Walking in Snow

Literature & Fiction

Knoepfle, John

Poetry

Indian Paintbrush Poets

Mathematics in Color

Kozma, Joseph J.

Rick E. Roberts' brilliant new book of Christian poems, The Dreamer and the Dream, is now available. The first-time author takes readers on an inspirational journey throughout the book. From the Bride of Haarlem - "We were strong but innocent . . . They came with tanks and guns, Quickly our courage went" - to All Over Me - "All over me, all over me . . . I've got the blood of an innocent man all over me" - Roberts pours his spirituality out in beautiful prose poems. Passionately packed with powerful emotion, courage and faith - Roberts' poetry shines unconditional love into the world to uplift us, a very moving book. Pointing toward higher ground, this book will surprise readers.

The Dreamer and the Dream

Roberts, Rick E.

In Until We Meet, like Mathematics in Color, his first collection of poems, Joseph J. Kozma continues to interpret events of the moment using his unique perspectives. Kozma is a practicing physician. Some of his inspirations come from his practice, some others from interactions with his surroundings of many dimensions. Each poem has its own life, yet is loosely connected to the others, thereby creating a cohesive lyrical scenery and message.

Until We Meet

What's new in this book? What is new comes from being eighty-nine. There is a great freedom in these poems. They range at will from the mundane to the utterly mysterious and deeply spiritual. There are conversations with friends and a conversation about a malfunctioning alarm clock with the poet's son. The poet crosses boundaries. He breaks rules. Emotions shift. Galaxies appear and reappear. The angel of death comes up with a comment on the poet's work. There is advice from Santa Claus. What more could a reader require? The shadows are deep. The starlight is bright. You will also find and enjoy Knoepfle's love of the words and rhythms of our daily speech -- and his way of laying a line on the page. It's all lower case, no caps except for the poet's "I," no punctuation, just the minimal clues so you can get the sound and sense. For Knoepfle, every line is a poem - in the way it sounds and in the way it stacks up with the others to create a surprise. Born in Cincinnati in 1923, John Knoepfle has seen a lot of history. He's a Purple Heart Veteran; as a boat officer on an attack transport in the Pacific during World War II, he took part in the landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. As a young writer and teacher, he joined the Civil Rights movement and worked to build the Great Society. Since then he has written about the many places he has lived and visited - the people, the landscape, the stories, the hidden history, often illuminated by his Catholic faith. You will find all these things in this book. John Knoepfle is the author of twenty-one books. His poetry has been published in many magazines and anthologies. His most recent works, Walking in Snow, a book of poems and I Look Around for My Life, an autobiography, were published in 2008 by Pearn and Associates. Knoepfle is professor emeritus of literature at the University of Illinois-Springfield. His awards include fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; as well as the Mark Twain Award for Contributions to Midwestern Literature from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; Author of the Year Award from the Illinois Association of Teachers of English; and the Literary Heritage Award from the Illinois Center for the Book. He lives in Springfield, Illinois, with his wife Peggy. More information can be found on his website: johnknoepfle.com.

Shadows and Starlight

Ric Amezquita's Then She Kissed El Paco's Lips Now! Or April in DeKalb makes you wonder if you've entered another world, or perhaps have begun to see this one clearly for the first time. "Unknown is everywhere," he writes, calmly subversive. In whatever ways he inhabits these poems-as a bewildered Chicano kid in the Air Force; a woefully underpaid, traveling teacher; a bored-to-tears bureaucrat, Villista, curandero, and small-town sage-Ric is someone I want to ride along with, a man whose songs range from street corner cries of political outrage to lullabies of almost unbearable tenderness. These are poems noctambulous, dream pieces, icons of two sides and two languages and two places at once, toes that hold the world, songs of Chihuahua and cries of Nigeria, Jesus' last thoughts and snakes uroboros, goddesses of nourishment and cool corpses of Elvis - all originals set out by an original, a 'pilot, co-pilot, navigator, / nose, dorsal, waist, tail, ball turret-gunner / and now bombardier . . . Softly fall the balms of poetry - no need to duck and cover. This is Ricardo Mario Amezquita's first book. He is a poet that will become known rapidly!

Then She Kissed El Paco's Lips Now! Or April in DeKalb

Amezquita, Ricardo Mario

About The New Neanderthal Joseph J Kozma presents a variety of themes and styles in this volume of poems. The poems are loosely related to each other by the concept of Neanderthal, a marker in the time frame of eternity. Inevitably our present will turn into a new marker, The New Neanderthal. This is the third poetry collection by Joseph J Kozma published by Indian Paintbrush Poets.

The New Neanderthal

"Victor's poetry contains both strength and appealing imagery," Gwendolyn Brooks. A good choice for 20th-century American poetry collections," George M. Eberhart, Senior Editor American Libraries. "This is an important work by a major American poetic voice," Kirk Judd, Poetry Judge for "Writer's Digest." "As a young Captain in Vietnam, through my career as a Major General, I have experienced many scenes and feelings that are in Victor's poems," Donald R. Gardner, CEO, USMC University Foundation. "There is a long tradition of War poetry and now Victor Pearn's "Devil Dogs and Jarheads," belongs on the list. The same instinctive urge in these poems reminds me of the very best of Pearn's writing," Shelby Stevenson, Editor Pembroke Magazine. The poem "One Year of Grace," won a poetry contest at the University of Colorado, Boulder; it was originally published as the Prologue in their 1984 Yearbook. Garrison Keillor has read poems from "Devil Dogs and Jarheads" four times on "The Writer's Almanac."

American Western Love Song

Pearn, Victor

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