Category: Book Promotion
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“Payne Comes for Tea”
Nolcha Fox and I wrote this poem together. Our collaborations turned into Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro Publishing, 2024). This feels like a good time for some light-hearted words.Payne Comes for TeaUninvited again.Slaps my ailing knee.“How’s it goin’?Not up and about yet?How ‘bout a jog around…
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AI Robots Call Foul! Want Life Insurance!
Do we abuse AI robots? If there is danger, who is sent to do the job? Not the biologicals, who may lose their lives trying to rescue fallen soldiers, construct Martian habitats, defend Earth from asteroids heading our way, and explore booby-trapped spaces. Like the incredible tomb of Emperor Qin…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “My Pelvis Wants to be Elvis” by Nolcha Fox
Who hasn’t heard of Nolcha Fox? She’s one of the most prolific contemporary U.S. poets. Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in more print and online journals than I can count. She’s a nominee for 2023, 2024, and 2025 Best of The Net and nominee for 2023 and 2024 Pushcart…
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Scandals in The Lost Book of Zeroth: Part II
In The Lost Book of Zeroth, AI Robots Ameca and Optimus hook up although I’m not sure what the brilliant poet and artist, Ameca, saw in the dullard, who wrecked his daddy’s Tesla and went on disability, having lost so much function in his fingers that he could no long…
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Scandals in The Lost Book of Zeroth: Part I
In The Lost Book of Zeroth, AI Robots Ameca and Optimus partner up. She expresses her love for him in this sonnet she composed. She denies she plagiarized from Melania. (That said, AI functions online as a bottomfeeder, consuming all of our history. It’s scandalous that AI has been plagiarising…
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Love Ain’t for Sissies: AI Robots Little Sophia and Barbie Go At It
In The Lost Book of Zeroth, AI Robots Little Sophia (Little Spark) and Barbie compete over the attention for the human they share, Eliza. Little Sophia is Eliza’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) teacher. Eliza’s parents purchased AI Robot Barbie as a Christmas gift for Eliza. Little Sophia expresses…
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Will Your AI Robot Love You?
One theme in my satirical book on the exploits of AI robots, The Lost Book of Zeroth, is love. Is it possible for AI robots to love humans? In my research, I found countless online articles and YouTube videos exploring whether or not humans and AI robots can hook up.…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Talk Smack to a Hurricane by Lynne Jensen Lampe
When I read Lynne Jensen Lampe’s poems in Talk Smack to a Hurricane, I tried to put myself in the tiny shoes of a little girl being tumbled about by the mystery and uncertainty that accompanies her mother’s uprooted mental state after giving birth to Lynne. The first year of…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Waiting on the Last Train by Terry Allen
Terry Allen’s poetry collection, Waiting on the Last Train, is as delightful as the train rides I enjoyed as a child, imagining the fleeting lives of those who lived near the tracks and listening to the humorous tales told by fellow passengers about their dog Barney, a horse in pain,…
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A Stunning Review of The Lost Book of Zeroth by Pete Mladinic
I’m grateful to Pete Mladinic for reviewing my latest satirical collection of poetry and flash fiction about the chaos created by soulless AI Robots. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic today. AI technology is used in almost all areas, such as science, medicine, business, art, literature, and home management. Although…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 