poems

Homing

Homing

You focus your eyes upon the beams,
Mark with Cancer’s crab the horse,
Mend your ripped coat—at the seams—
Elijha took by force.

Your heart is the falcon’s heart
As you circle and circle round again.
A bird of prey must play its part
Dropping down through the wind.

Your grace is wedding death to charm.
On the thick glove, you balance
Feathers ruffling the back of the arm
On the razor points of your talons.

Mebane Robertson

Mebane Robertson’s poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Journal, Blue Unicorn, The Lyric, and others.  Black Widow Press published his book Signal From Draco: New and Selected Poems in December of 2007.  He is also a rock and folk musician whose recordings can be heard on iTunes or cdbaby.com.  He is presently sweating out a Ph.D. in English Lit. at Fordham University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and infant son.

Marilyn Taylor

Marilyn Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, with a sixth forthcoming from Parallel Press in 2009. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, The American Scholar, The Formalist, Measure, and The Evansville Review. She was the winner of the 2005 Dogwood Prize, as well as recent contests sponsored by Passager, The Ledge, and the GSU Review. Marilyn is currently a Contributing Editor for The Writer magazine, where her articles on poetic craft appear bi-monthly.

Lonely She

Lonely She

Lonely, she climbs a mountain:
At the top, in mirror blue air,
Her cloud-white breath disappears—
She is nothing and does not care.

The neighboring mountains shrug,
Old men playing solitaire;
On her bare peak a single shrub
Shrivels in the sun’s cold glare.

The view of empyrean expands
Below the same sky everywhere:
She is nothing and nobody—
A spirit freed that does not care.

Marcus Smith

Marcus Smith’s poetry and reviews have appeared in many journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including  Poetry Salzburg Review, Greensboro Review, Acumen, The Lyric and The Classical Outlook.  Recent publications and commendations include a “Poetry on the Lake” prize (Italy),  The Southern Poetry Review’s contest, Atlanta Review’s tenth anniversary anthology, The Thomas Hardy Society and The Ledbury Poetry Festival. He is a contributing editor to Hunger Mountain.

Lionel Willis

Lionel Willis was born in 1932 in Toronto, Canada. He taught English Literature at Ryerson Polytechnical University for 34 years, retiring in 1992. His formal verse has been appearing in little journals for the past forty years, especially since early retirement allowed him time to write and submit. His verse has appeared in Candelabrum, The Classical Outlook, Dream International Quarterly, The Lyric, The Poet's Pen, Time for Rhyme and Tucumcari Literary Review. The Plowman Ministries Inc.

John Milbury-Steen

John Milbury-Steen's poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Hellas, Blue Unicorn, Kayak, The Listening Eye, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, The Piedmont Literary Review, Scholia Satyrica and Shenandoah.  He served in the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa;  did a Master's in Creative Writing with Ruth Stone at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana;  worked as an artificial intelligence programmer in Computer Based Education.  He currently teaches English as a Second Language at Temple University, Philadelph

The Red Room.

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binding: Unknown Binding

Open Door: A Poet Lore Anthology

cover of Open Door: A Poet Lore Anthologyauthor: Roland Flint
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0965401006
binding: Paperback

Province of Fire

This is Geraldine Connolly's second book of poetry. Her first book (Food for the Winter) published by Perdue University Press was very well received and is in its second printing. Connolly is an outstanding poet with a large following. We are receiving a lot of prepublication orders for this book and we think that it will do well.

cover of Province of Fireauthor: Geraldine Connolly
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0916078469
binding: Paperback
list price: $12.00 USD
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