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ANNOUNCEMENT! New Release by Loralee Clark: “Solemnity Rites” & Book Launch Coming Soon!
We are happy to announce that Loralee Clark’s debut Chapbook “Solemnity Rites” is ready for you! Also, on June 28 at 1 p.m. is the Virtual Book Launch.
Register here for the Book Launch
About Solemnity Rites
Solemnity Rites, by Loralee Clark, is an account of reimagined myths and truths of who we are as humans and how we live our histories. In the first section, Clark poses questions such as what does a stromatolite’s birth, the forming of a desert, the process of grieving or a ritualized Neolithic funeral contribute to the ways in which we are an ecotone of the living world? In the second section she answers how we practice these histories through our personal powers and sacrifices, through the mysteries that our blood holds.
Clark sifts through what it means to live in relation to culture and landscape, to see into the magic that each moment holds. Solemnity Rites takes the reader on a journey through humanity, ending with the belief that even after death, life holds amazing mysteries.
About Loralee Clark
Loralee Clark is a writer who grew up learning a love for nature and her place in it, in Maine. She resides in Virginia now as a writer and artist, with two awesome kids and a loving husband. She writes poetry and non-fiction. Myth is her love language. You can learn more about her at: sites.google.com/view/loraleeclark
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Book Launch for “Bonne Annee”
We are pleased to announce that we will have the Book Launch for Yasmin S Brown’s Poetry Collection “Bonne Annee” on June 21 at 1 p.m. EST
This is a virtual book launch. Register with the following link:
We look forward to seeing you and celebrating this amazing book!
ANNOUNCEMENT! Seesaw – Quirky Poems by Ken Tomaro & Nolcha Fox is Now Available!
Seesaw – Quirky Poems Poetry Collection
By Ken Tomaro & Nolcha Fox
Born from a shared love of dark humor and playful wordplay, Seesaw is a delightful balancing act of wit, whimsy, and poetic mischief. Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox first crossed creative paths in the Thursday Night Poets group, where their mutual knack for quirky, offbeat humor sparked an unexpected collaboration. What began as playful exchanges-plucking words and phrases from each other’s poems to craft something new-quickly evolved into a collection that swings between the light and the dark, the serious and the absurd.
Seesaw is poetry at its most spontaneous and fun, a reminder that even in life’s heavier moments, there’s always room to laugh, twist the narrative, and dance on the edge of meaning. Dive into this collection and let the playful push and pull of their voices keep you balanced-right in the middle of the seesaw.
Review of “Seesaw” by Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox:
“Seesaw” is a captivating and engaging poetry collection designing the collaborative efforts of Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox who blend their distinct voices to explore the themes of love, loss, and memory sauteed with a ‘quirky sense of humour’.
“Why am I so hard on myself?
That’s it, today’s the day!
I’m going to write a book called On Being Sympathetic to the Apathetic Empath.”
The same quirky sense of humour flows raw and poignant throughout the pages of the book. Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox have done a wonderful job with their shared experiences from the “Thursday Night Poets group”. The poems are arranged in a unique stanza pattern where Nolcha’s right-aligned stanzas complement Ken’s left-aligned stanzas. This visual distinction enhances the reading experience to a lofty level.
“And now I want a sandwich,
but it won’t make itself.
Maybe I can train the rats
how to cook.”
These lines remind me of Remy, the rat in the movie “Ratatouille”.
Celebrating a variety of themes from mundane life struggles to whimsical reflections on human existence this book is punctuated with a playful absurdity. Throughout the collection, the tone oscillates between melancholic and whimsical, giving way to a rich emotional tapestry.
Poems like “All I Can Think of Is Food” and “God Drops the Ball Again” reflect the authors’ penchant for irony and wit. “He is a house” and “I come to a door” permeate a lingering sadness that overshadows my senses for a long time. Poems like “Ghosts Glimmer” and “Where the Wild Goose Goes” evoke a sense of longing and nostalgia while others such as “Chimes” reflect the inevitability of change and the bittersweet rhymes of memories. “As surely as” is an anthem on the ubiquitous power of gravity on us.
The poems are like different strokes of brushes on the canvas of poetic mindscape evoking different colours of human emotions,
“Blue is the sadness
when we say our goodbyes.”
Sometimes the promised humour has turned into a grave philosophic enigma,
“Past and future,
like the branches of a tree
lead to different paths,
sometimes the same regret.”
Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox have played on the subtlest of chords to bring out the most mesmerizing music in the world. They play with words with such charisma that ‘sharp words slice the sunlight into little parts of butter’.
This collection is for everyone whose wallet is full of bugs and cobwebs and for those who prefer to slouch on the couch with a ‘slab of apathy sandwiched between their pillows’, or someone infected with flue sharing every small piece of him or her with each cough to this world. Ken and Tomaro have taken their readers through the rollercoaster of raw humour with an urgent poignancy of human passion, where the complexities of our decisions and the ultimate helplessness of our life left us to feel the eternity of a bottomless well.
Munmun “Sam” Samanta, Author of Yellow Chrysanthemum
Review of Seesaw by Barbara Leonhard
Thank you for all the wonderful words of praise for Seesaw
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ANNOUNCEMENT! Yellow Chrysanthemum by Munmun “Sam” Samanta is Now Available
Set in contemporary India, “Yellow Chrysanthemum” is a stirring collection celebrating the lives of Durga, Uma, Tihar, Somlata, Mridula, and fifteen other women from rural villages to bursting cities. These women are not passive victims but survivors and warriors who have the courage to challenge the status quo of society, which always seeks to silence their voices.
As the author, I wrote this book to pay my homage to the women who continue challenging society’s oppressive forces. If you are in search of a book that will both challenge and inspire you, “Yellow Chrysanthemum” is a top pick. Take part in the celebration of women’s voices, a call for justice, and a reminder of the incredible power that exists within us all to rise above, no matter the odds.
Munmun Samanta
~Storytelling, Truth-telling
The commodity of these twenty stories is the struggle of a woman as an artist, as a family member, and as an individual in society. In “Written in Blood,” which concludes the collection, Asima, the protagonist, says, “But conventional society never teaches a woman to strike back.” In every story, the author strikes back forcefully and eloquently, in sentences that are as poignant as they are poetic. “Mother India, which begins the collection, is about poverty, hunger, and a mother’s determination to feed herself and her children. It’s a visceral story, one feels as they read. In “The Caged Bird,” Tihar,” trapped in a repressive marriage, identifies with the bird she sets free. And in “The Dawn of Sia’s Dream,” the “confluence of light and shadow” that the writer-protagonist loves may be seen as the conflict that drives her story, as if her story is also the sky’s. Its underlying theme is the imagination’s power to transcend, a theme also in ” A Girl Made of Darkness, about an artist who has struggled with society’s prejudice of people, like her, with dark skin. Each story in the collection is an integral part of the whole and told in a voice that arrives in each instance at some truth. Yellow Chrysanthemum establishes Munmun Samanta as a topnotch writer of fiction not only in India but also throughout the world.
– Peter Mladinic, Author of “Files of Information for People who Don’t Exist”
Mumnum Samanta’s short story collection, “Yellow Chrysanthemum,” is a treasure chest of joy and strength that springs from the neglect, abuse, betrayal, and invisibility of 20 women. These women are flowers in a hostile world that crushes them underfoot. Yet somehow, they take root and bloom.
We only need the eyes to see what we take for granted. This book will open those eyes.
– Nolcha Fox, author of “End of Earth”
Yellow Chrysanthemum is available at online stores.
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