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1) The Zippo
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Twenty-Seven hard-hitting poems. Some "Morally objectionable in part" for all.
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Fifty poems steeped the human predicament, displaying in diverse ways, its demons, saviors and whimsies. Stop by for a coffee at Andy's Diner or Laura's Luncheonette. A drink at the Canopy Club, taste Olympia's fromage. Fill your lungs with smoke in Sarajevo. Visit the Sleeping Giant and Castle Craig. Fall in love with Lena.The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.--W. Somerset Maugham
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California artist Marques Vickers' second poetic edition "Zen By Default" establishes a sustained interior dialogue between the poet and his ongoing life evolution living along the American Pacific Coast. His 300+ concise works address the ongoing themes of displacement and relocation and the challenge of cultivating and sustaining relationships in the midst of upheaval.Vickers examines his spectator role with regard to his own life:i am a third partyto...
4) Dogwood
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Forty poems of youth, loss, remembering and observations perhaps in some ways true to this quote.The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.-- William Butler Yeats
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Who knows just how it begins, the catastrophe that overwhelms and upends life, be it a human act or one of nature? Was it a whisper? A shrug? A puff of cloud on the horizon? A slight tremor beneath one's soles? Then what - when the whisper turns into a roar, when the tremor exposes a fault?"Watermark in the Heart," a slim volume of poetry marking Barbara Butler McCoy's debut, offers hurricane season as a metaphor for the process by which human consciousness...
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A collection of 29 poems and one short story. Many deal with the author's home city of Philadelphia, PA. A mother, a school teacher, and entrepreneur, she lived 1920-2010 in Rockville MD, Plymouth, NH, and Bristol, Feasterville, Huntingdon Valley, Columbia, and Philadelphia, PA, moving frequenly as her husband advanced through a series of jobs from teacher to school superintendent. She was the mother of two - Richard and Raven (Sallie).
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Without a Myth in which the characters are about to be trapped in a world where they will have no free will, only able to follow an arbitrary script. The Lizard of Oz, a children's play, based on the fantasy novel in which an elementary school class sets out to save the world from disenchantment. Mercy, set during the American Revolution, in which playwrights Mercy Otis Warren and General (Gentleman Johnny) Burgoyne compete and flirt. Rights Crossing,...
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"The Art of Soul Searching" is a collection of poems written in many forms of stories, tales, and allegories to discover healing after a series of heartbreaks and strikes by life itself. Each page displays a heartfelt poem that is, written rhythmically to allow the reader to depict the messages and use them to empower one's self. My purpose is to inspire those who read my poetry to take their own journey into self-discovery, as it is so worth it to...
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This small collection of fifteen poems contains a variety of forms and styles that seek to be devoured by those who enjoy words and the artistry behind how they are presented. In this chapbook, sonnets, prose poetry, and free verse all live together in the hope that readers will be delighted by their unique compositions and be thoroughly enjoyed by fellow poets and future bards alike!
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Four layered 10-minute plays--three to laugh with, one to cry with, and each to ponder.What's more important: the book or the members? In "Reality Book Group," three college professors invite a book-loving ex-convict to join them. Selected from over 400 plays written by New England playwrights, "Reality Book Group" was top-billed in The Boston Globe and performed at the 2012 Boston Theater Marathon. The play will be print-published in Boston Theater...
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The poetry of Greg Powell's new book, Invitation, has been curated from a lifelong journey in faith and urban adventure. He can't remember a time when he wasn't writing. His passion for history emerged early in his life, and kept him reading voraciously throughout childhood, far surpassing his school curriculum. Over the years, as it piled up, Powell kept his collection of writing loosely stored in notebooks, binders, folders of all kinds, then eventually...
14) Glimmer of Hope
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A collection of poems illustrating the ups and downs of the mind, specifically, how depression spreads slowly like a cancer in our minds. The house, depicted on the cover, is an analogy of what is to come because you never know the route depression will take you. Instead of window shopping for alcohol, what happens when you are peering through the window into your own soul? Depression not only eats away at your soul, it spread to everyone around you...
15) Fourplay
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A Comedy Tonight! Treat yourself to a quartet of comic plays you'll never see on stage (unless you attended an early performance). "Fourplay" collects scripts for two three-act comedies and two one-act farces ("A Pair of Shorts") first staged by San Jose's famous Stage One performance company in the early '90s. Bonus material includes the script for a never-performed fifth play-a one-act farce to be staged in the theater of your mind. If you're a...
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This author is returning with a new volume. This time his work is not poetry, but short fiction. The whole gamut of subjects and types can be found in this work. Starting with micro fiction the author continues with work appropriate to younger readers and moves on to more mature topics. These include, crime, romance, horror, science fiction and general fiction. One can easily find a story that will hold your interest and keep you reading until the...
18) In Other Words
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In Other Words is a journey through the dimensions of the artist's life, visions, and dreams. Written and edited while he was stricken with cancer, it is an epic view of our world through the eyes of a tireless wanderer.
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Poetry as a Bloodless Revolution. In a land of hypocrisy, hatred, and violence, there are no easy answers. Jessica Minster's Bourgeois Wasteland offers poems that embrace this difficulty and serve as a critical eye and a voice calling for peace and love. Warning: My Conservative father hates these poems.
20) New Plays VI
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Please enjoy our 2014/15 season!RADIO HOUR EPISODE 9: GRIMM (in partnership with KUER's RadioWest) is the sixth RADIO HOUR episode Plan-B has premiered by our resident playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett.MARRY CHRISTMAS is the first play Plan-B has premiered by Elaine Jarvik.CHRISTMAS WITH MISFITS is the second play Plan-B has produced and the first we have premiered by Julie Jensen.MAMA is the first play Plan-B has produced by Carleton Bluford (in partnership...
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