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Category Archives: 2022

Reborn Looks Past Bitter Unknowns To A New Beginning

REBORN: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH. Feli Mercado. Balboa Press. In early spring, I received a query from an author looking to engage me as an editor to … Continue reading →

September 2, 2022 · Leave a comment

Hymns To the Midnight Poet

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JIM MORRISON. Jim Morrison. Forward by Tom Robbins. Introduction by Editor Frank Lisciandro. Harper Collins. My mind is calm & swirling like the marble pages of … Continue reading →

April 1, 2022 · Leave a comment

Michael Baughman Takes Us On A Powerful Journey

AN OLD MAN REMEMBERING BIRDS. Michael Baughman. Oregon State University Press. One cold and windy morning about ten years ago, I was waiting for the bus at the shopping center … Continue reading →

February 10, 2022 · Leave a comment

Life, Death & Poetry

HYMNS TO THE NIGHT ROAD (Poems For Dead Parents). John Aiello. Electric Review Press. “(and)I wonder whatYou’re thinking today(as)Your eyesDart aroundThe roomLike dank mirrored spears(wondering)Where theMind goes(fecund)In clots(& waiting)To die…” … Continue reading →

January 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

John Aiello’s First Book of Poems Now On Sale

HYMNS TO THE NIGHT ROAD (Poems For Dead Parents). John Aiello. Electric Review Press. With original art work by Eric Ward.  John Aiello and Electric Review Press announce the release of Hymns To the … Continue reading →

January 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

“First Cure”

First Cure For Allen Ginsberg’s Ghost (this)Morning I heardYou writingYour epic KaddishAll over again (there)At theKitchen tableIn the pale(mid)Night lamplight(writing)In twin rainbowsOf inkOn onionSkin parchment (these)Tear-stained websOf wordsIn linenBlue pools(out)Line … Continue reading →

January 3, 2022 · Leave a comment
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