Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements and Double Dog Dares

Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements and Double Dog Dares PDF

Author: Christopher J. Jarmick

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-04-03

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0557350328

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Short, funny, witty, quirky and/or poignant poems. Over 160 Poem Starters, plus form Septolet poems, the experimental poem On 32 Statements that incorporated 32 Statements on Poetry by Marvin Bell and several challenges daring you the reader to create your own Poem Starter and Septolet. Thanks for taking a look and considering owning this book. Christopher J. Jarmick is a Northwest writer-poet who for several years worked as a screenwriter and television producer (credits include several award winning PBS documentaries, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight and Personalities).

Randomly Accessed Poetics

Randomly Accessed Poetics PDF

Author: William James Lindberg

Publisher: Penhead Press

Published: 2014-03-22

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780988793828

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What can I tell you about this book that would entice you to spend twenty one dollars on an art, poetry, and word book? Probably nothing. Other than the fact that Randomly Accessed Poetics, Heart Splatters Into Significance, is an elegantly designed book. I know what you're thinking, "what book is worth twenty one dollars?" If you really want to get this book, but don't want to part with the Twenty one dollars, go to the Kindle store and get if for three. Of course, the paper version is far more beautiful and you do not need an electronic device to view it on. Here is what you are purchasing, should you decide to part with your twenty one dollars, in between these pages there are thirty five contributors from all over the world. Most of them are from the United States. And sixteen are from Washington State. Greg Brisendine is performance poet who makes his living in theater; he has two poems in this book. Larry Crist has been published prolifically in little magazines and big ones too, like Rattle. Duane Kirby Jensen is a poet painter from Everett. He curates a spoken word venue at Cafe Zippy's on Wetmore Avenue. Brandon Pitts has written plays, novels, and countless poems. For Chris Jarmick, poetry is everything, he is author of a book titled "Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares." Jeannine Hall Gailey was appointed to position of Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington in 2012. Carla Blaschka, is a Seattle lifer who, draws inspiration for her short stories from The Stranger and from Capitol Hill. There are many more exciting writers between these pages waiting to be read. People who are just as much in love with writing as I am. People who organize the randomness of our world into words and images. Me, I am just a country boy who lives in Oregon and works in a casino. And maybe that is why you should buy this book. To see how a nobody country guy can organize the words of others into a beautiful bouquet. * * * The fourth issue of Randomly Accessed Poetics features work from B.Z. Niditch (NY), Duane Kirby Jensen (Everett, WA), Larry Crist (Seattle, WA), and Carla Blaschka (Seattle, WA). It also contains poetry, short stories, and art from Jim Boggs (KY), Greg Brisendine (WA), Christine Clarke (WA), Alfonso Colasuonno (PA), Tim Cole, Jim Davis, Doug Draime (OR), Elizabeth Fountain (Ellensburg, WA), Jeannine Hall Gailey (WA), Sarah Gawricki (CO), Jack Haines (OR), William Wright Harris, Dawnell Harrison (ID), Christopher J. Jarmick (WA), Annette Kluth (WA), Craig Kurtz (VA), Scott Laudati, Charley McAteer (WA), Tera McIntosh (PA), John McKernan (WV), Sharon Meixsell (WA), Dan Nielsen (WI), Rafael Ayala Paez (Venezuela), Brandon Pitts (WA), Raul Sanchez (WA), M. A. Schaffner (VA), Carol Smallwood, Morris Stegosaus (WA), Kurt Swalander, Andy Wilson (WA), and Purple-Mark Wirth (WA).

Not Aloud

Not Aloud PDF

Author: Christopher J. Jarmick

Publisher: Moonpath Press

Published: 2015-08-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781936657193

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Not Aloud presents some 30 plus years of Christopher J. Jarmick's marvelous poetry. Jarmick's thematic territory is expansive-- family, relationships, the art of writing, philosophy, his patented poem starters, and much, much more. His language is musical, approachable, and memorable. His refreshing turns of phrases stand clichEs on their heads: "The clouds/are not metaphors at all./ They hide the sky, /they get fat, /sometimes they burst, /but not with tears, /Mr. Tambourine Man, /just with rain." Full of humor, acute observation, and deep emotion, Not Aloud is a collection you'll want to return to again and again. --Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of A New Red, editor MoonPath Press.

The Glass Cocoon

The Glass Cocoon PDF

Author: Serena F. Holder

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780970207807

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Phillip Craven and Patricia Ridgeway were strangers living their lives quietly until their paths crossed one day by accident on an Internet chat room. The fell in love, they made plans to meet each other. . . And then the murders started. This romantic, mystery suspense thriller builds to a surprising, disturbing conclusion you wont soon forget.

A Change of Maps

A Change of Maps PDF

Author: Carolyne Wright

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry including Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, a collection of essays, and three volumes of poetry translated from Bengali and Spanish. She lives in Seattle, where she serves on the faculty of the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program.

Plume

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Author: Kathleen Flenniken

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 0295805897

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The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their families that their community was and always had been safe. At the same time, her childhood friend Carolyn's own father was dying of radiation-induced illness: "blood cells began to err one moment efficient the next / a few gone wrong stunned by exposure to radiation / as [he] milled uranium into slugs or swabbed down / train cars or reported to B Reactor for a quick run-in / run-out." Plume, written twenty years later, traces this American betrayal and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity. Flenniken observes her own resistance to facts: "one box contains my childhood / the other contains his death / if one is true / how can the other be true?" The book's personal story and its historical one converge with enriching interplay and wide technical variety, introducing characters that range from Carolyn and her father to Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and Manhattan Project health physicist Herbert Parker. As a child of "Atomic City," Kathleen Flenniken brings to this tragedy the knowing perspective of an insider coupled with the art of a precise, unflinching, gifted poet. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iSaR9mfeeM

Escaping into the Night

Escaping into the Night PDF

Author: D. Dina Friedman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1416996656

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Halina Rudowski is on the run. When the Polish ghetto where she lives is evacuated, she narrowly escapes, but her mother is not as lucky. Along with her friend Batya, Halina makes her way to a secret encampment in the woods where Jews survive by living underground. As the group struggles for food, handles infighting, and attempts to protect themselves from the advancing Germans, Halina must face the reality of life without her mother. Based on historical events, this gripping tale sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the underground forest encampments that saved several thousand Jews from the Nazis. In telling the story of one girl's survival, Escaping into the Night marks the arrival of a remarkable new voice in fiction.

Karma's Footsteps

Karma's Footsteps PDF

Author: Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Publisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 9780981858456

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Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be. In this, her debut full collection, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie offers up a body of work that bears its scars proudly, firm in the knowledge that each is evidence of a wound survived. These are songs of life in all its violent difficulty and beauty; songs of fury, songs of love. 'Karma's Footsteps' brims with things that must be said and turns the volume up, loud, giving silence its last rites. "Ekere Tallie's new work 'Karma's Footsteps' is as fierce with fight songs as it is with love songs. Searing with truths from the modern day world she is unafraid of the twelve foot waves that such honesties always manifest. A poet who "refuses to tiptoe" she enters and exits the page sometimes with short concise imagery, sometimes in the arms of delicate memoir. Her words pull the forgotten among us back into the lightning of our eyes." -Nikky Finney