Calling All Whistler Readers

Recently, one of my friends and a member of the Texas Circle, made a comment about navigating the divisiveness between…

I grew up telling my parents about memories I had as a baby. They were astounded by what I shared….

I’m sitting on pins and needles, waiting to hear what people have to say about my first poetry collection Whistler…

How naïve of me to think that people, throughout the English-speaking world, who know nothing about me, would want to…

Here’s yet ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL REVIEW for Whistler of Petty Crimes
This one by Rae Longest – Originally posted on the website blog page of LITERACY & ME, June11, 2023…I thoroughly enjoyed this little volume, and indeed, it gave me a lot to think about and meditate upon.

All marketing wizards in the queendom of Authorland want me to spell out my mission. I suppose in common vernacular…

I started so young. While my grade school friends play school teacher and/or hospital nurse, I imagine myself writer and editor. My fantasy job involves dissecting letters to the editor out of American Girl Magazine, and re-writing the boring bits. My PRETEND years of education and experience lead me to believe I can best any official editor’s work.

Book Reviewer Angel says:

“Whistler of Petty Crimes is more than poetry…it’s a reflective journey that is easy to follow and love.

I really enjoy when a poetry collection intertwines the way this one, Whistler of Petty Crimes, does and gives a full picture. I especially love the format of having a series of poems, within the collection, each with its own special insight.

This past summer, in Taos, New Mexico, I spent six weeks nestled inside adobe walls. The walls of the home were thick red mud, caked by man and baked by sun. The garden and patio also wore a tall, plush robe of the same red clay.

The following six song titles make for easily banked together quasi-Haiku. Please, lyrical reader, merely look down the list of titles, and you’ll see it is so. (Ah, poetry. It shows up everywhere.)

Recently, my granddaughter Sophie Eagle and I visited Minneapolis expressly to explore, not the giant Mall of the Americas, but…

It is a really hectic time for me—packing up to move from Texas to Oregon. This time for good. Just…

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.                                      ― Tom Robbins Beauty begins the moment you decide to…

Thanks to ike’s oldest granddaughter’s perseverance over several months, the ikewest.com/2025/ website has a new face—and on some pages, new…

A compendium of unique experiences real and accessible to others, ike West chronicles the middle decades of her life in…