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Pay Attention: Poems for Oral Interpretation, edited by John Pierce, now on sale at Amazon, contains two of my longer persona pieces: “Her Last Cotillion” about Doc Holliday and his cousin Mattie (whom Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind was modeled after) and “Richard Lionheart’s Mummified Heart Examined” a piece in various voices about…
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Many thanks to the editors of The Literary Arts Review for their two-page book review of my chapbook Shining from a Different Firmament!! They are among the few journals that review poetry chapbooks! I was expecting a few paragraphs but they went far beyond that; their thoughtful, thorough review highlighted the most unique and relevant aspects…
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Source: Beatriz F. Fernandez
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The Copperfield Review, a journal which features historical fiction, poetry and great interviews of authors of historical fiction like Mary Doria Russell, Jean M. Auel, Jeff Shaara and John Jakes, has published three of my historical persona poems in their latest online issue: Maid Joan’s Gethsemane (about Joan of Arc), Genesis, 1880 (about the first…
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Spark: A Creative Anthology, a paying market, just accepted my poem, The Fourth Brontë Sister, for publication in a future volume. This persona poem is about two Emilys: Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë. Dickinson was known to be a great admirer of the Brontës. She was such a fan that an associate of hers commented…
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Thanks for having me today Beatriz! Why Do I Write Poetry? Robert Graves once said, “There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money either.” Well he’s right. Poetry is not a genre that will bring you fame and money. But of course one doesn’t write poetry for fame and money either. So…
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Originally posted on THE FEM : Born and raised in Liverpool where they invented both football and popular music, Evangeline Jennings now lives in Austin, Texas. The black sheep of her family, she comes from a long line of Californian beauty queens on her mother’s side. Evangeline gets her looks from her father. Mostly Evangeline…
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Originally posted on THE FEM : Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez is a Latina poet and a university Reference Librarian in Miami. She grew up in Puerto Rico, the daughter of Peruvian and Puerto Rican parents. She began to write for publication after she won Writer’s Digest’s 2nd annual poetry contest; since then, she’s read her poetry…
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Originally posted on QuillsEdge Press: QuillsEdge Press is thrilled to announce that our 2015 contest includes a Pro-Diversity entrance fee of $5.00 for self-identified Women of Color ? In our first contest last year the proportion of manuscripts we received from Women of Color did not match the number of talented Women of Color writers…
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Originally posted on Paving My Author's Road: On this day last year, on December 3, 2014, I self-published my poetry chapbook “Can You Catch My Flow?” Before I released my poetry chapbook out into the world, I submitted it to many chapbook contests. And just when I was considering about self-publishing, Finishing Line Press sent me…
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