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[poetwriterme]

Thanks to the Mass Poetry Festival

Thanks to the Massachusetts Poetry Festival for sponsoring our reading of Alzheimer’s Poems. I read with some amazing poets: Gail Thomas, Christine Jones and Eric Hyatt. It was a great experience! I’ll be blogging on Thursdays. Follow me here.

[finishinglinepress]

A Poem by Gregory Opstad

https://paddockreview.com/2025/01/09/a-poem-by-gregory-opstad/

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[itisonlymilk]

Nothing like a cold cup of oat milk & some sad poetry on a hot day🥛🤍

My poetry chapbook, Its Only Milk, available where books are sold!

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

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[leahhuetemaines]

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Where Things Start by Luba Ostashevsky

PREORDER NOW: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/where-things-start-by-luba-ostashevsky/

Luba Ostashevsky teaches chemistry at a high school in North Brooklyn and works as a literary agent. She immigrated from the Soviet Union with her family as a child. Her verse and short fiction have been published in Orbis, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Broad River Review, The Cape Rock,Newtown Literary, Straight Forward Poetry, New Engagement and The Cortland Review. She lives in Queens, NY.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR Where Things Start by Luba Ostashevsky

The title of this beautiful collection is so apt: in these poems, we indeed experience “the pleasure of not knowing what comes next”, which is one of the great pleasures poetry can give. In other words, we are constantly surprised by where these poems go: they will move from beautiful and close observation of the natural world; to a childhood memory of Soviet Russia; to meditations on scientific phenomena; to the experience of love, sexuality, parenthood, and day to day life in the city. This is Ostashevsky’s world: rich, delightful, analytical, deeply felt. The poet brings the entirety of her self into her work, the entirety of a life being lived. She transforms its complexities into surprising pleasures. Her implicit questions to us: should a poem be any less mysterious than life itself? Isn’t there great pleasure to be had in not knowing what comes next?

–Geoffrey Nutter, author of Cities of Dawn

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[firsteditionbookblog]

Glad to find this in the mailbox today. Her first chapbook, Lacy Snapp (@lunaswoodcraft) is a carpenter and poet from Johnson City Tennessee and I’ve found the work intriguing and honest. Her woodworking poems are astounding. Looking forward to a full length collection. I’ve posted the poem Lore here #lacysnapp #shadowsonwood #finishinglinepress #rarebooks #firstedition #bookcollection #bookcollecting #bookcollection #bibliophile #bookporn #bookhunting #bookstagram #modernfirsts #modernfirsteditions #finebooks #signedbooks #shelfie #southernliterature #southernlit #tennessee #appalachianlit #appalachianliterature #kentucky #northcarolina #virginia #westvirginia #appalachianpoetry #lore https://www.instagram.com/therarebookhunter/p/CXP0y1xM1e-/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lisa-rhodes-ryabchich]

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Hello Friends —-My new poetry manuscript is available for presale from https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/Breaking-out-of-the-Cocoon-by-lisa-rhodes-ryabchich

If you purchase now it helps the books run. I am offering two prizes 1. For the 50th book purchaser and 2. For the winner of a grab bag. Just post your receipt on FB and it will enter you in the contest. Choose between Mug or book bag with books cover.

Video:

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[aryafj]

POET/WRITER

Arya F Jenkins’s work has appeared in #journals and #zines such as Agave Magazine, Black Scat Review, Brilliant Corners, Blue Heron Review, Cider Press Review, Cleaver Magazine, Dying Dahlia Review, The Feminist Wire, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Front Porch Review, KYSO Flash, The Matador Review, Metafore Literary Magazine, Mojave Literary Review, Otis Nebula, Provincetown Arts Magazine, and The Ekphrastic Review. She has been published in at least five anthologies. She writes jazz fiction for Jerry Jazz Musician, an online zine.

Her poetry chapbooks are: JEWEL FIRE (AllBook Books, 2011), SILENCE HAS A NAME (Finishing Line Press, 2016). 

Her collection of jazz-inspired short stories, BLUE SONGS IN AN OPEN KEY is scheduled for publication by Fomite Press on Nov. 1, 2018.

[yourdisappointedarms]

Ah yes...always stoked for b day books in the mail. Especially ones signed and written by the f’ing amazing Jessica Jewel @budajest !! Love you!! #poetry #ohiopoets #booksinthemail #dustrunner #finishinglinepress https://www.instagram.com/p/B9m_JLMBFj-/?igshid=16hwnegm631om

[ginamariewilliams1]

Dream a little dream...

Dream a little dream…

I dreamed of being a writer as a kid. I guess I’ve succeeded, thanks to lots of support from family, friends, teachers, and publishers along the way. These images are of my first book of poetry, “published” when I was 9 years old. I scored a blue ribbon and lunch with an author.

I hope my poetry has improved since then, but my passion for language and writing hasn’t waned.

Thank you to…

[kathleenmccoypoet-blog]

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[poetwriterme]

Thank You to My Publisher, Leah Maines of Finishing Line Press, for her Support of My Finalist Status in Poetry in the International Book Awards

Thank You to My Publisher, Leah Maines of Finishing Line Press, for her Support of My Finalist Status in Poetry in the International Book Awards

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/awards/

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A Poem by Betty Les

https://paddockreview.com/2025/01/15/a-poem-by-betty-les/

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[itisonlymilk]

A poem from my poetry chapbook, “It’s Only Milk”, published in 2019 with Finishing Line Press.

My book is available here:

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[leahhuetemaines]

New Deadline Sept. 15, 2022.

https://finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit/222378/new-womens-voices-chapbook-competition

A prize of $1,500, royalty contract, and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually for a poetry chapbook by a writer who identifies as a woman and has not yet published a full-length collection.

Leah Huete de Maines will judge.

Submit a manuscript of 16 to 30 pages of poetry plus bio, title page, and acknowledgments

with a $20 entry fee by September 15, 2022.

We do allow hybrid manuscripts in addition to traditional poetry manuscripts: prose poetry or formal verse.

We do allow art to be included with the manuscript. Please follow page count guidelines. One page of art is equal to one page of poetry.

All entries are considered for publication.

Christen Kincaid, Editor.