Publication News-Fall/Winter Hi Poets and Friends, Sorry for my silence. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to post anything. I’m healing beautifully after my recent bunion surgery on my left foot. I also need to find a less toxic job in January/ February that would suit my needs as a human being and give me time to write and socialize. Will be back with Brownstone Poets Anthology news after Christmas. In February, Brownstones will be back on track with readings and the 2014 Anthology readings at Barnes and Noble and Park Plaza Restaurant. Right now, I need to mend and focus on the present. Have a happy holiday season! Pattie PUBLICATIONS: The 13 Days Of Halloween by Local Gems Press Day 5 – October 23, 2014 Halloween Teeth the sound of drills jack olantern smiles under construction jack olantern smiles the curse of too much Halloween candy jagged teeth jack o lanterns in need of dentures dental phobia your insurance wont cover another crown the economy scarier than being drilled by Freddy Krueger --Patricia Carragon I shared the space with Jillian Roath and Narges Rothermel ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nomad’s Choir, Fall 2014, Vol.22, Issue 4 Saffron and Gold-Haibun (For Sweta Srivastava Vikram) SAFFRON AND GOLD—HAIBUN (For Sweta Srivastava Vikram) I traveled to India in a dream. The saffron and gold colors inspired me to write about it. After waking up, I thought about the colors described in Sweta Srivastava Vikram’s book, Kaleidoscope. But I didn’t write about my vivid experience until recently. The dream was hypnotic. The magnetic force from a Hindu man’s words pulled me eastward. Warm hues covered the southeastern section of the globe and the scene shifted to a Hindu temple. I woke up happy and contented. These colors held a special message. These colors are giving me the joy to heal through yoga. saffron and gold the dream is a journey saffron and gold the dream lives in another hemisphere saffron and gold the sky and earth in perfect balance saffron and gold colors illuminate southeast asia saffron and gold a temple bathes in perfect daylight saffron and gold a voice pulls me eastward saffron and gold colors of joy colors that heal Patricia Carragon May 2011 In this issue, there are wonderful poets: Garrett B. Robinson, Alexandra Portal, Steven Baker, Linda Lerner, Bob Heman, Valerie Stephens, Joseph Rebis, Jr., Maria Chisolm, Bill Pyles, Marilyn Thomas-King, Austin Alexis, Richard Fein, Kriste A. Matrisch, and more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 Haiku Calendar (Allbook Books) like dervishes seedpods glide off trees --------------------------------- veins on leaves my tree’s hands touch mine --Patricia Carragon Artists in 2015 Haiku Calendar from allbook-books Nancy Abraham Elena Botts Thomas Brinson Paula Camacho Patricia Carragon Chris Clendenin Jeanne Clendenin steve dalachinsky Betsey Dickerson Adam D. Fisher Tiokasin Ghosthorse Geraldine Green Russ Green Stacey Gunnard Barbara Harris Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Patrice Hasbrook Linda Marie Hilton Lucas Hunt Bill Kenney Maria Manobianco Sheila Mardenfeld A. Molotkov MariJo Moore Chris Nicola George H. Northrup, PhD Yuko Otomo Kaveri Patel Tony Quagliano Bev Robertson Narges Rothermel Robert Savino Keith Simmons Paul Smith Ash Straw Patti Tana Lynne Weixel, PhD Kay J. Wight Ginger Williams ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Avocet, #102 November 26, 2014 under Brooklyn sun my hair gets copper highlights treetops airbrushed red --Patricia Carragon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry Fall 2014 veins on leaves my tree’s hands touch mine ------------------------- lamppost moon sunshine leaves autumn nocturne ------------------------------------------- leaves somersault on sidewalks autumn breeze --Patricia Carragon I am happy to be in this issue with George Held, Mary Jo Balistreri, Charles Portolano, Erica Mapp, and more. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming: The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry Winter 2014 like confectioners sugar on Christmas cookies snowflakes on pine cones ------------------------------------------ my maple tree stripped down to its “fig leaf” -------------------------------- nighttime silhouettes naked branches shadow dance behind blinds --Patricia Carragon -------------------------------------------------------- The Alternative New Years Day Spoken Word/ Performance Extravaganza 2015 Anthology (Rogues Scholars Press 2015) New Utrecht Avenue --> New Utrecht Avenue: Bite into its letters— tastes like Brooklyn, the heart of Brooklyn. Raw and crusty, tough like the cast-iron frame of the El above. New Utrecht Avenue, ungentrified, guttural, honest, no B.S., working class. Name is Dutch as in Breukelen— remembers the Brooklyn of old, Brooklyn Dodger old, Abraham & Straus old. Mamma’s spaghetti sauce, Bubbie’s potato kugel, egg creams and Ebinger’s cakes, stickball and rock’n’roll doo woppers, the real Honeymooners of Bensonhurst. New Utrecht Avenue, Old School Brooklyn, Saturday Night Fever Brooklyn in faded photographs and on scratched 45s. Can’t fight the changes in the ’hood, just ride the D train to Coney Island— demographic shifts are everywhere, in language and the shops along its route. But New Utrecht Avenue is still New Utrecht Avenue. Bite into its letters— tastes like Brooklyn, the heart of Brooklyn. Raw and crusty, tough like the cast-iron frame of the El above. --Patricia Carragon
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:08:04 +0000
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