Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #3

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #3 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Poets in this issue: David Allen, Susie Beiman, Mark Blickley, Kimberly Anne Bolton, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, K J Carter, Jan Chronister, Alice Couch, Mary Couch, Curtis L. Crisler, Kim Denning, George Fish, Daniel Godward, James Green, John D. Groppe, John R. Hinton, Liza Hyatt, Kenneth Johnson, Arnold Johnston, LeAnn Jones, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, Jordan Krais, Norbert Krapf, Jim Landwehr, rob mclennan, Lylanne Musselman, Matt Nagin, Noble Poets, Stephen R. Roberts, Kit Rohrbach, Bonita Cox Searle, Mary Sexson, Michael E. Strosahl, Diana Thoresen, Theresa Timmons, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, James Eric Watkins, George Wylie, and Hiromi Yoshida. These are unusual times. What has altered in your life or the lives of those around you? What angers you? What is better this year than in the past? What will never be the same going forward? Those were the questions asked of poets for this issue. The world is divided along several lines as we head into 2021. The pandemic is unlike anything experienced before. Tensions are running high between coworkers, educators and those they teach, neighbors, and even lifelong friends and family members. Relationships are dissolving Left and Right. The masked and unmasked glare at each other. The air we breathe and the surfaces we touch and the people we love are all potential killers. It's a plexiglass world, muffled and fogged. Family dynamics have shifted dramatically. And that which seems to be salvation-the vaccines-may not end social distancing for a very long time to come. We communicate via screens and signs and tears of longing and frustration. This will undoubtedly be the start and end of too many things. There is likely no one who doesn't know someone who was infected by the coronavirus-or killed by it. Poetry can't solve the toughest problems of society, but maybe it can offer a new perspective on them. There are off-topic poems herein, as well. Touching and funny, surprising and philosophical-they offer the chance to take a break from the stresses and strains eating into every aspect of our daily lives.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #3

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #3 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Poets in this issue: David Allen, Susie Beiman, Mark Blickley, Kimberly Anne Bolton, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, K J Carter, Jan Chronister, Alice Couch, Mary Couch, Curtis L. Crisler, Kim Denning, George Fish, Daniel Godward, James Green, John D. Groppe, John R. Hinton, Liza Hyatt, Kenneth Johnson, Arnold Johnston, LeAnn Jones, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, Jordan Krais, Norbert Krapf, Jim Landwehr, rob mclennan, Lylanne Musselman, Matt Nagin, Noble Poets, Stephen R. Roberts, Kit Rohrbach, Bonita Cox Searle, Mary Sexson, Michael E. Strosahl, Diana Thoresen, Theresa Timmons, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, James Eric Watkins, George Wylie, and Hiromi Yoshida. These are unusual times. What has altered in your life or the lives of those around you? What angers you? What is better this year than in the past? What will never be the same going forward? Those were the questions asked of poets for this issue. The world is divided along several lines as we head into 2021. The pandemic is unlike anything experienced before. Tensions are running high between coworkers, educators and those they teach, neighbors, and even lifelong friends and family members. Relationships are dissolving Left and Right. The masked and unmasked glare at each other. The air we breathe and the surfaces we touch and the people we love are all potential killers. It's a plexiglass world, muffled and fogged. Family dynamics have shifted dramatically. And that which seems to be salvation-the vaccines-may not end social distancing for a very long time to come. We communicate via screens and signs and tears of longing and frustration. This will undoubtedly be the start and end of too many things. There is likely no one who doesn't know someone who was infected by the coronavirus-or killed by it. Poetry can't solve the toughest problems of society, but maybe it can offer a new perspective on them. There are off-topic poems herein, as well. Touching and funny, surprising and philosophical-they offer the chance to take a break from the stresses and strains eating into every aspect of our daily lives.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #1

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #1 PDF Author: Jenny Kalahar
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Issue #1 includes poetry from: David Allen, Kitrell Andis, Matthew Brennan, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, Jared Carter, K J Carter, Alys Caviness-Gober, Ginger Chriss, Alice Couch, Mary Couch, W.B. Cornwell, Curtis L. Crisler, Luke Austin Daugherty, Linda Eaton, Shelly Gambino, James Green, Josetta Lynn Gregg, Carter Anderson Herndon, John Hinton, Shillin Hite, LeAnn Jones, Michael Joyce, Ruth Justice, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, JL Kato, Jordan Krais, Tracy Mishkin, Donna Monday, Sarah E. Morin, Lylanne Musselman, Zorban Norgog, Joe Ottinger, Jessica Reed, Stephen R. Roberts, John Sherman, Nancy Simmonds, Christopher Stolle, Michael E. Strosahl, Theresa Timmons, Dennis L. White, George Wylie, Judy Young, and Joyce Zephyrin.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #4

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #4 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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The dictionary is an excellent resource, but sometimes the very proper words in the dictionary aren't the ones you need to precisely describe a person, place, thing, or emotion. Edward Gorey and Lewis Carroll never needed to explain their nonsense words-either they were understood or not, but a sense of them tickled the surrounding lines and gave their writing a new color and flavor. Readers may not understand every undictionary entry in this issue, but they may quite like the poems' textures as you chew. Poets in this issue: David Allen, Lois Baer Barr, James Bowden, Jonathan Bracker, James Bradley, Jerry Bradley, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, Lucas Carpenter, Alys Caviness-Gober, Jan Chronister, Kathryn Dohrmann, Bruce Ducker, Katey Funderburgh, Daniel Godward, James Green, John D. Groppe, Gary D. Grossman, Helmut Haberkamm, Cynthia T. Hahn, Danielle Hanson, Karen Head, Tim Heerdink, John R. Hinton, Peter Huggins, Joseph Hutchison, Colin James, David James, Marc Janssen, Michael Lee Johnson, Arnold Johnston, Patrick Kalahar, Chuck Kellum, Norbert Krapf, Lylanne Musselman, Noble Poets, Levi Noe, Noreen Oesterlein, Deborah Ann Percy, Teresa Pruitt, Carlos Reyes, Warren Sidwell, M. E. Silverman, Robert Simon, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Kim Stafford, Michael E. Strosahl, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, Nagueyalti Warren, James Eric Watkins, Bill Yarrow, Hiromi Yoshida.Illustrations are by Christina Hollering.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #10

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #10 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This tenth issue is full of answers to the question, "Who are You?" Heart-melting, heartbreaking, clever, nostalgic, and introspective poems are the result. In this issue are the writings of: Ed Ahern, David Allen, Dee Allen, Ken Anderson, Karen Arnold, Lisa Ashley, Lois Baer Barr, Rachel R. Baum, Scott Beal, Kimberly Bolton, Virginia Boudreau, V. Bray, Michael Brockley, Michael Brownstein, Eloise Bruce, Melissa Cannon, Dan Carpenter, Samantha Carr, Alys Caviness-Gober, M. F. Charles, Mbizo Chirasha, Jan Chronister, Mary A. Couch, Allegra Diamond, Shaheen Dil, Louise DiLenge, William Doreski, Jessica Drake, Mario Duarte, Bruce Ducker, Russell duPont, Karl Elder, Jonathan B. Ferrini, Phil Flott, Meg Freer, Robert René Galván, David Lee Garrison, Frances Gaudiano, James Green, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Will Griffith, Gary Grossman, Chris Hasara, Shirley Hilton, John R. Hinton, Mary Hinton, Julie Holland, D. R. James, Marc Janssen, Michael Lee Johnson, Mark Jordan, JL Kato, Norbert Krapf, Chelsie Kreitzman, Neethu Krishnan, Jim Landwehr, Judith A. Lawrence, Han Le, Stellasue Lee, Wayne Lee, Katey Linskey, Carolanna Lisonbee, Owolusi Lucky, Erika MacNeil, DS Maolalai, Carolyn Martin, Divya Mehrish, W. Hans Miller, Jacob R. Moses, Leah Mueller, Lylanne Musselman, James Nolan, Orion O'Connell, Kathy O'Fallon, Denise O'Hagan, Robert Okaji, Philip O'Neill, Colm O'Shea, Sarah Paden, Satish Pendharkar, Frederick Pollack, Olúwatóbi Ezekiel Poroye, Judith Pratt, Samuel Prestridge, Jacky Pugh, Ana Reisens, Royal Rhodes, Stephen Roberts, Kit Rohrbach, Alice Campbell Romano, Robert Ronnow, Mimi Rosenbush, David M. Rubin, Michael Salcman, Nolo Segundo, Prartho Sereno, Mary Sexson, Lisa Marie Simmons, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Michael E. Strosahl, Jeremy Szuder, Nancy Taylor, Laura Theis, Theresa Timmons, Lazarus Trubman, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, Duane Vorhees, Amber Watson, Kelly Watt, Sharon Whitehill, Marilyn J Wolf, Hiromi Yoshida, Andrena Zawinski, Joyce Zephyrin. The featured artist is Clarissa Rubin.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #2

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #2 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Poets in this issue: David Allen, Shalom Galve Aranas, Michael Brockley, Michael Brownstein, John Cardwell, Dan Carpenter, K J Carter, W. B. Cornwell, Mary A. Couch, Dick Dalton, George Fish, James Green, John D. Groppe, Lois Hambleton, John Hinton, Liza Hyatt, LeAnn Jones, Jordan Krais, Oliver Lake, Jim Landwehr, Lucy J. Madison, Tracy Mishkin, Donna Monday, Guna Moran, Lylanne Musselman, Thomas Alan Orr, Bruce Reed, Mary Sexson, Michael Strosahl, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, J.E.A. Wallace, Michael T. Young, and Joyce Zephyrin. Illustrations are by Bre A. Domescik.Each of these poems has a backstory, a side note, previously unrevealed truths, or specifics about their inspiration. I've always loved discovering the pain, joy, loss, love, drama, or unusual experience that went into creating works of art: paintings, songs, novels, and poetry. I asked contributors to let readers look behind the curtain for this issue, and the results are magnificent. Poets are, by nature, brave. Shards of their souls are on display with each piece of writing. With these postscripts, we are allowed to see even deeper into their hearts.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #12

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #12 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Issue #12 uses black ink on white space to take a moment, find peace, celebrate pauses. Poets in this issue: George Amabile, Linda Anderson, Peter Anderson, Susan Auerbach, Lynn Axelrod, Walter Biskupski, Kathryn Bromley, Michael H. Brownstein, Melissa Cannon, Dan Carpenter, Jared Carter, Yuan Changming, Kersten Christianson, Michael Colonnese, Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Ryan Cresswell, Ed Davis, Steve Denehan, Salvatore Difalco, Kathryn Dohrmann, Russell duPont, Joanne Durham, Cathryn Essinger, Jacob Friesenhahn, Diane Funston, Roger Funston, Annette Gagliardi, David Lee Garrison, Lorraine Gibson, John D. Groppe, Gary D. Grossman, Shelda Hale, Chris Hasara, John R. Hinton, Liza Hyatt, Paul Ilechko, D. R. James, Patrick Kalahar, Mary Christine Kane, Norbert Krapf, Chelsie Kreitzman, Jacqueline Kudler, Elizabeth Kuhlman, Mona Mehas, Kate Meyer-Currey, Laurie S. Novak, Molly O'Dell, Fabian Omini, Sergio A. Ortiz, Tawn Parent, Robert Perchan, Nancy Kay Peterson, philiponeill, Stephanie Pressman, Carlos Reyes, Royal Rhodes, Bruce Robinson, Ellen Romano, David M. Rubin, Michael Salcman, Joel Savishinsky, Prartho Sereno, Mary Sexson, Sherry Shahan, Tyler Robert Sheldon, Michael E. Strosahl, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, Amy Wright Vollmar, Laura Grace Weldon, and Laverne Zabielski. Felix Melchor is the featured artist.

Indebted to Change

Indebted to Change PDF Author: Stephen Falconer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725298333
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The date, the time, the place are obscure, but of what we can be certain is that the Beggar Poet is in no position to call himself a "noble person" or a "superior man." He lives his life as would a mendicant writer or a solitary seeker--one who has tasted love, joy, and the depths of human despair. Like most of us, really. In fashioning his life to the changes of the I Ching, each of the sixty-four hexagrams, he is faced with challenges and riddles, thresholds to broach, subtle variations of insight from which, by living through them sincerely and with an unrelenting gaze, he can be said to be living an evolving revelation of consciousness. Anyone who has taken time to turn the pages of the I Ching will realize that as well as discovering uplifting and spiritually profound moments, there are those we truly fear and spend our lives trying to avoid. Instead of trying to maintain constantly a higher spiritual eminence--a perfect sense of proportion--we come to know by experience, if Heaven wills and for only brief interludes in an otherwise fulfilling life, its opposite, making our luminous spiritual flights all the more poignant and precious.

Bonfires & Other Vigils

Bonfires & Other Vigils PDF Author: Collen Alles
Publisher: Red Rook Press
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Any event can be a vigil: a walk by a river, a flu shot at Walgreens, an hour spent by a bird feeder attracting mostly cardinals. A vigil means you are keeping watch, and these poems are watching the world around them—and the worlds beneath those worlds, too. The poems in this collection pull from dreams and apparitions as much as they do reality: a woman in a house, a coffee mug, a book of matches, a load of unfolded laundry, a goldfish won at a county fair. All is fair game. Bonfires & Other Vigils celebrates the watching in unconventional ways. Readers can expect to revel in the elusive wonder of haziness, otherworldliness, and wildness of examining life through lenses of vigilant dreaming.

A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #7

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #7 PDF Author: Last Stanza Poetry Association
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Issue #7 features poems of voodoo, Native American spirituality, ghosts, witches, fairies, portents, folk medicine, familiars, tree spirits, celestial musings, ancient gods, tricksters, tarot cards, and the unexpected. Poets in this issue: David Allen, Peter Anderson, Michael Ansara, Jaya Avendel, Ruth Aylett, Jan Ball, Lois Baer Barr, Marilyn Baszczynski, Roderick Bates, Mahasweta Baxipatra, Mandy Beattie, Michelle Blake, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Maureen Brustkern, Rebecca Byrkit, Dan Carpenter, KJ Carter, Luanne Castle, Alys Caviness-Gober, Jan Chronister, W. B. Cornwell, Say Davenport, Bruce Ducker, Russell duPont, Martin Goldie, James Green, Will Griffith, John D. Groppe, Gary Grossman, Jan Hall, Chris Hasara, Elizabeth Hill, John Hinton, Kaela Hinton, Gil Hoy, Kyle Hunter, David James, Jenny Kalahar, Patrick Kalahar, JL Kato, Jordan Krais, Norbert Krapf, Lucy J. Madison, Guna Moran, Jacob R. Moses, Rich Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy, Lylanne Musselman, James Nolan, Thomas Alan Orr, Jacky Pugh, Stephen R. Roberts, Marjorie Sadin, Prartho Sereno, Mary Sexson, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Michael E. Strosahl, Diana Thoresen, Theresa Timmons, Mary Kay Turner, Rp Verlaine, Ron Welburn, J. T. Whitehead, Matt Whybrew, Marilyn Wolf, Hiromi Yoshida, Judy Young. The featured artist is Amy Brewer-Davenport.