Books from Evening Street Press
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Evening Street Review Number 5
By AMANDA ADAMS, ANDREA BATES, CYNTHIA BELMONTWhen the credits started to roll and Carmen, needing her meds and cigarettes, handed Ryan her car keys, Mary Ellen stared in disbelief. “She's giving him her keys!” she thought, eyeing Pepe, trying to catch his attention because he knew ...
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Evening Street Review Number 12
By Peggy Trojan, Patti Sullivan, Annette OpalczynskiNEGLECTED HELP INDEPENDENT THINKERS: EMILY DICKINSON AND ROBINSON JEFFERS THE INDEPENDENCE OF EMILY DICKINSON In April 1862 Emily Dickinson wrote to a literary figure in Boston for advice: ... I went to school, but in your manner of the ...
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Evening Street Review Number 15
By Michael Salcman, Christopher Buckley, Carl AuerbachNUMBER 15, AUTUMN 2016 Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the ...
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Evening Street Review Number 19
By Stephen JohnsonStephen Johnson Barbara Bergmann. Assasinations The Right attacks the Left Marilyn Monroe: 1962 John F. Kennedy: 1963 Malcolm X: 1965 Che Guevara: 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr.: 1968 Robert F. Kennedy: 1968.
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Evening Street Review Number 13
By ANNE HOSANSKY, PAMELA L. LASKIN, Holly DayBut that day they say that Laura Nelson had a small girl child she carried in her arms. They said she laid the child down on the bridge deck, just before she was hung. One woman who was present told the newspaper reporter that the men ...
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Oh, say did you know: Poems by Ellen Hirning Schmidt
By Ellen Hirning SchmidtWritingRoomWorkshops.com The poems in Oh say did you know reflect on the exterior world, the political, environmental and civil landscapes surrounding us all, as well as on the navigation of the interior.
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A Prague Spring, Before & After: Poems by Michael Salcman
By Michael SalcmanIn this book, ignorance, cruelty, and murder lose.
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Giving Them All Away
By KRISTIN LAURELThis is a truly wonderful collection of poems that looks unflinchingly at the full spectrum of human pain and trauma, at the violence we do to ourselves and each other, and at the violence that the world inflicts on each and every one of us ...
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you’ll never tip a go-go boy in this town again
By JESS PROVENCIOA reading of Jess Provencio’s you’ll never tip a go-go boy in this town again alters perspective as good poetry should.
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Wal-Mart Orchid
By JUDITH SORNBERGERThese are poems the world needs. —Alison Townsend, author of Persephone in America The speaker patrols a daily life of frustration, conflict, casual hostilities and ever-mounting culpability, but she refuses despair. . . and continue(s) ...
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Home Front: Childhood Memories of WWII
By Peggy TrojanThese are poems of great tenderness and simplicity, powerfully remembered… “the girls played house and the boys played war” (“Playtime”). —Bruce Dethlefsen Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011-2012) author of Small Talk, Little Eagle ...
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Free Range Kids
By Peggy TrojanThe collection is as tasty as the potatoes retrieved from a charcoal fire after sledding in the snow - Wilda Morris, Editor, Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge
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Lessons: Poems by Donna Spector
By Donna SpectorOften poignant (the loss of students we carry like stones with us, although we may have forgotten their names), sometimes funny (a reactionary principal who doesn’t actually read anything), this book is a welcome acknowledgement of ...
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From Buchenwald to Havana
By Julian MarkelsOn one outing, our mountain club party was to climb Mount Wilson, one of Colorado's famed “fourteeners,” which is connected to another, Wilson Peak, by a knife-edged ridge threequarters of a mile long. We got to the Mount Wilson summit ...
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Neighbors poems by Tom Boswell
By Tom BoswellThis collection of poems reminds us of the monsters, the mundane, and the magnificent folks who live next door, across the street, and at the edge of town.
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Brandi
By Margaret Powers MilardoEven Mrs. Hough probably voted for me. She was so relieved that I wasn't on her case when I came back from the Center, she would have done just about anything to keep me from screwin' around. I know she gave me a B- just cuz she was ...
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No Turning Back
By Margaret Powers MilardoAlmost in the center of the square was Irwin Bell Tower, actually a church-like structure that had a few offices and rooms for upper level classes or seminars and boasted ...
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Evening Street Review Number 6: Spring 2012
By Julian Markels, Sharon Reynolds, Peter WeltnerIt reminds him of fairy pictures in a book Opal used to read to him and Lewis Jr. He swallows a small bite, then puts the chicken down on the plate, glancing at his mother. Her head is bowed over her plate.
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Now What?
By Franz WeinschenkAnd when the inside elevator door is just about even with the outside ledge, the kids on the inside will have to yell “Now!” which is the signal to start the chain—that is everybody hollering loud and fast to the person down the hall ...
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Poets Should NOT Write About Politics
By Jerry T JohnsonJerry Johnson's new book, Poets Should Not Write about Politics, immediately undermines its title in seemingly innocent poems about daisies, bison, and kittens that hit hard in their love for America and their rage against her ...