In this collection of somber poems written from the heart, Patricia Ann Joslin pays homage to her beloved husband of 41 years. Diagnosed with pancreas cancer in 2015, Roy Joslin bravely lived with the disease until his death in the spring of 2018. These poems echo the grief of the cancer journey so many face today, yet they offer the promise of hope and healing to those who remain behind.

I'll Buy Flowers Again Tomorrow

Literature & Fiction

Joslin, Patricia Ann

Poetry

Charlotte Lit Press

Into the Swirl

CLARK, JOHN

Homelight is the 14th poetry collection from Lola Haskins, past winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two NEA fellowships, and other honors. As late work sometimes does, Homelight has a broad reach. In the first section, "On the Shoulders of Giants," Haskins remembers poets who preceded her, Sappho to Blake to Merwin. After lingering to consider a Michelangelo drawing, she moves on to birds in "Wings." Then, in "And They Are Gone" and "(In)humanity," she turns to the arrogance of the way we treat the planet and each other. A pause for "Corona," then on to love, both bad and good, in "The Slapped Girl." The final section, "Rehearsing," considers death, in the form of tributes to lost friends and her own preparations to follow them. There is humor here, lyricism and epic sweeps, and, almost at the end, these lines to a lover: "I wear you under my clothes the way a Sikh wears his cord, / in token of the ineffable beauty of the world," which - as Merwin, who praised her work, would have seen immediately - might as well have been addressed to poetry itself.

Homelight

Haskins, Lola

In this collection of new poems, Eric Sbarge presents an often yin-and-yang view of the world-humorous yet serious, uplifting yet demoralizing, ironic yet straightforward-influenced in part by his forty-five years of studying and teaching tai chi, Zen meditation and kung fu, and in part by his family's three wiener dogs who are long, yet short.

I Would Have Left You Everything

Sbarge, Eric

Thoughts at Crossings

Phillips, Linda Vigen

This collection of poems reflects Joe Spencer's impressions from various points in his life. Unlike photographs that capture a scene in two dimensions, these poems hope to stimulate a third dimension, emotion, and to remind readers of similar moments they have lived or imagined. If this seems a tall order for so few words, that's the work that brought the author to poetry -- though Spencer is more likely to describe himself as a dreamer than as a poet. He spends (in his own words) "inordinate amounts of time" observing, listening, reading, reflecting, dreaming and writing -- which occasionally takes form as a poem.

Along the Way

Spencer, Joe

Adam in the Garden

AE Hines

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