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Eileen ike West poem, “Irish Hermitage Dream” Selected for Summer 2025 Edition of The Chaos Section Poetry Project’s Record of Dissent…
Years ago, I learn from my web designer son, an important marketing strategy regarding book titles and product names. It’s…
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.
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.
How naïve of me to think that people, throughout the English-speaking world, who know nothing about me, would want to…
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.
Recently, my granddaughter Sophie Eagle and I visited Minneapolis expressly to explore, not the giant Mall of the Americas, but…

