Children of the Fifties is a humorous, sometimes sad, collection of poems which reflect growing up a country girl in Middle Tennessee. It is geared to help anyone interested in writing about their own life experiences, with blank pages included in the book for the reader to interact, using the book as an example.

Depths of Melancholy is man抯 journey through the dark clouds of a gloomy painful reality. Every present moment in a man抯 life is filled with yesterday抯 pains that linger with tender, yet vivid footsteps.

The Depths of Melancholy sinks you deep into abyss sheer gloom, here men抯 wounded inside smeared with turmoil and pain is substantially painted in clear primary colors and with it is carried either lessons or just emptiness.

These poems are a clear mirror of men抯 real shuttered internal being often concealed with everyday drama. Painful as it may be it抯 an open mind surgery that sharpens one抯 understanding beyond time and space.

This volume has a little of everything including poignant tributes to Jazz greats Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. Joe Okonkwo fearlessly tackles taboo subjects such as what some African-Americans really think about the ghetto, who really bears the blame for slavery and how expectations the Gay media sets forth affect those who don't—or can't—comply.

Milk Chocolate/Naked Moon is exactly what we've been waiting for: an unpredictable, page turning collection of poetry.

Make Hay While the Sun Shines
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Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Sponsored by:
Athol Savings Bank
Bruce's Browser
Cornerstone Insurance Agency
Haley's Antiques and Publishing
Lisa M. Carey, CPA
Michael Humphries Woodworking
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
Pete's Tire Barns
RE/MAX Hometown Realtors
William Howe Oldach, Attorney at Law

Martin Green is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, California. In 1991, the year after he retired, he started writing articles for a weekly alternative newspaper in Sacramento, Suttertown News.. In the same year, he began free-lancing for the Neighbors section of the Sacramento Bee, contributing over 100 articles until Neighbors was discontinued in 2002.. Since 2000, He’s been writing for a monthly newspaper, the Sun Senior News, which goes to over 10,000 households in two retirement communities, Sun City Roseville (where he lives) and Sun City Lincoln Hills. He currently does two monthly features, “Observations” and “Favorite Restaurants.”

This book is a collection of all, or almost all, of Martin’s journalistic pieces. It starts with his first story for Suttertown News, about how a water district was coping with a then years-long drought, and ends with a piece he wrote about his father for the Sun Senior News. The stories include profi les of people such as David Freeman, then head of SMUD; two notable writers in Davis, Kim Stanley Robinson and Karen Joy Fowler; a number of artists, musicians and other writers; many active senior citizens, and survivors of Pearl Harbor. They also cover places such as art galleries, restaurants, museums, coffee houses and swim and tennis clubs, and events such as the Elk Grove Strauss Festival, the Folsom rodeo and the first Saturday Night Art Walk.

In addition to his journalism, Martin has had over 200 short stories published in online magazines and has so far self-published three collections of these stories (2006, 2007 and 2008) as well as a longer work, “One Year in Retirement” (2009) and a collection of his “Observations” (2010). He has been married to Beverly (a water-color artist) for 46 years, has three sons (David, Michael and Christopher), three grandsons (Mason, Morgan and Logan), one granddaughter (Stephanie) and two cats (Bun-Bun and Shandyman).

Martin Green is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, California. In 1991, the year after he retired, he started writing articles for a weekly alternative newspaper in Sacramento, Suttertown News.. In the same year, he began free-lancing for the Neighbors section of the Sacramento Bee, contributing over 100 articles until Neighbors was discontinued in 2002.. Since 2000, He’s been writing for a monthly newspaper, the Sun Senior News, which goes to over 10,000 households in two retirement communities, Sun City Roseville (where he lives) and Sun City Lincoln Hills. He currently does two monthly features, “Observations” and “Favorite Restaurants.”

This book is a collection of all, or almost all, of Martin’s journalistic pieces. It starts with his first story for Suttertown News, about how a water district was coping with a then years-long drought, and ends with a piece he wrote about his father for the Sun Senior News. The stories include profi les of people such as David Freeman, then head of SMUD; two notable writers in Davis, Kim Stanley Robinson and Karen Joy Fowler; a number of artists, musicians and other writers; many active senior citizens, and survivors of Pearl Harbor. They also cover places such as art galleries, restaurants, museums, coffee houses and swim and tennis clubs, and events such as the Elk Grove Strauss Festival, the Folsom rodeo and the first Saturday Night Art Walk.

In addition to his journalism, Martin has had over 200 short stories published in online magazines and has so far self-published three collections of these stories (2006, 2007 and 2008) as well as a longer work, “One Year in Retirement” (2009) and a collection of his “Observations” (2010). He has been married to Beverly (a water-color artist) for 46 years, has three sons (David, Michael and Christopher), three grandsons (Mason, Morgan and Logan), one granddaughter (Stephanie) and two cats (Bun-Bun and Shandyman).

Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography-including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life. In such instances there seems to be a symbiosis between biographer and subject. In other cases, biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for biography because they are not men and women of action. That literary biography is a kind of strip mining, a pathography laying bare the subject's life to no good purpose is another canard this book demolishes.

The pieces here also expose the genre's weak points: a proclivity for overstatement and excessive length, the failure of biographers to build upon their predecessors' work (Rollyson invents a term-biographology-in order to discuss the biographical tradition).

Into this, we were born-the Baby Boomers, the Me generation, bringing with us all we would become, often selfish, yet frequently idealistic and selfless. Confused, confusing, brilliant and inquisitive, we made our way into the sixties, stumbled through the seventies, had children in the eighties, thought we got rich in the nineties and returned to bell bottoms in the new millennium.

Catharsis captures the essence of those times as never before. Moriarty has a grasp of language and metaphor that leaves the reader spellbound, wondering and often, in tears. His writing style is intense, raw, and emotional. Relive life memories in Catharsis, an intensely personal and awesomely powerful experience.

Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, From the Igloo Confessional is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careening through place and time. Come along on an imaginative journey where a "Starry Hour" prevails, a "Fire in Moscow" glows, and "Chiaroscuro" awaits. Soar over waters in "Ride the Ocean Bells". Stefan has crafted a storyline of deep expression and feeling, from "To Catch Mona Lisa", to "Glories of the Pigeons", "Dutchman", and "Symbiosis". From the Igloo Confessional is an epic of poetry to be experienced over and over again.

Derived as an idea from the Icelandic sagas, From the Igloo Confessional is a surrounding narrative where Adam and Fjola find self discovery while careening through place and time. Come along on an imaginative journey where a "Starry Hour" prevails, a "Fire in Moscow" glows, and "Chiaroscuro" awaits. Soar over waters in "Ride the Ocean Bells". Stefan has crafted a storyline of deep expression and feeling, from "To Catch Mona Lisa", to "Glories of the Pigeons", "Dutchman", and "Symbiosis". From the Igloo Confessional is an epic of poetry to be experienced over and over again.