tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86416640508784566322024-03-14T00:12:33.485-07:00THE MAN WAS RIGHT... it IS too late to stop now…Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-49810403722949768342022-10-24T15:23:00.001-07:002022-10-24T15:23:15.201-07:00Superb Day to Post a Link to New Poems in PLUME #133 (September issue, 2022)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBZY9Cdb00m1EMLoVzGvvdy3WNNyEMx6cpUWZjF8so1UNYkgHBggmx-oOvonXtLwOnxDHwkJHP1Unr7Fuw5KC5mSleAuDsEoizQz96nPICkoK_e14NfaP4w5qUxeyEztVYJOVtZgsfW9pOP-xS4aXVYnxvV2HU13tNwtbBUzsMFj3QPexK72A3khuDbw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBZY9Cdb00m1EMLoVzGvvdy3WNNyEMx6cpUWZjF8so1UNYkgHBggmx-oOvonXtLwOnxDHwkJHP1Unr7Fuw5KC5mSleAuDsEoizQz96nPICkoK_e14NfaP4w5qUxeyEztVYJOVtZgsfW9pOP-xS4aXVYnxvV2HU13tNwtbBUzsMFj3QPexK72A3khuDbw=w317-h512" width="317" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Image is: <i>from five guaches by Dike Blair, courtesy of the artist and Karma, New York City</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div>So I'm late, by a month. As time often tells, better that than never. But I arrive with new poems (<i>and</i> author commentary!) in the good wishes that these two poems may be gifts from this spirit to another spirit: </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>“Let’s Talk About the Beauty of Cloud Cover”</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“Found Folded Note on School Composition Paper </b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> Partially Added to for Classified Purposes”</b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>My poems: <span style="color: #ffa400;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><a href="https://plumepoetry.com/two-poems-131/" target="_blank"><b>https://plumepoetry.com/two-poems-131/</b></a> </span></div><div><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><br /></span></div><div>And the poems' commentaries (scroll down a bit): <b><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://plumepoetry.com/poets-and-translators-speak-10/" target="_blank">https://plumepoetry.com/poets-and-translators-speak-10/</a></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div>///</div>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-80678915449672755722022-01-25T17:27:00.038-08:002023-01-11T15:50:33.597-08:00Onward 2022<p> A few weeks ago I received an email from the <a href="https://ajhs.org/" target="_blank">American Jewish Historical Society</a> (AJHS) that <span>an occasional poem I wrote for the Emma Lazarus Project: Poetry Contest</span> was the first of two finalists, along with a winner. I was most delighted due to the fact that my poem "Dear American Lady" will be archived with Emma Lazarus' original sonnet "The New Colossus." </p><p>In her acceptance email with the AJHS, Manager of Programs & Operations Rebeca Miller wrote, "<span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Our judges had an incredibly tough time
choosing from hundreds of incredible entries made from across the country. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Only two finalists were
selected for each category, and in honor of this accomplishment we have
posted your poem on the AJHS website in our Poetry Gallery...[and]<i> </i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>your poem will be placed next to
the work of Emma Lazarus in the AJHS archive to be appreciated for generations
to come.</i>" (italics mine) </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I have to say those are pretty stellar digs for my poem to be archived with "The New Colossus." </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And coming on the heels of my intentionally taking a break from writing/publishing the whole of 2021. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">As defined by the Poetry Foundation, an occasional poem is one written </span><span style="background-color: white;">to "describe or comment on a particular event...," and generally not considered the most pleasurable of endeavors to execute, as the subject matter is handed to a poet on a prescribed platter and while not distinctly uttered, a party line is courteously insinuated. That said, "I acknowledge" the latter half of the last line of "DAL" is a party line. I felt the need to wrap it up, and I was sorely limited to 14 lines, a truncation of my natural narrative poetic voice.</span></p><p><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp2biPlSlrReS1xPUyAJxwiwFUjUWzMpsDhNx_ci5fyhRhvlPwz_zjpEzMw6pHfuKE3VnvDMuyksiZomZNH71kXmUvMym5wOVOIoSdJcx-yDmo6aowZ1eKsJ2H9JevNO2TOoa0khtg-hZNgfyo6mtfw0S0EFVlQFqPeinsAzyBAD3o4mioDRBmpBFsrQ=s512" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp2biPlSlrReS1xPUyAJxwiwFUjUWzMpsDhNx_ci5fyhRhvlPwz_zjpEzMw6pHfuKE3VnvDMuyksiZomZNH71kXmUvMym5wOVOIoSdJcx-yDmo6aowZ1eKsJ2H9JevNO2TOoa0khtg-hZNgfyo6mtfw0S0EFVlQFqPeinsAzyBAD3o4mioDRBmpBFsrQ=w288-h256" style="cursor: move;" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poet Lynn Melnick</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">As it happens, the brilliantly soulful and accomplished poet<span style="color: #2b00fe;">, <a href="https://www.lynnmelnick.com/about" target="_blank"><span>Lynn Melnick</span></a></span>, was teaching a series of poetry workshops via Zoom </span><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">about the Statue of Liberty</span><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;"> this past fall for the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). Lynn is also a friend of mine, and I was happy about three things: I would actually get to <i>see her again </i>(think Covid-culture), chatting, smiling, teaching, sitting at her now-famous perch window overlooking a Brooklyn avenue; she taught poetry workshops at Columbia so I was thinking, hey, let me get a listen up at what those ivy students are privy to; and <i>what!, </i>dealmaker! <i>- </i>all the workshops were free. The more I frequented Lynn's workshops, which were not many occasions but enough to warrant a serious quandary for me: Lynn had obviously prepared these polished, chock-full sessions filled with insight into the motivations of Lazarus, Jewish history at the time of the construction of the Statue/writing of "The Great Colossus," the obvious rifts in "the times" between then and now, poetic themes using contemporary poetry and the Lazarus poem, and the bigger draw of the contest the workshops were propelling toward. I knew I had to enter the contest. </span></p><p><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">I am glad that I did and that I wrote the poem I personally felt. This is an image of what was once a small green tree sapling. The Originals: Early Native Americans would bend these little saplings in dense forests to assist them in "recording" their routes to and from their journeys. If you happen upon them in your travels, they are considered rare good fortune.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLFL4COJThw-G4xBoepYdiNuHy6TiunD1XiH-Mrex9lHJzfDiBm9Jzl-uBbtJhV8xNyKRVy5arUFuqWwkr0OMOToqmRhGf_syaXgouiSBaOK9of4wAQZc_Rr6iw9txiQHWtAR3czClArLIdrv5kQuGmmvpVaQwLnpCqN1_SeYPa_ss3M9dLNzL_GdrzA=s400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLFL4COJThw-G4xBoepYdiNuHy6TiunD1XiH-Mrex9lHJzfDiBm9Jzl-uBbtJhV8xNyKRVy5arUFuqWwkr0OMOToqmRhGf_syaXgouiSBaOK9of4wAQZc_Rr6iw9txiQHWtAR3czClArLIdrv5kQuGmmvpVaQwLnpCqN1_SeYPa_ss3M9dLNzL_GdrzA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Native American Route Marker from Tree Sapling</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span face="adobe-garamond-pro" style="background-color: white;">Many people are aware </span>that poet Emma Lazarus wrote the famous sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883 about the Statue of Liberty. Very few people, I am guessing, know that Emma Lazarus was Jewish. I did not know this. I was quite surprised at this fact. I am constantly surprised, as a half-Jewish woman, how little Jewish people are celebrated for their vast and myriad gifts. I want to see that rectified.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNSvw6sro-mQ8mDQmuVso_aVfEZp68ieHyYV3F0B_KMj5xDsVwlX_9mNiygQCFybihn2nZh7jjU5BtwHK_KHIvGlwHTe4FNw-QOJF86uxOGyNC-RvRZpWJ9WdNPHK7sc-kFJ0DjRLK45f4QgVjENgbpYpdLogFFLj9EH_FHdWP0c4cWeDnXtHmzY6C2A=s366" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="366" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNSvw6sro-mQ8mDQmuVso_aVfEZp68ieHyYV3F0B_KMj5xDsVwlX_9mNiygQCFybihn2nZh7jjU5BtwHK_KHIvGlwHTe4FNw-QOJF86uxOGyNC-RvRZpWJ9WdNPHK7sc-kFJ0DjRLK45f4QgVjENgbpYpdLogFFLj9EH_FHdWP0c4cWeDnXtHmzY6C2A=w270-h236" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma Lazarus</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>Emma Lazarus was 34 years old when she wrote one of the most applauded and prominent poems in, and about, the United States of America. She died four years later. <div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhizRu6Gr3SiFigfgjMvawxo9ZmSKvwYxZuhfkV7LpM_YQMgc6VU5CRg_KCKNqvKwal5ZGt4Zl1OB9B4nb76k74Rve4wIdfgzq1HXxxD7OI3ZvJw1Cf1TDYa-pvQP9so9VcT0tVuXYFKvSseEtTusT3UwboF0BOzW39_S_3IyIFPV7JefiH4D1hC6sdeg=s1600" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1600" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhizRu6Gr3SiFigfgjMvawxo9ZmSKvwYxZuhfkV7LpM_YQMgc6VU5CRg_KCKNqvKwal5ZGt4Zl1OB9B4nb76k74Rve4wIdfgzq1HXxxD7OI3ZvJw1Cf1TDYa-pvQP9so9VcT0tVuXYFKvSseEtTusT3UwboF0BOzW39_S_3IyIFPV7JefiH4D1hC6sdeg=w400-h253" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #313131; font-size: 14px;">The text of the poem entitled “The New Colossus,” by Emma Lazarus, mounted on the base of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet was written in 1883, and donated to help raise money for the statue’s pedestal. The text was later cast in bronze and and mounted in 1903</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>***</div><div><div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A public thank you to the judges of the Emma Lazarus Project: Poetry Contest - the Staff of American Jewish Historical Society, Actor <a href="http://www.cherryejdavis.com/about" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">Cherrye J. Davis</span></a>, Poet Lynn Melnick, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Smith_(artist)" target="_blank">Painter Josh Smith</a>.</span></div></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3m4fzRYt2JAGONQu4OzOtNDwSd3eQ5flNlQcN6G1Zc_DngJNyKQwPsWKpnU0CBaTAexJ7tJ7jhG1rNur5UtlXFMqzzhez7DtiE7PhjkzpgyfKGFx7Lk7XPJhislfoBnIuuh5XlSUK-Mzj199WoT-vKlTgoeq4BZRxf_5e5gdnDR4iTieJzPLUFajrcA=s1600" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="1600" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3m4fzRYt2JAGONQu4OzOtNDwSd3eQ5flNlQcN6G1Zc_DngJNyKQwPsWKpnU0CBaTAexJ7tJ7jhG1rNur5UtlXFMqzzhez7DtiE7PhjkzpgyfKGFx7Lk7XPJhislfoBnIuuh5XlSUK-Mzj199WoT-vKlTgoeq4BZRxf_5e5gdnDR4iTieJzPLUFajrcA=w400-h297" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #313131; font-size: 14px;">Looking down at the statue from its torch, circa 1890</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />(See article re: last two photos. </div><div> https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/statue-liberty-history-pictures-1875-2000/)<br /></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In the interim since I first put up this post in November, 2022, the AJHS has moved the poem on its website. So, it follows if you'd like to have a read at it.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">DEAR AMERICAN
LADY</span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">By
Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">We
acknowledge. Beneath the sun-spoked diadem</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Encircling
your celebrated head these two centuries plus,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
remain marvelously fair. Neither the heavy torch <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nor
the massive, dated tablet have felled you. Still you hospitably<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Offer
greeting. Once you were a foreigner. Here is home where<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Originals
thrived. They toiled and feasted upon this land, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trod
many-hued dirt paths to reach five bejeweled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Great
lakes, deciphered bird calls from bird cries,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Studiously
bent tree saplings into route markers that stand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today
immense in the forests. To clear and cleanse the land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fire
was mastered. Reluctantly they gave way for others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">They
continue to forge on. With
iron muscle and copper skin <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Across
pitching cold waters you came shipped. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Your
relations courted an ocean liner’s sterling upper decks <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Expectant
of fertile country. Three decks below in dank wishful <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Steerage,
a stew of languages sung out for ground that would<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Grant
trust. From cargo ships, by haunted hull despicable, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Multitudes
in shackled chains. Yet, for all, their blood, their kinfolk, their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">successors
onward forge. All who witnessed the boats sail in long ago,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
sail in still. Under your golden flame, the promise ever cresting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2021 Archival Finalist –
Emma Lazarus Contest<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">American Jewish Historical
Society<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif">///</span></div></div>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-41312562879703626142021-08-23T15:59:00.000-07:002021-08-23T15:59:17.963-07:00Reelin' and Rockin'<p>Oh yes. Chuck Berry and his back, which I imagine should be capitalized, also.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSUlwDuX7_CxDaRcTGq_DHDEpoIthghJ-jimny4H_JXwiPLygktVjVpawtYcEacrPCoaxxuE3l0dfKtOinGEeN2GXNH-WUSpg_H0qJFS4o7QYXtPbJVMh51MO13F65xg7Bs2AOFJSKAXd/s600/chuck+berry+and+his+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="600" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSUlwDuX7_CxDaRcTGq_DHDEpoIthghJ-jimny4H_JXwiPLygktVjVpawtYcEacrPCoaxxuE3l0dfKtOinGEeN2GXNH-WUSpg_H0qJFS4o7QYXtPbJVMh51MO13F65xg7Bs2AOFJSKAXd/s320/chuck+berry+and+his+back.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-85071412581178854392021-03-28T14:53:00.004-07:002021-04-10T19:23:51.974-07:00On Pesach, Uncountable Thanks for Sparing the Lastborn as Well<p> My first collection of poetry had about 85-90% of its poems previously published, or awarded, or something along those lines, but there were a handful of poems no one would touch with a ten-foot-pole, and now in reminiscing back on this particular poem, back when it was wending its way to a university journal or a new-ish press or a big famous magazine, for instance, I cannot help but be a- and be-mused over how unsuitable this headpiece was as their slush reading material~ </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">PASSOVER</span></p><p class="StyleHeading1TimesNewRoman"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Finally: after the battered, powerful red-and-white crane,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">operated by a man called Maverick, whose huge hand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I personally shook, was raised seven stories high to the top
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Mayo</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype></st1:place>, dangling steel
beams like matchsticks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but scrupulously set on the roof to install higher space, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">making room for even more of the unwell and terribly needy,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the sodomite prostate,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">its ruffled capsule battered by voracious cancer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but not burst, and not spread to the thirsty lymph system, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">had been yanked like a satanic thing out of there. By
spidery robot arms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The M.D. Ph.D. surgeon operated half a room away, fiddling</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">a joystick in front of a screen to burn death out of the trunk
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of my husband. Yet his hands were small as a girl’s, the
fingertips <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">tapered down like candelabra fine-drip wax. Earlier, he’d carried
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">a backpack to Pre-op like a high school kid on his way to
first period.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p>D</o:p>octor doctor, I prayed and held my breath. When a terrible storm
blew in</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">a nurse hovered over my husband, said to the medical team, <i>If the electricity goes<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I tell you that wife
will be barreling through those operating room doors</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Doctor doctor, whom I could crush with one passionate hug…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">five hours later he entered the little consult room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to tell me the surgery couldn’t have gone better. I swore <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">at the cancer, at the prostate, who we’d nicknamed Ernie,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ernie the bad seed, and I made him tell me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">three times how it had not spread, the nerves intact,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and I believed I would be able to make love to my husband
again,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">because he was there, alive, and his beautiful penis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">might know erection once more, because I was selfish, and
torn;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">death had passed over this one day <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">our very house. I kissed the right hand of our surgeon <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">as if he embodied some mythical conception, the finite hand <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that processed medicine and technology through the belly</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of a simple man so that he could come home, and I</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p>g</o:p>ranted the privilege to shut the widow’s door, an empty
room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with only a straight-back chair. The doctor then was up out
of his seat, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">would stay no longer, someone else was under anesthesia. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: georgia;">That person required attending.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>This poem appears in </span><a href="https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=246&a=212" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor</span></a><span>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">///</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRJjMXcf3MuYu0hRtIbwjmub68dCkwHakhPgnDl02QVoVUjgaOaAL5QxdqsCdNJmfDDsA4-e30tEawmO4VyFZmVbxmk540QDVLhL48klXHsx5t8O-n_RwsuUoE8OPdGyb-0AlqCJJfpF3/s2048/Passover+pg1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><br /></div><br />Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-23595584348704703712020-11-23T14:19:00.003-08:002020-11-23T14:47:07.689-08:00Some New Poems Are Live and Not Wearing Masks<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The winter themed-issue of <i>The Ilanot Review</i> is called "Toxic." In it is a new poem of mine. When I posted a link to the poem on Facebook, along with it went a warning the size of a railroad crossing that went this way: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a poem in the aptly named "Toxic" issue of The Ilanot Review and a person tells me I am supposed to tell you a little thing about triggers. So if you have a trigger about mothers, or about metal, or bedrooms, or food, or dreamstates, or lipstick or toques or corners, you know. If you have a trigger about triggers you should most probably not read this poem." </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #050505;">If you've sidestepped the landmine and would still like to read the poem, please click its title: "</span><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.ilanotreview.com/toxic/dream-poem-mother/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Dream Poem of Mother Over and Above Her Kitchen-Skill Capacity</span></a>.</span><span style="color: #050505;">"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #050505;">~</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To honor the 11th anniversary of the truly international, wondrously realized "mega-sized" (for this special occasion) literary journal <i><a href="https://liveencounters.net/live-encounters-celebrates/live-encounters-celebrates-its-11th-anniversary-2010-2020/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Live Encounters</span></a></i>, helmed by <span><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5;"><span style="color: #050505;">editor/publisher </span><a href="https://liveencounters.net/mark-ulyseas/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Mark Ulyseas</span></a><span style="color: #050505;">,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> a man I deeply admire and respect, I contributed two new poems, "Dried Mangoes" and "Vibe Organic." The 11th Anniversary Edition became so large with beautiful poetry from around the world that Mark felt to do justice to the work being showcased he would have to create two distinct volumes, one exclusively of women poets and writers, and the second solely of men poets and writers. Here, I am posting links to both volumes, with their Table of Contents, and poem titles: </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://liveencounters.net/2020/10/21/live-encounters-poetry-writing-volume-one-december-2020/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Live Encounters Poetry &Writing Volume I</span></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUS2DnbElz8nuH4x136GyQJGhvGCwbqirP_rFpUE2esqoLgbRnXrr551jPuiTWNZ1WvTGxJJRF-j88TblAeDp7fnFBtRjAv3KNwXGMhW2_fSytEIGWotvcp7ngei6-OLnKUGmiMsFgPPX/s1500/LE-PW-Vol-One-Dec-2020Banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUS2DnbElz8nuH4x136GyQJGhvGCwbqirP_rFpUE2esqoLgbRnXrr551jPuiTWNZ1WvTGxJJRF-j88TblAeDp7fnFBtRjAv3KNwXGMhW2_fSytEIGWotvcp7ngei6-OLnKUGmiMsFgPPX/s320/LE-PW-Vol-One-Dec-2020Banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://liveencounters.net/2020/10/21/live-encounters-poetry-writing-volume-two-december-2020/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Live Encounters Poetry & Writing Volume II</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1I0ffVRDoAMhNzOtY_PETkb0oR03OFwR5NjX8QQ2E6zsVAWM6w3aHuMauTi0UuSP6gVylUK_Ji6BpwKFd_AFEihY4rDs8jgRrxPgmTVieT08kPvpYcbnQ97lnh3ykG5-swfQ5Eln17qK/s1365/LE-PW-Vol-Two-Dec-2020Banner-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="1365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1I0ffVRDoAMhNzOtY_PETkb0oR03OFwR5NjX8QQ2E6zsVAWM6w3aHuMauTi0UuSP6gVylUK_Ji6BpwKFd_AFEihY4rDs8jgRrxPgmTVieT08kPvpYcbnQ97lnh3ykG5-swfQ5Eln17qK/s320/LE-PW-Vol-Two-Dec-2020Banner-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQGKeKvs9-HPKXLs-lqi-uLR0TZPrXUWgZXbKtrRGJRjfhokkirPZ3q6jYoDRWriC1G-c9v0t8U4UxP0ROWXzpsSEA2BpI5hkL5QPkO8pLMX5mE5VoF7fF7Yrq_v9P_EPdc-4c_7JYWLQQ/s352/Edlow-profile-Dec-2020.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="352" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQGKeKvs9-HPKXLs-lqi-uLR0TZPrXUWgZXbKtrRGJRjfhokkirPZ3q6jYoDRWriC1G-c9v0t8U4UxP0ROWXzpsSEA2BpI5hkL5QPkO8pLMX5mE5VoF7fF7Yrq_v9P_EPdc-4c_7JYWLQQ/w231-h143/Edlow-profile-Dec-2020.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you just can't help yourself and you have to read where it proclaims:</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<b>We are all of us/marginalized</b>" and </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<b>Shoots in plum jackets</b>" -- let me step</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">right aside <a href="https://liveencounters.net/le-poetry-writing-2020/12-dec-pw-vol-one-2020/cynthia-schwartzberg-edlow-dried-mangoes/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><b>right now</b></span></i></a>.<br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">~~</p><p style="text-align: left;">Thank you for reading.</p><p><br /></p></div>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-16033218706927571392020-02-28T18:25:00.002-08:002020-02-28T18:30:20.528-08:00Horn Section All Day Every Day is a 2020 Phillip H. 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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am honored. Along with six other finalists, my second full-length poetry collection, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Horn Section All Day Every Day,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is a </span><a href="https://arkansaswriters.wordpress.com/philip-k-mcmath-post-publication-book-award-genre-unlimited/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">2020 Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award Finalist.</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Sponsored by the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, this is the exemplary mission statement of the book award:</span><br />
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Among the many reasons I am thrilled, a huge one is that on the merits of these poems alone, my book, as with the other finalists, was picked from a huge and worthy pool of poetic effort. I knew no one in Arkansas and no one knew me. There were no affiliations and no connections; no lunches were ever had, no names dropped, no somethings for somethings. I love that. I love that so much. When the poems and only the poems speak for themselves. Mightily enough. How a competition should be. Clean and true.</div>
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Many thanks to Stephanie Vanderslice, Sandy Longhorn, and all the students and teachers associated with the Department of Writing at UCA and the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop. They run a boss program there in Arkansas and I hope one day I can visit and thank everyone personally. I am proud for these poems. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Contributors include really fantastic poets: Jeanine Hall Gailey, Sandy Yannone, Richard Jarette, David Rigsbee, Eileen Casey, and many, many more, and that's some of the roster in the second volume, alone. The first volume, too, is chock full of glorious reading! This is a beautiful journal in all respects. Hats off to Mark Ulyseas for his dedication and stewardship over a decade showcasing international poetry in his splendid journal. The entire LE Volume Two, December, 2019, 10th Anniversary Edition,<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"> <a href="https://liveencounters.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LE-PW-Vol-Two-Dec-2019.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">at your fingertips!</span></a></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><br /></span></b></span>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-50346383658261766992019-08-09T14:30:00.000-07:002019-08-09T14:30:47.247-07:00No Egg, No Soy, Lots of Fiber<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Someone I know talks on the phone to me, sometimes an hour goes past, and afterward I think to myself, "People in NYC actually get upwards of 250 bucks an hour for this very thing," but I listen, and am truly interested for a bunch of reasons. He's a very kind person. He knows a lot about a few pristine areas and freely shares everything he knows with me. I always have one ear courtroom-tuned where I've caught him in info that tells me he's considered "x" prior to just this once, or an approach to something set him off in the wrong direction, which is why "x" is now the situation. I miss working in law. It took me years to find great, totally ethical attorneys to work with, and really remarkable that they were the most monetarily generous. I remember that bird's-eye maple conference table that took up the entire size of the conference room. That wood was the prettiest I ever saw. All this time later, now, I know whomever did the lacquer job on that table was a master.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A really long time ago, something like 28 years, maybe 27, someone sat me down in front of a computer. A tiny Apple computer I'm pretty sure, with a screen that was maybe 10"x 6" and that's if you measure the length before the height first. I revolted like a sprayed-on wasp's nest and kept saying all I wanted was a sheet of paper to write on, a sheet of paper and a typewriter! And this man kept patiently showing me what one key did, and another key, and all I wanted was a sheet of paper because every time I hit a key myself the thing talked back to me. It spoke. It said, "I'm tryin' to think but nothin' happened!" And I looked at the man, and I said the words I've been repeating about technology these past 3 decades, just about: We're going to hell in a handbasket now, boy! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because I knew, I knew it, just like Dr. Einstein knew about his bomb, they wouldn't be able to corral that thing back. Oh, to live in Mayberry with Andy. </span>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-37531121165270027662019-03-26T14:42:00.001-07:002019-03-26T14:42:20.655-07:00AWP book signing notice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-17930165365892033362019-03-02T19:05:00.003-08:002019-03-02T19:05:28.528-08:00PLUME POETRY 7 is in publication and order-able--one click away!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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An author roster like this is a poet's dream come true. I am thrilled to have my poetry in this anthology with these splendid, exemplary poets. You don't have to look too hard for the "needle" of my name in this haystack line-up, I'll say. I swoon just having Stephen Dunn's name above mine.<br />
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You can order your copy of the anthology today at <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781732595606/plume-poetry-7.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Plume Poetry 7</b></span></a>. I am confident this anthology will excite and satiate your literary spirit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Nortown Theater, on Western Avenue, just south of Devon Avenue, <br />west side of the street</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gene Siskel and I both, but not together, watched the movies of our youth in this great movie theater. Stars in the blue night sky actually did twinkle above our heads. The walls were lined in jewel-toned frescoes. There were large spiral columns holding up the sky, at least as all we children thought, but the spiral columns encircling the audience seating were real.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was a second story to the building, where a marble staircase led you to the marble ladies' restroom. Once inside, it was magical to an 11-year-old. I will never forget the metal machine affixed to the restroom wall at which you could purchase, for two quarters, ladies' private needs, bobby pins, soft thick wrapped kleenexes, and most fantastically, a rich, red miniature lipstick. Ah, Debbie and Geralyn and me, we were swept away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was at the Nortown Theater we saw Zeffirelli's <span style="color: #b45f06;">Romeo and Juliet</span> over a dozen times, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGA6QR0fzyo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Buster and Billie</span></a>,</span> still a film dear to my heart on so many emotional levels, on top of which with that gorgeous <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNcnFo5R5O4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Hoyt Axton </span></a>theme song, oh! <span style="color: #b45f06;">The Exorcist</span>, once and once only. I believe it scared me so much I did sleep with the light on in my closet for a week. So many, many movies. You know the phrase--it holds truer here about theaters than almost anyplace: they <i>really</i> don't make them like they used to. I think I bought that lipstick once. I think also I was too timid to try it on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, front and center, I've been teaching poetry workshops quite often and having a grand time. I have a student who has published a new chapbook with a fine press for which I have provided a blurb and the book is sublime. I'll write more on that on a future post. Gads of other students are sending their brand-new shopped poems out all over the place! I'm thrilled for them and their best cheerleader. Here's a photo of one of my classes at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe--these folks are great people, and very good poets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They've inspired me to light a fire, finally, under my own self. No less than eight poems for my next full collection are in progress as I write this blog post. I'm very happy that my muse has returned and unpacked his bags. Always a good sign.</span><br />
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What's better than chocolate and candies? I used to think nothing, but things do change...this morning I received not one but two poem acceptances, one from an outstanding annual anthology, and the second from a well-read <i>and </i>much-respected literary journal, so I'm good if I go put on an old white nightgown, wrap a black leather belt around it and swashbuckle my way into throwing something in the skillet tonight for dinner. Eye patch, I need an eye patch. I can't help it; it looks more like a "pirate" than a "poet" shirt to me.</div>
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This is the lovely and gracious Poetry Book Reviewer, Grace Cavalieri. She has a monthly column with the above-bannered magazine called Poetry Book Exemplars, further indicated by pertinent year and month. This month's is called <b><a href="http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/features/october-2018-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">2018 October Poetry Book Exemplars</span></a></b>, and I have the amazing great fortune to have had my new collection,<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><i><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Horn </span><span style="color: #b45f06;">Section All Day Every Day</span></span>, </i>selected as one of October 2018's outstanding books for review. It's a thing like delicious freezing ice cream mouth shock when I think of the magnificent company my book keeps among its fellow exemplars. Listen, and I don't go around prefacing sentences with single words like "Listen" or "Look" at all, ever, but this time, this time, let me tell you....<br />
It's funny, because in Ms. Cavalieri's review you can see down below--I reprint the whole thing for you, that is the size of my overwhelmed state--she has a sentence that is more than precious. She says, "This girl's got game...." Girl. I love that. There's something about me that people sense doesn't get old. I can't deny it. It's not a deniable thing. I wear the lingerie. I dance the dance. Heck, I'm the one pulled over getting the speed ticket. And tomorrow's my birthday. I can't help it, it's my favorite day of the year. It's a very special day to me! Yours should be to you! Sixth decade and counting. Harry Winston, you can keep that flawless 15c. Burmese ruby. <i>This</i> is a birthday gift priceless to me. I'm overthrilled about this review because something like this has never come my way during my poetry career--my plus-forty-year poetry career.<br />
So I'll sing a little while, and then I'll get back down to lacing up these word-boot Redwings, and climb on up those word-trees, have me some more looksee around.<br />
Thank you for all time, Miss Grace. They named you exceedingly well.<br />
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twirling, policemen, drummers, and even a love poem to bison. What I’m telling
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only the
trumpeters and Sharon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">drink the
peppermint schnapps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">under the
bleachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Good
thing half-time is over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two-inch
white-heeled go-go boots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on a
spongy grass field don’t jive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with a
flying metal rod<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">above the
head. Keeping the free hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">L-shaped,
and pretty all the time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
non-stop smile even as her head is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">thrown
back to gauge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shimmering
rotation against the overcast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sky. Blue
skies disorient the game out of her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through a
soft chilly schnapps fog<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">her mind
revives the crown of her routine—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
forward bending at the cinched, spangled waist,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">her mom
rising out of her seat. Dad, silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
catches the descending baton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with her
right shoulder blade. The wand jumps high, still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
revolution and on the arsis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she grabs
it from the air like an oriole. Then kicks on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which is
when the tassels finally get their due.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[end of review]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2vDgzbN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2vDgzbN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Ted Kooser</a></strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2MdJZY8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Esperanza and Hope </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2MdJZY8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Esperanza Snyder</a></strong>. Sheep Meadow Press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2Bag661" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">If You Have to Go </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2Bag661" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Katie Ford</a></strong>. Graywolf Press. 72 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.lehinton.com/a-chorus-for-cotton" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Sing Silence </a></em><a href="https://www.lehinton.com/a-chorus-for-cotton" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Le Hinton</a></strong>. Iris G. Press. 80 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Autumn House Press. 96 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2vLHVwg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;"><em>Enter Water, Swimmer</em> by Mary Morris</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Texas Review Press. 100 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2BcBN5u" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">The Carrying </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2BcBN5u" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Ada Limon</a></strong>. Milkweed Editions. 120 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2nzjLRc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">The Goldfish Window </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2nzjLRc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Lisa Beech Hartz</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Grayson Books. 100 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2ODuq99" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Our Hands a Hollow Bowl </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2ODuq99" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Sharron Singleton</a></strong>. Grayson Books. 80 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2vGZHAU" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Feeld </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2vGZHAU" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Jos Charles</a></strong>. Milkweed Editions. 80 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.rattle.com/chapbooks/punishment/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Punishment </a></em><a href="https://www.rattle.com/chapbooks/punishment/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Nancy Miller Gomez</a></strong>. Rattle. 26 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/the-wild-side-of-the-window-irene-fick/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">The Wild Side of the Window </a></em><a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/the-wild-side-of-the-window-irene-fick/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Irene Fick</a></strong>. Main Street Rag. 40 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2MdC4tT" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Ozark Crows </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2MdC4tT" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Carolyn Guinzio</a></strong>. Spuyten Duyvil Press. 86 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2B7QqXR" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;"><em>Lovebirdman</em> by Stephanie Pressman</a></strong>, illustrations by Lydia Rae Black. CreateSpace. 62 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2MiW9iN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Horn Section All Day Every Day </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2MiW9iN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow</a></strong>. Salmon Poetry. 80 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2nDusSV" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Atmospheric Embroidery </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2nDusSV" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Meena Alexander</a></strong>. TriQuarterly. 112 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2BaKDke" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Someone Is Breathing </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2BaKDke" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by J. Morris</a></strong>. Dos Madres Press. 100 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2Ba24RZ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">Bliss in Triple Rhythm: A Toolbox for Poets </a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/2Ba24RZ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #8b2511; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color;">by Martin Bidney</a></strong>. CreateSpace. 456 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted to be nonchalant about having my new poetry collection listed as an August</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"BEST BOOK" by Ms. Cavalieri for summer reading in her Washington Independent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review of Books column, truly I did. But it's fruitless to be disentranced and lukewarm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when you're jumping for joy like you're half-trampoline -- and I assume all the other </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">solid names on this lovely list feel quite the same. Well, except for, you know, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr. Kooser, because don't we assume he's napping after all that tree-trimming </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he does?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come this October, Horn Section All Day Every Day will receive a full, astute </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">consideration from Grace Cavalieri in the Washington Independent Review </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Books. I can think of very few things I've looked more forward to, and for.</span><br />
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Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-87271157292104207612018-05-20T17:08:00.002-07:002018-05-22T16:15:40.700-07:00Quasimodo's Bell part II<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...continued book launch pictorial--audience, buffet tables, and "Satin Bondage" in all its phenomenal glory...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...and one real-life caped crusader...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much, so much....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leah LeMoine, in scarf, Managing Editor for PHOENIX Magazine, and one heck of a magnificent lady.</td></tr>
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"Snarfed" it, they did, I tell you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you to the entire sublime audience, and to my great friend Patte Lanus for taking all these photographs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overwhelmed by the explosive response. It was beautiful.</td></tr>
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Yes, Mom would say, "don't let the grass grow under your feet." Sure, you've heard that one.<br />
So I won't. There's a new and third collection a' brewin' right now. Going to give it my all.<br />
I've decided to call this period my National Poetry Summer: May 1-Sept 30.<br />
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Big Love to <i>Everyone</i> who came to the launch and made the celebration for <b><i>Horn Section All Day Every Day</i></b> so memorable and extraordinary. I never forget.<br />
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Oh, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=454&a=212" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">interested</span></a>?</span> I was waiting on you to<span style="color: #b45f06;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Horn-Section-All-Day-Every/dp/1910669504" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">ask</span></a>!</span><br />
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And so somewhere last month, April, that much-embraced month of poetry, just a short while after Friday the 13th, to me a rather blessed, lovely day, and better evening, I think somewhere between truth and fiction I ran full-steam into a concrete block wall and inside, my head rang like Quasimodo's bell. The taking of stock was at hand.</div>
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The aforementioned Friday had been the launch of my new, second poetry collection, of which I feel the kind of joy, satisfaction, pride, and relief a writer had been better feel, or as the great Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>had remarked upon another occasion, it would be for the writer "...time to lay aside the pen." </div>
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<li>The audience laughed just where the poems wanted them to, and the audience applauded madly, <i>spontaneously</i>, after <i>four </i>of the seven poems I read.</li>
<li>No one left early. No one wanted an open mic after. No one fell asleep; well, Johnnie's husband, dear Tom, feel asleep, but he falls asleep at everything, and I'm crazy about him anyway. NO ONE looked at their CELL PHONE EVEN ONCE! Not one single person.</li>
<li>Standing room only, and so many people were sitting in the aisles beside bookshelves, and then began thronging to the stage area, the staff had to put out more chairs.</li>
<li>I didn't say too much, finally, after all these years, and I didn't screw up even one word in any poem -- which I've always done at every reading I've ever given. </li>
<li>My shoes didn't pinch.</li>
<li>The owner of the famous independent bookstore made it a point of attending my reading. Yes, I was overjoyed by that. You'd be, too. She leaned forward in her chair during the whole reading, smiling, her blue eyes sparkling and wide with listening.</li>
<li>I didn't read any of the sadder, more intense, longer poems. Seems people (honestly) want a happy time when they go out. They'll tolerate "bleak" but I've also learned you can tell bleak truths just as powerfully with a dose of sly humor on the underbelly. Took a long time to get that one down pat.</li>
<li>Five of my students were in the audience. Everyone's tired of hearing about my work in law, I know -- and last year I began teaching poetry workshops and craft classes (for money, and a pittance) at Phoenix Center for the Arts, and wouldn't you know it?, five of my wonderful students came. I got misty-eyed at the lectern when I told the audience they were there that night. Photos to prove. One of them, <a href="https://dmosmusings.com/2018/04/01/about-daniel-pereyra/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Daniel Pereyra</span></a>, has just had his own collection, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>How I Learned to Learn New Things</i></span>, accepted for publication at Finishing Line Press, and I was honored to provide a blurb for his book. It is a very good book of poems. </li>
<li>My mother's serving trays, cake tray, and serving ware graced the buffet table and the dessert table. Nobody knows how much this meant to me. In fact, four days up to the reading I was more concerned about the food, the arrangement, the specialty cake, and the presentation than having my set list down. This is a true statement. I changed that set list over six times the four days up to the day of the reading.</li>
<li>The booksigning line was serpentine - I say, serpentine, to the degree that the store closes at 9PM, and cash registers were still ringing and I was still inscribing up to near 10PM. Serpentine! J. K. Rowling-serpentine, well, not quite....</li>
<li>I felt like the most fortunate person to have this embracing, thoughtful, engaged, spirited, appreciative audience. </li>
<li>The specialty cake was actually called "Satin Bondage." I am not fabricating this. I've never used this word before in print, but it applies like no other: they "snarfed" it. I was beyond happy.</li>
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Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-7047606957845720902018-02-18T16:52:00.000-08:002018-05-20T17:11:02.520-07:00Horn Section All Day Every Day <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Welcome to the world, my new poetry collection! Best wishes, and cheers~</span><br />
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Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-30319017686029695772018-02-06T14:00:00.001-08:002018-06-15T10:01:19.528-07:00Emdashes Can Kiss My Desert A**<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjGMcaLmiEqmzF1ldqMOUQ9yy-jCYquX6wxKEt9TJiQGNxPrvgBhDJu_rdsx7zQx7FH8h6oAogOyUpLeHRldsIcS0h9V_g3FRh5yzjhqnbk96sd5mb1tmaHFp9xcFFXmFuGisXNHIh1Lm/s1600/5+sets+of+Horn+Section+Proofs+2+5+2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjGMcaLmiEqmzF1ldqMOUQ9yy-jCYquX6wxKEt9TJiQGNxPrvgBhDJu_rdsx7zQx7FH8h6oAogOyUpLeHRldsIcS0h9V_g3FRh5yzjhqnbk96sd5mb1tmaHFp9xcFFXmFuGisXNHIh1Lm/s320/5+sets+of+Horn+Section+Proofs+2+5+2018.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Multiple</i> sets of proofs later, I can say at least I know where every darn emdash is in this book, not to be confused with endashes, hyphens, hiccups, or myriad sniffles of sundry sort. My right eye has developed a more than annoying on-again, off-again, semi-twitch, which, when I ignore it, utterly disappears. When I think about it, it behaves like a bedeviled railroad crossing light. Every orange or lime slip of paper sticking out from those sheets signifies something <i>amiss</i>, discovered, corrected, checked, double-checked, quadruple-checked, let go, gone on faith....</span><br />
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<b>ISBN-10:</b> 1910669504<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span>Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-89995703814371664602018-01-15T15:59:00.001-08:002018-01-15T16:04:24.393-08:00Wilser's Backstory Forthcoming....<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trying to work my way into the first paragraph of any composition has always been the most difficult. I turn the thing over like I'm churning butter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Timing is Everything" -- a statement zapped at me when I worked one summer during college at a bank, spoken by the personal assistant to the president and owner of the bank. She was my mother's age. As soon as she said it, I knew I'd be chasing those words to make up missed or lazy steps my entire life, and I have. So every opportunity offered me I generally take, unless other factors have intervened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christal Rice Cooper asked me to participate in her blog series, initiated December, 2014, called <span style="color: #b45f06;">"<a href="http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-new-crc-blog-series-backstory-of-poem.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Backstory Of The Poem.</span></a>" </span>It may not be Motionpoems, or Kaveh Akbar's fabulous interview web series either, but it was one thing: it was offered and it came to me without <i>me</i> hunting it down. Don't we all know what that means? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So I'm deciding not only will I participate, wholeheartedly, and happily, (in addition to taking on yet a second poetry-related essay request by another online source) but I am going to do the best job I can. First, by signing on to my own blog reportage-style. Second, by stating point-of-fact which poem I will drawing backstory from: to wit, <span style="color: #b45f06;">"Wilser Lopez Would Like You," </span>originally published in <a href="http://plumepoetry.com/2016/04/wilser-lopez-would-like-you/" style="color: #b45f06;" target="_blank">PLUME</a>, April, 2016. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Third, by offering never-before-seen illustrations drawn by the gifted illustrator <a href="http://www.mikedholm.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Mike Edholm</span></a>. I love to show drawing process, if I can and if given allowance, so, proceeding below~<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration 1: Mike Edholm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration 2: Mike Edholm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration 3: Mike Edholm</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stay tuned here for when the backstory is published on Cristal's blog. I'll let you all know!</span></div>
Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-76663842109279538482018-01-09T11:55:00.003-08:002018-01-10T14:36:17.723-08:00I Have Joined the Poet Bloggers Revival Tour, Happy to Say<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heck, yeah, I'm excited! I know and love so many of these poets in this list. Hi Lee Ann, Hi Mary, Hi January, Hi Diane, Hi Susan, Hi Sandra, Hi Martha, Hi Amy, Hi Charles, Hi Jeannine, Jeannine, Jeannine!...what? didja think I'd stop? What a cool joy to participate in and have the ladies, and huh, look at that, fellas, reinvigorate this tradition! Oh yeah, I'll carry the amps all y'all. You can't play without the amps, you know. I have to follow the caravan though; I drive like a bandit cop but I'm compass-wise challenged. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'll start my blog year off with a slice of po news that wowed even me. I was in Tucson over the weekend giving a poetry reading, and stayed overnight. Sunday morning, lounging in the hotel bed, I receive a Submittable message -- and as most of us know, weekends are when these master editors sneak in their "thanks, yawn, but check you later" rejects---</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I'm geared up anyway for the release of my second collection, <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Horn Section All Day Every Day</span></i> from my publisher <a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Salmon Poetry</span></a>, with its national launch at AWP in Tampa, sooo--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am working on my 3rd poetry collection, slowly. Two poems written. I sent them out to a small, select group of magazines, thinking, well, they'll get some fresh air in the process. So, I'm looking at this email with one eye closed, giant comforter all cattywampus, coffee brewing, curtains drawn and it's 9:00AM, ha, and this wildly fabulous magazine has accepted one of the poems for publication! Essentially just written. The book itself probably four, maybe five years away from publication. FIRST poem acceptance for the 3rd collection! (Magazine to be named later after contract signed~) Darned right with the Happy New Year! </span></div>
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I am very excited to have new poetry forthcoming on New Year's Day from <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POETRY</b></span>! I've been wanting and waiting many moons to be a part of "The Tribe," and I am absolutely thrilled to have been invited aboard. Thank you<span style="color: #b45f06;"> Robert Nazarene</span>, and company!<br />
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<b>Here's a look at the roster for Issue Four, January 2018: </b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/a-forthcoming.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/a-forthcoming.html</span></a></b><br />
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In the meantime, Issue Three, for your reading pleasure--<br />
<b><a href="http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/index.html</span></a></b><br />
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<br />Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-88449341858924469472017-10-08T12:04:00.000-07:002017-10-10T14:10:32.774-07:00Thank You, Lynn Melnick<div>
<span class="s3" style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 14.4px; text-align: justify;">Advance praise from <span style="color: #b45f06;">Lynn Melnick</span>,<span style="color: #b45f06; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for my next book of poetry, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>Horn Section All Day Every Day</i></span>, forthcoming from <span style="color: #b45f06;">Salmon Poetry</span> in February/2018~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spirited and poignant, funny and contemplative, the poems in
<i>Horn Section All Day Every Day</i> bring
us the world from a visitor’s point of view, sometimes literally, and all the
time reminding us that, although we are just travelling through this universe, it’s
what we do with our stay that matters most. Like the instruments of the title,
these poems don’t stop; these poems wonder how we got here and why we must
leave, they constantly assess and reassess the input the contemporary moment throws
our way. It is not often I feel tender affection for a book, but Edlow has
created a space of such hope and vitality in these poems, that, long after I
put the book down, this splendor extended past the page and softened how I felt
moving through this world we occupy together, now.— <b>Lynn Melnick </b> </span></div>
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Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-42926104646755877522017-09-22T19:57:00.004-07:002017-09-22T19:57:45.675-07:00Super Dan Makes a Public Appearance<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Super Dan, a pretty popular superhero who takes the front lines in a series of poems in <i><b>Horn Section All Day Every Day</b></i> is not conversant with the wiles of spirits, as David Kirby refers to in his blurb for my book in the post below this. Here's one of the Super Dan Question Box Series poems, and at its bridge you'll see for yourself Super Dan's encounter with elixir—</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">WHERE I COME FROM WE DO NOT RUN</span></div>
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No man is a hero to his valet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> —Mlle. Aisse, <i>Lettres</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Super Dan</i>: Where I come from we
do not run <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with crosswind. You did once<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">at the wildlife park, with the she-lion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hope was the two of you were bonding <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from either side of the sixteen-foot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">chain-link fence. When she stopped, you
stopped, when<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">she pivoted, you pivoted. When she silently
settled <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">into pounce-mode your memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">flipped back to twenty years <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of housecats. The dilated eyes, two black
saucers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The shoulder muscles under fur, tense with the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">exactitude of hard labor. The rubbing of her shoulder
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">blades a private encouraging undertone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In you the blood fell to your feet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as an avalanche. Meat. <i>But— </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">she harbored no spite, no jealousy, no
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">disgust, didn’t favor your jeweled rings or
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for your husband. You were merely <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">close enough to matter some.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But for that fence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or rather the four feet of it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">she could not leap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just
look at this human predilection for daredevil stunts—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">motorcycle
jumping over quarter-mile-wide canyons!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or
the enormous dirt arena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
the gigantic slapdash pile of junked cars,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
barreling smack into that pile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">another
souped-up junk car dragging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a
hay truck on fire! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Never
will be the day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when
one hermit crab says to the other <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hermit
crab, “Hey Joey, light my <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
I’ll run into the sea.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Super Dan receives hot
chocolate</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in a
large steaming cup, then pours into it quite a bit<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of a new
superdelicious beverage not <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">available
on his planet, something <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>creating
a fondness in him, they call it Kahl</i><i>ù</i><i>a—</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At my home we accept we live until we don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even with what creeps us. Look at your world’s
Komodo <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dragon with its man-dropping saliva, the brown <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">recluse violin-coifed spider, the primordial <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">scorpion, siren of hurt in its curved blond
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">itself a marvel of grotesque, agile as one human
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">index finger, the flexion, the extension, <i>but—</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for all their misgivings, they’re not out
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">picking the lock of your home. A delicacy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">set upon a silver platter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protect. Unadorned <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as
the trundling, snuffling brown bear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">on
the pine hilltop, making the most <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;">Originally published in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;">The Los Angeles Review,</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;"> 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Winner of the 2012 Red Hen Press Poetry Award</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Judge: Jericho Brown</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">originally titled "Super Dan Comics Question Box Series #18"</span></span></div>
Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-12576350358824835632017-09-22T13:54:00.001-07:002017-10-08T12:06:41.190-07:00Thank You, David Kirby<span class="s3" style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 14.4px; text-align: justify;">Advance praise from <span style="color: #b45f06;">David Kirby</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-weight: bold;">,</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for my next book of poetry, <span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>Horn Section All Day Every Day</i></span>, forthcoming from <span style="color: #b45f06;">Salmon Poetry</span> in February/2018~</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Old-school songs
play through and beneath these soulful poems, the radio hits of rhythm ‘n’
blues pioneers like Solomon Burke and Junior Wells. Yet what lifts our journey
to a whole other level is the presence of a winsome comic hero named Super Dan,
an extraterrestrial with a canine curiosity about human life, from the
alcoholic beverages we favor to the intricacies of women’s lingerie. Playing
Virgil to our Dante, Super Dan takes us deep into that most mysterious of
worlds, our own. Beauty awaits you, reader, as do laughter and music. -- <b>David Kirby</b></span></span></div>
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Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03922482558988990159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641664050878456632.post-81885935636230152732017-09-22T13:48:00.001-07:002017-09-22T16:14:02.708-07:00Everything Looks Bigger in Pencil<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://jasonseiler.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Jason Seiler</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is an illustrator who'll make your knees go weak, his work is that great. One time I said to him "I bet you can't draw me under 3 minutes" and darned if two thing: 1) he didn't prove me wrong and, 2) my schnoz is more giant than I think it is.</span></div>
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