The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible.
What?
A crazy project in which 76 poetry e-books were freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.
Throughout November we collected e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.
Then on December 1st, for a 24 hour period, anyone was able to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they liked…a poetry e-book free-for-all.
Look for the 19th annual E-Book Free-For-All on December 1st, 2023
E-Books:
A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo
(downloaded 35 times)
‘The guests from the heavenly vault: stars, moon, sun, comets, feed my words and provide them with a relentless lymph. So do the many spots, and people whom I happen to stumble upon. So do fragments from conversations I happen to have overheard.
A Different Current by Patrice M. Wilson
(downloaded 33 times)
This chapbook is my "take" on what it means to be a person "of color."
http://pmwilsonpoet.com
A History of Belated Premontions by John Sweet
(downloaded 35 times)
Compassionate nihilism, just like your mother used to make.
https://bleedinghorse.blogspot.com/
a world of struggle by Walter Hoelbling
(downloaded 23 times)
An always curious, sometimes harsh, sometimes humorous look on developments on our globe – society, politics, politicians, and events – in short, my very personal impressions about the goings on that happen all around me.
Ahwatukee Summer by David Chorlton
(downloaded 32 times)
Ahwatukee is a district in southern Phoenix where I live with a view of South Mountain. These poems describe instances of natural and urban life here.
http://davidchorlton.mysite.com
BAVARIAN HOME / BAYERISCH HEIMAT by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 26 times)
The combined content of TWO Origami Poems Project microchap(books) with poems in English and German, reflecting on the authors ancestry and visits to his great grandfathers hometown in Bayern.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
(downloaded 28 times)
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir (Poetica Publishing) is the story of a Canadian woman on an inner and outer journey to find a home. As the granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors, she travels to Israel and Europe (1997-2005) to explore
https://lindsaysoberano.com
CE 1-7; Poetry of Contact Volume One by Tish Eastman
(downloaded 33 times)
CE 1-7: Poetry of Contact is an anthology series, of poems by experiencers of Close Encounters of the First Kind (seeing a UFO) through the Seventh Kind (hybridization). This is an excerpt from Volume One: poems written by the Editor of the anthology.
https://dragontearsmedia.com/
Cityscapes by F. J. Bergmann
(downloaded 27 times)
"Cityscapes" is a long poem in sections, which won the Long Form division of the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association poetry contest.
Concupiscent Consumption by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
(downloaded 26 times)
Sophisticated, playful, and poignant erotic verses for anyone who has ever been lost in love. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
Dancing Under the Moon by Joan Leotta
(downloaded 44 times)
A mini collection of poems on the subject of the moon and enjoying it.
Another Origami Press freebie
Daughters of Invention by E. Amato
(downloaded 27 times)
The poems in Daughters of Invention inquire into female experience from the mundane to the divine.
https://ko-fi.com/eamato
Do You Believe in Magic? by Carolyn Croop
(downloaded 27 times)
A compilation of poems of love, magic and more.
http://authorcarolyncroop.com
Dreamy sonnets by Paweł Markiewicz
(downloaded 22 times)
The chapbook, consisting of only sonnets. They enchant the souls of readers and have a power of dreamy, moony imagination.
https://pawelek3.wixsite.com/haikuonleaves
Duane's PoeTree Posting by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 20 times)
Five poems on misc subjects posted on Duane's PoeTree (no relation to the author) on 25 uly 2020.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Eleven by Alshaad Kara
(downloaded 18 times)
Eleven incorporates ten poems which are each different from one another. They are unique and transports the readers to different worlds, contexts and themes.
https://www.instagram.com/teamalshaadkara/?hl=en
Exit L. A. by Jerry Garcia
(downloaded 35 times)
New and selected poems about Los Angeles written by a native Angeleno.
http://gratefulnotdead.com
Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo
(downloaded 33 times)
Fib Sequence contains arachnids, jealous women, the Fibonacci sequence and a few choice nasty words. Enjoy!
http://larissashmailo.com
Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era by Cheryl Caesar
(downloaded 24 times)
Flatman follows the outrages of the Trump administration, from his first playground taunts of ABC reporter Cecilia Vega through his helpful suggestions to water-bomb an 800-year old cathedral. From "Flatman" to "The Parasite," this book chronicles the reign of a villain in villanelles–and other poetic forms.
http://caesarc.msu.domains/
Fragments of Yesterdays Past by Melissa Mendelson
(downloaded 24 times)
Fragments of Yesterdays Past poetically whispers through the corridors of this broken world as we linger, struggling to capture a past now gone, memories abandoned, leaving us with mistakes that have torn us in two, and the cruel hands of circuitry steal away what makes us human.
Fragments: A Poetry Sampler by James Thomas Fletcher
(downloaded 28 times)
Sample poems from eleven books. I am an eclectic poet and herein you will find: serious, humorous, family, nature, letter, ekphrastic, even Covid poems. I hope you find much to ponder. I want to leave you with more than pretty descriptions. I want my words to sink into you.
https://linktr.ee/jamesthomasfletcher
Freedom by Rosalind Lee
(downloaded 16 times)
A selection of poems (well perhaps) written this year – hopefully not enough to make you all sick!
Gifts of Nature by Joan Leotta
(downloaded 30 times)
This chapbook of nature poems won an honorable mention in the Olivieri 2019 contest.
GOD TOO AWAITS LIGHT by Ram Krishna Singh
(downloaded 26 times)
The book, ISBN 9781975993849, earlier published by Cholla Needles, Joshua Tree, CA in 2017, is a collection of the poet's haiku and tanka, experimentally arranged in a sequence to develop an inner movement from outer observations.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
Happenings, Heartbeats, and Mental Breakdowns by M. B. Manthe
(downloaded 30 times)
This collection explores love, grief, tangled family relationships, and the author's lifelong struggle with depression. The poems also reflect the power of words to bring hope and healing, and to remind us we aren't alone. Includes fifty poems, plus an essay entitled "Losing Everything But Our Appetites."
https://lightedlakepress.com/
High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
(downloaded 26 times)
High Wire Step is a collection of poems that engages deeply with political issues, from the impact of violence, oppression, and human arrogance to the power of empathy, collective consciousness, and humility, moving organically between time and space, an urban and a wild landscape and between despair and hopefulness.
http://www.magdalenaball.com
Hotel Poems by LB Sedlacek
(downloaded 26 times)
How do you choose a hotel? LB Sedlacek has to have a pool! Go on vacation with her to find out why she thinks hotels (and poems) are a home away from home in these new poems written in Lawrenceville, GA outside of Atlanta.
http://www.lbsedlacek.com
Just A Girl from Plano by Antasia Shabria Armour
(downloaded 22 times)
This is a work I've been wanting to write I didn't know it was going to be for a live site for a day or less though, so it was in my own heart. To describe life as a outsider being the only one in the family to live so.
http://shabria.square.site
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.1 by Don Campbell
(downloaded 30 times)
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Campbell's Travels, How Did Heaven Begin, Joe Sphincter, The Rectangular Sky, Vomiting For God, Dream Rooms, In the Sea of Dolphins, Story of San Diego, Eve Eve, Before We Died, Jelly, The Latest Headlines, and six more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.2 by Don Campbell
(downloaded 22 times)
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Break Up, Surrender, Memory, Riot Poem, A Bowl, A Gerund Life, A Slice of Dead Tree, Bamboo Discipline, Brothers, Creativity, Dead Still, Dear All, Descent, Entering The John Muir Wilderness, Eroticus Uninterruptus, French Toast, and eight more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.3 by Don Campbell
(downloaded 23 times)
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Green, Little Miss Metaphor, Man Made World, Room 222A, Sphere, The Artist, The Designer, The Earth, The Freeway, Vietnam, Whittier Blvd 8/29/70, Alhambra Sunrise, Death Waits, Edgar Winter Again, Five Hours, Of Knowledge, and four more…
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Languages, First and Last by Lauren Scharhag
(downloaded 20 times)
This collection focuses on family, femininity, and Latinx identity, as well as bodies, illness, and caregiving. These poems straddle divides—white and non-white, American and foreign-born, healthy and unhealthy, middle-class and barely scraping by. Most of all, these poems explore what we inherit and what we leave behind.
http://laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/
limo casket by Lori Lasseter Hamilton
(downloaded 17 times)
"limo casket" speeds by you like an angry hearse driver, racing through short, fast poems that crucify the patriarchy, racism, the male gaze, and the rape culture.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054942854441
Lunar Locus by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 24 times)
Poems celebaring the prairie landscape.
A microchap(book) from Origami Poems Project, 2021, re-formatted as an ebook.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Melange by David Eberhardt
(downloaded 20 times)
A quirky and alarmist bunch from an 81 year old poet-describing self as an Elizabethan/goth and outlaw poet.
Morning by Morning by Joan Leotta
(downloaded 24 times)
Micro chapbook of poems celebrating dawn published by origami press as pdf, has a cover, is a one page foldable book
Mother and I: Nine Poems by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 16 times)
Nine poems highlighting the fraught relationship between my mother and myself.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com
Musings on a Native Life by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 23 times)
Poems reflecting on the authors unknown Native heritage.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
My Silence by Ram Krishna Singh
(downloaded 14 times)
The book is my maiden collection of poems published in 1985 and now out-of-print, though it is included in a volume of my Collected Poems, Sense and Silence, published in 2010.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
Nasty Girls by Lynne Bronstein
(downloaded 34 times)
Poems about women throughout history who defied the moral standards of their time by doing their thing, sexually and otherwise. These poems are in the words of the women themselves (at least as the author imagines their words).
Nature Calls by Branwen Drew
(downloaded 21 times)
This book is about nature seen through the eyes of a poet. It includes her artwork and photography as well.
https://branwendrew.substack.com/p/links
Ocean is My Name by Seshendra Sharma
(downloaded 13 times)
Ocean is My Name, a long poem is gift to poetry lovers and Seshendra’s admirers
https://kinige.com/book/Ocean+is+My+Name
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.com
On Neither Side by Patrice M. Wilson
(downloaded 14 times)
I had in mind Aristotle's Golden Mean when I wrote the first poem, also the title poem, in this chapbook. I hope the other poems in the collection reflect something more specific than the generalized scenario in the first poem.
https://pmwilsonpoet.com
ON THE NATURE OF REALITY AND OUR CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE by Eve T. Reed
(downloaded 21 times)
There are many ways of looking at life.You need to choose your conception of reality. My poetry has been greatly affected by Dante, which is why I use Cantos. It is a journey both physical and metaphysical.
https://artblazer.com
Our Dogs Are Getting Old by Michael Estabrook
(downloaded 23 times)
A collection of 28 “composite” poems based upon influential quotations from various philosophers and poets, playwrights and novelists, ancient and modern from Aeschylus to Thomas Wolfe. These cover many topics such as pain, dreams, medicine, love, wisdom, beauty, courage, music, jealousy, time, God, and the Devil.
https://michaelestabrook.org/
Out of Alphabetical Order by Charles Perrone
(downloaded 26 times)
Well, the title gives an idea of the non-normative approach of this modest collection. These are risk-taking and unafraid lyrical instances expressing the perplexity of life in the second decade of the 21st century. Neat cover / back cover images too! If nothing else, look at them.
Plaster of Kalinka by Christian Garduno
(downloaded 39 times)
"Plaster of Kalinka" is a collection of twenty poems published by Christian Garduno from May to November 2021.
https://linktr.ee/ChristianGardunoWriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=1855f8a1-19ca-4164-b09d-07c56152de13
Poetry Explained by Robin Dake
(downloaded 17 times)
A three-year collection of poems with descriptions of each poem, giving the reader a chance to understand how outside forces helped create inside art. The collection features poetry of Pentecost, Pandemic and Protest.
Poetry from Ryecroft Hall by K. Scott-Fuchs
(downloaded 16 times)
A Collection of Poetry and Verse by K. Scott-Fuchs. (Please disregard my two previous submissions, they were set in error).
Prairie Perspectives by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 16 times)
A brief collection of poems celebrating the prairie landscape and its emotions.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Prairie's Voice by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 14 times)
A collection of 27 poems about the prairie.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
queer-E-book by James Penha
(downloaded 23 times)
Selected recently-published poems by James Penha: some funny, some sad, some weird, some shocking, some sexy, all queer.
https://jamespenha.com
Rust by Jim Babwe
(downloaded 23 times)
15 examples of why I did not pursue a chemistry degree in college.
http://www.recursivemultimedia.com
sassafras, jelly, gumblo by Lillian Necakov
(downloaded 21 times)
A wee book of poems inspired by "how to" books. These pieces are "prayers navigating their way through buttonholes".
Satan in Chicago by Eric Evans
(downloaded 28 times)
Poems inspired by Ray Bradbury, terracotta soldiers, judgmental crows, and the beauty of the perfect mixtape. And, of course, Satan roaming around in Chicago.
https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysite
Selected Poems by Dave Lewis
(downloaded 26 times)
Twenty four poems from eight published collections.
http://www.david-lewis.co.uk
SHE by Ram Krishna Singh
(downloaded 16 times)
The book is a collection of about 50 selected haiku celebrating woman that makes man complete. It is e-published under the aegis of Arabic Haiku Club.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
SIXSEVEN by Charles A. Perrone
(downloaded 17 times)
Poems of the early twenty-first century (after 2001!) in my idiosyncratic voice with multiple influences, from rock and roll to concrete poetry. Including a poem about naming our new cat!
The publisher is moriapoetry; it's worthwhile to track down the meanings of that apt word.
So Be It by Ralph Culver
(downloaded 24 times)
"[In *So Be It*] Culver reveals himself as someone remarkably observant…. In this modern era—which sometimes feels dystopian, with suffering seeming like the most predominant force—(Culver) reminds readers of the power of beauty, joy, and love in nature, relationships, and even the tedium of our daily lives." —Despy Boutris, *Entropy*
https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Culver/e/B079Q5JNSK
Soul Songs by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 25 times)
Poems reflecting and rejoicing in the spiritual life.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Stumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber
(downloaded 24 times)
Welcome to CrazyTown! Open the pages of this brutally honest poetry chapbook and stumble along with Peggy Gerber as she takes readers on an emotional journey through mental illness and back again. Let's banish the stigma against mental illness.
http://peggysue445.wixsite.com/my=site
SURFACING by Annest Gwilym
(downloaded 25 times)
Charting the haunting, complex submergence of a mental health breakdown, the slippery internals of struggle are given voice with stark clarity. Unsettling images ripple their silver with a strangeness that lingers. For all the pain and darkness underwater, for every breath held in, these poems surface: bright and triumphant.
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilym
Sweet Scented Streams by Duane L Herrmann
(downloaded 18 times)
Poems of a devotional, but not Christian, perspective.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Terrain, An Origami Destination by Ellen Sander
(downloaded 21 times)
An origami chapbook (just one cut) For assembly instructions go https://www.origamipoems.com/who-we-are/folding-an-origami-book This is a journey over emotional and geographical headlands toward an authentic home. This site originally published this work.
http://ellensander.com
The Road – TAO by Germain Droogenbroodt
(downloaded 16 times)
The Road, published in Chinese and Japanese as TAO, is philosophical, written in 1997 in India, containing poems warning for climate change, is also prophetic poetry. With references to Greek and Eastern philosophy, it is an international poetic bridge.
http://www.point-editions.com
The Smoke Detector Gives Its Death Beep by Rick Lupert
(downloaded 74 times)
New poems from Rick Lupert including selections from the forthcoming collection "The Low Country Shvitz."
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/
THINGS by Jennifer Nuesi
(downloaded 23 times)
In her visual poetry book collection, THINGS gives shape to the invisible anxieties that boldly linger on the walls of our lives. Journey through depression, heartbreak, and sorrow while biting back the cruelty that anxiety brings.
https://www.penofthepeople.com/things-book
Three quarters of a personality by Anna Capstick
(downloaded 22 times)
A compilation of poetry specifically about humans, concerning sin, love, hatred and general encounters faced by us all.
TIGHT FIT by Ted Burke
(downloaded 24 times)
A selection of recent poems roughly in the manner of Frank O'Hara and Thomas Lux. Irony, hopeful fatalism, an amused rethinking of sober experience in a world that will not bend to my will, the poems are a record of someone who retains the capacity to be surprised.
http://www.ted-burke.com
Tony's story by Anthony Kirk
(downloaded 23 times)
This is my first chapbook publication. Its inspiration is drawn from my travels in the Charente. and Dordogne over the past three years
Tropical Strands by Lorraine Caputo
(downloaded 20 times)
Pack your bags for a poetic journey to the Caribbean coast of Honduras!
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com
Utopian Problems by Jean-Paul Garnier
(downloaded 23 times)
A mini-chapbook of poems addressing possible issues associated with making a utopia work for everyone.
https://spacecowboybooks.com/
Vipercity by Vincent Zepp
(downloaded 14 times)
'These are the poems of an accomplished artist and a compassionate, complex thinker'…..
WHAT THE OWL TAUGHT ME by Annest Gwilym
(downloaded 29 times)
This is a rich and intense read that puts humanity mostly in the background and natural life in the foreground like a lifelong love affair. What the Owl Taught Me is full of poems of frailty with an underpinning strength that allows for delight on every printed page. James Bell
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilym
When All Else Falters by Patrice M. Wilson
(downloaded 18 times)
This was my first published chapbook, which contains poems that move through various themes related to how one feels and what one might do or think "when all else falters" (I changed "fails" to "falters" to avoid the finality of the cliche).
https://pmwilsonpoet.com
Women Who Were Warned by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
(downloaded 35 times)
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, 29 poems in "Women Who Were Warned" emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood — and the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://youtu.be/Ga9QXeQVPnE
What?
A crazy project in which your poetry e-books will be freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.
Throughout November we will collect e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.
Then on December 1st, for a 24 hour period, a special website will go live with links to all of the e-books. For 24 hours anyone will be free to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they like…a poetry e-book free-for-all.
How?
To participate, read all of the guidelines below and then click on our Online Submission form. That’s it. It’s simple. By doing so, your e-book will be included.
The E-Book has to be written by you.
E-books should be in PDF Format for universal compatibility with anyone’s computer.
If you have an e-book in Microsoft Word or another format, please convert it to PDF. One way to do this (if you don’t know how) is to visit the website http://www.freepdfconvert.com/. From there you will be allowed to select the file on your computer which will uploaded and e-mailed back to you in PDF format.
When creating your e-book file, please keep it smaller than 1 megabyte.
Once you’ve created your e-book (not before), click on our Online Submission Form to join in!
Do not fill out the form and then e-mail us your e-book later. Please fill out the form and use it to upload your e-book to us.
We are not accepting e-books or submissions by e-mail. The only way to join in is by clicking on the Online Submission Form below.
On December 1 at Midnight (the evening of November 30), we will distribute a special e-mail letting people know the location of the web page with links to all of the e-book files. People will be free to download any or all of the titles and your poetry will be freely, electronically, travelling all over the world. This web page will go off line 24 hours later at Midnight on December 2nd.
We will also list your e-book and description on this web page along with the link to your website for all to see.
To submit your book, please go to our
ONLINE SUBMISSION FORME-Books In So Far:
A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo
‘The guests from the heavenly vault: stars, moon, sun, comets, feed my words and provide them with a relentless lymph. So do the many spots, and people whom I happen to stumble upon. So do fragments from conversations I happen to have overheard.
A Different Current by Patrice M. Wilson
This chapbook is my "take" on what it means to be a person "of color."
http://pmwilsonpoet.comA History of Belated Premontions by John Sweet
Compassionate nihilism, just like your mother used to make.
https://bleedinghorse.blogspot.com/a world of struggle by Walter Hoelbling
An always curious, sometimes harsh, sometimes humorous look on developments on our globe – society, politics, politicians, and events – in short, my very personal impressions about the goings on that happen all around me.
Ahwatukee Summer by David Chorlton
Ahwatukee is a district in southern Phoenix where I live with a view of South Mountain. These poems describe instances of natural and urban life here.
http://davidchorlton.mysite.comBAVARIAN HOME / BAYERISCH HEIMAT by Duane L Herrmann
The combined content of TWO Origami Poems Project microchap(books) with poems in English and German, reflecting on the authors ancestry and visits to his great grandfathers hometown in Bayern.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeCasa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir (Poetica Publishing) is the story of a Canadian woman on an inner and outer journey to find a home. As the granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors, she travels to Israel and Europe (1997-2005) to explore
https://lindsaysoberano.comCE 1-7; Poetry of Contact Volume One by Tish Eastman
CE 1-7: Poetry of Contact is an anthology series, of poems by experiencers of Close Encounters of the First Kind (seeing a UFO) through the Seventh Kind (hybridization). This is an excerpt from Volume One: poems written by the Editor of the anthology.
https://dragontearsmedia.com/Cityscapes by F. J. Bergmann
"Cityscapes" is a long poem in sections, which won the Long Form division of the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association poetry contest.
Concupiscent Consumption by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sophisticated, playful, and poignant erotic verses for anyone who has ever been lost in love. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfgDancing Under the Moon by Joan Leotta
A mini collection of poems on the subject of the moon and enjoying it.
Another Origami Press freebie
Daughters of Invention by E. Amato
The poems in Daughters of Invention inquire into female experience from the mundane to the divine.
https://ko-fi.com/eamatoDo You Believe in Magic? by Carolyn Croop
A compilation of poems of love, magic and more.
http://authorcarolyncroop.comDreamy sonnets by Paweł Markiewicz
The chapbook, consisting of only sonnets. They enchant the souls of readers and have a power of dreamy, moony imagination.
https://pawelek3.wixsite.com/haikuonleavesDuane's PoeTree Posting by Duane L Herrmann
Five poems on misc subjects posted on Duane's PoeTree (no relation to the author) on 25 uly 2020.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeEleven by Alshaad Kara
Eleven incorporates ten poems which are each different from one another. They are unique and transports the readers to different worlds, contexts and themes.
https://www.instagram.com/teamalshaadkara/?hl=enExit L. A. by Jerry Garcia
New and selected poems about Los Angeles written by a native Angeleno.
http://gratefulnotdead.comFib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo
Fib Sequence contains arachnids, jealous women, the Fibonacci sequence and a few choice nasty words. Enjoy!
http://larissashmailo.comFlatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era by Cheryl Caesar
Flatman follows the outrages of the Trump administration, from his first playground taunts of ABC reporter Cecilia Vega through his helpful suggestions to water-bomb an 800-year old cathedral. From "Flatman" to "The Parasite," this book chronicles the reign of a villain in villanelles–and other poetic forms.
http://caesarc.msu.domains/Fragments of Yesterdays Past by Melissa Mendelson
Fragments of Yesterdays Past poetically whispers through the corridors of this broken world as we linger, struggling to capture a past now gone, memories abandoned, leaving us with mistakes that have torn us in two, and the cruel hands of circuitry steal away what makes us human.
Fragments: A Poetry Sampler by James Thomas Fletcher
Sample poems from eleven books. I am an eclectic poet and herein you will find: serious, humorous, family, nature, letter, ekphrastic, even Covid poems. I hope you find much to ponder. I want to leave you with more than pretty descriptions. I want my words to sink into you.
https://linktr.ee/jamesthomasfletcherFreedom by Rosalind Lee
A selection of poems (well perhaps) written this year – hopefully not enough to make you all sick!
Gifts of Nature by Joan Leotta
This chapbook of nature poems won an honorable mention in the Olivieri 2019 contest.
GOD TOO AWAITS LIGHT by Ram Krishna Singh
The book, ISBN 9781975993849, earlier published by Cholla Needles, Joshua Tree, CA in 2017, is a collection of the poet's haiku and tanka, experimentally arranged in a sequence to develop an inner movement from outer observations.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comHappenings, Heartbeats, and Mental Breakdowns by M. B. Manthe
This collection explores love, grief, tangled family relationships, and the author's lifelong struggle with depression. The poems also reflect the power of words to bring hope and healing, and to remind us we aren't alone. Includes fifty poems, plus an essay entitled "Losing Everything But Our Appetites."
https://lightedlakepress.com/High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
High Wire Step is a collection of poems that engages deeply with political issues, from the impact of violence, oppression, and human arrogance to the power of empathy, collective consciousness, and humility, moving organically between time and space, an urban and a wild landscape and between despair and hopefulness.
http://www.magdalenaball.comHotel Poems by LB Sedlacek
How do you choose a hotel? LB Sedlacek has to have a pool! Go on vacation with her to find out why she thinks hotels (and poems) are a home away from home in these new poems written in Lawrenceville, GA outside of Atlanta.
http://www.lbsedlacek.comJust A Girl from Plano by Antasia Shabria Armour
This is a work I've been wanting to write I didn't know it was going to be for a live site for a day or less though, so it was in my own heart. To describe life as a outsider being the only one in the family to live so.
http://shabria.square.siteKingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.1 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Campbell's Travels, How Did Heaven Begin, Joe Sphincter, The Rectangular Sky, Vomiting For God, Dream Rooms, In the Sea of Dolphins, Story of San Diego, Eve Eve, Before We Died, Jelly, The Latest Headlines, and six more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.comKingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.2 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Break Up, Surrender, Memory, Riot Poem, A Bowl, A Gerund Life, A Slice of Dead Tree, Bamboo Discipline, Brothers, Creativity, Dead Still, Dear All, Descent, Entering The John Muir Wilderness, Eroticus Uninterruptus, French Toast, and eight more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.comKingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.3 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Green, Little Miss Metaphor, Man Made World, Room 222A, Sphere, The Artist, The Designer, The Earth, The Freeway, Vietnam, Whittier Blvd 8/29/70, Alhambra Sunrise, Death Waits, Edgar Winter Again, Five Hours, Of Knowledge, and four more…
http://dkc1031.blogspot.comLanguages, First and Last by Lauren Scharhag
This collection focuses on family, femininity, and Latinx identity, as well as bodies, illness, and caregiving. These poems straddle divides—white and non-white, American and foreign-born, healthy and unhealthy, middle-class and barely scraping by. Most of all, these poems explore what we inherit and what we leave behind.
http://laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/limo casket by Lori Lasseter Hamilton
"limo casket" speeds by you like an angry hearse driver, racing through short, fast poems that crucify the patriarchy, racism, the male gaze, and the rape culture.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054942854441Lunar Locus by Duane L Herrmann
Poems celebaring the prairie landscape.
A microchap(book) from Origami Poems Project, 2021, re-formatted as an ebook.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeMelange by David Eberhardt
A quirky and alarmist bunch from an 81 year old poet-describing self as an Elizabethan/goth and outlaw poet.
Morning by Morning by Joan Leotta
Micro chapbook of poems celebrating dawn published by origami press as pdf, has a cover, is a one page foldable book
Mother and I: Nine Poems by Duane L Herrmann
Nine poems highlighting the fraught relationship between my mother and myself.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.comMusings on a Native Life by Duane L Herrmann
Poems reflecting on the authors unknown Native heritage.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeMy Silence by Ram Krishna Singh
The book is my maiden collection of poems published in 1985 and now out-of-print, though it is included in a volume of my Collected Poems, Sense and Silence, published in 2010.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comNasty Girls by Lynne Bronstein
Poems about women throughout history who defied the moral standards of their time by doing their thing, sexually and otherwise. These poems are in the words of the women themselves (at least as the author imagines their words).
Nature Calls by Branwen Drew
This book is about nature seen through the eyes of a poet. It includes her artwork and photography as well.
https://branwendrew.substack.com/p/linksOcean is My Name by Seshendra Sharma
Ocean is My Name, a long poem is gift to poetry lovers and Seshendra’s admirers
https://kinige.com/book/Ocean+is+My+Name
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.comOn Neither Side by Patrice M. Wilson
I had in mind Aristotle's Golden Mean when I wrote the first poem, also the title poem, in this chapbook. I hope the other poems in the collection reflect something more specific than the generalized scenario in the first poem.
https://pmwilsonpoet.comON THE NATURE OF REALITY AND OUR CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE by Eve T. Reed
There are many ways of looking at life.You need to choose your conception of reality. My poetry has been greatly affected by Dante, which is why I use Cantos. It is a journey both physical and metaphysical.
https://artblazer.comOur Dogs Are Getting Old by Michael Estabrook
A collection of 28 “composite” poems based upon influential quotations from various philosophers and poets, playwrights and novelists, ancient and modern from Aeschylus to Thomas Wolfe. These cover many topics such as pain, dreams, medicine, love, wisdom, beauty, courage, music, jealousy, time, God, and the Devil.
https://michaelestabrook.org/Out of Alphabetical Order by Charles Perrone
Well, the title gives an idea of the non-normative approach of this modest collection. These are risk-taking and unafraid lyrical instances expressing the perplexity of life in the second decade of the 21st century. Neat cover / back cover images too! If nothing else, look at them.
Plaster of Kalinka by Christian Garduno
"Plaster of Kalinka" is a collection of twenty poems published by Christian Garduno from May to November 2021.
https://linktr.ee/ChristianGardunoWriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=1855f8a1-19ca-4164-b09d-07c56152de13Poetry Explained by Robin Dake
A three-year collection of poems with descriptions of each poem, giving the reader a chance to understand how outside forces helped create inside art. The collection features poetry of Pentecost, Pandemic and Protest.
Poetry from Ryecroft Hall by K. Scott-Fuchs
A Collection of Poetry and Verse by K. Scott-Fuchs. (Please disregard my two previous submissions, they were set in error).
Prairie Perspectives by Duane L Herrmann
A brief collection of poems celebrating the prairie landscape and its emotions.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homePrairie's Voice by Duane L Herrmann
A collection of 27 poems about the prairie.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homequeer-E-book by James Penha
Selected recently-published poems by James Penha: some funny, some sad, some weird, some shocking, some sexy, all queer.
https://jamespenha.comRust by Jim Babwe
15 examples of why I did not pursue a chemistry degree in college.
http://www.recursivemultimedia.comsassafras, jelly, gumblo by Lillian Necakov
A wee book of poems inspired by "how to" books. These pieces are "prayers navigating their way through buttonholes".
Satan in Chicago by Eric Evans
Poems inspired by Ray Bradbury, terracotta soldiers, judgmental crows, and the beauty of the perfect mixtape. And, of course, Satan roaming around in Chicago.
https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysiteSelected Poems by Dave Lewis
Twenty four poems from eight published collections.
http://www.david-lewis.co.ukSHE by Ram Krishna Singh
The book is a collection of about 50 selected haiku celebrating woman that makes man complete. It is e-published under the aegis of Arabic Haiku Club.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comSIXSEVEN by Charles A. Perrone
Poems of the early twenty-first century (after 2001!) in my idiosyncratic voice with multiple influences, from rock and roll to concrete poetry. Including a poem about naming our new cat!
The publisher is moriapoetry; it's worthwhile to track down the meanings of that apt word.
So Be It by Ralph Culver
"[In *So Be It*] Culver reveals himself as someone remarkably observant…. In this modern era—which sometimes feels dystopian, with suffering seeming like the most predominant force—(Culver) reminds readers of the power of beauty, joy, and love in nature, relationships, and even the tedium of our daily lives." —Despy Boutris, *Entropy*
https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Culver/e/B079Q5JNSKSoul Songs by Duane L Herrmann
Poems reflecting and rejoicing in the spiritual life.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeStumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber
Welcome to CrazyTown! Open the pages of this brutally honest poetry chapbook and stumble along with Peggy Gerber as she takes readers on an emotional journey through mental illness and back again. Let's banish the stigma against mental illness.
http://peggysue445.wixsite.com/my=siteSURFACING by Annest Gwilym
Charting the haunting, complex submergence of a mental health breakdown, the slippery internals of struggle are given voice with stark clarity. Unsettling images ripple their silver with a strangeness that lingers. For all the pain and darkness underwater, for every breath held in, these poems surface: bright and triumphant.
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilymSweet Scented Streams by Duane L Herrmann
Poems of a devotional, but not Christian, perspective.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeTerrain, An Origami Destination by Ellen Sander
An origami chapbook (just one cut) For assembly instructions go https://www.origamipoems.com/who-we-are/folding-an-origami-book This is a journey over emotional and geographical headlands toward an authentic home. This site originally published this work.
http://ellensander.comThe Road – TAO by Germain Droogenbroodt
The Road, published in Chinese and Japanese as TAO, is philosophical, written in 1997 in India, containing poems warning for climate change, is also prophetic poetry. With references to Greek and Eastern philosophy, it is an international poetic bridge.
http://www.point-editions.comThe Smoke Detector Gives Its Death Beep by Rick Lupert
New poems from Rick Lupert including selections from the forthcoming collection "The Low Country Shvitz."
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/THINGS by Jennifer Nuesi
In her visual poetry book collection, THINGS gives shape to the invisible anxieties that boldly linger on the walls of our lives. Journey through depression, heartbreak, and sorrow while biting back the cruelty that anxiety brings.
https://www.penofthepeople.com/things-bookThree quarters of a personality by Anna Capstick
A compilation of poetry specifically about humans, concerning sin, love, hatred and general encounters faced by us all.
TIGHT FIT by Ted Burke
A selection of recent poems roughly in the manner of Frank O'Hara and Thomas Lux. Irony, hopeful fatalism, an amused rethinking of sober experience in a world that will not bend to my will, the poems are a record of someone who retains the capacity to be surprised.
http://www.ted-burke.comTony's story by Anthony Kirk
This is my first chapbook publication. Its inspiration is drawn from my travels in the Charente. and Dordogne over the past three years
Tropical Strands by Lorraine Caputo
Pack your bags for a poetic journey to the Caribbean coast of Honduras!
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.comUtopian Problems by Jean-Paul Garnier
A mini-chapbook of poems addressing possible issues associated with making a utopia work for everyone.
https://spacecowboybooks.com/Vipercity by Vincent Zepp
'These are the poems of an accomplished artist and a compassionate, complex thinker'…..
WHAT THE OWL TAUGHT ME by Annest Gwilym
This is a rich and intense read that puts humanity mostly in the background and natural life in the foreground like a lifelong love affair. What the Owl Taught Me is full of poems of frailty with an underpinning strength that allows for delight on every printed page. James Bell
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilymWhen All Else Falters by Patrice M. Wilson
This was my first published chapbook, which contains poems that move through various themes related to how one feels and what one might do or think "when all else falters" (I changed "fails" to "falters" to avoid the finality of the cliche).
https://pmwilsonpoet.comWomen Who Were Warned by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, 29 poems in "Women Who Were Warned" emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood — and the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://youtu.be/Ga9QXeQVPnE
What?
A crazy project in which your poetry e-books will be freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.
Throughout November we will collect e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.
Then on December 1st, for a 24 hour period, a special website will go live with links to all of the e-books. For 24 hours anyone will be free to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they like…a poetry e-book free-for-all.
How?
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
Look for the download links at midnight tonight (pacific)
E-Books Submitted:
A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo
‘The guests from the heavenly vault: stars, moon, sun, comets, feed my words and provide them with a relentless lymph. So do the many spots, and people whom I happen to stumble upon. So do fragments from conversations I happen to have overheard.
A Different Current by Patrice M. Wilson
This chapbook is my "take" on what it means to be a person "of color."
http://pmwilsonpoet.comA History of Belated Premontions by John Sweet
Compassionate nihilism, just like your mother used to make.
https://bleedinghorse.blogspot.com/a world of struggle by Walter Hoelbling
An always curious, sometimes harsh, sometimes humorous look on developments on our globe – society, politics, politicians, and events – in short, my very personal impressions about the goings on that happen all around me.
Ahwatukee Summer by David Chorlton
Ahwatukee is a district in southern Phoenix where I live with a view of South Mountain. These poems describe instances of natural and urban life here.
http://davidchorlton.mysite.comBAVARIAN HOME / BAYERISCH HEIMAT by Duane L Herrmann
The combined content of TWO Origami Poems Project microchap(books) with poems in English and German, reflecting on the authors ancestry and visits to his great grandfathers hometown in Bayern.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeCasa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir (Poetica Publishing) is the story of a Canadian woman on an inner and outer journey to find a home. As the granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors, she travels to Israel and Europe (1997-2005) to explore
https://lindsaysoberano.comCE 1-7; Poetry of Contact Volume One by Tish Eastman
CE 1-7: Poetry of Contact is an anthology series, of poems by experiencers of Close Encounters of the First Kind (seeing a UFO) through the Seventh Kind (hybridization). This is an excerpt from Volume One: poems written by the Editor of the anthology.
https://dragontearsmedia.com/Cityscapes by F. J. Bergmann
"Cityscapes" is a long poem in sections, which won the Long Form division of the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association poetry contest.
Concupiscent Consumption by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sophisticated, playful, and poignant erotic verses for anyone who has ever been lost in love. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfgDancing Under the Moon by Joan Leotta
A mini collection of poems on the subject of the moon and enjoying it.
Another Origami Press freebie
Daughters of Invention by E. Amato
The poems in Daughters of Invention inquire into female experience from the mundane to the divine.
https://ko-fi.com/eamatoDo You Believe in Magic? by Carolyn Croop
A compilation of poems of love, magic and more.
http://authorcarolyncroop.comDreamy sonnets by Paweł Markiewicz
The chapbook, consisting of only sonnets. They enchant the souls of readers and have a power of dreamy, moony imagination.
https://pawelek3.wixsite.com/haikuonleavesDuane's PoeTree Posting by Duane L Herrmann
Five poems on misc subjects posted on Duane's PoeTree (no relation to the author) on 25 uly 2020.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeEleven by Alshaad Kara
Eleven incorporates ten poems which are each different from one another. They are unique and transports the readers to different worlds, contexts and themes.
https://www.instagram.com/teamalshaadkara/?hl=enExit L. A. by Jerry Garcia
New and selected poems about Los Angeles written by a native Angeleno.
http://gratefulnotdead.comFib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo
Fib Sequence contains arachnids, jealous women, the Fibonacci sequence and a few choice nasty words. Enjoy!
http://larissashmailo.comFlatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era by Cheryl Caesar
Flatman follows the outrages of the Trump administration, from his first playground taunts of ABC reporter Cecilia Vega through his helpful suggestions to water-bomb an 800-year old cathedral. From "Flatman" to "The Parasite," this book chronicles the reign of a villain in villanelles–and other poetic forms.
http://caesarc.msu.domains/Fragments of Yesterdays Past by Melissa Mendelson
Fragments of Yesterdays Past poetically whispers through the corridors of this broken world as we linger, struggling to capture a past now gone, memories abandoned, leaving us with mistakes that have torn us in two, and the cruel hands of circuitry steal away what makes us human.
Fragments: A Poetry Sampler by James Thomas Fletcher
Sample poems from eleven books. I am an eclectic poet and herein you will find: serious, humorous, family, nature, letter, ekphrastic, even Covid poems. I hope you find much to ponder. I want to leave you with more than pretty descriptions. I want my words to sink into you.
https://linktr.ee/jamesthomasfletcherFreedom by Rosalind Lee
A selection of poems (well perhaps) written this year – hopefully not enough to make you all sick!
Gifts of Nature by Joan Leotta
This chapbook of nature poems won an honorable mention in the Olivieri 2019 contest.
GOD TOO AWAITS LIGHT by Ram Krishna Singh
The book, ISBN 9781975993849, earlier published by Cholla Needles, Joshua Tree, CA in 2017, is a collection of the poet's haiku and tanka, experimentally arranged in a sequence to develop an inner movement from outer observations.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comHappenings, Heartbeats, and Mental Breakdowns by M. B. Manthe
This collection explores love, grief, tangled family relationships, and the author's lifelong struggle with depression. The poems also reflect the power of words to bring hope and healing, and to remind us we aren't alone. Includes fifty poems, plus an essay entitled "Losing Everything But Our Appetites."
https://lightedlakepress.com/High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
High Wire Step is a collection of poems that engages deeply with political issues, from the impact of violence, oppression, and human arrogance to the power of empathy, collective consciousness, and humility, moving organically between time and space, an urban and a wild landscape and between despair and hopefulness.
http://www.magdalenaball.comHotel Poems by LB Sedlacek
How do you choose a hotel? LB Sedlacek has to have a pool! Go on vacation with her to find out why she thinks hotels (and poems) are a home away from home in these new poems written in Lawrenceville, GA outside of Atlanta.
http://www.lbsedlacek.comJust A Girl from Plano by Antasia Shabria Armour
This is a work I've been wanting to write I didn't know it was going to be for a live site for a day or less though, so it was in my own heart. To describe life as a outsider being the only one in the family to live so.
http://shabria.square.siteKingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.1 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Campbell's Travels, How Did Heaven Begin, Joe Sphincter, The Rectangular Sky, Vomiting For God, Dream Rooms, In the Sea of Dolphins, Story of San Diego, Eve Eve, Before We Died, Jelly, The Latest Headlines, and six more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.comKingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.2 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Break Up, Surrender, Memory, Riot Poem, A Bowl, A Gerund Life, A Slice of Dead Tree, Bamboo Discipline, Brothers, Creativity, Dead Still, Dear All, Descent, Entering The John Muir Wilderness, Eroticus Uninterruptus, French Toast, and eight more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.comKingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.3 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Green, Little Miss Metaphor, Man Made World, Room 222A, Sphere, The Artist, The Designer, The Earth, The Freeway, Vietnam, Whittier Blvd 8/29/70, Alhambra Sunrise, Death Waits, Edgar Winter Again, Five Hours, Of Knowledge, and four more…
http://dkc1031.blogspot.comLanguages, First and Last by Lauren Scharhag
This collection focuses on family, femininity, and Latinx identity, as well as bodies, illness, and caregiving. These poems straddle divides—white and non-white, American and foreign-born, healthy and unhealthy, middle-class and barely scraping by. Most of all, these poems explore what we inherit and what we leave behind.
http://laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/limo casket by Lori Lasseter Hamilton
"limo casket" speeds by you like an angry hearse driver, racing through short, fast poems that crucify the patriarchy, racism, the male gaze, and the rape culture.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054942854441Lunar Locus by Duane L Herrmann
Poems celebaring the prairie landscape.
A microchap(book) from Origami Poems Project, 2021, re-formatted as an ebook.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeMelange by David Eberhardt
A quirky and alarmist bunch from an 81 year old poet-describing self as an Elizabethan/goth and outlaw poet.
Morning by Morning by Joan Leotta
Micro chapbook of poems celebrating dawn published by origami press as pdf, has a cover, is a one page foldable book
Mother and I: Nine Poems by Duane L Herrmann
Nine poems highlighting the fraught relationship between my mother and myself.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.comMusings on a Native Life by Duane L Herrmann
Poems reflecting on the authors unknown Native heritage.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeMy Silence by Ram Krishna Singh
The book is my maiden collection of poems published in 1985 and now out-of-print, though it is included in a volume of my Collected Poems, Sense and Silence, published in 2010.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comNasty Girls by Lynne Bronstein
Poems about women throughout history who defied the moral standards of their time by doing their thing, sexually and otherwise. These poems are in the words of the women themselves (at least as the author imagines their words).
Nature Calls by Branwen Drew
This book is about nature seen through the eyes of a poet. It includes her artwork and photography as well.
https://branwendrew.substack.com/p/linksOcean is My Name by Seshendra Sharma
Ocean is My Name, a long poem is gift to poetry lovers and Seshendra’s admirers
https://kinige.com/book/Ocean+is+My+Name
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.comOn Neither Side by Patrice M. Wilson
I had in mind Aristotle's Golden Mean when I wrote the first poem, also the title poem, in this chapbook. I hope the other poems in the collection reflect something more specific than the generalized scenario in the first poem.
https://pmwilsonpoet.comON THE NATURE OF REALITY AND OUR CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE by Eve T. Reed
There are many ways of looking at life.You need to choose your conception of reality. My poetry has been greatly affected by Dante, which is why I use Cantos. It is a journey both physical and metaphysical.
https://artblazer.comOur Dogs Are Getting Old by Michael Estabrook
A collection of 28 “composite” poems based upon influential quotations from various philosophers and poets, playwrights and novelists, ancient and modern from Aeschylus to Thomas Wolfe. These cover many topics such as pain, dreams, medicine, love, wisdom, beauty, courage, music, jealousy, time, God, and the Devil.
https://michaelestabrook.org/Out of Alphabetical Order by Charles Perrone
Well, the title gives an idea of the non-normative approach of this modest collection. These are risk-taking and unafraid lyrical instances expressing the perplexity of life in the second decade of the 21st century. Neat cover / back cover images too! If nothing else, look at them.
Plaster of Kalinka by Christian Garduno
"Plaster of Kalinka" is a collection of twenty poems published by Christian Garduno from May to November 2021.
https://linktr.ee/ChristianGardunoWriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=1855f8a1-19ca-4164-b09d-07c56152de13Poetry Explained by Robin Dake
A three-year collection of poems with descriptions of each poem, giving the reader a chance to understand how outside forces helped create inside art. The collection features poetry of Pentecost, Pandemic and Protest.
Poetry from Ryecroft Hall by K. Scott-Fuchs
A Collection of Poetry and Verse by K. Scott-Fuchs. (Please disregard my two previous submissions, they were set in error).
Prairie Perspectives by Duane L Herrmann
A brief collection of poems celebrating the prairie landscape and its emotions.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homePrairie's Voice by Duane L Herrmann
A collection of 27 poems about the prairie.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homequeer-E-book by James Penha
Selected recently-published poems by James Penha: some funny, some sad, some weird, some shocking, some sexy, all queer.
https://jamespenha.comRust by Jim Babwe
15 examples of why I did not pursue a chemistry degree in college.
http://www.recursivemultimedia.comsassafras, jelly, gumblo by Lillian Necakov
A wee book of poems inspired by "how to" books. These pieces are "prayers navigating their way through buttonholes".
Satan in Chicago by Eric Evans
Poems inspired by Ray Bradbury, terracotta soldiers, judgmental crows, and the beauty of the perfect mixtape. And, of course, Satan roaming around in Chicago.
https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysiteSelected Poems by Dave Lewis
Twenty four poems from eight published collections.
http://www.david-lewis.co.ukSHE by Ram Krishna Singh
The book is a collection of about 50 selected haiku celebrating woman that makes man complete. It is e-published under the aegis of Arabic Haiku Club.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comSIXSEVEN by Charles A. Perrone
Poems of the early twenty-first century (after 2001!) in my idiosyncratic voice with multiple influences, from rock and roll to concrete poetry. Including a poem about naming our new cat!
The publisher is moriapoetry; it's worthwhile to track down the meanings of that apt word.
So Be It by Ralph Culver
"[In *So Be It*] Culver reveals himself as someone remarkably observant…. In this modern era—which sometimes feels dystopian, with suffering seeming like the most predominant force—(Culver) reminds readers of the power of beauty, joy, and love in nature, relationships, and even the tedium of our daily lives." —Despy Boutris, *Entropy*
https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Culver/e/B079Q5JNSKSoul Songs by Duane L Herrmann
Poems reflecting and rejoicing in the spiritual life.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeStumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber
Welcome to CrazyTown! Open the pages of this brutally honest poetry chapbook and stumble along with Peggy Gerber as she takes readers on an emotional journey through mental illness and back again. Let's banish the stigma against mental illness.
http://peggysue445.wixsite.com/my=siteSURFACING by Annest Gwilym
Charting the haunting, complex submergence of a mental health breakdown, the slippery internals of struggle are given voice with stark clarity. Unsettling images ripple their silver with a strangeness that lingers. For all the pain and darkness underwater, for every breath held in, these poems surface: bright and triumphant.
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilymSweet Scented Streams by Duane L Herrmann
Poems of a devotional, but not Christian, perspective.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/homeTerrain, An Origami Destination by Ellen Sander
An origami chapbook (just one cut) For assembly instructions go https://www.origamipoems.com/who-we-are/folding-an-origami-book This is a journey over emotional and geographical headlands toward an authentic home. This site originally published this work.
http://ellensander.comThe Road – TAO by Germain Droogenbroodt
The Road, published in Chinese and Japanese as TAO, is philosophical, written in 1997 in India, containing poems warning for climate change, is also prophetic poetry. With references to Greek and Eastern philosophy, it is an international poetic bridge.
http://www.point-editions.comThe Smoke Detector Gives Its Death Beep by Rick Lupert
New poems from Rick Lupert including selections from the forthcoming collection "The Low Country Shvitz."
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/THINGS by Jennifer Nuesi
In her visual poetry book collection, THINGS gives shape to the invisible anxieties that boldly linger on the walls of our lives. Journey through depression, heartbreak, and sorrow while biting back the cruelty that anxiety brings.
https://www.penofthepeople.com/things-bookThree quarters of a personality by Anna Capstick
A compilation of poetry specifically about humans, concerning sin, love, hatred and general encounters faced by us all.
TIGHT FIT by Ted Burke
A selection of recent poems roughly in the manner of Frank O'Hara and Thomas Lux. Irony, hopeful fatalism, an amused rethinking of sober experience in a world that will not bend to my will, the poems are a record of someone who retains the capacity to be surprised.
http://www.ted-burke.comTony's story by Anthony Kirk
This is my first chapbook publication. Its inspiration is drawn from my travels in the Charente. and Dordogne over the past three years
Tropical Strands by Lorraine Caputo
Pack your bags for a poetic journey to the Caribbean coast of Honduras!
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.comUtopian Problems by Jean-Paul Garnier
A mini-chapbook of poems addressing possible issues associated with making a utopia work for everyone.
https://spacecowboybooks.com/Vipercity by Vincent Zepp
'These are the poems of an accomplished artist and a compassionate, complex thinker'…..
WHAT THE OWL TAUGHT ME by Annest Gwilym
This is a rich and intense read that puts humanity mostly in the background and natural life in the foreground like a lifelong love affair. What the Owl Taught Me is full of poems of frailty with an underpinning strength that allows for delight on every printed page. James Bell
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilymWhen All Else Falters by Patrice M. Wilson
This was my first published chapbook, which contains poems that move through various themes related to how one feels and what one might do or think "when all else falters" (I changed "fails" to "falters" to avoid the finality of the cliche).
https://pmwilsonpoet.comWomen Who Were Warned by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, 29 poems in "Women Who Were Warned" emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood — and the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://youtu.be/Ga9QXeQVPnE
The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible.
Download 76 Free E-Books Now!
Thanks to everyone who donated e-books to this project. All of the books are now available for download by clicking on “Download Now” next to the author’s name below.
Books will remain available until Midnight tonight (Tuesday evening December 1st Pacific).
Check back here on December 2 to see how many times each one was downloaded.
E-Books:
A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo (Download this E-Book)
‘The guests from the heavenly vault: stars, moon, sun, comets, feed my words and provide them with a relentless lymph. So do the many spots, and people whom I happen to stumble upon. So do fragments from conversations I happen to have overheard.
A Different Current by Patrice M. Wilson (Download this E-Book)
This chapbook is my "take" on what it means to be a person "of color."
http://pmwilsonpoet.com
A History of Belated Premontions by John Sweet (Download this E-Book)
Compassionate nihilism, just like your mother used to make.
https://bleedinghorse.blogspot.com/
a world of struggle by Walter Hoelbling (Download this E-Book)
An always curious, sometimes harsh, sometimes humorous look on developments on our globe – society, politics, politicians, and events – in short, my very personal impressions about the goings on that happen all around me.
Ahwatukee Summer by David Chorlton (Download this E-Book)
Ahwatukee is a district in southern Phoenix where I live with a view of South Mountain. These poems describe instances of natural and urban life here.
http://davidchorlton.mysite.com
BAVARIAN HOME / BAYERISCH HEIMAT by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
The combined content of TWO Origami Poems Project microchap(books) with poems in English and German, reflecting on the authors ancestry and visits to his great grandfathers hometown in Bayern.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson (Download this E-Book)
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir (Poetica Publishing) is the story of a Canadian woman on an inner and outer journey to find a home. As the granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors, she travels to Israel and Europe (1997-2005) to explore
https://lindsaysoberano.com
CE 1-7; Poetry of Contact Volume One by Tish Eastman (Download this E-Book)
CE 1-7: Poetry of Contact is an anthology series, of poems by experiencers of Close Encounters of the First Kind (seeing a UFO) through the Seventh Kind (hybridization). This is an excerpt from Volume One: poems written by the Editor of the anthology.
https://dragontearsmedia.com/
Cityscapes by F. J. Bergmann (Download this E-Book)
"Cityscapes" is a long poem in sections, which won the Long Form division of the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association poetry contest.
Concupiscent Consumption by LindaAnn LoSchiavo (Download this E-Book)
Sophisticated, playful, and poignant erotic verses for anyone who has ever been lost in love. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
Dancing Under the Moon by Joan Leotta (Download this E-Book)
A mini collection of poems on the subject of the moon and enjoying it.
Another Origami Press freebie
Daughters of Invention by E. Amato (Download this E-Book)
The poems in Daughters of Invention inquire into female experience from the mundane to the divine.
https://ko-fi.com/eamato
Do You Believe in Magic? by Carolyn Croop (Download this E-Book)
A compilation of poems of love, magic and more.
http://authorcarolyncroop.com
Dreamy sonnets by Paweł Markiewicz (Download this E-Book)
The chapbook, consisting of only sonnets. They enchant the souls of readers and have a power of dreamy, moony imagination.
https://pawelek3.wixsite.com/haikuonleaves
Duane's PoeTree Posting by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
Five poems on misc subjects posted on Duane's PoeTree (no relation to the author) on 25 uly 2020.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Eleven by Alshaad Kara (Download this E-Book)
Eleven incorporates ten poems which are each different from one another. They are unique and transports the readers to different worlds, contexts and themes.
https://www.instagram.com/teamalshaadkara/?hl=en
Exit L. A. by Jerry Garcia (Download this E-Book)
New and selected poems about Los Angeles written by a native Angeleno.
http://gratefulnotdead.com
Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo (Download this E-Book)
Fib Sequence contains arachnids, jealous women, the Fibonacci sequence and a few choice nasty words. Enjoy!
http://larissashmailo.com
Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era by Cheryl Caesar (Download this E-Book)
Flatman follows the outrages of the Trump administration, from his first playground taunts of ABC reporter Cecilia Vega through his helpful suggestions to water-bomb an 800-year old cathedral. From "Flatman" to "The Parasite," this book chronicles the reign of a villain in villanelles–and other poetic forms.
http://caesarc.msu.domains/
Fragments of Yesterdays Past by Melissa Mendelson (Download this E-Book)
Fragments of Yesterdays Past poetically whispers through the corridors of this broken world as we linger, struggling to capture a past now gone, memories abandoned, leaving us with mistakes that have torn us in two, and the cruel hands of circuitry steal away what makes us human.
Fragments: A Poetry Sampler by James Thomas Fletcher (Download this E-Book)
Sample poems from eleven books. I am an eclectic poet and herein you will find: serious, humorous, family, nature, letter, ekphrastic, even Covid poems. I hope you find much to ponder. I want to leave you with more than pretty descriptions. I want my words to sink into you.
https://linktr.ee/jamesthomasfletcher
Freedom by Rosalind Lee (Download this E-Book)
A selection of poems (well perhaps) written this year – hopefully not enough to make you all sick!
Gifts of Nature by Joan Leotta (Download this E-Book)
This chapbook of nature poems won an honorable mention in the Olivieri 2019 contest.
GOD TOO AWAITS LIGHT by Ram Krishna Singh (Download this E-Book)
The book, ISBN 9781975993849, earlier published by Cholla Needles, Joshua Tree, CA in 2017, is a collection of the poet's haiku and tanka, experimentally arranged in a sequence to develop an inner movement from outer observations.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
Happenings, Heartbeats, and Mental Breakdowns by M. B. Manthe (Download this E-Book)
This collection explores love, grief, tangled family relationships, and the author's lifelong struggle with depression. The poems also reflect the power of words to bring hope and healing, and to remind us we aren't alone. Includes fifty poems, plus an essay entitled "Losing Everything But Our Appetites."
https://lightedlakepress.com/
High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball (Download this E-Book)
High Wire Step is a collection of poems that engages deeply with political issues, from the impact of violence, oppression, and human arrogance to the power of empathy, collective consciousness, and humility, moving organically between time and space, an urban and a wild landscape and between despair and hopefulness.
http://www.magdalenaball.com
Hotel Poems by LB Sedlacek (Download this E-Book)
How do you choose a hotel? LB Sedlacek has to have a pool! Go on vacation with her to find out why she thinks hotels (and poems) are a home away from home in these new poems written in Lawrenceville, GA outside of Atlanta.
http://www.lbsedlacek.com
Just A Girl from Plano by Antasia Shabria Armour (Download this E-Book)
This is a work I've been wanting to write I didn't know it was going to be for a live site for a day or less though, so it was in my own heart. To describe life as a outsider being the only one in the family to live so.
http://shabria.square.site
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.1 by Don Campbell (Download this E-Book)
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Campbell's Travels, How Did Heaven Begin, Joe Sphincter, The Rectangular Sky, Vomiting For God, Dream Rooms, In the Sea of Dolphins, Story of San Diego, Eve Eve, Before We Died, Jelly, The Latest Headlines, and six more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.2 by Don Campbell (Download this E-Book)
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Break Up, Surrender, Memory, Riot Poem, A Bowl, A Gerund Life, A Slice of Dead Tree, Bamboo Discipline, Brothers, Creativity, Dead Still, Dear All, Descent, Entering The John Muir Wilderness, Eroticus Uninterruptus, French Toast, and eight more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.3 by Don Campbell (Download this E-Book)
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Green, Little Miss Metaphor, Man Made World, Room 222A, Sphere, The Artist, The Designer, The Earth, The Freeway, Vietnam, Whittier Blvd 8/29/70, Alhambra Sunrise, Death Waits, Edgar Winter Again, Five Hours, Of Knowledge, and four more…
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Languages, First and Last by Lauren Scharhag (Download this E-Book)
This collection focuses on family, femininity, and Latinx identity, as well as bodies, illness, and caregiving. These poems straddle divides—white and non-white, American and foreign-born, healthy and unhealthy, middle-class and barely scraping by. Most of all, these poems explore what we inherit and what we leave behind.
http://laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/
limo casket by Lori Lasseter Hamilton (Download this E-Book)
"limo casket" speeds by you like an angry hearse driver, racing through short, fast poems that crucify the patriarchy, racism, the male gaze, and the rape culture.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054942854441
Lunar Locus by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
Poems celebaring the prairie landscape.
A microchap(book) from Origami Poems Project, 2021, re-formatted as an ebook.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Melange by David Eberhardt (Download this E-Book)
A quirky and alarmist bunch from an 81 year old poet-describing self as an Elizabethan/goth and outlaw poet.
Morning by Morning by Joan Leotta (Download this E-Book)
Micro chapbook of poems celebrating dawn published by origami press as pdf, has a cover, is a one page foldable book
Mother and I: Nine Poems by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
Nine poems highlighting the fraught relationship between my mother and myself.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com
Musings on a Native Life by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
Poems reflecting on the authors unknown Native heritage.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
My Silence by Ram Krishna Singh (Download this E-Book)
The book is my maiden collection of poems published in 1985 and now out-of-print, though it is included in a volume of my Collected Poems, Sense and Silence, published in 2010.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
Nasty Girls by Lynne Bronstein (Download this E-Book)
Poems about women throughout history who defied the moral standards of their time by doing their thing, sexually and otherwise. These poems are in the words of the women themselves (at least as the author imagines their words).
Nature Calls by Branwen Drew (Download this E-Book)
This book is about nature seen through the eyes of a poet. It includes her artwork and photography as well.
https://branwendrew.substack.com/p/links
Ocean is My Name by Seshendra Sharma (Download this E-Book)
Ocean is My Name, a long poem is gift to poetry lovers and Seshendra’s admirers
https://kinige.com/book/Ocean+is+My+Name
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.com
On Neither Side by Patrice M. Wilson (Download this E-Book)
I had in mind Aristotle's Golden Mean when I wrote the first poem, also the title poem, in this chapbook. I hope the other poems in the collection reflect something more specific than the generalized scenario in the first poem.
https://pmwilsonpoet.com
ON THE NATURE OF REALITY AND OUR CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE by Eve T. Reed (Download this E-Book)
There are many ways of looking at life.You need to choose your conception of reality. My poetry has been greatly affected by Dante, which is why I use Cantos. It is a journey both physical and metaphysical.
https://artblazer.com
Our Dogs Are Getting Old by Michael Estabrook (Download this E-Book)
A collection of 28 “composite” poems based upon influential quotations from various philosophers and poets, playwrights and novelists, ancient and modern from Aeschylus to Thomas Wolfe. These cover many topics such as pain, dreams, medicine, love, wisdom, beauty, courage, music, jealousy, time, God, and the Devil.
https://michaelestabrook.org/
Out of Alphabetical Order by Charles Perrone (Download this E-Book)
Well, the title gives an idea of the non-normative approach of this modest collection. These are risk-taking and unafraid lyrical instances expressing the perplexity of life in the second decade of the 21st century. Neat cover / back cover images too! If nothing else, look at them.
Plaster of Kalinka by Christian Garduno (Download this E-Book)
"Plaster of Kalinka" is a collection of twenty poems published by Christian Garduno from May to November 2021.
https://linktr.ee/ChristianGardunoWriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=1855f8a1-19ca-4164-b09d-07c56152de13
Poetry Explained by Robin Dake (Download this E-Book)
A three-year collection of poems with descriptions of each poem, giving the reader a chance to understand how outside forces helped create inside art. The collection features poetry of Pentecost, Pandemic and Protest.
Poetry from Ryecroft Hall by K. Scott-Fuchs (Download this E-Book)
A Collection of Poetry and Verse by K. Scott-Fuchs. (Please disregard my two previous submissions, they were set in error).
Prairie Perspectives by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
A brief collection of poems celebrating the prairie landscape and its emotions.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Prairie's Voice by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
A collection of 27 poems about the prairie.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
queer-E-book by James Penha (Download this E-Book)
Selected recently-published poems by James Penha: some funny, some sad, some weird, some shocking, some sexy, all queer.
https://jamespenha.com
Rust by Jim Babwe (Download this E-Book)
15 examples of why I did not pursue a chemistry degree in college.
http://www.recursivemultimedia.com
sassafras, jelly, gumblo by Lillian Necakov (Download this E-Book)
A wee book of poems inspired by "how to" books. These pieces are "prayers navigating their way through buttonholes".
Satan in Chicago by Eric Evans (Download this E-Book)
Poems inspired by Ray Bradbury, terracotta soldiers, judgmental crows, and the beauty of the perfect mixtape. And, of course, Satan roaming around in Chicago.
https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysite
Selected Poems by Dave Lewis (Download this E-Book)
Twenty four poems from eight published collections.
http://www.david-lewis.co.uk
SHE by Ram Krishna Singh (Download this E-Book)
The book is a collection of about 50 selected haiku celebrating woman that makes man complete. It is e-published under the aegis of Arabic Haiku Club.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
SIXSEVEN by Charles A. Perrone (Download this E-Book)
Poems of the early twenty-first century (after 2001!) in my idiosyncratic voice with multiple influences, from rock and roll to concrete poetry. Including a poem about naming our new cat!
The publisher is moriapoetry; it's worthwhile to track down the meanings of that apt word.
So Be It by Ralph Culver (Download this E-Book)
"[In *So Be It*] Culver reveals himself as someone remarkably observant…. In this modern era—which sometimes feels dystopian, with suffering seeming like the most predominant force—(Culver) reminds readers of the power of beauty, joy, and love in nature, relationships, and even the tedium of our daily lives." —Despy Boutris, *Entropy*
https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Culver/e/B079Q5JNSK
Soul Songs by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
Poems reflecting and rejoicing in the spiritual life.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Stumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber (Download this E-Book)
Welcome to CrazyTown! Open the pages of this brutally honest poetry chapbook and stumble along with Peggy Gerber as she takes readers on an emotional journey through mental illness and back again. Let's banish the stigma against mental illness.
http://peggysue445.wixsite.com/my=site
SURFACING by Annest Gwilym (Download this E-Book)
Charting the haunting, complex submergence of a mental health breakdown, the slippery internals of struggle are given voice with stark clarity. Unsettling images ripple their silver with a strangeness that lingers. For all the pain and darkness underwater, for every breath held in, these poems surface: bright and triumphant.
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilym
Sweet Scented Streams by Duane L Herrmann (Download this E-Book)
Poems of a devotional, but not Christian, perspective.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Terrain, An Origami Destination by Ellen Sander (Download this E-Book)
An origami chapbook (just one cut) For assembly instructions go https://www.origamipoems.com/who-we-are/folding-an-origami-book This is a journey over emotional and geographical headlands toward an authentic home. This site originally published this work.
http://ellensander.com
The Road – TAO by Germain Droogenbroodt (Download this E-Book)
The Road, published in Chinese and Japanese as TAO, is philosophical, written in 1997 in India, containing poems warning for climate change, is also prophetic poetry. With references to Greek and Eastern philosophy, it is an international poetic bridge.
http://www.point-editions.com
The Smoke Detector Gives Its Death Beep by Rick Lupert (Download this E-Book)
New poems from Rick Lupert including selections from the forthcoming collection "The Low Country Shvitz."
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/
THINGS by Jennifer Nuesi (Download this E-Book)
In her visual poetry book collection, THINGS gives shape to the invisible anxieties that boldly linger on the walls of our lives. Journey through depression, heartbreak, and sorrow while biting back the cruelty that anxiety brings.
https://www.penofthepeople.com/things-book
Three quarters of a personality by Anna Capstick (Download this E-Book)
A compilation of poetry specifically about humans, concerning sin, love, hatred and general encounters faced by us all.
TIGHT FIT by Ted Burke (Download this E-Book)
A selection of recent poems roughly in the manner of Frank O'Hara and Thomas Lux. Irony, hopeful fatalism, an amused rethinking of sober experience in a world that will not bend to my will, the poems are a record of someone who retains the capacity to be surprised.
http://www.ted-burke.com
Tony's story by Anthony Kirk (Download this E-Book)
This is my first chapbook publication. Its inspiration is drawn from my travels in the Charente. and Dordogne over the past three years
Tropical Strands by Lorraine Caputo (Download this E-Book)
Pack your bags for a poetic journey to the Caribbean coast of Honduras!
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com
Utopian Problems by Jean-Paul Garnier (Download this E-Book)
A mini-chapbook of poems addressing possible issues associated with making a utopia work for everyone.
https://spacecowboybooks.com/
Vipercity by Vincent Zepp (Download this E-Book)
'These are the poems of an accomplished artist and a compassionate, complex thinker'…..
WHAT THE OWL TAUGHT ME by Annest Gwilym (Download this E-Book)
This is a rich and intense read that puts humanity mostly in the background and natural life in the foreground like a lifelong love affair. What the Owl Taught Me is full of poems of frailty with an underpinning strength that allows for delight on every printed page. James Bell
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilym
When All Else Falters by Patrice M. Wilson (Download this E-Book)
This was my first published chapbook, which contains poems that move through various themes related to how one feels and what one might do or think "when all else falters" (I changed "fails" to "falters" to avoid the finality of the cliche).
https://pmwilsonpoet.com
Women Who Were Warned by LindaAnn LoSchiavo (Download this E-Book)
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, 29 poems in "Women Who Were Warned" emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood — and the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://youtu.be/Ga9QXeQVPnE
The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible.
Stay Tuned for the Results
Thanks to the writers who donated 76 e-books which were freely available to download for 24 hours on December 1st, 2022. We will put up a new page in place of this one shortly which includes how many times each book was downloaded during this 24 hour period.
What?
A crazy project in which 76 poetry e-books were freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.
Throughout November we collected e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.
Then on December 1st, for a 24 hour period, anyone was able to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they liked…a poetry e-book free-for-all.
E-Books:
A Blue Soul by Gabriella Garofalo
‘The guests from the heavenly vault: stars, moon, sun, comets, feed my words and provide them with a relentless lymph. So do the many spots, and people whom I happen to stumble upon. So do fragments from conversations I happen to have overheard.
A Different Current by Patrice M. Wilson
This chapbook is my "take" on what it means to be a person "of color."
http://pmwilsonpoet.com
A History of Belated Premontions by John Sweet
Compassionate nihilism, just like your mother used to make.
https://bleedinghorse.blogspot.com/
a world of struggle by Walter Hoelbling
An always curious, sometimes harsh, sometimes humorous look on developments on our globe – society, politics, politicians, and events – in short, my very personal impressions about the goings on that happen all around me.
Ahwatukee Summer by David Chorlton
Ahwatukee is a district in southern Phoenix where I live with a view of South Mountain. These poems describe instances of natural and urban life here.
http://davidchorlton.mysite.com
BAVARIAN HOME / BAYERISCH HEIMAT by Duane L Herrmann
The combined content of TWO Origami Poems Project microchap(books) with poems in English and German, reflecting on the authors ancestry and visits to his great grandfathers hometown in Bayern.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir (Poetica Publishing) is the story of a Canadian woman on an inner and outer journey to find a home. As the granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors, she travels to Israel and Europe (1997-2005) to explore
https://lindsaysoberano.com
CE 1-7; Poetry of Contact Volume One by Tish Eastman
CE 1-7: Poetry of Contact is an anthology series, of poems by experiencers of Close Encounters of the First Kind (seeing a UFO) through the Seventh Kind (hybridization). This is an excerpt from Volume One: poems written by the Editor of the anthology.
https://dragontearsmedia.com/
Cityscapes by F. J. Bergmann
"Cityscapes" is a long poem in sections, which won the Long Form division of the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association poetry contest.
Concupiscent Consumption by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sophisticated, playful, and poignant erotic verses for anyone who has ever been lost in love. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
Dancing Under the Moon by Joan Leotta
A mini collection of poems on the subject of the moon and enjoying it.
Another Origami Press freebie
Daughters of Invention by E. Amato
The poems in Daughters of Invention inquire into female experience from the mundane to the divine.
https://ko-fi.com/eamato
Do You Believe in Magic? by Carolyn Croop
A compilation of poems of love, magic and more.
http://authorcarolyncroop.com
Dreamy sonnets by Paweł Markiewicz
The chapbook, consisting of only sonnets. They enchant the souls of readers and have a power of dreamy, moony imagination.
https://pawelek3.wixsite.com/haikuonleaves
Duane's PoeTree Posting by Duane L Herrmann
Five poems on misc subjects posted on Duane's PoeTree (no relation to the author) on 25 uly 2020.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Eleven by Alshaad Kara
Eleven incorporates ten poems which are each different from one another. They are unique and transports the readers to different worlds, contexts and themes.
https://www.instagram.com/teamalshaadkara/?hl=en
Exit L. A. by Jerry Garcia
New and selected poems about Los Angeles written by a native Angeleno.
http://gratefulnotdead.com
Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo
Fib Sequence contains arachnids, jealous women, the Fibonacci sequence and a few choice nasty words. Enjoy!
http://larissashmailo.com
Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era by Cheryl Caesar
Flatman follows the outrages of the Trump administration, from his first playground taunts of ABC reporter Cecilia Vega through his helpful suggestions to water-bomb an 800-year old cathedral. From "Flatman" to "The Parasite," this book chronicles the reign of a villain in villanelles–and other poetic forms.
http://caesarc.msu.domains/
Fragments of Yesterdays Past by Melissa Mendelson
Fragments of Yesterdays Past poetically whispers through the corridors of this broken world as we linger, struggling to capture a past now gone, memories abandoned, leaving us with mistakes that have torn us in two, and the cruel hands of circuitry steal away what makes us human.
Fragments: A Poetry Sampler by James Thomas Fletcher
Sample poems from eleven books. I am an eclectic poet and herein you will find: serious, humorous, family, nature, letter, ekphrastic, even Covid poems. I hope you find much to ponder. I want to leave you with more than pretty descriptions. I want my words to sink into you.
https://linktr.ee/jamesthomasfletcher
Freedom by Rosalind Lee
A selection of poems (well perhaps) written this year – hopefully not enough to make you all sick!
Gifts of Nature by Joan Leotta
This chapbook of nature poems won an honorable mention in the Olivieri 2019 contest.
GOD TOO AWAITS LIGHT by Ram Krishna Singh
The book, ISBN 9781975993849, earlier published by Cholla Needles, Joshua Tree, CA in 2017, is a collection of the poet's haiku and tanka, experimentally arranged in a sequence to develop an inner movement from outer observations.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
Happenings, Heartbeats, and Mental Breakdowns by M. B. Manthe
This collection explores love, grief, tangled family relationships, and the author's lifelong struggle with depression. The poems also reflect the power of words to bring hope and healing, and to remind us we aren't alone. Includes fifty poems, plus an essay entitled "Losing Everything But Our Appetites."
https://lightedlakepress.com/
High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
High Wire Step is a collection of poems that engages deeply with political issues, from the impact of violence, oppression, and human arrogance to the power of empathy, collective consciousness, and humility, moving organically between time and space, an urban and a wild landscape and between despair and hopefulness.
http://www.magdalenaball.com
Hotel Poems by LB Sedlacek
How do you choose a hotel? LB Sedlacek has to have a pool! Go on vacation with her to find out why she thinks hotels (and poems) are a home away from home in these new poems written in Lawrenceville, GA outside of Atlanta.
http://www.lbsedlacek.com
Just A Girl from Plano by Antasia Shabria Armour
This is a work I've been wanting to write I didn't know it was going to be for a live site for a day or less though, so it was in my own heart. To describe life as a outsider being the only one in the family to live so.
http://shabria.square.site
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.1 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Campbell's Travels, How Did Heaven Begin, Joe Sphincter, The Rectangular Sky, Vomiting For God, Dream Rooms, In the Sea of Dolphins, Story of San Diego, Eve Eve, Before We Died, Jelly, The Latest Headlines, and six more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.2 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Break Up, Surrender, Memory, Riot Poem, A Bowl, A Gerund Life, A Slice of Dead Tree, Bamboo Discipline, Brothers, Creativity, Dead Still, Dear All, Descent, Entering The John Muir Wilderness, Eroticus Uninterruptus, French Toast, and eight more….
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Kingfisher's Greatest Bits, Vol.3 by Don Campbell
Oldies but goodies, all published in listed journals. Titles include: Green, Little Miss Metaphor, Man Made World, Room 222A, Sphere, The Artist, The Designer, The Earth, The Freeway, Vietnam, Whittier Blvd 8/29/70, Alhambra Sunrise, Death Waits, Edgar Winter Again, Five Hours, Of Knowledge, and four more…
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com
Languages, First and Last by Lauren Scharhag
This collection focuses on family, femininity, and Latinx identity, as well as bodies, illness, and caregiving. These poems straddle divides—white and non-white, American and foreign-born, healthy and unhealthy, middle-class and barely scraping by. Most of all, these poems explore what we inherit and what we leave behind.
http://laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/
limo casket by Lori Lasseter Hamilton
"limo casket" speeds by you like an angry hearse driver, racing through short, fast poems that crucify the patriarchy, racism, the male gaze, and the rape culture.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054942854441
Lunar Locus by Duane L Herrmann
Poems celebaring the prairie landscape.
A microchap(book) from Origami Poems Project, 2021, re-formatted as an ebook.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Melange by David Eberhardt
A quirky and alarmist bunch from an 81 year old poet-describing self as an Elizabethan/goth and outlaw poet.
Morning by Morning by Joan Leotta
Micro chapbook of poems celebrating dawn published by origami press as pdf, has a cover, is a one page foldable book
Mother and I: Nine Poems by Duane L Herrmann
Nine poems highlighting the fraught relationship between my mother and myself.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com
Musings on a Native Life by Duane L Herrmann
Poems reflecting on the authors unknown Native heritage.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
My Silence by Ram Krishna Singh
The book is my maiden collection of poems published in 1985 and now out-of-print, though it is included in a volume of my Collected Poems, Sense and Silence, published in 2010.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
Nasty Girls by Lynne Bronstein
Poems about women throughout history who defied the moral standards of their time by doing their thing, sexually and otherwise. These poems are in the words of the women themselves (at least as the author imagines their words).
Nature Calls by Branwen Drew
This book is about nature seen through the eyes of a poet. It includes her artwork and photography as well.
https://branwendrew.substack.com/p/links
Ocean is My Name by Seshendra Sharma
Ocean is My Name, a long poem is gift to poetry lovers and Seshendra’s admirers
https://kinige.com/book/Ocean+is+My+Name
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.com
On Neither Side by Patrice M. Wilson
I had in mind Aristotle's Golden Mean when I wrote the first poem, also the title poem, in this chapbook. I hope the other poems in the collection reflect something more specific than the generalized scenario in the first poem.
https://pmwilsonpoet.com
ON THE NATURE OF REALITY AND OUR CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE by Eve T. Reed
There are many ways of looking at life.You need to choose your conception of reality. My poetry has been greatly affected by Dante, which is why I use Cantos. It is a journey both physical and metaphysical.
https://artblazer.com
Our Dogs Are Getting Old by Michael Estabrook
A collection of 28 “composite” poems based upon influential quotations from various philosophers and poets, playwrights and novelists, ancient and modern from Aeschylus to Thomas Wolfe. These cover many topics such as pain, dreams, medicine, love, wisdom, beauty, courage, music, jealousy, time, God, and the Devil.
https://michaelestabrook.org/
Out of Alphabetical Order by Charles Perrone
Well, the title gives an idea of the non-normative approach of this modest collection. These are risk-taking and unafraid lyrical instances expressing the perplexity of life in the second decade of the 21st century. Neat cover / back cover images too! If nothing else, look at them.
Plaster of Kalinka by Christian Garduno
"Plaster of Kalinka" is a collection of twenty poems published by Christian Garduno from May to November 2021.
https://linktr.ee/ChristianGardunoWriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=1855f8a1-19ca-4164-b09d-07c56152de13
Poetry Explained by Robin Dake
A three-year collection of poems with descriptions of each poem, giving the reader a chance to understand how outside forces helped create inside art. The collection features poetry of Pentecost, Pandemic and Protest.
Poetry from Ryecroft Hall by K. Scott-Fuchs
A Collection of Poetry and Verse by K. Scott-Fuchs. (Please disregard my two previous submissions, they were set in error).
Prairie Perspectives by Duane L Herrmann
A brief collection of poems celebrating the prairie landscape and its emotions.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Prairie's Voice by Duane L Herrmann
A collection of 27 poems about the prairie.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
queer-E-book by James Penha
Selected recently-published poems by James Penha: some funny, some sad, some weird, some shocking, some sexy, all queer.
https://jamespenha.com
Rust by Jim Babwe
15 examples of why I did not pursue a chemistry degree in college.
http://www.recursivemultimedia.com
sassafras, jelly, gumblo by Lillian Necakov
A wee book of poems inspired by "how to" books. These pieces are "prayers navigating their way through buttonholes".
Satan in Chicago by Eric Evans
Poems inspired by Ray Bradbury, terracotta soldiers, judgmental crows, and the beauty of the perfect mixtape. And, of course, Satan roaming around in Chicago.
https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysite
Selected Poems by Dave Lewis
Twenty four poems from eight published collections.
http://www.david-lewis.co.uk
SHE by Ram Krishna Singh
The book is a collection of about 50 selected haiku celebrating woman that makes man complete. It is e-published under the aegis of Arabic Haiku Club.
https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com
SIXSEVEN by Charles A. Perrone
Poems of the early twenty-first century (after 2001!) in my idiosyncratic voice with multiple influences, from rock and roll to concrete poetry. Including a poem about naming our new cat!
The publisher is moriapoetry; it's worthwhile to track down the meanings of that apt word.
So Be It by Ralph Culver
"[In *So Be It*] Culver reveals himself as someone remarkably observant…. In this modern era—which sometimes feels dystopian, with suffering seeming like the most predominant force—(Culver) reminds readers of the power of beauty, joy, and love in nature, relationships, and even the tedium of our daily lives." —Despy Boutris, *Entropy*
https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Culver/e/B079Q5JNSK
Soul Songs by Duane L Herrmann
Poems reflecting and rejoicing in the spiritual life.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Stumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber
Welcome to CrazyTown! Open the pages of this brutally honest poetry chapbook and stumble along with Peggy Gerber as she takes readers on an emotional journey through mental illness and back again. Let's banish the stigma against mental illness.
http://peggysue445.wixsite.com/my=site
SURFACING by Annest Gwilym
Charting the haunting, complex submergence of a mental health breakdown, the slippery internals of struggle are given voice with stark clarity. Unsettling images ripple their silver with a strangeness that lingers. For all the pain and darkness underwater, for every breath held in, these poems surface: bright and triumphant.
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilym
Sweet Scented Streams by Duane L Herrmann
Poems of a devotional, but not Christian, perspective.
https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
Terrain, An Origami Destination by Ellen Sander
An origami chapbook (just one cut) For assembly instructions go https://www.origamipoems.com/who-we-are/folding-an-origami-book This is a journey over emotional and geographical headlands toward an authentic home. This site originally published this work.
http://ellensander.com
The Road – TAO by Germain Droogenbroodt
The Road, published in Chinese and Japanese as TAO, is philosophical, written in 1997 in India, containing poems warning for climate change, is also prophetic poetry. With references to Greek and Eastern philosophy, it is an international poetic bridge.
http://www.point-editions.com
The Smoke Detector Gives Its Death Beep by Rick Lupert
New poems from Rick Lupert including selections from the forthcoming collection "The Low Country Shvitz."
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/
THINGS by Jennifer Nuesi
In her visual poetry book collection, THINGS gives shape to the invisible anxieties that boldly linger on the walls of our lives. Journey through depression, heartbreak, and sorrow while biting back the cruelty that anxiety brings.
https://www.penofthepeople.com/things-book
Three quarters of a personality by Anna Capstick
A compilation of poetry specifically about humans, concerning sin, love, hatred and general encounters faced by us all.
TIGHT FIT by Ted Burke
A selection of recent poems roughly in the manner of Frank O'Hara and Thomas Lux. Irony, hopeful fatalism, an amused rethinking of sober experience in a world that will not bend to my will, the poems are a record of someone who retains the capacity to be surprised.
http://www.ted-burke.com
Tony's story by Anthony Kirk
This is my first chapbook publication. Its inspiration is drawn from my travels in the Charente. and Dordogne over the past three years
Tropical Strands by Lorraine Caputo
Pack your bags for a poetic journey to the Caribbean coast of Honduras!
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com
Utopian Problems by Jean-Paul Garnier
A mini-chapbook of poems addressing possible issues associated with making a utopia work for everyone.
https://spacecowboybooks.com/
Vipercity by Vincent Zepp
'These are the poems of an accomplished artist and a compassionate, complex thinker'…..
WHAT THE OWL TAUGHT ME by Annest Gwilym
This is a rich and intense read that puts humanity mostly in the background and natural life in the foreground like a lifelong love affair. What the Owl Taught Me is full of poems of frailty with an underpinning strength that allows for delight on every printed page. James Bell
https://sites.google.com/a/lapwingpublications.com/lapwing-store/annest-gwilym
When All Else Falters by Patrice M. Wilson
This was my first published chapbook, which contains poems that move through various themes related to how one feels and what one might do or think "when all else falters" (I changed "fails" to "falters" to avoid the finality of the cliche).
https://pmwilsonpoet.com
Women Who Were Warned by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, 29 poems in "Women Who Were Warned" emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood — and the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. ― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ―
https://youtu.be/Ga9QXeQVPnE
