Poems Found by Poet Hound

https://sites.google.com/site/49rhpissue/neil-carpathios
“In the Middle of a Day Like Any Other” by Neil Carpathios

https://sites.google.com/site/49rhpissue/tammy-ho-lai-ming
“No Hoarding” by Tammy Ho Lai Ming

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Patience is a Virtue

Hello Everyone,
I do have poetry books to read, I just need a little more time for reviewing. I should be getting the ball rolling next week for sure! I have three to read and I would like to squeeze in some more time with them. So please stay tuned, in the meantime I do have posts for tomorrow and Thursday so please drop in again soon…

Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life

This is one awesome site that I believe I’ve mentioned before but keep forgetting to add to my links bar on the side (and finally have). In addition to poetry there are works of art, essays, news, reviews, and stories. If only I had this as a daily newspaper delivered to my doorstep! Check it out at:

http://www.corpse.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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Arsenic Lobster Open Submissions

I have copy-and-pasted the guidelines below, please also use the link to explore their site and aesthetic:

The Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal is seeking eloquent emotion, articulate experiment; the charley horse hearted, heavily quirked, the harrowing.

Honed lyricism, stripped narrative. Be compelled, compulsed, MOVED, to write...

New online issues are released in April, August and December. The annual print edition includes selected works published online during the previous year.

Poetry topics, reviews and criticism, and lobster art/photographs (pdf or jpg attachment only), are also welcome.

All submissions must conform to the following guidelines,
Poems should be timeless, rich in imagery, and edgy. That is, no political rants or Hallmark poetry.
Must be submitted electronically in the body of an email. Please, no attachments.
All works must be previously unpublished.
Each email may include 3-5 poems, any length. Please keep all poems in one email.
Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please let us know if work is accepted elsewhere.
Include a short, lively bio.
Please write your first initial, last name, date and what you are submitting in the SUBJECT LINE.
Example: D. Carson 3/06/07 Poetry.
Please limit your submissions to one per issue.
Send your email to LOBSTER@MAGERE.COM .
We will take submissions from September 1 through April 30.
The number of pieces will vary from issue to issue.
Thank you for your interest in Arsenic Lobster.
---
The Editors

To learn more go to:
http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1submission.html

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Poems Found by Poet Hound

http://arseniclobster.magere.com/271201.html
“The Letter s We Never Sent” by Aine McCarthy

http://www.ditchpoetry.com/africmcglinchey.htm
“Pendulum” by Afric McGlinchey

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Agapornis Swinderniana by Paula Cary with Give-Away

Today I’m posting about my first chapbook collection of poems! This won’t be a review: I just wanted to celebrate my first collection with a give-away!
Kristy Bowen at Dancing Girl Press did a fantastic job and I was thrilled when I received my chapbooks in the mail. Agapornis Swinderniana is a collection of love poems by yours truly and I hope you’ll enjoy them. I’ll feature a sample poem below. I’d also like to thank Henry Denander who did the cover art, two love birds on a branch, as it is beautiful and simple all at once. You can see the cover when you click on the link below to purchase or take a peek at my chapbook which has an additional sample poem.

The Forbidden Breakfast

Sweet tangy chocolate covered cheesecake
Softened onto our tongues
Drizzled with earthy-rich coffee
Sipped from our oversize red mugs
As morning sun spills
Onto the table, halo-ing
Our breakfast like an angel’s choir
We revel in adulthood
Our mothers told us no ice cream for breakfast
And now we feast on such treats
We lift them up into the sunlight
Turning them sideways towards our mouths
Our smiles sticky sweet
We’re happy and giddy
Like the five year olds
Our inner children are.

If you enjoyed this sample poem and would like a copy you have a chance to score a free copy by leaving a simple “I want to win” comment in the comments section or sending an e-mail titled “I want to win” with your name in the body of the e-mail to poethoundblogspotATyahooDOTcom. The drawing will be March 11th and announced that very day which is a Sunday!

Or you can purchase a copy for yourself by going to Dancing Girl Press and pick up a copy of Agapornis Swinderniana by yours truly, Paula Cary, for $7.00 at:
http://dulcetshop.ecrater.com/p/13731126/agapornis-swinderiana-paula-cary

Good luck to all who enter the contest!
Thanks always for reading and for your support! If you’d like to send a chapbook or book of poems to me for review, please send me an e-mail at poethoundblogspotATyahooDOTcom.

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Bamboo and Plum Blossom Blog

Beautiful imagery and words at this zen-filled blog, check it out at:

http://bambooplum.blogspot.com/

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Poems Found by Poet Hound

http://juked.com/2012/02/oldguysinthesteamroom.asp
“Old Guys in the Steam Room 132 degrees Fahrenheit” by John Mckernan

http://juked.com/2012/01/gonegone.asp
“Gone, Gone, All the Stones I’ve Thrown Out to Sea” by Michael Mlokeday

Thanks for clicking in. I am in need of more poetry and good novels to review so if you’d like to send your work my way, please send me an e-mail at poethoundblogspotATyahooDOTcom!

Please drop in again next week, I’ve been working some overtime and so I fear this week is rather sparse on posts and I do apologize, thanks always for reading and for your patience…

American Literary Review

Based out of UNT, this is a fantastic blog with great interviews, great reviews, essentially the things I love for and more to be found at:

http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/

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Chicken Pinata Open Submissions

I have copy-and-pasted the guidelines below and have provided a link so you can explore their journal:
Chickenpinata wants your poetry!

Please send a submission of up to four unpublished poems as a single .rtf or .doc file to
submissions@chickenpinata.com. The subject line for your e-mail should be
"submission--your name." Please put at least your name and e-mail on each page that you
submit.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your work is taken
elsewhere! Please also do not submit another batch of poems until you have heard a
response from us.

Please also include a .jpg of you, if you have one, and a third-person bio of up to 100
words in the body of your e-mail. You can include previous publication credits, if you have
any, but we'd be just as happy if you told us something interesting about your life or your
philosophy of writing.

We do prefer that your bio wasn't overly self-aggrandizing or dull, but we don't mind if you
demonstrate a bit of your personality. And if you have a website you'd like us to link to,
we're happy to do it.
Generally, we appreciate shorter pieces, but if you wow us with a longer poem (say, up to
two pages), we won't turn you away. We like to read accessible poetry that's fresh, new,
and fun.
Of course we love lush language and metaphor, but please, skip heavy allusions and other
overly "poetical" styling. That stuff makes our head hurt. Individual rights return to the
poet upon publication, but we ask that you allow us to keep your poem in perpetuity in
our archived issues.
We also ask that you credit Chickenpinata, a journal of poetry, when you republish your
poem in your first (or next!) book.
For all issues, please expect a response within 4 months. For regular correspondence,
we'll try to answer daily-ish, but definitely within a week. If for some crazy reason, you
haven't heard from us in 4 months about your submission, please feel free to send us a
query. Sometimes e-mails get buried and sticky-notes go awry. We don't want you to wait
indefinitely wondering if we even received your work. We've had that happen to us, and
it's both disheartening and aggravating.

And, as always, thank you for your interest.

~~Eds.

To learn more go to:
http://www.chickenpinata.com/index.html

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Poems Found by Poet Hound

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/nelsona2.html
“Swarm” and “Fork” by Amber Nelson

http://www.chickenpinata.com/I5--Potos.html
“When House Guests Leave” and “On my Grandmother’s Bed at Age 5” by Andrea Potos

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Linebreak Site

This is a wonderful site for poetry lovers, pictures of writers, great poems to read and on audio, check it out at:

http://linebreak.org/about/

Thanks for clicking in, I am out of poetry books to review at this time so if you’d like to send one my way please e-mail me. As for the Friday feature, it takes me a little longer to read and review books for that feature so please be patient. In the meantime, please drop in again on Wednesday…

The Last Storyteller by Frank Delaney

Imagine spending an evening at an intimate dinner party where the food and the company are so magnificent that when you return home for the evening all you can do is slip off your shoes, find the nearest chair and sit staring into space mouthing to yourself the various parts of the evening and conversation that struck you at your core. That’s what this book has done for me.

Frank Delaney was born in Tipperary, Ireland and has been a BBC Broadcaster, a former judge of the Booker Prize, and has published several novels that are part of a series that concludes here in his latest novel, The Last Storyteller. Frank Delaney currently resides in Connecticut and New York, and can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and his own web-site where he also provides a regular podcast about James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The Last Storyteller is the final conclusion of the main character, Ben MacCarthy’s, life. The first two novels, Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show and The Matchmaker of Kenmare introduce you to Ben MacCarthy and the love of his life, Venetia Kelly. I have not yet read these two preceding novels but certainly will be hunting them up now that I’ve had the great fortune of reading its third which can stand alone, but has made me thirsty for more.
Ben MacCarthy’s life in 1956 is tumultuous. As he collects stories for the Folklore Commission, he encounters less than savory characters along the way and is swept unexpectedly into the rising tide of violence sweeping Ireland at this time. In addition, the love of his life has returned from the United States as part of a traveling show titled, “Gentleman Jack and his Friend,” which is of course headed by no such gentleman at all: Jack Stirling. To further complicate Ben’s life, his twin children whom he has never met are in tow of this traveling show. Ben battles his feelings of fear and regret as he must now decide how to rescue his beloved wife, after he had abandoned his chance years ago.

Frank Delaney’s novel weaves in characters that will take your breath away, especially John Jacob O’Neill, a most wonderful storyteller and a gentleman to the core whose stories seem to predict Ben’s future each time Ben drops in for a visit. Jimmy Bermingham, a rabble-rouser, brings unwanted excitement into Ben’s otherwise sedate life on the road. Finally, Venetia Kelly’s appearances and disappearances in the novel are maddening in their enticement and brevity. Venetia is as mysterious a woman as they come, her thoughts veiled from the audience as well as from Ben, their marriage as long and bumpy a road as you could ever anticipate and yet the tenderness and devotion through the years brings relief to the reader.
What I love most about the novel is that the main character is not presented as a neat and tidy hero that follows a steady climb upwards through difficulties. Ben advances and retreats in many battles within him and with others just as all true humans do. He is doggedly stubborn in the worst ways, slow to move his feet towards doing the right thing, and blunders into the wrong hands when searching for help. Ben’s saving grace is his connection to the ultimate storyteller, John Jacob O’Neill, who takes him under his wing and brings order and wisdom to his life. As a result, Ben is able to bring about the desired means to his own life and finds the words to tell his own ultimate story.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves Ireland, folklore, and especially those who understand the ups and downs of romance and the complications that life brings in adulthood. It is a story that makes you feel richer for having read and one I will happily read again, after I read the two preceding novels.
If you enjoyed this review (and I truly do not feel I can do this book enough justice) you may find a copy at your local book-store, local library, or on-line at:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/last-storyteller-frank-delaney/1100572447?ean=9781400067855&itm=1&usri=the+last+storyteller
or at:

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Storyteller-Novel-Ireland/dp/1400067855/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0


To learn more about Frank Delaney and his work please visit his wonderful and easy-to-navigate website:
http://www.frankdelaney.com

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Poems Found by Poet Hound

https://sites.google.com/site/48rhpissue/josh-bernstein
“mistaken identity” by Josh Bernstein

https://sites.google.com/site/48rhpissue/rose-auslander
“Postcard” by Rose Auslander

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Jordan Orleans Site

Find vibrant artwork, poems, and more courtesy of Jordan Orleans at his site:

http://jordanorleans.com/

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