Forum / New chapbook by Stacia M. Fleegal (Cervena Barva Press)

• 
  Gloria Mindock

  Mar 17, 06:31am

  Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Chapbook
  "The Lines Are Not My Friends"
  Poems by Stacia M. Fleegal
  
  Stacia M. Fleegal is the author of Anatomy of a Shape-Shifter (WordTech, forthcoming 2010) and the chapbook A Fling with the Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2007). In 2009, individual poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared or are forthcoming in Fourth River, The Louisville Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Pemmican, Blue Collar Review, The Kerf, Prick of the Spindle, New Verse News, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Heartland Review, and Babel Fruit. She received her MFA in writing from Spalding University, is co-founder and managing editor of Blood Lotus (www.bloodlotus.org), and recently co-founded Imaginary Friend Press (named after Thomas McGrath's Letter to an Imaginary Friend) with her partner, the poet Dan Nowak.

  28 Pages

  An Unknown Poet's Grandiose Call to Action

  If all the living world is your canvas and

  you can see where there is red earth and
  you can hear where there is white noise and
  you can taste orange and yellow fruits and
  you can smell purple in a hard-earned spring and
  you can feel blackness or rainbows and

  you can hug your children and
  you can joke about incompetent leaders and
  you can relate to suffering and
  you can feel remorse and
  you can stockpile food in your basement and
  you can worship your television and
  you can answer your phone when it rings and
  you can buy things with promises and
  you can never run out of promises and
  you can promise that and
  you can promise nothing else of substance and

  you can hear about Darfur and Burma and
  Lebanon and Detroit and
  St. Louis and Miami and
  rape-as-a-weapon and hate crimes and
  drowned polar bears and extinct butterflies and
  dead uninsured babies and jobs outsourced and
  everyone everywhere casting stones and

  you can sleep at night and

  you can hold the tool you were given at birth on this soil and
  you can appreciate art when being cultured is "in" and
  you can testify that pictures on menus deepen hunger and
  you can see the merit of having the whole picture

  how then does your brush still hang lamely at your side?
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  Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html

  The Lines Are Not My Friends
  $7.00
  
  Shipping
  $3.00
  
  Total
  $10.00
  
  
  Send check or money order payable to:
  Cervena Barva Press
  P.O. Box 440357,
  W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222
  e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com
  

• 
  Susan Tepper

  Mar 18, 06:53am

  Gloria, this poem by Stacia M. Fleegal is simply stunning, I cannot wait to read this chapbook

• 
  Gloria Mindock

  Mar 20, 04:33pm

  Thanks Susan-
  Stacia came in 2nd place in our chapbook contest last year. I just had to publish this chapbook!
  Thanks for your kind words. I'll be mailing you her chapbook sometime next week.

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