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The work here is as individual and unique as each contributing Bard. Delighted readers will find a variety of styles and forms, including ekphrasia,prose poems, villanelle, and free form poetry. Between these covers can be found little day-to-day deaths, dreams, and wounds, lost causesand dead ends presented in playful, whimsical, and experimental ways.If you haven’t discovered the Bagel Bards yet, start with their latest anthology. Short of having breakfast with them at the Au Bon Pain, reading the results of their Saturday mornings is the next best thing.— Laurel Johnson Midwest Book Review
Bagel Bard - noun. 1. A poet that is glazed and ring-shaped whose poetry has a tough, chewy texture usually made of leavened words and images dropped briefly into nearly boiling conversations on Saturday mornings- often baked to a golden brown. 2. -verb. To come together in writership over breakfast. To laugh so hard at an irreverent statement that the sesame seeds of the bagel you've just eaten explode from your mouth like grenade shrapnel. Welcome to the third Bagelbard Anthology. As some of you know (or can guess from the above definition) the Bagel Bards meet every Saturday morning at a designated spot. We breakfast in the original sense of eating, but also, because most of us are so busy working on our writing careers that we often find ourselves starved for great conversation. Well, the Bagel Bards breakfast hang is not only a place in which to do the aforementioned, but also to observe characters who themselves could be the subjects of poems and fiction.
The Bagel Bards are a group of poets varied in age, race, gender, who meet, share poems, discuss poetry, drink lots of coffee, chew a bagel if so desired, sometimes sell their books. The atmosphere is generous and open to all, and you don’t have to be a poet to attend. What I find most exciting about the Bards, people here are not conscious of reputation and achievement, but love the poem and good friendly unpretentious talk. That doesn’t mean that pretensions don’t exist if that’s what you desire, but the coffee is strong, the people sincere and are publishers of small press magazines, pamphlets and books. If you want to be in an atmosphere that is intelligent without self-involved, convoluted literary talk of people who need to prove themselves and announce themselves as artists,here is a place to find the pleasure that good literary company may offer. — Sam Cornish, Poet Laureate of Boston, MA
Home Anthology is a volume of memoirs-essays and poems-revolving around a common theme: home. The writing is solid, down to earth, and emotive. - Sue Miller
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This is a full-length poetry collection, 129 pages. These are metaphysical love poems by Jessica Harman, who has published in journals such as "Arion," "Bellevue Literary Review," "Nimrod," "Orbis," "Spillway," "Stand," "Rosebud," and "Tears in the Fence." Walking On Clouds 1. Fairy tales are for the future Parts of us who will need to be loved. The world's version of love Is better than heaven's, but don't tell Anyone this. It's no fun being dead. We must keep our brilliance, sharing it. Yet we must keep up illusions. If we thought this world was it, That would be too banal, Or maybe it would be heaven. Do you understand? 2. In my dreams I fly flags of imaginary Countries ruled by imaginary philosopher kings Who have been put together by other thinkers As puzzle pieces. Whatever. If the pieces fit too well, I don't fly the flag. 3. Dream me a rainbow, love, And tie my hands with it, And never let me go. copyright 2013 by Jessica Harman
From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
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