Isle of Write Poetry Publication Week 1 Roundup
Message in a Bottle #9
Origin: The Isle of Write
Sender: @sunravelme
Recipients: Steemit Creatives
Our first missive went out about a week ago, and we are so excited to announce that we have picked out our first pieces to be curated! For the next eight weeks, each week, we will be curating 6 poems across Steemit, that we hope to publish in our poetry anthology.
We also have some really big news- Multiple published poets have agreed to be featured in the anthology!
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Here's what google says about Yahia Lababidi:
Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American thinker and Pushcart-nominated poet, whose work has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. To date, Lababidi is the author of 4 well-received books, in 4 different genres: Signposts to Elsewhere (aphorisms), Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (essays), Fever Dreams (poems), and most recently, The Artist as Mystic (conversations).
Check out his books on Amazon and his page on Poets and Writers.
We are so excited to have you on board @yahialababidi! We will be featuring his poem The Angel with the Broken Wing. Keep an eye out on our other selection from Yahia in the upcoming weeks.
My guardian is an angel
with a broken wing
—she cannot fly far
but how she can sing:
Another professional poet that we will be featuring is Eric Vance Walton. Check out his author page and his amazon page.
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Here's what amazon says about him:
Eric Vance Walton is an acclaimed American poet, novelist, and blogger. Eric has won the Thurber Treat Prize for his fable The Heiress and the Pea. His poetry, essays, and short stories have been published widely in literary journals and magazines. Eric has authored eight books.
We will be featuring his poem Serendipity
to seek out all
of those things that touch
our souls before
they can even think
to reach our minds.
We will also be featuring Autumn Christian's poem A Writer is Never Satisfied. She has had a number of novels and short stories published. Check out her author page and her amazon page.
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Here's what amazon says:
Autumn Christian is a fiction writer who lives in the dark woods with poisonous blue flowers in her backyard and a black deer skull on her wall. She is waiting for the day when she hits her head on the cabinet searching for the popcorn bowl and all consensus reality dissolves.
Here's a teaser from her poem A Writer is Never Satisfied:
You need to understand:
I need that time but it doesn’t belong to me. Not anymore.
Too many nights of having it leeched from me, my worth squeezed out my fingertips.
Everyone does the hours to become human,
and I’ve still got so many to go.
Here are a few steemians who will be joining them!
Many of these posts may be more than 7 days old, so upvotes won't benefit the authors, but feel free to check out their latest work and offer them a congratulations for being chosen!
Engorged in bliss, the whale shark
sways through plankton blooms,
languid motion illuminated by god rays.
Pleated by sun beams she swims,
empty of intention beyond
the simple need to feed
and dream the swelter of life.
- @geekorner for "The Ring:
I have disturbed the boats,
a behemoth of the seas,
a mammoth of life,
I shoulder aside a ship.
I am a poem.
Disheveled stanzas
disorganized scansion
but nevertheless
Here I am.
Every one of these poets is worth reading, upvoting, following, publishing. The Isle of Write is thrilled they have accepted our invitation to be a part of this endeavor. Thank you to all of our readers: without your upvotes, resteems, and follows, none of this would have been possible! If you want to support our efforts to bring the best of Steemit writing to a broader audience, you can help by upvoting the Isle of Write posts and spreading the word. And of course if you're feeling especially generous, we'll never say 'no' to a donation of some SBD or a delegation of SP. Thank you for reading!
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art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics
Thank you, for your warm support! I'm excited about this anthology and sharing with the world the fine talent on Steemit :)
We are truly honored you are joining us on this journey and we are grateful your work will grace one of our very first publications. It is exciting indeed!
Thanks for all the support the isle of write have shown me. I am both happy and proud to be included in this showcase of steemit talent :-)
The feeling is mutual @raj808! The Isle has been lucky to have you from the very start. Thank you for all your kind support and congratulations on a well-deserved inclusion :)
I'm eagerly awaiting on the Isle to see who the Treasure Hunters bring back next. And I welcome all the fellow poets, whether curated or not, to come and join in the warmth. No, not the Isle, but in the warmth generated by all these lovely poets sharing the shores <3
Thank you @geekorner for your kind words about the Islanders, and thank you for being an indispensable part of keeping those home fires burning. <3
Amazing
And the Audio Books (hint, hint!) will include the poets themselves reading their work, right?
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*sigh
HOW EXCITING to have these talented poets among us!
@snowmachine is also to die for
Ha ha, I can supply a slightly more traditional disheveled poets look if ya like @carolkean ;-) beardy hair overgrown type affair going on here
Eric is currently working on a sci-fi dystopian film series, HardFork, with film director Doug Karr. Updates for this project will be provided via Eric's Author Newsletter...
https://steemit.com/news/@hardfork-series/bruce-fenton-joins-hardfork-series-advisory-and-eric-is-in-nyc
Click on that link for more photos... also,
@HardFork-Series is an upcoming narrative film mini-series with a decentralized filmmaking approach to be produced in New York City and around the world, the team includes writer @ericvancewalton, writer/director @dougkarr, ...
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some of my favorite steemit poets in this list! Woot!