Bøger udgivet af World Enough Writers

"Cats lick, nuzzle, play, slink, hunt, purr, and yowl, and millions of people are fascinated by them. Among those millions are the poets who contributed work to this anthology. No matter what their gender, orientation, ethnic background, or political and religious views, these poets share a fascination with cats-and despite sometimes bewildering or frustrating us humans, felines provide us pleasure, love, and purpose. So, bless cats. Hooray for cats! And thank you to this anthology's poets for describing and celebrating them in so many different, engaging ways."-David D. Horowitz, Editor, Seattle, 2023

"These brief yet powerful poems take Genesis' mothers and fathers off their saintly pedestal and lead readers into their real-life struggles with God, neighbor and each other. Find a quiet spot, and gaze into the hearts of characters you might have thought you "knew" but perhaps did not." -Wes Howard-Brook, author of "Come Out, My People': God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond

Part exploration of a mythic, rough-and-tumble mining town of the Old West, part fond memoir of childhood's familiar places, Linda Beeman's Wallace, Idaho is sheer poetic delight. There is a keen, observant eye at work here, and an original mixture of the journalistic, the historical, and the lyric. Wallace is one of those triggering towns that Richard Hugo loved and visited. Beeman's Wallace poems show the uncanny details, forgotten characters, the ravaged traces of Nature after mining with a sure hand and a tenderness which can only come from a native child.

Alfredo M. Arreguin, Artist Some of Jim Bertolino's poems have been inspired by art objects, and some of my paintings by poetry. I feel that Jim's poems and my art come from the same source: the quest for beauty in all of nature's manifestations?a leaf, a frog, the ocean waves, a simple gesture. This pursuit is what comes to bridge the concerns of all writers and painters. I feel connected to Jim's poems, inside them, just as I enter my paintings, lose myself inside them, and emerge renewed.

Coffee Poems contains 167 richly-roasted, verbally aromatic poems by poets from 34 states, 5 provinces, and 12 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, France, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, and the United States.Included among the 139 poets who give voice to these poems are Ellen Bass, Margo Berdeshevsky, Joel Brouwer, Barbara Crooker, Kwame Dawes, Stephen Dobyns, Martín Espada, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Alicia Ostriker, Francesca Pellegrino, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Care Santos, Vivian Shipley, Michael Waters, and Cecilia Woloch.Whether central to the poem or sitting on a side table, a mere accessory; whether a prop in an internal conversation with a you absent these 25 years or a desperately needed substance without which there is no facing the day, a cup of coffee inhabits each of these poems...Breathe in the scent and may it keep you awake.

These are story poems that will make you laugh, scratch yourhead, and maybe shed a tear. School kids will discover a mirrorimage of their lives in these poems, both wonderful and scary. Forparents or teachers, each poem is a great entryway to life lessons.

Ice cream, ice cream, who wants ice cream? Hundreds of poets not onlysaid a resounding “yes,” but wrote about it. And from those hundreds, Iaccepted the 125 poems you will find here from 27 different states plusAustralia, France, Iraq, Spain, and Tunisia.The poems are as various as the flavors of ice cream: long poems, shortpoems, and in addition to traditional free-verse narratives and lyrics:experimental poems, poems in forms such as sestinas, sapphics, sonnets,prose poems.When I accepted the job of editing, I wondered if I’d be bored by so manypoems about ice cream; I wondered whether there would be hundreds ofpoems about The Good Humor Man or Dairy Queen. But I needn’t haveworried, I was never bored. The Good Humor Man and Dairy Queen poemswere there, of course, but I was amazed by the wide variety of subjects:light humorous poems, sweet poems, lusty poems, dark poems, poemsabout childhood memories, a poem about Obama’s first date, and a poemwith Paul Newman in it.I am pleased with this final collection of ice cream poems. I think readerswill enjoy them as much as I enjoyed reading and selecting them.—Patricia Fargnoli, Editor, author of Hallowed (Tupelo Press, 2017)

"Korkut Onaran's ruminative first full-length collection is filled with reflection, keen observation, and emotional experience. Any artist of sound, image, or word will identify with these insightful, breathtaking poems. Onaran is the Hafiz for our century." -Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of Red Riding Hood's Real Life & The Dead Boy Sings in Heaven