Tracings & Other Poetry

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I started a new poetry group on the new ning edition of iFOGO village. It needs lots of participation 'cause I can't find the time to lead. Still, poets are casual and may not need leading at all. I hope you'll join and use it any old poetry-related way you'd like. Go to iFOGO Busy Poets Village. You may need to do an iFOGO profile first. That would be good, too. It's for writers of every ilk. (-:

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Endorsements from an unsolicited e-mails:

"I loved your poem 'deja vu?' in the latest issue of Writer's Advice/Flash section. Breathtakingly beautiful images. I finished reading it, then immediately read it again, to savor it. ~ Dallas Woodburn, founder of Write On! For LIteracy

Endorsement of Carolyn's poems from an editor:

"I'm a fan of winning lines rather than overall poems. (TRACINGS) delivers heartfuls!" ~ David Herrle, Editor of Subtle Tea.

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Tip

Except for literature classes at USC and University of Utah, I am a newcomer to poetry. Here's the tip for readers. Poetry isn't all sing-song, meter, and hard-to- understand any more. Mostly it's in free verse and if you read it without stopping at the ends of lines, it feels almost like reading prose, but denser. Try it, you might really like it, even if you never did before.

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Kim McMillon hosts Joan Gelfand, Becky Foust and me on Blog Talk Radio. Yes! You do want to hear us talk about stowing poetry snippets in our bras, sex and, yeah, even read some poetry.

"Poetry requires stripping oneself to the bone--and beyond--as both the reader and writer of it." ~ CHJ

Please Share Mine!

Click here for reviews on the multi award-winning poetry chapbook Tracings.

Click here for information on Cherished Pulse, an e-chapbook of unconventional love poetry co-authored with Magdalena Ball. Order Cherished Pulse here.

Click here for information on She Wore Emerald Then, Reflections on Motherhood co-authored with Magdalena Ball. Order She Wore Emerald Then here. Photography by May Lattanzio.

Click here for Carolyn's first person essay, "Beating Time at Its Own Game

Imagining the Future and Blooming Red will soon be released.

Order signed and dedicated copies of Carolyn's poetry.

Named to MyShelf.com's 10 Best Reads by Jennifer Akers

TWO AWARDS! For She Wore Emerald Then

This poem is a mild rant; it gives readers an idea of the accessibility I reach for in most of my poems.

Tracings is a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. Cherished Pulse is an e-chapbook and She Wore Emerald Then is a chapbook published as both an e-book and paperback by Amazon's CreatSpace.com. All three books are full of the kind of introspection that, though personal, becomes universal. It is poetry that runs through all of our feelings and our feelings that run through all poetry, whether we think of it that way or not.

Multi Award Winner

Military Writers Society of America named Tracings for Excellence, Compulsive Reader.com named Cherished Pu to their Top Ten Reads list and Dawn Colclasure named Tracings one of her 50 favorite books in her Palms to Pines blog.

Eavesdropping at the Writers’ Fair

Two words only. Bon mots.

so lovely our language adopted

them, our authors aspire

to deserve their application

to their literary efforts.

I hadn’t heard

them since French I and II

but here, with liquid amber

leaves at my feet, writers

at my elbow, I hear them twice.

Repetition makes me think

a translation of “good words”

not up to scratch for the efforts

of their countrymen Flaubert

or Malraux, equally deficient

for even Faulkner’s folderol

Hemingway’s doodling. Duped

by Francophiles once again!

The bookish and bogus

impressed by the echo

of vowels in their noses.

say belles lettres,

hold them in their mouths

as if they were bon bons,

relish their crème.

We English do better with words

rooted in blunt Germanic

soil. Bons and belles, simulated

pearls, do nothing for an aging neck

that the real thing wouldn’t do as well.

Matters of the Heart, edited by Lea Schizas is a free e-book of poetry with contributions from her MuseItUpClub including a few from Magdalena Ball, my co-author of Cherished Pulse, and me. Use the link to download your own .pdf copy.

Sona Ovasapyan, Rita Gabrielyan, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Christine Alexanians (l. to r.) show California State Legislature Certificates of Recognition issued by Paul Krekorian at an event at the Glendale City Library where Howard-Johnson introduced Ovasapyan and Alexanians as emerging poets and Garbrielyan, a young poet, served as aide.

CAROLYN READING POETRY ON RADIO

Here are two of my favorite streaming radio/podcasts

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AuthorsRead/2009/08/14/Carolyn-Howard-Johnson-She-Wore-Emerald-Then I read poetry with Lillian Brummet as host.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Profile.aspx?userurl=onword&year=2009&month=09 Kim McMillon and I talk poetry including storing poetry in bras and nude cover pictures.

MORE PUBLISHED POETRY

§ Copperfield Review: Poem “Peril,” 2003.

§ Sparks Magazine, Subtle Tea: The Feminist Journal: Poem “Woman’s Day:” 2003.

§ Yarrow Brook Review: Poem “Where I Am,” 2002;

§ Poetic Voices: Villanelle “Adaptation” Sept. 2003.

§ Lunarosity: Poem “Pleading for Sylvia”, March 2004.

§ Mochila Review: Poem “Big Screen Snack,” May, 2004.

§ Long Story Short: Poems “Bon Sai,” Jan. 2004; “Woman’s Day,” March 2004; “Shopping on Robertson,” June 2004; Poem, “Children Today Don’t Have Enough Leisure Time,” Nov. 2004, “Musing Over a New Calendar,” and “New Year,” Jan. 2005.

§ Apollo’s Lyre: Poem “Deciphering Sound.” May, 2004.

§ The Pedestal Magazine: Poem “Olvera Street Tutorial.” April, 2004. Winner Readers' Award

§ The Journal of the Image Warehouse: Poems “The Dangerous Lizard of Gabon,” “Poetry by Damned,” and “Perfectly Flawed.”

§ Re)verb: Poem “Faith in LA,” spring, 2005.

§ Mindprints: Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA., Poem “Bon Sai,” Annual 2005.

§ Edifice Wrecked: Literary Journal, fall 2004, poem “Shelf Life.”

§ Sunspinner Magazine: Poem, “Olvera Street Tutorial,” 2005

§ Mary, Mt. St. Mary's College Journal, Spring 2005.

§ Niederngasse, an international journal "Eavesdropping at the "Writers' Faire," July, 2005, www.neiderngasse.com.

§ Penwomanship, Poem, "Antigua's Hope," Aug. 2005.

§ Barricade, Edited by John Newmark, "Upon Safety, Illusion and a New Way to Think, December, 2005

§ Travelers' Tales, Excerpt "Every Heard of Terezin?" 2006

§ A-pos-tro-phe: Poem "The Lecture: Incomplete and Considerately Abridged,".http://www.a-pos-tro-phe.com/v2n3/thelecture.html

§ Riley Dog: Excerpt from a poem "The Lecture: Incomplete and Considerately Abridged." June, 2006.

§ Subtle Tea, edited by D. Herrle, Poems, "Learning About Sex When All Else Fails" and "Another Day." Aug. 2006.

§ Under the Roc, Poem, "Shelf-Life," 2007.

§ Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal , "Dandelions in Autumn," fall 2007.

Coffee Press Journal, poem, "The Fragile Art of Warfare." Nov. 2007.

Coffee Cramp; Poem "The Fragile Art of Warfare" Nov/Dec 2007 issue.

Pear Noir, poetry journal, "Death by Ferris Wheel." January, 2009.

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Purchase This Is the Place and Harkening at Amazon.

Purchase Tracings (Finishing Line Press), named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best List at Amazon.

Purchase She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood, a chapbook of poetry at Amazon.

Purchase Cherished Pulse, a chapbook of unconventional love poetry at Amazon.

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"Careers that are not fed die as readily as any living organism given no sustenance." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson