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My featured poet for this week is Paul Brookes. Paul is a prolific writer and a great supporter of the writing community through his website "The Wombwell Rainbow." His many chapbooks and collections are listed in the Bio below, so be sure to read this post to the end! Today, Paul shares his stirring poem, "A Breath," which was written in an experimental form. Thank you, Paul, for allowing me to feature your work!   Paul Brookes is a shop assistant who lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. He first performed at The Gulbenkian Theatre, Hull, and has since had his work broadcast on BBC Radio 3 “The Verb,” and videos of his “Self Isolation” sonnet series featured by Barnsley Museums and “Hear My Voice” (Barnsley). Paul’s chapbooks are: The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993), A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017 & 2018), The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), and As Folk Over Yonder (Afterworld Books, 2019). And, his recent sonnet collections are: As Folktaleteller (ImpSpired, 2022), These Random Acts of Wildness (Glass Head Press, 2023), and Othernesses (JCStudio Press, 2023). A poetry collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell resulted in Wonderland In Alice, plus other ways of seeing (JCStudio Press, 2021). Paul is Editor of The Wombwell Rainbow interviews, book reviews, and writing challenges. He also does photography commissions.
Welcome! This week's featured poet is the Editor of Winning Writers, who also happens to BE a winning writer...Jendi Reiter! Jendi has several books on the market and has earned multiple awards, including two from the prestigious, Poetry Society of America. Thank you, Jendi, for sharing "Ovotestes" (with special thanks and first publish credits to Mom Egg Review) and "Corpse Flower Studbook," both of which can be found in Made Man (Little Red Tree, 2022). Ovotestes  Corpse Flower Studbook    Jendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press, 2016), the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press, 2018), and five books of poetry, most recently Made Man (Little Red Tree, 2022) and Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree, 2015). Their awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry, the New Letters Prize for Fiction, the Wag's Revue Poetry Prize, the Bayou Magazine Editor's Prize in Fiction, and two awards from Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and Lascaux Prize for Fiction. They are the editor of WinningWriters.com, an online resource site which provides contests and markets for creative writers.
This week's featured poet is the very cool EIC of Ice Floe Press (see what I did there?), Robert Frede Kenter. Like last week's contributor (Merril Smith), Robert has shared two takes on the trinitas form which I have posted below. Be sure to check out his Bio as well, for more details about his writing endeavors. Thanks, Robert, for allowing me to feature your work! Scene #3  Unity/Disunity   Robert Frede Kenter is a Pushcart nominated poet, writer of prose, performer, editor, visual artist, multiple grant recipient and the EIC/Publisher of Ice Floe Press www.icefloepress.net. Recent print publications include the hybrid collection, EDEN (2021), and Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert has work in the Anthology, The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022), work is forthcoming in the Anthology, Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), and poems appear in Anthologies from FeversOfTheMind including Poets of 2020, and Avalanches in Poetry (2019), an homage to Leonard Cohen. Recent journal publications include: Cough, The Storms (forthcoming), Acropolis, CutbowQ, Feral, Erato, WatchYrHead, Anthropocene, Scissors and Spackle, Visual Verse, talking about strawberries all the time, and ongoing, weekly participation in U.K.’s Wombwell Rainbow #PoetryFormsChallenge project www.wombwellrainbow.com. Robert lives in Toronto with CFS/ME, sometimes sidelined, never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter, IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle.
Welcome to my new Featured Poets page! This week, I'm shining a spotlight on Merril D. Smith, who has demonstrated the trinitas form in her two poems, "Flight Paths," and "Rising." Thank you, Merril, for sharing your beautiful work.    Merril D. Smith is a poet who lives in southern New Jersey. Her work has been published in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Storms, Fevers of the Mind, and Nightingale and Sparrow. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Temple University and is the author/editor of numerous books on gender, sexuality, and history. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was Black Bough Poetry’s December 2022 Book of the Month. Twitter: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
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SHINE - International Poetry Series
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From the international poetry community, we have a "luxury of stars," as Sylvia Plath might say, and it is SHINE's honor to provide a home for their words with the online Spotlight series as well as SHINE Quarterly. Click on the logo above to learn more. And...keep writing, keep shining!
In poetry, Samantha Terrell, EIC SYLVIA PLATH
Stars Over the Dordogne Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
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