“And after my wanderings, I hope I will arrive  where love is not alone, and hate is not alive.”  “I shall try to follow reason & faith,  and trust that where they join it is my place.”  From the foreword:  “Writing a poem is like sailing deep oceans at the mercy of shifting winds and streams that carry uncountable words, some emanating from the still, unseen deep, others from the ever changing emotions that flutter and sometimes rage at the surface. It may also happen that a poem wants to write itself, for poems can have feelings and secrets of their own that we never imagined, and are only revealed when one begins to write. The extraordinary discovery that it implies, is what makes the adventure of writing poetry the more exciting and worthwhile. Unique.  …  Within my limitations, I wrote this book with deep respect and admiration for the art of many great classical and modern poets, and sympathy for all those that have courage to expose their feelings. The book reveals some feelings of mine and a few opinions. It is a book about emotions, love, joy and sorrow, beliefs, and thoughts on life. About the world we live in, the Universe from where we came, and to where we will return one day. It is a book about lions too, birds, rain, the sun and the sea. It is about living creatures and stones. And Gods, time, existence and the naive hope of an eternal restart. It starts at Dawn.”  “Tomorrow, I’ll travel,  I’ll dream of adventures and gavel  the tempers, all seven,  to check if there’s fire in heaven.”

Dawn: Poems & Thoughts (Poems and Thoughts by Pierre Sotér)

Literature & Fiction

Sotér, Mr. Pierre

Poetry

Adelaide Books

The Loneliness Cafe: A Collection of Short Stories

Dokey, Mr. Richard

Short Stories & Anthologies

A collection of poems about family, inner perceptions, relationships, and friends. As the author says in the poem: "“...Read books with words dark as rained-on grass, tree trunks, blacktop, clothes sucking up to skin. Each word slides like mascara. The water on my cheek, pressing down my hair, hanging like spiders from my eyelashes — these are all part of the book, the part that makes it worth reading. Let these be the last lines you write — not a suicide note, but as final as one. Beware the greed good poetry breeds, greed for more and more verse. Soon you won’t get through the day without a shot.“

Denny's Arbor Vitae: Poetic Memoirs

Robbins, Mr. Timothy

“The spiritual part of my body had taken over the rest of my mortal self…My whole perception of life was totally changed. I felt detached from all material things and was thinking only of the long voyage ahead, a voyage from which no one has ever returned. Even my sleep had been disturbed by dreams of family members who had passed away. They were beckoning me to join them. The scene was like a huge jigsaw puzzle falling into place, it was the picture of my life on earth at its end.” The writing style, the flow of the stories, introduction and development of the complex characters, intense and multilayered plots with exciting twists and turns, original setting of each of the stories - everything about this collection of short stories and essays is a compliment to a wordsmith’s craft. (Stevan V. Nikolic, Editor, Adelaide Literary Magazine)

The incident of the Mysterious Priest: And Other Stories

Fenech, Mr. Raymond

Essays & Correspondence

“With reason, we go beyond what we can sense. With emotions, we go beyond what we can reason.” “Kiss my lips, don’t lose any time trying to read them, for they may give you more when they don’t move, and I can nothing say when you feel them.” With reason, we go beyond what we can sense. With emotions, we go beyond what we can reason. If, and only if, we take the time to listen to our deep states of mind, to our divine instincts, and then have the courage to follow them. And bring our souls with us wherever we go, whenever we come back. We have a word for this: Emotions. But not enough words to explain it. We will never have enough words for such a task. Therefore, possibly, the only way to expose our emotions is through poetry. In poetry each word can, in mysterious ways, by combining with other words, in mysterious ways, allow us to travel through our emotions, and make it possible for new emotions, sometimes unknown, to take over our souls and minds. That’s what the words in this book are trying to do, in their own emotional way. Like in the simple words of love, in which there is love and there is more. There are emotions. EMOTIONS is a poetry book written in two languages. English and Portuguese. All poems are original, for it is not possible to translate a poem without losing the emotions that are embedded in the words. Two people may share emotions, but they will never be exactly the same. Likewise, for words. “Quando uma luz brilha sózinha e à minha volta não há ninguém, fico a pensar numa que eu tinha, se afinal é essa luz alguém.” “In this life that is so brief, we can only make it stronger by making moments massive till they can’t move any longer.”

Emotions / Emoções: Poems and Thoughts

Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international bimonthly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine¿s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, and book reviews, written in English and Portuguese. We seek to publish outstanding literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and to promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience. We publish print and digital editions of our magazine six times a year, in September, November, January, March, May, and July. Online edition is updated continuously. There are no charges for reading the magazine online. (http://adelaidemagazine.org)A Revista Literária Adelaide é uma publicação bimensal internacional e independente, localizada em Nova Iorque e Lisboa. Fundada por Stevan V. Nikolic e Adelaide Franco Nikolic em 2015, o objectivo da revista é publicar poesia, ficção, não-ficção, arte e fotografia de qualidade assim como entrevistas, artigos e críticas literárias, escritas em inglês e português. Pretendemos publicar ficção, não-ficção e poesia excepcionais assim como promover os escritores que publicamos, ajudando os autores novos e emergentes a atingir uma audiência literária mais vasta. Publicamos edições impressas e digitais da nossa revista quatro vezes por ano: em Setembro, Dezembro, Março e Junho. A edição online é actualizada regularmente. Não há qualquer custo associado à leitura da revista online.

Adelaide Literary Magazine No.9: Volume One, September 2017

Nikolic, Mr. Stevan V.

Nikolic, Mrs. Adelaide Franco

Literary

Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international bimonthly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, and book reviews, written in English and Portuguese. We seek to publish outstanding literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and to promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience. We publish print and digital editions of our magazine six times a year, in September, November, January, March, May, and July. The online edition is updated continuously. There are no charges for reading the magazine online. A Revista Literária Adelaide é uma publicação bimensal internacional e independente, localizada em Nova Iorque e Lisboa. Fundada por Stevan V. Nikolic e Adelaide Franco Nikolic em 2015, o objectivo da revista é publicar poesia, ficção, não-ficção, arte e fotografia de qualidade assim como entrevistas, artigos e críticas literárias, escritas em inglês e português. Pretendemos publicar ficção, não-ficção e poesia excepcionais assim como promover os escritores que publicamos, ajudando os autores novos e emergentes a atingir uma audiência literária mais vasta. Publicamos edições impressas e digitais da nossa revista quatro vezes por ano: em Setembro, Dezembro, Março e Junho. A edição online é actualizada regularmente. Não há qualquer custo associado à leitura da revista online. (http://adelaidemagazine.org)

Adelaide Literary Magazine No.9 Volume Two: September 2017

A Collection of Essays.In this beautifully crafted, incisive collection, readers will admire Michelle Cacho Negrete's determination and fierce desire to transcend her early Brooklyn ghetto roots--particularly her sense of herself as a displaced outsider. What's also impressive about Stealing is not only how candid and open the author is, but how vividly she describes this complex human struggle. Michael Steinberg -Author, Still Pitching, 2003 ForeWord Magazine/Independent Press Memoir of the Year ¿Michelle writes with grace and clear-eyed, unsentimental vision.¿Sy Safransky, Editor, Sun Magazine¿Cacho-Negrete champions the poor, the marginalized¿Throughout this profound, compelling collection, she preserves the vanishing past with a hard-hitting yet lush remembrance.¿ Lee Hope Betcher, Editor Solstice Literary Magazine, author Horse fever¿With crisp, confident prose, Michelle explores the intricacies of our world in essays simultaneously unique and universal. A book to be read many times.¿Barry Lyga - Best Selling New York Times author¿The America we face in these timely essays is often poor, frequently unjust, sometimes heartbreaking ¿ and always illuminated by the author¿s fearless truths, keen insights, and fighting spirit.¿ Krista Bremer ¿ prize winner lecturer and author of My Tender Struggle. ¿Here is the power of the written word: Alone in his room, the reader feels a strengthened connection to all of humanity.¿ Gin Mackey, Author of DISAPPEAR OUR DEAD and SUDDENLY SPYING¿These stories grab hold and won¿t let you go. They will change you.¿Anne B. Gass, lecturer, author - Voting Down The Rose¿Although these are separate essays, they are linked by these consistent themes and form in themselves an engrossing and beautifully-written memoir.¿Jenny Doughty - President, Maine Poets Society, author¿Sending Bette Davis to The Plumber

Stealing: Life In America: A Collection of Essays

Cacho-Negrete, Michelle

"Reading Living Among Strangers is like watching a series of Beckett plays recast in the percussive, irreverent voice of a writer who takes nothing for granted, who follows the possibilities inherent in language and in everyday human failings. Here are characters estranged from the world: unparented kids walking the train trestle, a widowed mother whose pack of daughters push her toward assisted living, an alcoholic trying to give up drink by questioning the very root of desire. It is in the characters’ estrangement that the reader finds kinship. As with the manicured Floridian lawns of Bahia Vista Estates in the title story, in this collection, “[t]here are rumors, things under the surface, things man-made and not.” Richard Schmitt is a writer who digs beneath the surface to yield up beauty in the coarse, wisdom in the baffled." Jessie van Eerden , the author of a novel Glorybound “Richard Schmitt is a storyteller. His stories seem not to start so much as startle, drawing us into a world that might feel familiar, but that we’ve never seen quite this way. Like one of his narrators, he knows to ignore the map, point his nose, and go. The magic is in his sentences, which at their best are sleek and strange and urgent, surprising and illuminating." Peter Turchi, the author of A Muse and A Maze Linked by fear and yearning, awash with spirituality and its opposites, Richard Schmitt’s Living Among Strangers covers all: from children perplexed by the aims of classmates and adults, to adults perplexed by the world of living creatures. These are stories to be read and reread, with many epiphanies in between. George Singleton, The Half-Mammals of Dixie

Living Among Strangers: A Collection of Short Stories

Schmitt, Richard

Two-Hearted Crossing: A Novel

Morgan, Toni

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