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Thirty-two poems recall this native New Yorker's childhood relocation with her family to sunny California (The San Fernando Valley); growing up on the West Coast in the 1960s-as a preteen, teen, and young adult; and her responses to her new surroundings and the times. Several poems explore the interracial tension of the times (Watts Riots, Civil Rights Amendment) from the viewpoint of a young person whose older sister created an interracial family. From the perspectives of both family and race, the poet explores her relationships with her nephew, niece, and brother-in-law. If you like the work of Diane Wakoski or James Broughton, you will enjoy the whim and wit this book.

Author Gene Auprey offers a new collection of poems; a meditation on nature, life and death, and the ever-present possibilities of hope, humor and love. "At home somewhere between the pastoral and the familial, violence and tranquility (often showing how they are sometimes the same side of the same coin), Gene Auprey's voice is one of restrained and steady power."- James Midgely, Editor MIMESIS

These poems, voiced by stones, speaking for the poet and for humanity, are beautiful and peculiar. Weinraub cracks open craft to reveal humane interiors. Fixed forms with meter and rhyme, tenderly chiseled, deftly sculpted, pulse with regret, joy and a hundred other sentiments. Bright diction and an impressive control of syntax allows Weinraub to modulate tone and music. Wit and gorgeous capitulations abound in this book. "Gentlemen prefer blonde Crystals" gives way to "imperfections are a garden." These poems "forge a new world out of stone," a landscape populated by jade, garnet, and onyx with time-rich thoughts, blood-rich emotion. - EDUARDO C. CORRAL, author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 2012; Lapidary is an original and brilliant collection of poems that offers insights into the various states of human nature through the voices of different stones. This book is a must have, and it will be avidly read for years to come. - EDWARD ODWITT, writer & illustrator; In Lapidary - stones, semi-precious, precious - stones talk to you, skillfully, convincingly and you believe them, you believe them! - THOMAS LUX, acclaimed poet and teacher, the Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Management Consultant for the Arts, native New Yorker, and a frequently anthologized Poet - counting the New York Times and Cosmopolitan Magazine among her nearly 100 publication credits - Rosalie Calabrese shares her love affair with Manhattan in twenty-nine memorable vignettes. "A smorgasbord of memories and images for addicts of New York City ... [by] a wry, experienced, quizzical, compassionate, knowing woman who staunchly maintains the innocent eye."- CAROL JOCHNOWITZ, former Production Editor of Jewish Currents "Sassy yet introspective observations of an anything but jaded New York native ... this is a joyous, lyrical diary of urban life."- IRIS LEE, Author of Urban Bird Life

Iris N Schwartz's debut short short story collection serves up nine shots of fast-paced short fiction that explore coming of age, romance & dating, family life, urban life, and the psyches of contemporary women from childhood through adolescence to maturity - both the sublime and the darker aspects - with humor, pathos, and wit. A small collection of flash fiction that a reader can read in one sitting because it simply can't be put down. - Niles Reddick, Midwest Book Review

Blogger Jack Cooper joins the ranks of Dorothy Parker, John Donne and Confucius with his haiku-esque witticisms: "ROMEO AND JULIET, EXPLAINED / You cannot live for love" [Monday, February 11, 2013]; "WORDS FROM A STONE / Both terrible and vain / to have sought love // at a time one felt so little" [Wednesday, March 6, 2013]. No candy-coated sugar pills served here!It seems Cooper's systematic and objective distillation of his truth serves as an inoculation from fullblown despair. At the pinnacle of disaster, even its perilous aftermath, like a magician he produces the "aha" moment for spiritual uplift and buoyant rebound.Check out this occasional blogger's "terse verse" as something to savor along with your daily horoscope and joke subscriptions. If you are seeking high-quality web content, but fearful of spiraling down the social media rabbit hole, Cooper's blog, "These Are Aphorithms," found at http: //aphorithms.blogspot.com, is just what the doctor ordered.Here is a sampling on the subject of Romantic Love.

The debut collection of Diane Stiglich. Three interconnected short stories.

"This debut essay collection by Ona Gritz, NY Times-published writer and longtime columnist for Literary Mama, reads like a block buster movie. There is a heroine with cerebral palsy, likeable and indefatigable. There is family conflict, romance, and true crime. Ona writes on disability, family dynamics, and the murder of her sister's family with candor and passion. A critically acclaimed essayist, two Notable mentions by Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon among the recent accolades, Ms. Gritz has gathered some of the best of her work from the NY Times Disability series, Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more for this fine and most riveting read"--