentle eyes gave me peace
Your light kindled my voice
on a night when fatigue
rained down on me shamelessly...
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Tags: Poetry, Silvia Marijuan
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February 21st, 2016 by admin
Here are two poems that have similar subjects enough to be connected.
Speak it into being
I didn't believe but
.......I spoke it into being
and ever infinitesimal
.......I became what I am
and that is what I was meant
.......to be
all this...
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Tags: James Downs, poems, Poetry
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November 13th, 2015 by admin
PARADE
Some are big-boned, some are egret-thin.
For every tall one, there's another squat and dumpy.
Most are brunettes, a few blondes, now and then, a red-head.
Many noses are up, many chins are down.
Some chatter constantly. Others remain silent.
Morose,...
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Tags: John Grey, Poetry
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September 26th, 2015 by admin
Folks,
Poetic Matrix Press will have a table at the coming Watershed event in Berkeley this Saturday Sept 26th and we invite all of you who will be in the area to stop by and say hello. All of the proceeds from all book sales will be donated to Sandy...
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Tags: berkeley, Event, poems, Poetry
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August 27th, 2015 by admin
If you have attended to the news lately you know this is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that so devastated New Orleans and the gulf region. In 2010 our press had the opportunity to recognize Katrina's 5th anniversary by publishing Lyn Lifshin's...
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Tags: Lyn Lifshin, Poetry, Press Notes
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July 19th, 2015 by admin
Untitled
When I was a kid
I would go into my Dad’s
garage and tear apart
anything I could grab
I never wanted to know
how it worked
to destroy
to see the insides
bare on the table
to name each piece
see it’s function
The Ninja Turtles
The phone’s bell...
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Tags: Lindsey Lewis Smithson, Poetry
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April 5th, 2015 by admin
Excepts from MALALA by Lyn Lifshin published by Poetic Matrix Press
Pakistani Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for 2014 along with Indian child advocate Kailash Satyarthi.
LIKE CHILDREN TRAILING GLORY
Malala, still playing with dolls,...
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Tags: Lyn Lifshin, poems, Poetry
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March 20th, 2015 by admin
REVOLUTION
Lay the earth bare
Let every child resound
Let every voice
throw its weight
against the sky.
Let every lost soul
succumb to the day of reckoning
How the temperature rose
higher than the
oceans tide
How bodies
sound like symphonies
the night...
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Tags: Melodic Rose, poems, Poetry
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November 20th, 2014 by admin
Serengeti
Africa is billowy primrose clouds
on sky blue canvas
barefoot Masai boys wearing red plaid blankets
herding scrawny goats and cattle
over ruddy dry earth, purple-green foothills—
our primal ancestral common ground
Thompson’s gazelles graze sparse...
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Tags: Poetry, Tomás Gayton
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October 21st, 2014 by admin
Solar Eclipse
I
Mother Moon embraces
Father Sun above the clouds –
we, their children, rejoice!
Mamá Luna abraza
a Papá Sol sobre las nubes –
sus hijos nos regocijamos
Tugann an Mháthair, an Ghealach,
Barróg don Athair, an Ghrian, os cionn na néalta –...
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Tags: Francisco X. Alarcón, Poetry
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September 9th, 2014 by admin
TEN QUESTIONS of
Juan Felipe Herrera
[caption id="attachment_438" align="alignleft" width="150"] Juan Felipe Herrera, at the National Bookfest, 2013(from Wikipedia)[/caption]
Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, playwright, founder of four theatre ensembles,...
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Tags: Interview, Poetry
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