The Dust of Emotions - New Allpoetry Community Book Project (October 2022)

Kevin Watt, author and owner of allpoetry.com, is putting together another community book project featuring works from multiple poets and writers on the website.  I submitted my work for review and inclusion, marking my third time being involved with these projects.

Overall, I think Kevin and his team do a great job offering writers feedback on their work and compiling a great book with compelling design/structure.  I like to use these books to connect with other writers on the site and to see my progress as a poet over time.

The next book is entitled The Dust of Emotions and my poem entitled apothecary dust will be featured.  I figured the title and content of this piece was fitting for the title of the book.  I will post links of where to buy once it is out in mid-October on Amazon and bookstores.  

Cheers!

New Book Coming with Sasha Logan - Addresses and Intersections!

That's right, a new poetry book is being compiled as we speak featuring 13 of my original poems from the last 4 years of writing and travelling around America and Canada a drifter and a scientist to earn a living.  Sasha's half has 15 poems based on Tucson, gangs and struggling to get out.  Sasha recently traveled all around America and we are blessed to be able to learn from his journey. For these reasons, we have decided to title the book Addresses and Intersections.

The entire book centers around the theme of traveling and growing.  I am honored to have been asked to be included in this book by one of my childhood friends who moved away from my hometown of Cleveland, OH many years back.  This book marks our reuniting as creatives, wanderers, and queer warriors through the traumatic experiences that life throws at us.

We are intending to publish the book on Amazon KDP with an intended release date of Halloween 2022.  Copies will be available on Kindle as well as in paperback.  Both Sasha and I will have physical copies available in our stores also if you don't want to deal with Amazon.  Cheers!

Link to Sasha's AP:  https://allpoetry.com/Sasha_Logan 

Link to Sasha's Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT7mBFsvCOPNXeM5RUC0y163h0DKT2l5S 

Have a great day!

Moleskine Series (3)

I wrote a series of poems between 2018 and 2020 focusing mostly on mental health management.  Most of these poems read as very honest/personal diary entries.  Thus, I entitled the series as the "Moleskine Series" since I actively use Moleskine books as my diary.  I tried to keep the formatting and covers quite basic with these pieces to reflect the macabre/personal theme of each.

The style and message of these pieces are very different than the "Bio-Organic Surrealism"-based poems I have been reading to recently.  Most poems reflect a traumatizing moment, feeling, memory, or realization that occurred in my life. Each book contains 33 original poems and is around 60 pages.

P.S.  Kindle ($3) and paperback versions ($6) are available for each. 

Check out the link to the entire series here:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJJ6T16?searchxofy=true&binding=kindle_edition&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1653667873&sr=8-1

Book 1:  Moleskine #1: 33 Selected Poems published on Amazon KDP on Jul 11, 2019

Book #2:  Moleskine #2: 33 {More} Selected Poems published on Amazon KDP on Aug 2, 2020

Book #3:  Moleskine #3: 33 Extra Poems published on Amazon KDP on Jan 31, 2021

Footprints Through the Ash - An Allpoetry Collective Publication

Good morning everyone!

I wanted to share a link and some photos of the recent community book project that was put together by Kevin Watt over at Allpoetry.com (or AP for short).  Kevin and his team always do a lovely providing peer reviews of each entry, updating contributors on deadlines/shipping dates, and providing a professional finished project with nice cover art and internal formatting.

A poem that I wrote about a year ago now called "crystal surfaces" was approved for publication.  Previously, this piece was also selected as a "Front Page Pick" on AP.  The poem itself looks through an abstract/wiccan lens to find a commonality of grapefruit flesh and human flesh; denoting the interconnectedness of the universe and collective consciousness.  The poem is on page 20.

You can order you own copy of "Footprints through the Ash" and help support the largest community of online poetry content producers here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YR9NYMZ/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_2D6X2NTF6TN3JJC66FT9