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Poetic Matrix Press
P.O. Box 1223
Madera, CA 93639
poeticmatrix@icloud.com
Recent Books
The Art of Healing
by Gail and Charles Enterkin
Gail received first place in poetry for "Before Making Love" (from The Art of Healing) from the Women's National Book Association and was interviewed on PBS. PBS Newshour interview with Gail Entrekin, "When cancer changed everything, writing poems was an act of healing" by Mary Jo Brooks, May 23, 2016.
PBS - When cancer changed everything, writing poems was an act of healing
Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics
by Leroy Franklin Moore, Jr.
Leroy will be traveling to South Africa later this year. Books available at Small Press Distribution (SPD).
Composing Temple Sunrise
by Hassan El Tayyab
Is out now!
On tour:
- 7/14 - Diesel Books Oakland, CA
- 7/17 - Sculpterra Winery Paso Robles, CA
- 7/17 - Otter Rock Cafe Morro Bay, CA
- 7/18 - Otter Rock Cafe Morro Bay, CA
- 7/22 - Java Joes San Diego, CA
- 7/27 - Emerald of Siam Richland WA
- 7/30 - Home Center Salem WA
- 7/31 - Home Center Salem WA
Coming in 2016-17
On Freedom: Organizational Science Examined Philosophically by Peter Gibson Friesen
Due out soon!
New Work (in development) by Chris Olander
Spiraling Forward: A Journey from Darkness to Light by Ashley Pinkerton
Richard Kovac, The Benign Tree
Marvin X, (in development)
Forever Journal
New blog poetry: Sandeep Kumar Mishra, from India and Clifford Browder, from New York City.
20th Anniversary 2017-20
2017 will be the 20th year since Poetic Matrix Press began, starting first with a newsletter, then a series of chapbooks and then the first of our 60 plus full length books. We will begin soon a year long celebration of the over 60 books we have published. James Downs has suggested a Press anthology many time so next summer we are planning an anthology of our poets and will be in touch with all of you regarding this. I'm hoping to get recommendations from many folks on which poems to reproduce. Hopefully a reading in the Bay Area and one in San Diego will come out of this. It's been a great 20 years.
Recent Bookfairs we have attended
AWP in Los Angeles
Oakland Book Festival
Bay Area Book Festival on the streets of Berkeley
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