A traumatized Marine Corps pilot moves to Paris to heal while fulfilling his passion to paint. Despite knowing that his artistic talent is limited, he enjoys the experience of painting images from thoughts. In that he had already published three books of poetry, he remains captivated by how poems create images within the mind. Fascinated by a 1900 photograph of a Parisian model seated in a window, he begins to paint the scene over and over. Each time he adds more refinement, more nuances in the details, more light changes upon her skin. A beautiful courtesan surrounded by flowers begins to inhabit the barren frame.Before long his sketching of a stranger in a café leads to a request to pose. After the sitting, the woman disappears. He journeys to the French countryside to continue painting. There he encounters another stranger willing to sit for him who shares the same persona as the Woman in the Window.

The Woman in the Window

Literature & Fiction

King, Franklin L.

Literary

Texture Press

Is the book you’re holding in your hands a novel? Yes. Is it an adventure story? Definitely. Is it a love story? No, it’s a story about a complicated yet dangerously beautiful friendship.  Is it a philosophical novel? Yes, but it’s accessible even to the average reader. Is it suspenseful? It is a page turner! Is it a book dealing with spirituality? Definitely, but not in the usual way. Is it Paolo Coelho? Far from it. Is it a serious novel? Very much so.  Is it a work of art? Most critics claim that it is. Is it a work of imagination or a report of real events? Both. Is it a book about the meaning of life? Most readers say that it is. Is it the sort of book that readers keep on their bedside table? Most of them do, for a number of years.  Is it the book that tries to answer the question “Who am I?” Yes, but with surprising results.  How popular is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice? In Slovenia, a Central-European country of two million people where the novel was first published, the sales of eight editions have reached more than 65,000 copies. In terms of population and prospective readers, that would mean over 11 million copies in the US, 2 million in the UK, 2 million in France, 2 million in Italy, 3 million in Germany, 4.4 million in Russia, 10 million in the Spanish speaking world, 40 million in India, and over 50 million copies in China! Worth reading? See for yourself.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Flisar, Evald

Genre Fiction

Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin’s "Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets" offers fourteen classroom- and workshop-tested writing prompts that will appeal to both beginning and experienced poets. Among the book's inspiring and unusual ideas are the Fibonacci poem, advice-column poem, and spirit-of-names poem. The book lends itself to academic courses as well as poetry workshops in less formal settings, such as adult-ed, community-based, and "coffee-shop" classes. Individuals will find the book to be a helpful companion to their independent practice of poetry. In addition to the prompts, scores of sample poems by a variety of poets are included. Contributors include Marie Kane, Lewis Warsh, Christopher Bursk, Peter Wood, Leonard Gontarek, Corie Feiner, John Timpane, Dawn Manning, Hayden Saunier, Joanna Fuhrman, and many others. The book includes witty illustrations by Don Riggs.

Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets

Reference

Fox, Valerie

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons," Dostoevsky said, and RINA TERRY'S Cardboard Piano derives from the consciousness of one who entered prisons and witnessed and made music from it. Terry finds reasons to grovel and to gleam. Things take flight only to have bruising, bone-snapping falls in defiance of the romantic trajectory. The circumstances of deprivation contend with moments of soul making. How can there be radiance here? How can there be "an odd way out"? The poems are clear-eyed documents, a shank in the heart of civilization, and an offering.   -- Bruce Smith, Professor of English at Syracuse University, author of Devotions, Songs for Two Voices

Cardboard Piano

Terry, Rina

Poetry

A collection of short fiction by Joel Allegretti, Peter Baroth, Marilu Beas, Annie Bien, Peter Byrne, Lisa J. Cihlar, James Claffey, Lydia Cortes, Daniela Elza, Shinelle L. Espaillat, Evald Flisar, Christine Hamm, Rose Hunter, Shalom Mensu Ikhena, Franklin Lafayette King, Lynn Levin, Paul Lisicky, Bobbi Lurie, Michael McGilloway, Tara L. Masih, Jen Michalski, Susan Smith Nash, Liz Tynes Netto, Debi Orton, Lisa Prince, Charles Rammelkamp, Don Riggs, John Wolfgang Roberts, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Scott Stein, and Elizabeth Thorpe.

Shale: Extreme Fiction for Extreme Conditions

Montserrat

King, Franklin Lafayette

The three cornerstones of effective mobile learning are authenticity, collaboration, and personalization. One great way to build in the authenticity is to include video snippets that trigger thoughts and give guidance. Snippets that have to do with writing can nicely tie to the learner's individual needs, and encourage collaboration, or at least a conversation. This book contains free resources to incorporate into your online courses - they are snippets primarily focused around the writing process, but also include many prompts for writing having to do with leadership, literature, and travel/discovery. All are in available for free via YouTube, and are designed to be easily embedded or linked to. They also contain notes and suggestions for use. The video snippets are actually learning objects, and they are sufficiently granular to be used in many places in a single course. They are also ideal for micro-learning (or chunked learning). This collection, with all its spontaneity and unusual venues, can be incorporated directly, or inspire instructors and students to create their own snippets and use them within their m-learning courses.

Video-Assisted Mobile Learning for Writing Courses

Nash Ph.D., Susan Smith

Education & Teaching

TEXTURE PRESSApril 2016Outside a tight circle, very few people knew of the dangerous missions flown by American pilots during World War II to bomb the war factories&nbsp;of Austria and Hungary.&nbsp;&nbsp;In these missions, the pilots&nbsp;also&nbsp;flew over the beautiful mountains and vineyards of Slovenia, where the inhabitants lived on their quiet farms and practiced the same traditions that they had maintained for centuries.&nbsp;Farewell, Silver Bird&nbsp;is the story of what happened when the young man piloting one such plane unexpectedly arrives and literally drops from the sky into this setting. This sudden appearance triggers discovery, passion, magic, humanity, and more than anything, a deeply personal and fascinating unweaving of a tapestry of secrets and of all the elements that contribute to a sense of self, identity, and history.&nbsp;Karolina Kolmanic has written a deeply textured narrative that explores how one secret event can open long-locked doors to memories, heritage, and life-engendering hope for the future.&nbsp;The missions of the American airmen were of great strategic importance and the Slovenian people expressed in many cases their appreciation by helping the unfortunate among them who had been downed or forced to crash-land, thereby risking their own lives. These facts were acknowledged and have contributed to the official proclamation of the Slovenian-American Friendship and Alliance Day commemorated every year on April 2 at the site where a U.S. B-17 aircraft crashed 72 years ago. The solemn event was also attended by the President of the Republic of Slovenia and the American Ambassador in Slovenia.

Farewell, Silver Bird

Kolmanic, Karolina

Rubbed Stones: Collected Poems, 1960-1990

OWENS, Rochelle

Dealing with Date Rape: True Stories from Survivors

Susan S. Nash

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