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Poetry for the Heart by Christine Rice

“Poetry for the Heart” is a collection of twenty-two free-verse poems that reflect emotions and share experience about writing, creativity, careers, childhood, home, dreams, animals, and more. The poems are honest and uplifting, and written with a modern style that is simplistic.

Targeted Age Group:
Adults

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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Do you write poetry? If so, great! If not, why not? It doesn’t require a special skill. It only requires that you open your heart and mind to allow your thoughts to flow freely. Then you write them down in short phrases, with each short phrase on a separate line. Once you’ve accumulated a bunch of these short phrases, you’ve written a poem. You are now a poet. Every time you feel the need to express yourself, write a poem. If you write one poem every other day, you’ll have a collection of 182 poems. Then you can publish them collectively as a poetry book.

Author Bio:
Christine Rice is the author of five books: Poetry for the Heart, Essays for the Soul, My Not-So-Ordinary Life, Freelance Writing Guide, and Articles for the Mind. She has been writing since 2006 and published her first book in 2007. She is currently working on three books and has ideas for several others. Above all, she loves writing and sharing her books with the world.

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Experience Life in Poetry: Random Life Observations, Parenthood and Growing-up by Shannon Sonneveldt

By Curator

This is volume one in the Experience Life in Poetry series, a series that reflects observations and emotions at any given moment in life from childhood to present time. Think of moments that stood out in time for you. Moments that made you laugh, made you cry, made you think or made you sigh. Hopefully, you will experience these same emotions through the poems in the book whether it’s wonder, laughter, understanding or something all together different. I hope it makes you think or makes you feel.

This volume contains more than 80 poems organized in the following topics:

– Random Life Observations – these include random thoughts and observations experienced in life such as fishing (from the fish’s point of view), having a cold, nature, making memories, and more

– Parenthood From the Parent’s Perspective – this section contains expressions of joys, struggles, frustrations and fears felt by parents everywhere

– Growing-up From the Child’s Perspective – these include reflections on parents, peer pressure, high expectations, first loves and more

Enjoy your journey through life in poetry!

Targeted Age Group:
16 and up

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
I would advise aspiring writers to believe in themselves and what they have created. Writers should write what is in their heart, what they feel driven and called to create, be true to themselves and their creative forces and have faith. Have faith that if they can dream it, it is possible for you to achieve it.

I have been writing since a very young age with dreams of one day publishing my books. Changes in the way people access and read books today has opened doors and made it possible for anyone who dreams of being author to realize their dream. I have realized mine and it is an unbelievable feeling!

Author Bio:
I have been an avid reader since I was a young child – happily sacrificing TV and playtime in order to read a good book. I have been capturing observations, feelings and events in poems and stories since middle school. As I have grown older, I continued to write and create stories to entertain family and friends and to help celebrate life’s special moments.

For many years I suffered from symptoms that went undiagnosed. After years of suffering and searching for answers, I was finally diagnosed several years ago with Fibromyalgia and some other underlying conditions. With a well-rounded, holistic treatment plan I am feeling better and living a more active and joyous life.

I am passionate about education in all formats. Since 1999 my professional career has focused on the design and development of training for employees across industries and educational formats. I have specialized in analyzing the need for training and assessing the best method for training and delivery (classroom, live virtual training, blended, web-based training, etc). My writing skills assisted me in delivering solutions that engaged learners and translated to application on the job.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Human Resource development as well as my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

I live in Kansas with my husband, teenage son and our two gorgeous, ornery and energetic Scottie pups (Conner and Zoe). In my spare time I enjoy photography, spending time with family and friends, and traveling around the world with family.

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A-Z Poetry: Fruits and Veggies by Kaelah Mickelle @K_a_e_l_a_h

By Curator

A-Z Poetry: Fruits and Veggies is a collection of 26 highly creative and entertaining acrostic poems. With visually captivating illustrations and rhyming verse, learning the alphabet is now more fun! As an added bonus, each poem provides a clever mnemonic device that aids in teaching children how to spell their fruits and veggies.

Targeted Age Group: 3-9

Book Price: $2.99

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
It’s a lot of fun to try and come up with words, rhymes, and stories that will appeal to children. Writing in the children’s poetry genre while devoting this entire book to acrostic poetry was an extremely creative challenge.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
If you have an idea… just start it! You never know where it is going to go, or what inspiration will follow. Start the journey and go for the ride.

Author Bio:
A native of Athens, Georgia, Kaelah Mickelle (kaelahmickelle.com) received her Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Education and Saxophone Performance from the University of Georgia in 2009. As a recipient of a School of Music Fellowship, she received her Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 2012, having studied with world-renowned saxophonists Kenneth Tse and Eugene Rousseau.

Kaelah has been writing poetry since she was 7 years old.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I wanted to create mnemonic device poetry that would help children with spelling while also teaching young children their ABCs with fun poetry.

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The Poet In You – Guest Post by Damon Ferrell Marbut

By Curator

Being asked to write about myself as a poet was initially a terrible idea. But it wasn’t my idea which is why I rebelled. Then it was great because I recognized I put up obstacles to discussing who I am as Novelist versus Editor versus Poet. It’s the same thing. I’m the same person. There is no air or pretension or label to subscribe to. It’s just about words and falling in love with them the same way I fall over and over again for my partner and feel deeply affectionate and grateful for my gorgeous friends and family.

In poetry I get to talk about moments differently than in fiction or nonfiction. For example, I was drinking at a dive near my house in New Orleans and wrote this in my head while shuffling home:

I’ve been walking through the neighborhood
like a torn-up cigarette smoker
seeking breath in the humid dark.
Got an awful knee and a questionable heart,
bang-banging gravel like it made me mad in child history.
Whatever that is.
(excerpt, I’m An Old Man Looking Back)

In prose I take the benefit of simile and sometimes metaphor from this influence of poetry, of letting go of conventional thought structure. But it isn’t the same experience. I was corresponding with a magazine editor yesterday and basically what we came up with was, in poetry, the notion of living in the margins as a poet is incomplete. And it’s allowed itself to remain this near-dead creative ideal even though it’s everywhere. I think what removes the impact of poetry and impedes its forward motion is the stereotype that it is for so few. And then on top of this supposition, burgeoning poets write to fit in this mold rather than break away from it by telling their own stories. It’s almost like they’re trained this way.

I was a guest speaker at a Gulf Coast writing conference around 2004-2005. I approached the organizer of the entire thing and told him the poetry being read there seemed stuffy and academic. He looked at me with disgust for a minute. He said, “What do you know? You’re five years old and don’t know anything.” I shrugged and headed toward my room for my presentation. He called me back. One of my performance poet friends beside me whispered to ignore him. But I turned around. He was smiling and said something I won’t forget. “You’re probably right though.”

So, whatever that meant, what it means is there is true conflict around poetry and the understanding of poetry and the writing of it. All to the point it needs to be forgiven for its being created in the modern world as some newly un-celebrated thing.

Celebrate myself as a poet? I was asked to write. Sure.

I get to write lines like I was in a hostel hurting for this loudness, a year back,
crumbled like bleu cheese over the frozen salad of my life and not fear I’m turning heads inappropriately as if I were trying to say the same thing in a story or fiction chapter. If I were to say I was lonely and tucked into the fetal position because I was scared of New York City as I had then forgotten it when I was, in fact, at a hostel, wanting to find my old cafes there and write and make friends, I’d have to say it in paragraphs with specificity and not both kind and brief illusion.

The world we live in as poets…and we are all poets…is free and good and does not belong to me or my understanding. Poetry lets us dance in the middle of words and we are exempt from apology as we write it. And I’m not suggesting poets should expect a resurgence of fame and social expectation as they did decades ago, centuries ago. But they deserve it.

About the Post Author:
Damon Ferrell Marbut is a Southern novelist and poet living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is author of the coming-of-age novel Awake in the Mad World and the poetry collection Little Human Accidents: Chaos Poems From The Brink. His work has been featured in over 40 blogs, journals, reviews and textbooks.

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The 360 Degree Heart by Maja Dezulovic

By Curator

A lighthearted but enlightening love story told through poetry and dialogues. If you’ve ever been in love, you will find something to relate to in the profound meanings which lie beneath the text.
The story is based on 360 degrees or a full circle. Love comes, love progresses, the fire burns out, love dies, new love begins and so the cycle begins again. It is an inevitable but enriching part of life. Relive the enchantment and find yourself encapsulated by the rhythm of each verse.

Targeted Age Group:
16+

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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Just keep writing. Write as much as you can. Then one day, you’ll realize you have a book!

Author Bio:
I am a South African/Croatian writer. I spent my childhood in South Africa and my late teenage years in Croatia. After that, I spent some time hopping between Africa and Europe. My lifestyle has allowed me to gain varied insights about life from different people and places. I have many interests, which come through in my writing.
Above all, I love music, literature, film and travel. The world is full of so much that we can learn. I want to learn as much as possible and share what I can.

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Imagining the Future by Magdalena Ball

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Part of the Celebration series by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball, this little $6.95 book was written with the literate man in mind, a lovely tuck-in gift that goes beyond the typical greeting card. BookAddict, an Amazon Vine voice, says of Imagining the Future: Ruminations on Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions: “From the heroic to the mundane, the poems in this book are a beautiful tribute to all fathers. The imagery these two authors create with their words is profound and unique. Each poem took me to a new place and all sparked a vivid memory. These two gifted authors paint a vivid portrait on these pages. True magic.”

Magdalena runs The Compulsive Reader. Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews, and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction.

Magdalena holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY (New York), an MBA from Charles Sturt University (NSW), and has studied literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University (UK) and marketing at Newcastle University (NSW). She lives in on a rural property in New South Wales with her husband and three children. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novels Black Cow and Sleep Before Evening, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and two poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup.

Visit The Compulsive Reader at
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html
or Magdalena’s website:
http://www.magdalenaball.com

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. She has been an instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program for nearly a decade and her book The Frugal Book Promoter, now in its second edition, was named USA Book News’ “Best Professional Book,” and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is also a multi award winner. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader’s Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers’ Society of America’s Award of Excellence. She is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community’s Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly’s list of 14 “San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen.” She qualified as a published poet for Poets & Writers.

Her website is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com .
She blogs writers resources at Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites pick
http://sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com and on War. Peace. Tolerance and Our Soldiers at: http://warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com

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Love Poems for Cannibals by Raymond Keen

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In “Love Poems for Cannibals” Raymond Keen expresses the thoughts, feelings, quandaries and wonder of an American poet very much alive to the darkness and light of the 21st century. Written for educated adolescents and adults who are interested in current cultural, social, political and literary issues, this collection of poetry blazes with the passion, pain and complexity of the world in which we live.

As the reader moves through “Love Poems for Cannibals,” he/she will find poems of war (in this case Vietnam), poems dealing with current spiritual issues (Christianity, Buddhism, spiritual doubt and the soaring-singing human spirit), dysfunctional family relationships and feelings, portraits of great figures in contemporary human history presented with candor and wit, poems that rage against the omnipresence of human hypocrisy, and poems that present American/Western civilization under a glaring light – with the single redemptive quality that this author’s truth sings.

Targeted Age Group:
Mature adolescents and Adults

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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Believe in yourself, and write. Critique of your writing comes later — after you have freely set down what is on your mind and in your heart.

Author Bio:
.”Love Poems for Cannibals” is my first volume of poetry. I am also the author of a drama, “The Private and Public Life of King Able,” which will be published later in 2013. My poetry has been published in 23 literary journals.

I was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. I was educated at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Oklahoma. I spent three years as a Navy clinical psychologist with a year in Vietnam (July 1967 – July 1968). Since that time I have worked as a school psychologist and licensed mental health counselor in the USA and overseas, until my retirement in 2006. I am a credentialed school psychologist in the states of California and Washington, and a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Washington. I live with my wife Kemme in Sahuarita, AZ. We have two grown children, Anne-Elise and Michael.

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Whispers and Screams by Amanda Gatton

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A collection of original poetry and art commemorating moments in life, some good, some bad. The collection addresses many universal emotions and natural reactions to change; anything from a silly country cruise, to spiritual revelations, to mental illness

Targeted Age Group:
17+

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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Keep trying. You can reach the same goals you just have to try different things sometimes!

Author Bio:
I am a 32 year old wife and mother of two. My primary interest is children’s writing and illustration. 2 free children’s works can also be accessed with my poetry book. However, I am preparing to publish my first adult novel and it is in the genre of psychological suspense. I live in Ohio. In addition to writing and art, I also sell items in an online store and am a professional fortune teller.

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These are poems inspired over the years of my various life experiences with corresponding artwork. I’m not very good at vocally expressing myself, so my feelings come forth through art and writing and turn them into something others can relate to . I compiled this book to make people’s hearts remember times they felt the same, both good and bad.[/gravityforms]

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She Wore Emerald Then: Refelctions on Motherhood by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood was a USA Book News finalist for poetry and honored by the Military Writers Society of America. The idea is that these little books of about 35 pages can be popped into a greeting-card sized envelope or send as greeting cards by e-mail.

Kristin Johnson, screenwriter and founder of the Warrior Poets Project says, “[Both] poets continue to write poems that don’t sound either like banal Hallmark cards or the bitter-at-dysfunctional-family jeremiads that habitually torture MFA writing workshop participants.”

She Wore Emerald Then is available as both an e-chapbook and paperback and is illustrated with tender photographs by May Lattanzio. As it happens, it was released the week of the death of Carolyn’s mother—a fitting tribute. It is available as a free e-book from April 27 to April 30, just in time for Mother’s Day.

Targeted Age Group:
18 to 105

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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Not everyone agree, but I believe authors should be the joy of writing first. Fame and fortune–if it follows at all–will be more likely to follow the path created by love.

Author Bio:
The coauthors of this chapbook are both award-winning poets and authors. Magdalena Ball runs the respected review Web site and newsletter, The Compulsive Reader (http://CompulsiveReader.com/html) and has written several full books of poetry and several literary novels including Black Cow and When She Sleeps.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers (http://howtodoitfrugally.com) and has been given several coveted awards including Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment given by members of the California Legislature, the Irwin Award, USA Book News awards, a Readers View award, and the Diamond Award in Art and Culture given by Glendale California Libary and Arts and Culture Commission. She is also listed as a poet in Poets & Writers magazine. She was also named to Women Who Make Life Happen by the Pasadena Weekly for her literary activism.

Though they live hemispheres apart, the two women work on their chapbooks using the wonders of the Web.

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Let Her Paint Out, Let Her Love In (A Collection of Poetry…So Far) by Carter Tachikawa

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The latest compilation of poetry from CT as well as some old work, ranging through all subjects.

Targeted Age Group: 15 and up

Book Price: 0.99

Author Bio:
CT has been writing books for a while and of all genres. She’s still out there working and writing away some new things. She currently lives in North Carolina with her family.

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