Category: Book Promotion
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Woman
This poem is in my first poetry book, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir. Woman for Mom Woman, how you portray your complex essence and ambiguity.You are a study of lightcast on the walls of your Self. Shadows border your brilliance.Your portrait is askew with flavorsthat you offer to guests enamored…
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Lady Liberty Cured of Adult Mutism
My latest collection of dark humor, The Lost Book of Zeroth, contains four parts. Parts 1-3 (Little Spark, Chaos, Good Deeds) contain satirical poems and stories about AI robots suffering the dark side of the human condition. The robots’ escapades are fueled by fear, jealousy, greed, and other negative emotions.…
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Poems for Emily Dickinson
This post is late. I should have put it up on the anniversary of Emily Dickinson’s death on May 15. She passed that day in 1886 (55 years old). I wrote the poems while attending an online Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, which is sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Heron Spirit by Ken Gierke
Ken Gierke’s new poetry collection, Heron Spirit, is a conversation with the natural world. The poems take us from playing in leaves to lines that paddle in unison with the waves of metaphors, the lines that stretch into the endless horizon of an endless river. Nature holds bold, tall titans, sentinel eagles,…
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Peter Mladinic’s Review of “The Lost Book of Zeroth” is up on the Journal Your Impossible Voice!
Thank you so much, Pete, for your generous and insightful review of The Lost Book of Zeroth (Alien Buddha Press, 2025). Here are Pete’s opening lines: The Lost Book of Zeroth is comic, tragic, and ultimately human. The irony is that the book’s first three sections are “peopled by robots:” Sophia,…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather and Random Seed by Sharon SingingMoon
Sharon SingingMoon’s new poetry collection, The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather, is a tragic memoir of the loss of her son to drug addiction in early January 2023. These raw and honest poems reveal not just her son’s descent into addiction but also his healthy years of promise. Imagine a…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Files of Information on People Who Don’t Exist by Peter Mladinic
In Peter Mladinic’s poetry collection Files of Information on People Who Don’t Exist (BlazeVOX, October 9, 2024), the minutia of daily forgetting become memoirs set in free verse. With the precision of a reporter, Mladinic uncovers our deepest impulses, surrenders, and sins. A keen observer, he writes with such honesty, we…
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Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures
This week, contributors to Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures (WordCrafter Press, 2025) enjoyed a book blog tour to promote the new anthology, which was compiled and edited by Kaye Lynne Booth and Robbie Cheadle. I posted about the anthology on my blog recently. I’ve complied this post summarizing all the…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Tranquility (An Anthology of Haiku)
I’m delighted to have five haiku in Gabriela Marie Milton’s new anthology, “Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku”, which is available now in Amazon! I’m certain that I’m not alone in seeking tranquility these days. I believe this anthology would be a good tool for therapists who may be looking for…
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My Reading of My Poem, “Sitting with Giants’
Thank you, Michelle Ayon Navajas, for hosting me on MICHNAVS on Day 5 of the blog book tour promoting the new anthology Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures (WordCrafter, 2025). Visit the blog and comment to be eligible to win a free copy of the anthology! Also, this post has more…
