"Sweet Malida" by Zilka Joseph - 60 pages, 2024 - $19.95 & S+H - Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? "Sweet Malida" is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs. Using various poetic forms, the poet launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian Jews, explores its special connection to the Prophet Elijah, while seamlessly weaving in memories, bringing to life the past and lost loved ones as well.…
The Power of Poetry: an interview with Zilka Joseph – Culturico’s Podcast Culturico‘s poetry and literature editor Gerfried Ambrosch sat down with award-winning poet Zilka Joseph to discuss her latest book, a collection of poems entitled In Our Beautiful Bones, as well as her journey both as a writer and as an immigrant to the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 44 pages 2017, ISBN: 978-1-936419-72-2 $12.95 + $4 S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. With In Which We See Our Selves, Eric Torgersen begins with the formal structure of the ghazal as popularized by Agha Shahid…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 70 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-67-8 $15.95 + S&H Shipped to the USA: Shipped to Central and Latin America: Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal buttons, just a credit card. Poet Amanda Reverón maintains a blog. Her writing habit is to begin a…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 40 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-64-7 $12.95 Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Mercurial is also available on Kindle About Mercurial Mercurial is the latest collection of poems from Allison Joseph: always accessible, musical, full of hard-earned wisdom,…
Paper, saddlestitched, 40 pp $8.00 plus s&h 1999, ISBN 0-932412-16-5 Poems that evoke the author’s blue-collar, rock ‘n’ roll young womanhood. Sharp, gritty, honest and well-crafted. Information about Helen Ruggieri is available at http://helenruggieri.com Shoo Doobie Doobie Do by Helen Ruggieri Chuck Berry duckwalks across stage. We clap and scream. We’re yelling “Maybelline” rocking up…
Paper, saddlestitched, 36 pp $6.50 plus s&h 1998, ISBN 0-932412-13-0 Skip Renker’s poems are grounded, quiet and elegant, reflecting the thoughtful, humorous and meditative style of the man himself. Fierce Talisman by Skip Renker Sooner or later you will need me. You’ll be lost. Unfamiliar trees, thick waxy leaves, a sound like crying when the…
Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp $6 plus s&h 1997, ISBN-0-932412-11-4 These poems, as with any real poetry, make us see in new and deeper ways. Most of the works involve common feelings or occurances that we do not normally deem significant or beautiful. John’s elegant use of words brings out that beauty (not always a…
Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp $6 plus s&h 1996, ISBN-0-932412-09-2 Forty-Five by Kip Zegers As I walk home from the school yard where others attacking baskets were twelve years old, it is a robin-anointed evening, lingering light on dinnertime streets, flittings in still naked trees. Days ago I’d heard only starlings, jays with rediscovered voices, just…
