Month: February 2021
the Fevers of the Mind General Interview with Abuh Monday Eneojo
1) Please describe your latest book, what about your book will intrigue the readers the most, and what is the theme, mood? Or If you have a blog or project please describe the concept of your project, blog, website
Abuh Monday: My latest book is Piary . It was published in 2019 in Ibadan, a city in Nigeria known for it’s aged lifestyle
and beautiful rooftops. Intrigue? Hmmmm…it is a poetic diary. Who doesn’t want to take a peek at ones
diary?
2) What frame of mind and ideas lead to you writing your current book?
Abuh Monday: Basically, Piary , is an anthology of poems that houses the mind blowing experience of poet who tries not
sell his humanity to feminism, sexism, culture, lewdness and a whole lot of things you may want to tag
as frivolous in the society. As a way of spicing up the art of…
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Poetry/Sonnet by Matthew da Silva : On my Way to New England
2 Poems by KC Bailey from Fevers of the Mind Press Presents the Poets of 2020 The Fog Surrounds Me & Do the Trees Sway or Do I?
The Fog Surrounds Me
The voices echo and repeat
become static blurs and sliding
vision. From nowhere
gloved hands muffle senses
people stand behind bulletproof glass –
fists pound, faces frown
wide-mouthed protests. I don’t hear them;
I am half
gone, they are almost memories –
false figments
trying to keep me conscious
as I sink beneath sensation
to the quickening pulse
awaken
shift of sight, fracture night-light
flashes of searing white
behind the lids
at the back of the eyes
the out of tune orchestra
wraps around the neocortex
blue roots shock the sky
split the dark
gravelled roofs roll with rumbling fury
and worlds fold
Do the Trees Sway, or Do I?
My mind is everywhere
and nowhere
lost and wandering –
absent searches
for old friends
for…
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The Day Squirrels Preach on the Front Page of Open Arts Forum
Just found my poem, The Day Squirrels Preach, on the FrontPage of “Open Arts Forum”! Thank you great editors and fellow poets in the forum who kindly featured the poem. Read the poem on the link below and the Farsi translation here.
روزی که سنجابها واعظ شوند
روزی فرا می رسد که سنجابی
از روی شاخه بلوط
به ایوان مادربزرگ می جهد
و به ما می آموزد
که چگونه اندوهمان را
در جامی از سوسن فرو ریزیم
چگونه الهام بخش آواره ای تهیدست شویم
که خانه ای پشمینه بسازد
چگونه همچون عطر آرامبخش اسطوخودوس
در هوا بخزیم
چگونه لباس بارانی پنجره شکسته را
ترمیم کنیم
و وقتی آنروزها از راه برسد
من دیگر عروسک وصله دار حیرت زده ای
بر شومینه مادر بزرگ نخواهم بود
و همچون گنجشکی بیچاره
از آب جوی نخواهم نوشید
An Incomplete List of Names by Michael Torres (Beacon Press)
Michael Torres is one of the great writers coming out of the Pomona Valley area where notables such as Sam Shepard, Kem Nunn and more lately Matt Sedillo, David Romero, and George Hammons have written from and about. Torres’s debut poetry collection, An Incomplete List of Names from Beacon Press is very much about the experience of coming from this area and how a place can work itself into a person. It’s an exceptional work that is in part about how Pomona colors the way he sees and relates to the world, and the ways that the world relates to him.
Torres has moved out of Pomona and now lives in a college town in Minnesota where he teaches, but he describes the pain and awkwardness of carrying his past and his own expectations for himself with him. He writes:
I’m at a couch at
the professor’s house. And there…
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Poem in The Tide Rises
I’m pleased to have my poem “Sea Glass” published in The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls literary journal. It’s a journal devoted to ocean-themed poetry. My thanks to editor Wyeth Renwick. The timing is especially nice because today is the now-grown “little sprite’s” birthday, and her sister’s birthday was a few days ago. You can read the poem here.
Wednesday Writing Prompt — The Poetry Shed
The List Poem List poems can be a great way of approaching your writing, building up a bank of ideas and expanding on them to draw out the poem within. When tackling a list poem think about the relationship between the items on the list and the order in which they appear. Remember a poem […]
Wednesday Writing Prompt — The Poetry Shed
The Wombwell Rainbow 