Outside of the poetry world nobody seems to know what a chapbook is. So when I tell them that I have published two chapbooks and a third as a collaboration with my son, they often nod in puzzlement, happy for me, but obviously perplexed by my wording. Sometimes they ask, “A chat book?”
In a local paper recently, it was announced that Micah and I would be reading from our new “chapter book.” Granted, at some point I may have used that analogy: Think chapter, rather than a whole collection, or novella as apposed to a hefty novel. But that’s not really quite right either, and it’s certainly not historically or etymologically correct. In any case, the library where we are reading (virtually) has the wording correct on their website and social media, so I’m assuming it was just a non-poetry-reading newspaper editor who made the…
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I like reading fiction books, I don’t judge covers by their looks. I like to enjoy discovering plots, To meet new characters who get tied in knots. To feel their struggles and know their pain, To follow their journey against the grain. Become entwined in heart-warming tales, Become part of their life, watching over their […]
Love Books
Originally posted on charles french words reading and writing: (https://en.wikiquote.org/) “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? H. G. Wells (https://en.wikipedia.org) “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Theodore Roosevelt (https://commons.wikimedia.org) “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience…
Quotations On Perseverance
Just a fyi we have been covered in stuff lately. I do plan on revisiting the author spotlight starting next week.
Oh to want to be remembered, To build a legacy, And live on, As an immortal…
Immortality #prose and #poetry
Emergent Spring ~ spring new buds seek the sun life emergent buzzing with motion birdsong fills the forest nests, caves, and dens being built harbingers of rebirth abound heeding the impulse of creation nature resplendent with color and sound ~ I picked an etheree as my form for this week’s poem. I love the shape […]
Emergent Spring
This being human is heavy tonightand I am thinking of the gym sauna,cedar hot against my skinaching from the distance I made it run,but still now in the dry heatalmost frozen still in fact,as the man in his fifties chats,learns what my parents do,starts explaining how fucked up things arewith the EU, Single Farm Payments, […]
Another Nothing Moment – A #Poem By Carol J Forrester
Fae Corps Publishing 