• My poem, “Monody for a Leading Man” has been published in Stonecoast Review‘s Winter 2016 issue 6.  Stonecoast Review: a literary arts journal published by the University of Southern Maine’s MFA program in Creative Writing.

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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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  • Queens University of Charlotte, NC, has accepted my poem “Calle del Cristo, Old San Juan” for their ARTE LATINO NOW 2017 exhibition of Latino artists.  The poem will be read at the opening reception and the exhibit will run for a month: January  17, 2017  – February  17, 2017  10:00 AM  – 8:00 PM Max L. Jackson Gallery,

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  • The Australia Times Poetry Magazine has published several of my poems, two in the October issue, “Inspiration” and “The Last Thing I’ll Lose” and has accepted two more for future publication!  They just featured one poem, “Bahia Honda Beach Conch” on their facebook page with a lovely photo of a conch.  I wrote this poem right

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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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  • Beatriz F. Fernandez

    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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  • Poet Lidy Wilks’ chapbook cover reveal, guest post and giveways!

    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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