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Radowitz is a collection of poems that speaks so very beautifully of the depth of our connections to each other, as well as to other life forms in our world. The presence of Nature and the passage of time are dominant themes in these poems and always, the poet brings his formidable talents to their expression. Whether our focus is on the dream world or the world within the window of our waking lives, Radowitz offers us opportunities to glimpse both what lies within our understanding and that which lies beyond knowledge. The journey rewards its traveler with views only a uniquely talented poet can offer." -Linda Opyr, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2011-13 Where the Eye Wants Coast is Linda's eighth and latest collection of poetry "Stuart P. Radowitz is the wise elder we all yearn to walk beside - a gentle companion who has learned to 'see through closed eyes' and hear 'countless souls in the gusts.' But this is also one with an earthy humor, who understands that 'the beginning of the end starts with lunch.' The poems in The Simple Changes put us on intimate terms with the ever-changing, yet profoundly abiding, natural world. There is a trustable humility in the voice that sings here, one that admits to catching a glimpse of the eternal flame, 'but only through the corner of my eye.'" -Prartho Sereno, Poet Laureate Emerita of Marin County, CA Author of five poetry collections, most recently, Starlight in the Temple "As a visual artist, I use pictures to communicate. Stuart P. Radowitz uses words to create pictures. Pictures that inspire us to explore our relationships to the natural world, to our inner selves, and to each other. In The Simple Changes, this gifted poet gives voice to universal truths and to the collective human experience, from the everyday to the extraordinary, examining love and loss, home and heart, life and death, the passing of time and passing on. I promise after reading this collection, you will never look at a houseplant, a hawk, or the interstate in the same way ever again." -Rick Chiorando, Chief Executive & Creative Officer, Austin Williams - [Stray Moments](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/stray-moments/) - Winner, 2024 Blue Light Poetry Prize The poems in Stray Moments are incredibly deep in their understanding of the world and our place in it. These poems do not stray; they move like light through changes in the seasons and the loves and losses of all living things. In language and insight so precise that we grow dizzy on the "cusp of ripeness and decay," Meyers shows how, as the December sun "hangs low as if still leashed to night," so do we hold on; how robins in February can make a heart "soar;" how it is possible to "hear the light singing/before the sun's rim/edges over the ridge;" and that always, "Somewhere between/here and the horizon sharks circle." These wonderful poems lead us to see how we might apprehend our own worlds, seen and unseen, and feel our "heart a caged bird/set free." -- Patricia Lee Lewis, award-winning poet, author of A Kind of Yellow and High Lonesome. Stray Moments starts with an invitation to listen, and we can't help but respond and say, "Yes, I see." From there, Meyers takes us on a journey that draws on the natural world, where everything witnessed is life "on the cusp of joy and despair." Images of a "hatchling," "wet wings," "silhouetted gulls," "astral dust," and "ghosts of butterflies," are married to ordinary rituals like "grains of rice tossed at a wedding;" a grandson building sandcastles; sectioning a grapefruit or savoring an ice cream cone; or coins at the Trevi fountain. These poems, painted with lines "streaking cobalt water," "fish flash[ing] silver," a "sky pearl-gray," and water lilies "sprouting rose and alabaster," welcome us into our own stray moments where we might reflect on "how parallel lines can meet, / a space between/mathematics and magic," how the "apple blossom knows/the hour to open, the acorn/knows when to fall," and "how to compose a coda/ worthy of it all?" Each poem in Stray Moments cascades into the next and lingers long after you've turned the final page. ---Lisa DeVuono, 2024 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA, and author of This Time Roots, Next Time Wings Joyce - [Poetic Weavings at Moonlight Beach](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/poetic-weavings-at-moonlight-beach/) - What if the deepest poetry isn't written by one person, but co-created with the world? This book introduces and experiments with the idea of weaving, a form of aleatory or "intentional chance" poetry: a deliberate way to step back as the sole author and invite the world’s randomness to help write the poem. It’s an act of "composing with"—not just listening, but weaving what you hear into poetry. The poems in this collection are born from a unique project at a simple spot: Dave’s Rock Garden at Moonlight Beach. The Rock Garden as a "Loom": Thousands of painted stones—left by anonymous travelers with messages like Shine, Pray 4 Ukraine, and You are enough—become the shifting, accidental threads of a collective poem. The Poet's Role: The poet's job is not to own these fragments, but to gently gather them, arranging them into compilations some in free verse perhaps others in forms like the haiku or ghazal. This process transforms fleeting whispers into a chorus of humanity where the stones speak the intentions of their authors. It shows how a personal thread of observation can be woven into a tapestry far greater than any single voice. Discover a poetry that is generous, spontaneous, and utterly alive—a beautiful conversation between the self and the world around us. - [Pentimento: Diary of a Walk-In](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/pentimento-diary-of-a-walk-in/) - Pentimento: Diary of a Walk-In This book chronicles one woman's experience of walking into an existing human life and body from another dimension. It explores her process of integrating into that life and awakening to her mission as a liaison between humans and extraterrestrial beings within the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Intergalactic Federation. - [Owning The Not So Distant World](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/owning-the-not-so-distant-world/) - Grace Cavalieri is a poet, a painter, and a playwright. In her new book, Owning The Not So Distant World, she journeys through love and its permutations; and the harsh realities of a military wife's life made memorable with prosody. Cavalieri is not afraid of the nighttime mind and its hidden treasures; she dares to dive deep into the unconscious, to surface with astonishment and gratitude. These are poems of risk and sometimes experimentation, breaking old forms to create energy for the new. Cavalieri shares the compassion of poetry, like a candle held out to the world. Grace Cavalieri was Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024). She founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 47 years on-air in 2024. She holds two Allen Ginsberg Awards; The Paterson Award; the AWP George Garrett, Columbia, Bordighera, AAUW Awards; National Commission on Working Women Award, and the CPB Silver Medal, plus others. She's an Academy of American Poets Fellow. She's had 20 plays produced on American stages. In July 2023, twenty-five years of her podcasts were sent to the moon from NASA on Lunar Codex. - [Old loves are seldom finished](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/old-loves-are-seldom-finished/) - Old loves are seldom finished When new loves begin We can love a dozen people And still not have a friend Friendships more important And needs to be retained When the fires of passion We choose not to light again. - [LIFE IS A SPIRITUAL GAME – A HANDBOOK FOR LIVING](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/life-is-a-spiritual-game-a-handbook-for-living/) - In the Human consciousness, there are many basic principles. I call them the Principles of Truth. Honor is one, trust; integrity, respect, and acceptance of others are some of the main ones. There are more, but if we are expressing true honor in our daily living the others seem to fall into place naturally. We each come into life with a certain unrecognized mission. We forget the contract we signed with our soul before we reincarnated. Our basic mission is simple, but we make it complicated. The mission is first and foremost to make ourselves more of what we really are and less of what we are not. Because there are so many errors in the mass consciousness beliefs, and we take these on instead of truth, we don't remember we are a spirit seeking to have a Human experience. Mass consciousness believes we are Humans trying to overcome sin to become spiritual. We buy into the consensus reality. Consensus reality means that the vast majority of people see life in a way that is generally agreed as being the way it is. If we are going to make ourselves more of what we really are and less of what we are not, we have to get clear about what we really are, which is a spirit having a Human experience. We are each conscious Beings. This consciousness, which is who we are, is an energy frequency. And in that frequency is a record of our whole life in great detail. Some people call this the Akashic record; some people call it cellular memory. When we learn to communicate with our souls, we can have access to our own Akashic record. - [Last Song on Skye](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/last-song-on-skye/) - Last Song on Skye is T.E. Swan's debut novel, the first in a series. In this superbly woven plot, she blends her investigative experience with her love of mystery novels featuring wise women. "Take an aging rocker who is Scotland's platinum blonde version of Elvis, his illegitimate child, some long standing resentments, and two American women trying to come to terms with their history. Put them all on the Isle of Skye, trailed by a reporter with no ethics or boundaries, but amusing as well as being annoying, and history will catch up with all of them. T.E. Swan has the gift of getting readers to care about her characters, whether they appear for just a few moments or travel from cover to cover. Her plot is skillfully written and riveting, and the narrative superbly paced. It's the kind of book where you can't wait to see what happens next." - Diane Frank, Author of Mermaids and Musicians "What fun reading Last Song on Skye! This delightful debut mystery novel by T.E. Swan engages and entertains us with quirky characters and fast-paced whodunit mischief. Swan's two feisty protagonists lead us on a lively chase from San Francisco to London and finally to the Isle of Skye when their nostalgic visit to the past turns into a search to find a killer and clear themselves as murder suspects. Of course, we root for these indomitable women, but somehow, we can't quite hate the villains, thanks to Swan's writing skill. I suggest you add this book to your collection of cozy mysteries." - Elinor Gale, Author of The Emancipation of Emily Rosenbloom - [I Am Presence and Violet Flame](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/i-am-presence-and-violet-flame/) - I began receiving messages from my soul on September 30, 1982. Before that time, I knew nothing of the Spiritual Hierarchy, the Ascended Masters, the Intergalactic Federation, or Angels. Through the years, these things were revealed to me in meditation and became an obvious and real part of my daily life. - [Who Am I? A Novel of Fantasy, Family Bonds, and Self-Discovery](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/who-am-i-a-novel-of-fantasy-family-bonds-and-self-discovery/) - A daughter. A mother. A secret that changes everything. What begins as a tender coming-of-age tale soon deepens into a journey of wonder, wisdom, and awakening. Alexi and Mira's search for answers takes them to a Hopi reservation, where the past resurfaces-reshaping their bond and revealing hidden layers of family history. By the final part, Alexi steps into the role of a spiritual teacher-challenging not only her students, but you, the reader, to reflect on the timeless question: Who am I? Playful, mysterious, and transformative, this novel invites you to pause, turn inward, and discover the heart of your own journey. - [Shechinah at the Art Institute](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/shechinah-at-the-art-institute/) - Shechinah at the Art Institute is a long-awaited collection of luminous essays, memoir, and poetry by rabbi, former drag queen, and self-proclaimed "hope-monger," Irwin Keller. In this book, Keller, most recently known for his viral protest poem, "Taking Sides," leads us on dazzling journeys into Jewish mysticism, love, loss, memory, gender, AIDS, and the Milky Way itself. Buckle your seatbelts. "In Keller's luminous writings, divine messengers reveal both the radiance within the everyday and the clouds that subdue the sacred. With this dazzling book, Keller takes his place among the messengers." --Esther Schor, author of Emma Lazarus "Quirky, playful, steeped in classical Jewish learning, Keller unveils long-suppressed queerness in Jewish tradition and encounters the sacred miraculously appearing in the secular world." --Rabbi Dr. Rachel Adler, author of Engendering Judaism "This book makes my heart sing. Irwin reminds us that in this darkened world, there is still light. And there is love. It's what makes this book not just entertaining, but important." --Linda Ellerbee, journalist and author of And So It Goes "The wisdom, humor, and perspective in these stories will enrich you and gently bind you to other lives both ancient and modern. A good story heals the loneliness which is the hidden wound of our time. Bravo Irwin. What a gift you have offered to us all." --Rachel Naomi Remen MD, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom "Absolutely wonderful, so refreshing, hopeful in a world so desperate for peace." --Greg Sarris, author of Grand Avenue - [Walking Scarecrow](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/walking-scarecrow/) - Winner of the Blue Light Book Award Mark Tate is the author of three previous books of poetry Pommes de Terre (2001), Sur lie* (2002), and Rooms and Doorways (2003), and three novels, Beside the River, and its sequel River's End (McCaa Books, 2021), and Butterfly on the Wheel (McCaa Books, 2022). He served for ten years on the Sonoma County Poet Selection Committee for the poets laureate of that county. He is a long-time resident of Northern California where he lives with his wife, Lori. From the sanctuary of Pineshadow (both place name and poetic persona), Mark Tate composes moments of tender, meditative attention, reminding us of beauty and intimacy, as well as what is lost to addiction, dementia, death, and delusion in a fractured world bent on following darkness. "How do we lose our way with this much light?" the poet asks. How indeed! Alluding to the Tang poet Hanshan, Tate writes, "I use what remedy/Is at hand to save the world." Tate's depiction of a Zen tea ceremony midway through the collection offers a kind of ars poetica, simultaneously describing the ritual and his verses, "bowing to every honored thing." With empathy and deft lyricism, the poet blesses our times of darkness with light and transforms them into an experience of the sacred. - Terry Ehret, author of Lost Body and Night Sky Journey Mark Tate's new volume of poems, Walking Scarecrow, is a microcosm of large-scale wisdom and beauty. Generously including bits of conversation with the ancients - Bashō, Li Po, and others - Tate interweaves deep questions about how to live richly and well with homespun scenes of his simple, rural life. Cold Mountain runs like a gold vein through the quartz of these poems. "Philosopher and Perch" and "Tea" stand out. Replete with the doings of birds and local flora and fauna, Tate's keenly observant eye, philosophical heart, and skillful use of surreal images invite us into the kitchens and backrooms of his world. - Sandra Anfang, author of Finishing School and Looking Glass Heart - [Visible Human](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/visible-human/) - Winner, 2025 Blue Light Book Award Tom Hazuka has co-edited the short story anthologies Flash Fiction, Sudden Flash Youth, You Have Time for This and A Celestial Omnibus, and published the novels The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last Chance for First. He teaches fiction writing at Central Connecticut State University. "Tom Hazuka has long been a major editor of flash fiction anthologies, and for decades I've enjoyed reading his work in magazines. Now at last we have a full volume of his own flash stories and they're brilliant. Raw, acerbic, soulful, funny. What a treasure." -Robert Shapard, author of Bare Ana and Other Stories; co-editor of Norton sudden and flash fiction anthologies "The characters in Tom Hazuka's collection Visible Human are all wonderfully human as they confess and complain, hope and dream. They allow their transgressions to play out in full view, with humor and yearning, in arresting stories that ask for and earn the reader's admiration and absolution." -Pamela Painter, Author of Fabrications: New and Selected Stories "With Visible Human, Tom Hazuka casts a wise and incisive glow over the commonplace as only the best storytellers can. He gives us narratives, with a diamond cutter's precision, that are as universal as they are personally told. Here is sure word of those fissures and hard-won triumphs that mark our days." -Robert Scotellaro, author of What Are the Chances? and Quick Adjustments "I've been a fan (I've published four of his stories in my lit journal 100 Word Story) of Tom Hazuka's writing for years, and I'm delighted by his new collection. These inventive stories run the gamut of emotions from deadly serious to slapstick, told in singularly Hazukian language that sparkles, surprises-and never fails to entertain." -Grant Faulkner, co-founder, 100 Word Story - [The World Since Yesterday](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-world-since-yesterday/) - Will Walker was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent his summers on Cape Cod, in Provincetown. He moved to San Francisco in 1973 after exhausting all other options and has lived there since. He lives in the Haight with his wife, Valerie, and their spirited Chihuahua. His poetry has appeared in Across Borders, Alabama Literary Review, Alimentum, Bark, Burningwood, Chagrin River Review, The Chiron Review, Conch.es, Crack the Spine, Diverse Arts Project, Forge, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hartskill Review, Lame Duck, Passager, Pennsylvania English, Spillway Review, Street Sheet, Red Hills Review, Rougarou, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Slow Trains, Spillway Review, Street Sheet, Street Spirit, Studio One, and WriterAdvice. As a general summary of his life, he currently embraces these words from Berndt Oksendal's Stochastic Differential Equations: An Introduction with Applications: We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level, and about more important things. These inviting, conversational poems are up to something audacious. Giving voice to the arthritic Olympian amidst our familiar streets and houses, Will Walker alerts readers to the gods that live among-and in-us. Whether bitching at time, ambition, and other people, or reaching near-transcendental joy in praise of a baby, a leaf, or a functioning household appliance, Walker restores a little divine mojo to our mortal step. -Julie Bruck, author of How to Avoid Huge Ships Praise for Will Walker's first book, Wednesday after Lunch Will Walker has written a collection of poems so intelligent and clear that reading them I wake up-and find myself alive in the world. This is what art can do-and every time it happens it's a miracle. Here is a miraculous book-awake to what the Buddhists call the "full catastrophe" of living right now. If you want to feel yourself alive and in great company, buy this book and read it, and then pass it on. -Marie Howe, author of New and Selected Poems There is a calm meditative grace to the poems in Will Walker's Wednesday after Lunch. His is a narrative "in the American grain," to use William Carlos Williams' phrase. While some are quiet lyric poems of love of landscape and streetscape and quite human dogs, and some of a sweet domestic love, even asleep, a man and his wife "on your own side/ of the bed/ split neatly into neighboring countries," Walker's work has that very American room for Khrushchev at the UN pounding his shoe, and rhinestones, and Monopoly, and Jack Ruby, and Marilyn Monroe. In a tour de force of a poem, he writes of a dream of a bonfire, a barbecue on the flats in Provincetown, everyone from his Edenic past reunited, and "even the ocean loves to gather by fire." These are poems to warm yourself by. -Gail Mazur, author of Land's End: New and Selected Poems - [The Words That Bring Us to Dance](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-words-that-bring-us-to-dance/) - The Words That Bring Us to Dance is an evocative journey into the soulful world of Hafez, the revered 14th-century Persian poet. Ali Arsanjani, following in the footsteps of major translators of yore, has ambitiously taken on the challenge of not only translating but also casting Hafez's works as ghazals in English, a daunting feat that is sure to intrigue and delight readers. This collection is intended to immerse the reader in Hafez's profound reflections on love, spirituality, and the human experience. Each ghazal, while conscientiously translated, retains a semblance of the rhythmic heartbeat akin of its original form, attempting to retain some of the musicality and depth for which Hafez is renowned. The pursuit of presenting the translations as English ghazals ensures an added layer of artistic interpretation, offering readers a fresh and innovative way to engage with the classic texts. The title aptly encapsulates the central theme: words that stir the soul, prompting it to dance in ecstatic recognition of the Divine. Beyond the translations, Arsanjani offers insights into the historical and cultural context of the verses. Their annotations elucidate the multi-layered meanings, making the poet's timeless wisdom accessible to contemporary readers. For both the uninitiated and those familiar with Hafez's work, "The Words That Bring Us to Dance" is more than just a book; it's an invitation to a mystical dance, a transcendent experience where poetry and spirituality intertwine, leading the reader to gateways toward the path of enlightenment. - [The Universal Laws and Jesus’ Meaning of The Beatitudes](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-universal-laws-and-jesus-meaning-of-the-beatitudes/) - Our Universe is perfectly balanced by natural and spiritual Laws. These Laws maintain an order we have a tendency to take for granted. We can consciously learn these Laws. If we learn these Laws, we can also learn to live in alignment with them and have order in our lives. We live on a dualistic and physical planet. Because of this, we often find ourselves faced with seeming paradoxes, caught in an endless loop of contradictions. However, it is important to remember, what we sow in consciousness, we reap. If we turn on a tape recorder and record our voice, when we play it back, what we hear will be our own voice saying exactly what we said. If we plant a spinach seed, spinach will grow, not a cauliflower. The same is true with our words and thoughts. What we think and say becomes our reality. We can depend on these Laws and use them, or we can remain ignorant and confused and pretend our life is happening to us randomly. We can only pretend not to be in control. Scientists have worked to prove the Laws of Physics, the laws affecting our physical Universe, without considering Spiritual Law or the fact that we are a self-evolving species, and that our thoughts control our lives and our evolution. They work to convince us that we live in a World where everything takes place in relation to Deterministic Laws that unfold in linear time and are unresponsive to Human thoughts or affairs. Scientists, until they developed the chaos theory, have said that chance events only produce patterns that are random, and to see meaning in such patterns is as pointless as looking for messages in the interference that we call "snow" which, at certain times, appears on a television screen. To believe that certain chance events are a manifestation of some underlying pattern of Nature, or are the result of "a causal connecting principle," would be utter nonsense to most scientists. Scientists are, however, beginning to suspect that even chaos has a pattern. - [The Third Voice](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-third-voice/) - About the Authors Geoffrey Himes' poetry has been published by Best American Poetry, December, Gianthology, Innisfree, Salt Lick and other publications. He has written about popular music and theater for the Washington Post, New York Times, Rolling Stone and many more since 1977. His book on Emmylou Harris, In-Law Country, was published in 2024 and his book of collaborative poems with Grace Cavalieri, Fables from Italy and Beyond, in 2025. Grace Cavalieri was Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate (2018-2024). She founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" for public radio and podcasts, from the Library of Congress, celebrating 48 years on-air in 2025. She's an Academy of American Poets Fellow, with more than 30 books and chapbooks, and 20 plays produced on American stages. In July 2023, twenty-five years of her podcasts were sent to the moon from NASA on the Lunar Codex. Her recent book, Owning the Not So Distant World, was published by Blue Light Press. - [The Mayor Has a Hammer](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-mayor-has-a-hammer/) - Written by Jim Schutz, a long-time City Manager of San Rafael, The Mayor Has a Hammer is a poetic tribute to the everyday heroism of local government. As Schutz tells us, "The people who work in local government are my heroes. All of them. Ask them why they got into local government, and they most often talk about helping people and improving communities. They are capable and innovative and do thousands of things that improve people's lives, often without fanfare, recognition, or even awareness. They deserve to be celebrated in the most profound way - which is why I turned to poetry." Praise for The Mayor Has a Hammer Finally - a book that gets it. These poems capture the soul of local government with honesty, heart, and just the right amount of humor. If you've ever served your community - as an elected official or as staff - you'll feel seen, understood, and proud. And if you haven't, this collection offers a rare and moving window into what it's really like to do this work: the quiet frustrations, the small triumphs, and the deep commitment that keeps us coming back. - Kate Colin, Mayor, City of San Rafael, California It's rare in poetry to be privy to the minute particulars of a given profession. As the former city manager of one of the Bay Area's lovelier cities, though one not without its civic problems, Jim Schutz acts as our Virgil through the not-so-divine comedy of running a municipality. His tone can be biting, whimsical, impassioned, and/or funny, but his disposition is always one of deep concern for "the commons," and a profound appreciation of those who serve our local interests. As Jim says in his preface, these are really love poems to a work force too many take for granted. So, let him entertain you as he informs you. In these benighted times, maybe you'll find yourself among "Those optimists who inhale conflict/and exhale unity." - Thomas Centolella, author of Almost Human Who knew local government could be poetry? Jim Schutz did! This gem of a book makes you feel the joy, pain, and sheer craziness that come with being a public servant in these turbulent times. - Kip Harkness, former Deputy City Manager, City of San Jose, California More than ever in these times, we need those who honor words for their precision and beauty. Jim Schutz has done just that. He has explored the craft of poetry and brought it into City Hall, into the offices of government workers who don't get enough praise for their tireless work. We thank him for his world of "pensions, Ford Fusions, fluorescent lights, taxes, and gavels in the small chambers of democracy." - Kathy Evans, author of Trespassers Welcome and Imagination Comes to Breakfast - [The Master Jesus Speaks](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-master-jesus-speaks/) - The first time I personally encountered Jesus was September 30, 1982. I was unemployed from a bank consulting job that had just ended. I went to a bookstore to look for a book on how to find my life's purpose. I looked in the self-help, psychology and religion sections. Disappointed at not finding what I thought I needed, I began to walk away. Suddenly, as I passed the occult section, which as a Christian I would normally avoid, a book flew off the top shelf and landed on the floor in front of me. The name of the book was Psychic Energy. The book did not aesthetically appeal to me, but the circumstances of it flying through the air caused me to purchase it, against my better judgment. On the drive home from the bookstore, I made an agreement with God that I would only open the book to one page, like we used to do with the Bible, when we sought answers. I would close my eyes and open this book and expect whatever God wanted to tell me would be on one page. - [The Endurance of Hope](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-endurance-of-hope/) - Melanie Gendron attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in affiliation with Tufts University, majoring in sculpture and painting. Studies in photography, print making, fashion design and computer arts further rounded out her curriculum. She developed a unique style rich in symbolism inspired by many cultures. Proficient in a variety of media, Melanie enjoys a renaissance attitude. Serving as animator, art director, author, book designer, fashion designer, graphic artist, illustrator, intuitive counselor, poet, painter, portraitist, teacher, and writer, she is a seasoned multimedia professional artist. Among her publications are A Goddess Journal, Making the Connection to Self, Love, Life, The Gendron Tarot Deck and Book, This Fool's Journey Through Tarot's Major Arcana, Dreaming The Light, Metatron, Angel of The Presence, and A Goddess Coloring Book. Melanie currently manages Gendron Studios in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, creating her art, and offering commercial art services, specializing in book design. "The Endurance of Hope allows all of us to see inside the heart and soul of a celebrated visionary artist. Melanie Gendron writes with relentless honesty as she reveals the creative process of her life and her art. A delight to read." - Diane Frank, Author of Mermaids and Musicians "What a brilliant, creative talent Melanie Gendron is: visually and linguistically. The Endurance of Hope is a book that dazzles the eye and fills the heart with the treasures of its insights and humanity." - Robert Scotellaro, Author of Quick Adjustments and Nothing Is Ever One Thing "Seldom is a memoir a page-turner, but Gendron keeps titillating the reader with ever more detail of her interesting life. Very entertaining, mesmerizing, at times jaw-dropping to see learning experiences unfold into wisdom. Her language is clearly influenced by poetry: from "a depth of silence filled the room" to "fear eats the heart like vultures devour carrion." Describing an angel in a dream, "We have so much to give; you just have to get out of the way." This book speaks volumes of the benefits of awareness." - Erik Ievins, Fine Tuning Expert "The Endurance of Hope is a mixture of memoir and fiction. Melanie writes about her hundredth birthday decades before its occurrence, and pets tell us their stories. This book has both laughter and tears." - Elizabeth Porter, Author of Affirmations for Everyday Living - [The Different Path](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-different-path/) - Pat Underwood grew up on an Iowa farm across the horizon from where she and her husband raised their two sons. She retired in 2017 from her work in early education and working for the State of Iowa. Since her husband's death, she remains on their country hillside near Colfax, IA surrounded by poetry-inspiring nature. Her publications include three poetry books: Where I Live (Blue Light Press 2022), Portraits (Finishing Line Press 2017), and Gatherings (Celestial Light Press 2007). Her play kit The Last Supper (Meriwether Publishing Ltd.; Contemporary Drama Service 1997) travels the nation. Underwood's poems received a 2001 Pushcart Prize Nomination, a 1996 Founder's Award, and a 2002 Founder's Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Recently, she was chosen as the winner of the 2025 Vinnie Ream Letters Contest sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women. FINALIST, 2025 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD Pat Underwood writes clearly and eloquently of family, history, rural life, and nature. She focuses on imagistic details with a microscopic lens, then dramatically transforms the material to the cosmic realm. Tadpoles become frogs, algae shapes into coral, a speck of energy explodes into the Big Bang. In both form and free verse, Underwood's poetry leads us down a different path of metaphorical insight and discovery. - Mary Swander, author of The Girls on the Roof Pat Underwood's wonderful new collection, The Different Path, offers the reader a consoling, intimate conversation - whether the subject is seafoam or osprey, ultrasound or a long-lost elkhound. Like the "iridescent thread" of the spider's web that the speaker observes in the opening poem, these lines transport us with care and surety into our most tender interiors. While many poems address moments of deep "bone shivering" loss and despair, they also guide us out of the forest of sorrow, back into birdsong - the place where a flower "utter[s] itself to the sun."These imagistic poems remind us of the vibrant miracle of the world around us, and they demonstrate how openness to love for all things creates kinship, resilience, empathy, and the possibility of renewal. -Debra Marquart, author of Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars The Different Path recalls, reminisces, and records the compelling insights of a master poet. As a long-term follower of Pat's poetry, I have lost count of her numerous first-place awards and prizes. Fortunately for the reader, you can enjoy those winning poems in this book. If you have farm roots or wonder what it was like to grow up in a now lost rural America, Pat's elegiac - [The Case of the Apprentice in the Windy City](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-case-of-the-apprentice-in-the-windy-city/) - Eager to leave behind a disheartening past of false starts, Robert Connelly has chosen to become a private investigator, commencing work with veteran investigator Joseph Poblano to gain experience handling routine cases. The young man, though, immediately finds himself drawn into waters that are anything but routine when the first case he and Poblano tackle involves the disappearance of university professor Ilona LaCroix. Privately disagreeing with his mentor's approach, Robert goes off on his own, obtaining information that illuminates more about the case in one swoop than Poblano could probably ever explain. Events, however, take a shocking turn, preventing the young man from sharing his newfound intelligence. Michael W. Drwiega was born in Chicago and raised in the Chicago area until he went away to college at the University of Iowa where he earned a B.A. degree. The nature of his work experiences provided a rich variety of material from which a writer might draw. In the 1980s, he served his country for six years as an enlisted man in Germany. After an honorable discharge, he obtained a doctorate in political science from the University of Iowa, worked as a certified nurse aide at a local nursing home for three years and, during the same period, ran a seasonal business selling calendars in downtown Iowa City. Since 2004, he has worked at a popular grocery store in the village where he grew up, Wilmette, Illinois. - [Somehow, I Haven’t Drowned](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/somehow-i-havent-drowned/) - Robin Gabbert has poems in state, national, and international poetry anthologies. She is the 2025 winner of the Fran Claggett-Holland award for her contributions to poetry and the poetry community. Her poem Invisible was a finalist in the 2024 San Francisco Writers Conference Contest for Poetry and she was long-listed for the Frontier Poetry "(Not) In Love" Tanka Challenge in 2024. Her chapbook of ekphrastic poetry and art - The Clandestine Life of Paintings, in Poems was published in 2022 and Diary of a Mad Poet 2020. Robin's passion is to "capture the essence" of a situation or feeling in a few well-chosen words. She teaches, and is a frequent speaker on ekphrastic poetry, and is a poetry judge and editor for the California Writers Club and North Bay Poetics. When not writing, she likes to frolic with her pup Hamish, spend time with family, and read mysteries. See more about her at www.robingabbert.com. Winner of the Fran Claggett-Holland Award for Poetry "Somehow, I Haven't Drowned." Don't overlook the title of this amazing collection of poems by Robin Gabbert. Robin, like Robert Frost, is a trickster poet-with subtler meaning always present in her poems. It is easy to get swept up in her ability to get right to the heart of one tragedy after another, while emerging strong and determined in the next poem. The book is beautifully structured, so take time to follow her clues. She is masterful in building mood and tone in the sections, and awakening in her readers almost a companionship, before returning us to her vivid finales. - Fran Claggett-Holland, writer, poet, educational consultant The poems in Robin Gabbert's Somehow, I Haven't Drowned emerge from the hands of a keen and candid observer who speaks her mind and her heart. These courageous poems "slip into the space between stars and trees... make bones light up...make your every breath rattle." This poet is fearless and does not shy away from hard truths and harsh realities.Like the title of this remarkable collection the poems within are too buoyant to sink. - Les Bernstein, poet - [SELF-MASTERY OF MIND AND EMOTION](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/self-mastery-of-mind-and-emotion/) - All of creation is sacred and alive; each part is connected to each other part, and each is communicating in a cooperative effort to evolve. The smallest and the largest forms of life are involved at the cellular level and at the level of consciousness in this evolution. Our physical senses present our unique version of reality, in which our beingness is perceived in one particular dimension. Our perception of that beingness is built up through neurological patterning and is the result of one kind of neurological focus. There are other alternate neurological routes as yet not chosen by many. Our environment, family, government and religion have established our current sequential perceptions. These perceptions have locked Humanity into certain perceptions of reality. These structures were meant to frame and organize experience, but we mistook the picture for the reality that it represents. These structures demand recognition of the Third dimension as the only possible reality. Our sequential prejudiced perception can be altered, however, and is more flexible than we might imagine. At all times, other unperceived impulses bombard us. These impulses are either too fast or too slow for our usual focus to perceive them. Our recognition of these "not familiar" energies can be learned and encouraged. Many people refer to this ability as extra-sensory perception (ESP). We are all designed and capable of these other-dimensional perceptions. At a certain point in Human evolution, we were designed to begin to experience what some people refer to as psychic phenomena in order to bring our attention to these other-dimensional realities. That time is now. - [QUICK ADJUSTMENTS](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/quick-adjustments/) - Robert Scotellaro is the author of 7 flash fiction collections including most recently: Ways to Read the World (Scantic Books, 2022) and God in a Can (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), as well as 5 collections of poetry, and several books for children. He has, along with James Thomas, co-edited New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, published by W.W. Norton & Co. His work has appeared widely, nationally and internationally, and is included in the W. W. Norton anthologies, Flash Fiction International (2015) and Flash Fiction America (2023), and in 4 Best Small Fictions and 2 Best Microfiction award anthologies. He is the winner of Zone 3's Rainmaker Prize in Poetry and the Blue Light Book Award for his fiction. Robert is one of the founding donors to The Ransom Flash Fiction Collection at the University of Texas, Austin. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, artist and art historian, Diana Scott. - [PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/principles-of-truth/) - In Human consciousness, there are many basic principles. I call them the Principles of Truth. Honor is one, trust; integrity, respect, and acceptance of others are some of the main ones. There are more, but if we are expressing true honor in our daily living the others seem to fall into place naturally. We each come into life with a certain unrecognized mission. We forget the contract we signed with our soul before we reincarnated. Our basic mission is simple, but we make it complicated. The mission is first and foremost to make ourselves more of what we really are and less of what we are not. Because there are so many errors in the mass consciousness beliefs, and we take these on instead of truth, we don't remember we are a spirit seeking to have a Human experience. Mass consciousness believes we are Humans trying to overcome sin to become spiritual. We buy into the consensus reality. Consensus reality means that the vast majority of people see life in a way that is generally agreed as being the way it is. If we are going to make ourselves more of what we really are and less of what we are not, we have to get clear about what we really are, which is a spirit having a Human experience. We are each conscious Beings. This consciousness, which is who we are, is an energy frequency. And in that frequency is a record of our whole life in great detail. Some people call this the Akashic record; some people call it cellular memory. When we learn to communicate with our souls, we can have access to our own Akashic record. - [Mindful Art of Himalayan Meditation](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mindful-art-of-himalayan-meditation/) - Discover the Stillness Beyond the Snow. High in the silence of the Himalayas, ancient wisdom whispers through the wind, inviting us to return to what has always been within: the breath, the body, the moment. The Mindful Art of Himalayan Meditation is a luminous companion for anyone-new or experienced-seeking calm in a chaotic world. Blending clear guidance with soul-soothing imagery, this book offers more than a method; it offers a way of being. Rooted in Himalayan tradition, yet written with modern life in mind, it is an invitation to pause, soften, and awaken. Come as you are. Begin wherever you are. Breathe, and let the mountain speak. - [Midnight at the Chevron Station](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/midnight-at-the-chevron-station/) - Michael Malan is editor of Cloudbank (cloudbankbooks.com), a literary journal in Corvallis, Oregon. He is the winner of Meridian's 2024 Editors' Prize for Fiction. He is also the author of three books from Blue Light Press: Overland Park (2017, poetry and flash fiction), Tarzan's Jungle Plane (2019, flash fiction), and Deep Territory (2021, poetry). His work has appeared in Epoch, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, Lake Effect, New American Writing, and many other journals. Blake's ambition-"To see a World in a Grain of Sand" and hold "Eternity in an hour"-is Michael Malan's achievement in Midnight at the Chevron Station. Malan makes his midnight hold Eternity, and his Chevron station show a whole World. This visionary collection is intimate, taking place "here, in the land of you and me only," but also vast, a full report on "what I saw when I looked inside the book of stars." -H. L. Hix, author of Constellation In his new volume, Michael Malan's lyrics and flash fiction perform acrobatic marvels wherein the real, magical, and surreal collide, yet they dance together in a harmonious and winning tango. These richly imaginative poems are musically alive and replete with small moments of grace and wonder, as when the poet notices "a parachute opening like a flower in the sky," and that "[i]t's not easy to stand up in a stiff wind and wear your hair like heaven." I love his touches of irreverent humor and his moments of Zen profundity that amalgamate fact and fancy, memory and longing: "Everything you desire has its place in your / favorite mirage." -Maurya Simon, author of La Sirena: A Novella in Verse What I find most intriguing about Michael Malan's Midnight at the Chevron Station is his use of day-to-day details that bridge to the historical, and trail from there into the deeply imagined, preserving a time and place and energy for us all. As he writes in "The Vanishing Prairie": "Everything / is alive, even the pepperoni pizza in the oven. Each piece leads to the visionary and the edge of the metaphysical where "We are all drifting in the language of summer." -Christopher Buckley, author of The Far Republics - [Mermaids and Musicians](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mermaids-and-musicians/) - A virtuoso violinist falls madly in love with a mermaid, but can he deal with loving a woman who isn't completely human? And can their love travel through time? The novel begins on Signal Mountain in Tennessee and migrates to the coast of Northern California. As a poet and musician, Diane Frank reveals what it takes to become a musician, what music means to those who play it, and what music gives to the world. "From Diane Frank, a beautiful love story from the dream world, where humans and mermaids meet. In her masterful lyrical style, this poet musician takes us on a journey through realms of water, music, passion and art. As we follow the lives of a family of creative souls, we feel the flow of the sacred feminine, orchestrating and guiding at every turn. A gift from a master of light and dreams, Mermaids and Musicians speaks to the artist, musician, poet and dreamer in all of us." Jennifer Read Hawthorne, co-author, #1 New York Times bestseller Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul; author, A Canopy of Stars: Poems "One of the best ways to learn about humans is to listen to their songs." Every chapter in Mermaids and Musicians sings. With exquisite language, Diane Frank weaves joy and heartbreak, community and loneliness, surrealism and realism into a novel of hope. This delectable book uproots readers from the Appalachian Mountains and transports them to the Pacific coast, following the dreams of various characters, all of them artists and musicians, all believers that this wild, precious earth is worth saving. Frank delights in every color and sound, every magical moment we sometimes forget as we traverse from childhood into adults. This is a book I would devour first, then go back and luxuriate in the second, third, and subsequent readings. A must-read for anyone who longs to return to a world of compassion and beauty. - KB Ballentine, author of Spirit of Wild "Mermaids and Musicians is a feast for the senses, the images conjuring sights, sounds and tastes that metamorphosize into larger concepts. When Diane Frank introduces music into her novel, it takes on a depth, both joyful and painful, that is, in my opinion, her finest work. Bravo!" Jill Rachuy Brindel, Cellist, San Francisco Symphony "Diane Frank has that amalgam of poetry and prose just right. Her language has perfect pitch. It's a knockout." - Robert Scotellaro, author of Measuring the Distance - [Manual for Spiritual Maturity](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/manual-for-spiritual-maturity/) - Meditation and the gift of discernment are the two greatest gifts I've ever given myself, and they both cost me nothing other than the willingness and the bravery to agree to know the purpose of my life. I consider direct soul communication to be the most valuable tool we can attain to live a sane, happy and spiritually directed life. It is extremely important we become aware of our thoughts, feelings and emotions and to understand we have the power to control and change all of these. It is easier to do once we have the conscious assistance of our soul through soul communication. It is important to understand the information given to us by our souls is not an order, but merely a suggestion, and the soul, God, will never take away our free will even when we deliberately turn our will over to God. Our goal needs to be to listen vertically before we act horizontally. Thinking means to create, to be. That is why it is very important to know how to meditate, how to create pure and divine thought forms to increase vitality and health for oneself, Humanity and nature. - [Loosestrife for Porcupines](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/loosestrife-for-porcupines/) - D M Gordon's poetry collection, Nightly, At the Institute of thePossible, was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award while her story, "The Work of Hunters Is Another Thing," won a first prize from Glimmer Train. She's a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in fiction, and two-time finalist in poetry. As the editor at Hedgerow Books, she midwifed eleven books of poetry into being, several of which were short-listed for national awards. Short works in multiple genres have been published everywhere from The Cincinnati Review to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and Poetry Daily. She lives in Western Massachusetts, at the edge of a long field ringed by woods. Find out more at www.dmgordon.com Finalist, 2025 Blue Light Book Award "Seldom do we have the privilege of seeing through eyes so open, so discerning, so disconcerting. Refusing the illusions with which we too easily screen reality, these are poems whose mastery of craft enables their clarity of vision, whose cadenced language and wit enlivens poems that seem written for our threatened time.How I admire their candor, the cool stamina of these poems, along with their warm affection, their knowledge of pasture and parlor, the full keyboard: This is all, nature and art." -Eleanor Wilner, Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 "Loosestrife for Porcupines is a beautifully crafted reflection of the intimacies of the natural world. Here, fiddler crabs raise their machine-gun claws like tiny gangsters. Named and nameless winds begin to stir. Balanced against these appreciations comes listable sorrows, from the swollen oceans and the albino crows of Chernobyl to stars disappearing over the shifting bones of an aging planet. Inevitably, Gordon turns to us and asks, without judgement or malice, have we been wise? Craving joy, keenly insightful as they are compassionate, these stunning poems- both individually and collectively-are a timely and necessary gift." -Mary A Koncel, The Last Blonde - [Little Stone Lion](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/little-stone-lion/) - Little Stone Lion is a transformative business classic that fuses Eastern philosophy with Western strategy, offering actionable insights for building sustainable and purpose-driven businesses. It narrates the inspiring and resilient journey of a minority woman entrepreneur who overcame immense challenges to create a globally recognized brand. This book of wisdom empowers readers to achieve financial success while embracing mindfulness, sustainability, and long-term positive impact on our planet. "Combining skilful storytelling with powerful, practical wisdom, Susanna encourages us to use creativity and innovation to reimagine the business landscape. Little Stone Lion is a powerful guidebook for those committed to leading with purpose and compassion, achieving financial success and nurturing our planet and its resources". ~ Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author, renowned speaker, California "Susanna Qiang Huang's book "Little Stone Lion" stands as a beacon of graceful simplicity in the realm of business literature. Seamlessly weaving together Eastern and Western philosophies, this book invites readers to delve deeply into various business functions while offering a panoramic view of the business landscape. Like an artist meticulously painting a small bird that embodies the majesty of a giant eagle, Huang captures both the intricate details and the magical power of the interconnectedness of business operations." Written with eloquence and poetic charm, "Little Stone Lion" is enriched with pearls of wisdom drawn from Huang's own entrepreneurial journey. Through authentic and inspirational stories, Huang not only educates but also inspires readers to explore purpose-driven business practices that pursue lasting happiness an benefit our Mother Earth. This book transcends business strategy; it is a celebration of creativity, innovation, and sustainability. Huang's narrative encourages readers to reimagine traditional business frameworks and offers profound insights that resonate long after the final page. For aspiring entrepreneurs and business students alike, "Little Stone Lion" is a compelling read that illuminates the path to entrepreneurial success with clarity, wisdom, and a heartfelt commitment to making a meaningful impact." ~ Professor Zhi-Long Chen, Dean's Chair in Management Science Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA - [LITTLE RIVER OF AMAZEMENTS](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/little-river-of-amazements/) - "Poem after poem raised the hair on my arms. I was moved and inspired all the way through." - Marsha de la O, poet, author of Creatures Mary Kay Rummel grew up in St. Paul near the Mississippi and the corner where Montreal, Lexington and West Seventh meet near Highland Park. She was the first Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA. Little River of Amazements: New and Selected Poems is her tenth published poetry book, her eighth full collection. Blue Light Press also published Nocturnes: Between Flesh and Stone, Cypher Garden, The Lifeline Trembles, as a winner of the 2014 Blue Light Press Award and What's Left is the Singing. This Body She's Entered, her first book, won the Minnesota Voices Award for poetry and was published by New Rivers Press in 1989. It was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. She was a recipient of a Loft Mentor award. Her work has appeared in numerous regional, national, and international literary journals and anthologies and has received several awards, including ten Pushcart nominations. She was a co-editor of Psalms of Cinder & Silt, a collection of community poems related to recent California wildfires published by Glenna Luschei at Solo Press. Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies centered in both California and the Midwest including Water~Stone Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, MiraMar, Anacapa Review, Gyroscope Review, Conestoga Zen, Pirene's Fountain, Salt, Askew, Spillway and as a frequent finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, in Nimrod. Mary Kay has read her poems in many venues in the US, England and Ireland and has been a featured reader at poetry festivals including in the Ojai Poetry Festival and San Luis Obisbo Poetry Fest. She has participated in numerous poetry residencies including Anderson House and Vermont Studio Center and performs poetry with musicians. She has collaborated with artists in the US and England, most recently at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. A Professor Emerita from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Mary Kay also taught at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and at California State University, Channel Islands. She is a founding board member of the nonprofit Ventura County Poetry Project. She and her husband, Conrad (Tim), live in California and Minnesota, near children and grandchildren in both states. She can be contacted through email at marykayrummel.com - [Life After Life](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/life-after-life/) - In 1979, I was what I considered a middle-class American housewife living in Lubbock, Texas. I was married and had two children: a boy, 6, and a girl,11. I was a member of an Episcopal Church, president of the women of the church, secretary of the diocese and Camp Fire leader for my daughter's troop. I appeared to be happily married. My husband was a firefighter and had an automotive garage where he worked on his days off from the fire department. He worked approximately 100 hours a week. My parents lived near me and I checked on my Mother daily and went by to do her hair twice a week. My father and I have never been close. I called my Dad when I took her to the hospital. My father believed she was having an allergic reaction to something and did not respond to my call for help. During the next week, she had two heart attacks and died on March 9, 1979. The day of my Mother's funeral, my father insisted that my sister-in-law and I clear out my mother's personal belongings. His sisters were in town for the funeral and he wanted them to have my Mother's clothes. When we reached the bottom of her lingerie drawer, there was a long-stemmed red rose that I had sent her years before on my birthday. The rose, the vase and the card were wrapped in a great deal of aluminum foil to protect them and a card was attached to the outside in her handwriting that read, "Receiving this rose fulfilled a lifetime fantasy." - [Kintsugi: Poems of Hope & Healing](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/kintsugi-poems-of-hope-healing/) - The art and philosophy of kintsugi which means "golden joinery," teaches us that even if we have survived illness and difficult times such as the pandemic, we can still heal the "brokenness" in a manner that transforms us into something we are not afraid to celebrate. In this delicate art, breaks are not hidden but highlighted by piecing the broken parts together with a mixture of lacquer and gold or silver powder. This ethos mirrors the path we travel to mend what may have been hurt in us, filling the cracks left by trials with radiant bonds stronger than before. Like a warrior who emerges mightier from battle, we see in this collection of poems, the journey from brokenness to healing as one always bound by the luminous threads of love, caring, and hope. This perspective is related to the philosophy of wabi-sabi, which emphasizes finding beauty in simplicity and within life's imperfections. It encourages us to accept the natural cycle of growth and aging, and to appreciate the transience of life - celebrating the way things are, rather than craving for how they should be. Within this framework of thought, each tale, each poem, becomes a testament to the unyielding power of compassion, hope and love as "the golden elements" mending our fractured world. It is seeing the blessings still shining through our lives, recognizing that there is always hope on healing's road, and a beauty that emerges from embracing imperfections while celebrating ways of coping through caring and resilience. Maryam Daftari is a retired lecturer in political science and a China specialist. She is a poet, pianist, and award winning nature photographer. Maryam has published three books and over 25 articles on Chinese affairs, has lectured on International Relations and Comparative Politics, specifically on Chinese Government and Politics at several universities for over three decades. She started writing poetry as an undergraduate, winning several awards. Maryam's poems have been chosen for publication in many of the annual editions of Lyrical Iowa and San Diego Poetry Annual (2013-2023), in Stand Forth and A Step Between, publications of Iowa's Society of Great River Poets. Her poems have also appeared in an anthology of San Diego poets entitled Sundays at Liberty Station. Maryam is the author of 2 poetry collections, Like Magic but Real and Haiku Workbook. Her favorite poets are Rumi and Mary Oliver. - [IT BEGAN](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/it-began/) - Winner, 2023 Blue Light Poetry Prize Michael Jemal was raised in Brooklyn, New York and now lives in the southern part of Rhode Island with his wife and son. He has studied with Stephen Dunn and B.J. Ward. He has been published in Rattle, New Delta Review, Hiram Poetry Review and in other publications. "The poems in Michael Jemal's debut collection, It Began, deconstruct syntax, narrative, lyricism, metaphor, point of view, and just about every other prosodic device we usually assign to poetry. The result is a completely fresh diction and metaphorical sense that simply shows up for each poem to observe what might happen if language takes its hands off the handlebars, while still pedaling as fast as it can. "It began when I accidentally / stepped on your left foot / and you broke / into a million excuses," writes Jemal in "Prologue." There are no wrong notes in this all-to-brief chapbook. In the words of Miles Davis: "It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong." Every word, every line, every poem after the first anaphoric "It began..." is a corrective to mistakes often made by lesser poets of the 21st century. We can only hope that It Began is the first in a series of brilliant books." - Terry Lucas, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Marin County, California "A powerful debut collection of precise poems that ask questions without simple answers, Michael Jemal's The It Began Poems explores why we are who we have become. In each of Jemal's lines that often feel more like glimpses into a dozen magical realities, close relationships shift, perspectives alter, and our everyday expectations evolve-allowing us to linger within the pages, breathless, together." - Michael Jon Khandelwal, The Muse Writers Center, Norfalk, Virginia - [How to Manifest Miracles](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-to-manifest-miracles/) - ACCEPT―BELIEVE―KNOW―RELAX―HAVE FAITH It has only been lately that scientists probing at the elemental substance of nature have yielded us the knowledge that mass and density are purely relative. The astounding discovery of science that there is no such thing as a solid mass has revised the thinking of the world. The only difference between us and what we think of as physical objects is our form of consciousness. There is only one substance from which everything physical is made, there is only one substance from which energy is made and this energy, or substance, is infinite in time and space; it has no beginning and no end and, thus, is everywhere at all times, and all of it is anywhere at any time. There is only one substance or energy or Intelligence in all things. Everything is basically one thing, has no beginning and no end, and has no past and no future, but only one eternal now. The Subconscious Mind reacts entirely by suggestion and has no volition of its own. It does not by itself make choices, indulge in arguments, postulate theories, search for answers, wonder at possibilities. It only accepts and acts on suggestions from the Conscious Mind. It acts on those thoughts behind which there is the most conviction. - [George Come Home](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/george-come-home/) - "George Come Home" is the whimsical tale of a charming cat named George. George knows he is quite a special cat and thinks he deserves a more glamorous life. Little does he know that sometimes wishes come true! Join George on his adventure. About the Author Ethel Pillman lives in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She has two grown children, Erin and Michael. She currently works at Mead Public Library. After 40 years of working as a registered nurse, she decided it would be fun to do something new. She has always loved books and appreciated the library's important role in the community. She wrote this book after her cat George went missing for four days and was found living at a neighbor's house. It was a happy reunion when he returned home. When Ethel isn't writing she can be found working in her award-winning flower gardens, enjoying walks along the shores of Lake Michigan, playing sheepshead, or playing practical jokes on her friends. And she hopes you enjoy this book as much as she enjoyed writing it. - [Family Matters](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/family-matters/) - JP DiBlasi is a native New Yorker currently living and writing in the Hudson River town of Ossining. Her poems have appeared in four anthologies: All the Women Came and Sang (Wyld Side Press 2025); From the Inside: NYC Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here (Blue Light Press, 2022); Never Forgotten, 100 Poets Remember 9/11, (North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2022); and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). Her chapbook, No Longer Gravity's Partner, was published in 2019 by Blue Light Press. Other poems have appeared in: Poetry Breakfast, RiverRiver, The Crazy Child Scribbler, Persimmon Tree, and Chronogram. JP is interested in traditional Irish music and attends local music sessions. She also teaches the bodhrán, the Irish goatskin drum. Friends love her sense of humor. "The poems in Family Matters offer not only a brave, lyrical exploration of loss, faith, and the natural world, but a moving reimagining of rituals and memories, detailed with care and honesty. They are poems that often end with a beautifully skillful transformation. I read it from cover to cover with admiration for the imagery, eloquence, and strong sense of revelation." - Joanna Ezekiel, Author of Centuries of Skin and Homecoming "In this collection of poems, JP DiBlasi offers beautiful, spiritual images to show the importance of family and the continuity of love passed down through generations. Peaceful images of water and nature are widespread. Some memories are reflected in a lake. Other comforting memories flood back in a mother's coat, a brother's shirt, and a father's lilacs. References to old masters and still life painting provide intriguing artistic detail. Through vivid imagery, these poems show how treasured memories of loved ones can bring comfort." - Patricia McCue, Poet and Journalist "JP DiBlasi's new collection, Family Matters, is laced with loss and touched by light, love and deep peace. Her poems take you to both the wonder and the earthiness of family. They point to the core experiences of life and death, a yearning for connection that is fulfilled in unexpected ways - a chocolate chip cookie, the first sprigs of lilacs, a quiet walk by the lake of loons, slipping arms into a mother's long coat. JP's words evoke loved presence, even in their absence. They bring a waft of remembered joy, mischief, and ah, such gentle warmth and very tender smiles." - Sr. Marylin Gramas S.U., Spiritual Advisor - [EVERYTHING - New and Selected Poems](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/everything-new-and-selected-poems/) - Winner of the 2025 Blue Light Book Award Terry Lucas is the author of two prize-winning chapbooks, If They Have Ears to Hear (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012) and Altar Call (San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival, 2013), in addition to three previous full-length collections: In This Room (CW Books, 2016), Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press, 2016), and with photographer Gary Topper, The Thing Itself (Longship Press, 2020). His poetry has appeared in numerous national journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, and The Sun. Terry is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Marin County California and a freelance poetry coach at www.terrylucas.com. In this moving and profoundly cohesive selection from his lifetime of poems, Terry Lucas tells us that "everything yes everything now gathered to us is leaving."Yet Lucas provides us with intense presence, whether he is writing about the boy he was - child of difficult parents, and so God-haunted that he became a boy preacher - or about the grown man who traverses, for work and for love, a keenly seen America. His work is enriched by his dialogue with other poets; many of these poems are afterpoems, some of them quite directly engaging with previous poetic texts. From his earliest poems to the new work that is this book's destination, Lucas' poetry is unified by a commitment to the urgencies of character, place, memory, language, and voice. Terry Lucas gives us a map of the road he's traveled, with "each switchback demanding full attention/in the moonless night." - David Groff, author of Live in Suspense - [Douglas House](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/douglas-house/) - In 1970, Elmo Zumwalt became the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). At forty-nine, he was the youngest CNO to that time in United States Navy history. A search of the many quotes attributed to the admiral revealed a remark, from Edmund Burke, which said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" Many African Americans who served in the aftermath of Zumwalt's tenure say, "That statement could be said to be the theme of his tenure ." Based on my own Navy experience, I would agree. From September 1965 through December 1989, I served directly in or was associated with the United States Navy. First as an enlisted, and later, in 1977, as an officer. In the Shadow of the Golden Thirteen, A Nice Negro Story is the story of my experiences attempting to achieve recognition for the men identified as the first African American commissioned and warrant officers in the United States Navy. It is also the story of how my seemingly innocent idea for recognition of their and other minority accomplishments heralded the destruction of my own career by some who considered their accomplishments as little more than "a nice Negro story ." In retrospect, I must state, I am extremely proud of my association with the Golden Thirteen story. That pride stems from letters and remarks like this excerpted from one member, Mr . John Reagan dated April 27, 1982, in which he stated: "I am still 10 kilometers high from that terrific 'Golden Thirteen' reunion at sea. It is near impossible to express how much I appreciated the terrific job you did with and for us and indeed for the Navy and recruiting service ." Despite the personal hurt, I have endured these past decades as a result of the reunion, I can think of few things in my life that mean more. - GAC - [Dangerous Intimacies](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dangerous-intimacies/) - Author, James (Jim) Ralston Inspired by Thoreau's Walden, especially by the second chapter, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," I live in the country on three and a half acres between Rocky Gap and Evitts Creeks, eight miles outside of Cumberland, Maryland. Across Rocky Gap Creek is the rarely used, but nicely kept up Union Grove Campgrounds, and equally rarely used outdoor pavilion/church, as if they're extensions of both my front yard and spiritual life. Many mornings, I sit in the pavilion alone, meditating, contemplating, writing in my journal. Above the sanctuary, a sign reads, "YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN," and Thoreau and I couldn't agree more. We don't see it as an order from above, rather as something necessary. Three houses up the creek from my small home is a one-room schoolhouse, like the one in Michigan where my Grandma Nora used to teach. I never walk by it without remembering her and Aunt Emma, who generously shared their small house with me in 1961, so I could afford my first year of Alma College, a Christian college where I lost my little boy faith, I now know, in retrospect, to give myself room for something bigger, thanks Grandma, Aunt Emma, and Alma. What I have lived for is harder to condense, but can be found in my publications, which include The Choice of Emptiness, a collection of essays and reflections that also reads as a novel; numerous essays and poems published in The Sun: a Magazine of Ideas over a span 35 years; and fifteen years of columns published between 1990 and 2005 in the Charleston Gazette, and in this book of poems, and an earlier one, Lyrics for a Low Noon, both published by Blue Light Press out of San Francisco. Along the way, I also directed many plays in several theatres, but primarily in the Apollo Theater in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Several of the plays I wrote myself, including "Many Mansions," "The Lone Star League," and "Divine Madness." - [Creativity in the Vedic Astrology Chart](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/creativity-in-the-vedic-astrology-chart/) - By means of in-depth investigation into the lives and careers of musicians, dancers, and theatrical/film artists, Michael illustrates a variety of astrological influences which are consistently seen in the charts of creative artists. What makes one person a dancer, another a musician, yet another an actor? Creativity in the Vedic Astrology Chart enables the student and practitioner of Vedic astrology to discern the subtle but important distinctions between the various modes of creative expression. About the Author Professional Vedic astrologer, teacher, and author Michael A. Sugarman has written a detailed comprehensive analysis of the factors which contribute to the phenomenon of creative expression in the Vedic chart. Michael's previous work, Addiction in the Vedic Astrology Chart, is acclaimed as an important contribution to the literature of medical astrology. Michael holds an M. A. in Counseling Psychology. - [Cosmogony: Night and Time](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/cosmogony-night-and-time/) - Winner of the 2024 Blue Light Book Award Tony Crunk's first collection of poetry, Living in the Resurrection, was the 1994 selection in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has published a number of subsequent collections, as well as works in a variety of other genres, including A Theatre of Fine Devices, winner of the 2008 Blue Light Poetry Prize. He currently lives in St. Louis. In this collection, Crunk . . . leverages a heft of images and syntactical fragments into lyrical and elegiac forms, negotiating embodied discontinuity and poetic intensity, finding the right note of compromise between his lived experience and his ability to demystify it by naming it too exactly. At times breathless in the compulsion to designate, capture, or render, Crunk's voice is steely and precise. . . With crisp language, he scrimshaws the interiors of his history and home, of his future and our own, onto the ivory of the page. . . . In a small space, Crunk embodies the consummate philosopher-poet, with a gaze fixed on the enchanting perplexities of our corporeal existence, but not so arrogant as to chide or humiliate them into revealing their secrets. - Dave Harrity, author of These Intricacies and Our Father in the Year of the Wolf - [CITY CANYONS](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/city-canyons/) - Alice Elizabeth Rogoff grew up in New Rochelle, New York. She has lived in San Francisco since 1971. She has a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College, MAs in English: Concentration Creative Writing, and Drama from San Francisco State University and a Certificate in Labor Studies from City College, San Francisco. Her poetry book Mural won a Blue Light Book Award. From the San Francisco Arts Commission, she received a commission for a poetry project. She has been an Editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal since 1984. Her poems and stories have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies including the Garland Court Review, Pudding Magazine, So to Speak, Caveat Lector, the Noe Valley Voice, Pandemic Puzzle Poems, Fog and Light - San Francisco Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here, Giving Voice (LaborFest Writers), and songs in Alte by Jewish Currents. She volunteers for the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition. She is a member of PEN America, Senior & Disability Action, and Save the Manatee Club. ENDORSEMENTS Glowing jewel-like in this collection, Alice Elizabeth Rogoff's tautly written poems movingly convey diverse experiences, from the wonders of animals to highlights of San Francisco and its denizens, life in the labor movement,memories of dear friends, and much more. The poet emerges as a keen observer and chronicler of the moments of her life and the life of her mind - as she puts it, "A long trip with stops at/ The next oasis." - Dan Liberthson, PhD, author of Animal Songs Alice Elizabeth Rogoff's poetry gives us pause and leaves one hoping that we can make the world better. Her poetry takes us past moments of beauty, of hope as she leads us through journeys of tragedy in our world. Alice, thank you for these written images of insight and bravery. - Julienne Fisher - Renounce War Alice's poems from chaos to certainty to creative mystery lead us by the hand, ever so gently, through different countries, states, cities, landscapes. She starts us off with a poem "Turned Back." An immigrant woman with two children having to turn back, face life, find home. These poems are deep, questioning: they present us with things to reflect on, think about, dream of. "Dancing in the Street," charming and sad. A good ending, a hopeful poem. Another poem, "Synchronicity," a spot of loveliness, a fig tree leaf and rose bush flower reach out to each other, just as we humans do. The poet is helping us to be open to beauty, amidst despair. Her poems are thoughtful, they will get you wondering about your own canyons, basements, family, strangers on the street, your own wild and interesting life. Many are about San Francisco but include Chicago and other countries. The bluebirds, the snow, soup made out of cherries, a lonely white duck. What do we do with our dreams and impressions? This lovely book will inspire you to discover your own. - Ellen Levin,Writer. Published as part of an anthology How to Begin Poems, Prompts, tips and writing exercises from Fresh Ink Collective, edited by Robin Michel, Raven and Wren Press, San Francisco, CA. - [Catalogue of Surprises](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/catalogue-of-surprises/) - "In Catalogue of Surprises, Dorothy Wall compares words to 'a suspension bridge // a rope we've tied ourselves to / above the chasm.' Her wise poems look clear-eyed deep into the chasm - at illness, family history, despoliation, and mortality. At the same time, she finds beauty in the most unexpected places: pebbles, snail-trails, or the animals of Chernobyl thriving without us. You will find beauty, too, in Dorothy Wall's exquisitely crafted poetry." - Susan Cohen, author of Throat Singing, A Different Wakeful Animal, and Democracy of Fire "The poems in Dorothy Wall's Catalogue of Surprises acknowledge impermanence, mortality, and such existential dilemmas as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, but Wall does not cave under the weight of these realities. She says, '...we are furiously holding out our hands / with their stone of hope / we won't let go,' and shows us that life itself is a catalogue of surprises where, holding our fury and hope, we can look at clouds and relish 'something bright or illuminated / above us.' The poems are elegantly crafted and radiate a light of their own." - Lucille Lang Day, author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and Becoming an Ancestor: Poems "Dorothy Wall's poems are like flagstones we step upon to travel forward and backward in time; she casts a wide-ranging eye on life above ground and '...life now underground and shaken.' Her poetry is precise and musical, it leaps and turns and grounds us to place. Dorothy Wall offers us refuge and renewal when she says, 'beauty... is everywhere the sky is.' This poetry possesses the skill of an engraver, and the broad brush strokes of a fine artist." - Joseph Zaccardi, Marin County, California poet laureate (2013-15) Dorothy Wall is author of Catalogue of Surprises: Poems (Blue Light Press), Identity Theory: New and Selected Poems (Blue Light Press) and Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Southern Methodist University Press), and coauthor of Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction (St. Martin's Press). Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Schooner, Witness, Bellevue Literary Review, Sonora Review, Cimarron Review, AMA Journal of Ethics, California Magazine, The Writer, Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, San Francisco Chronicle and others. She has taught poetry and fiction writing at Napa Valley College, San Francisco State University, and U.C. Berkeley Extension, and works as a writing coach in Oakland. - [Agritopia](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/agritopia/) - Combine a healthy dose of skepticism about "well-intentioned big government agencies," mix it with a teaspoon of sage taken from rural life experiences, then throw in a pinch or two of salt from real-world farm economics; now you have the recipe this book is cooking up. Farm stories can be fun again: The Last Conestoga, Finishing Wild Cattle, Moron Mice, Farmer Pitching an Idea in Washington D.C.! With the employ of lighthearted stories and musings, the author tries to shed light on serious ways we could improve the free market experience in rural America. The author attempts to preserve the middle-class farm and, in so doing, hold onto some of the good values archived in the heartland. If you don't want to stand on the sidelines and watch as "the system" asks the last independent American farmers and ranchers to "go now - and close the big doors on your way out of the barn," please read on and consider encouraging long overdue change. - [Your Face in the Fire](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/your-face-in-the-fire/) - Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's soul was shaped by deep impressions made on her by India, where she lived for two years in the 1960s. It was there the Goddess claimed her. It was there that myths began singing to her. It was there her soul remembered other lives. It was there her stars insisted she learn to tend her fire. And the fire spoke: I am the heat of your passion. It is I who will show you your way. What to do on her return to America but become a Jungian, and a poet? Lowinsky won the synkroniciti magazine "Space" prize, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also won the Blue Light Poetry Prize, the Obama Millennial Award and is an International Merit Award Winner in the Atlanta Review 2020 Poetry contest. Your Face in the Fire is her sixth poetry collection. Lowinsky is a Jungian Analyst, a member of the San Francisco Jung Institute, and poetry editor for Psychological Perspectives. She has led a poetry workshop, Deep River, for many years at the San Francisco Jung Institute and co-edited an anthology of poems by its participants, Soul Making in the Valley of the Shadow. She blogs about poetry and life at sisterfrombelow.com. "To read this book is to drink of a rare and holy elixir: an exuberant, deeply soulful life masterfully distilled into word music. If you read slowly and are lucky, you might fall into the alchemical vat with her, where your own life begins to crackle and shimmer in her light. In previous works, Naomi gorgeously, fearlessly answered the call of the ancestors to remember, to grieve, to embody, and to reclaim the pearls of grace left in the ruins of exile and shattered dreams. Here she sings her own long and inspired life, from starry vault to watery cave, from Zion to California to Mexico, with the same unflinching gaze and eye for beauty, where the goddess is found inside every stone, where even evil and death - including her own - are alchemized to serve as chiaroscuro revealing love's transfigurations over time. Her lamentations are so inseparable from her passionate, sensual exultations that they become the song of life itself, utterly intoxicated with the heartbreaking beauty of existence on Earth in the eyes of the soul. As a result, she writes, Elijah appears at the table: "Here I am says he/ Here you are."" - Frances Hatfield, PhD, LMFT, former poetry editor, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche; author, Rudiments of Flight. "Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's book of poetry: Your Face in the Fire, speaks with an impassioned voice which opens us up to that vast space which we find in Jung's Red Book. It is a vibrant standpoint from which she encounters the mysteries of the psyche. Through her poetic imagination we get to participate in her vision making process. Nourished by her dreams that invite us to imagine with her as she expresses a life time of creating, engaging, reflecting and reworking while showing us how her process is not only transformational for her, but for anyone who opens up to the reality of their experiences of psyche's being. The archetypal dimension shines through this book." - Sam Kimbles, Ph.D., author of Phantom Narratives and The Suffering of Ghosts - [Spinning to Mars](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/spinning-to-mars/) - Spinning to Mars Meg Pokrass has written an exquisite collection of linked stories. As I read Spinning to Mars I felt plunged, soaked, immersed-however you want to get down into a life both deep and wide. This book will spin you off to Mars with its exacting language and biting insight. Here is the kind of compressed writing that I long for and rarely find. Meg Pokrass is the author of seven flash fiction collections, including "Damn Sure Right" (Press 53, 2011), "The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down" (Etruscan Press, 2016), "The Dog Seated Next to Me", (Pelekinesis, 2019), "Cellulose Pajamas" (Blue Light Book Award, 2016), the chapbooks "An Object At Rest" (Ravenna Press, 2020) and "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" (V. Press, 2020) and two novellas-in-flash: "Here, Where We Live" (Rose Metal Press, 2014) and "The Loss Detector" (Bamboo Dart Press, 2020). Meg's flash fiction, prose poetry and hybrid writing has been widely internationally anthologized; in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018) and Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015), The Best Small Fictions (2018 & 2019), the Wigleaf Top 50, The Best Irish and British Flash Fiction Award, as well as many other anthologies. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Waxwing, Washington Square Review, Tin House, Smokelong, McSweeney's, Wigleaf, MoonPark Review, Five Points, Hobart Pulp, Split Lip, and over the last decade, nearly one-thousand literary journals. Meg serves as Founding Co-Editor of the Best Microfiction anthology series and Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival, U.K. - [Spirit of Wild](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/spirit-of-wild/) - Spirit of Wild Wild weaves through each of us, but the spirit of wild doesn't always rage. Sometimes it is the gentle, quiet moments alone in our souls that show us who and what we are. The spirit of strength, the spirit of wonder, the spirit of curiosity, the spirit of fury, the spirit of peace are all part of us. But we bottle or ignore them, questioning our anxiety and depression. These poems speak to that spark in each of us that we might remember even through our sorrows, tragedies, joys, and silent seasons that the spirit of wild doesn't call us - it is us. Don't ignore it. Don't let it go. Hold it tight as you dream, when you wake, and as you live your day. Yes, live. Live and embrace wild. "What did you want to be, when you thought you could / be anything?" asks poet KB Ballentine. The poems in this luminous collection emerge as beacons, offering guidance in brief moments bound in rich imagery. Ballentine's unmistakable voice and skill with language shine throughout, balancing the natural world with the natural interiors of the human heart. What is the "spirit of wild" if not that pairing, that step into our truest selves as "the restless wind whispers courage." Find your courage in these poems. -Sandy Coomer, author of The Broken Places As KB Ballentine delves without fear from windowed rooms into a wilderness of forest and ocean, it soon becomes clear that even the darkness in her collection Spirit of Wild is one that teems with life, wing, and song. Ballentine shows us that there is "a shelter for the sacred in each of us." Spirit of Wild is a balm, and I didn't know how much I needed it. -Chera Hammons, author of Maps of Injury Spirit of Wild confirms that "each day waits with sudden mysteries, / offerings, / like dreams half-remembered / from the night." In lyrical, precise language that throbs and pulses with the rhythms of the natural world, Ballentine celebrates the spirit of all manner of life's organic wonders, from the fox and wren to the bee and seahorse, to lavender fog and "stones cloaked in mossy silence." I can't think of a better time for this exuberant collection to come to light, nor a better time to heed Ballentine's call to "cast off the rooms where we've boxed ourselves tight / step into the den of the forest's deep heart." -- Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions - [Starfall in the Temple](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/starfall-in-the-temple/) - Starfall in the Temple Prartho Sereno has made her home in a bamboo hut in India, a 150-year-old farmhouse in Maine, a spiritual community in Oregon, an uptown apartment in Southern California, and for the past 23 years, a funky upstairs duplex north of the Golden Gate Bridge, which she shares with her boat-rowing sweetheart. Along with painting & poetry Prartho has dabbled in such art forms as taxi driver, family therapist, Phys Ed instructor at Cornell University, housecleaner, single parent, head cook, amateur singer/song-writer, illustrator, and palm-reading psychic in various Catskill resorts. Author of the award-winning collections Indian Rope Trick, Elephant Raga, and Call from Paris, and author/illustrator of the IPPY-winning gift book, Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives and Loves of Kitchen Utensils, Prartho's other published works include a poetry chapbook, Garden Sutra, a song/music/poetry CD, Salt, and a book of essays, Everyday Miracles: An A to Z Guide to the Simple Wonders of Life. Poet Laureate Emerita of Marin County, California (2015-17), Prartho was awarded a 2005 Radio Disney Super Teacher award for her 22 years work as a Poet in the Schools, the Marin Poetry Center's inaugural Rilke Award (2023) for nurturing the poets, a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Poetry (2003), and an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University (2013). She is founder of the ongoing poetry writing series: The Poetic Pilgrimage: Poem-Making as Spiritual Practice, now online. The most dependable remark on Prartho's early report cards was "Easily distracted and distracts others."-a comment she has done her best to live up to. - [The Bonds We Keep](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-bonds-we-keep/) - The Bonds We Keep Karin Hoffecker has an M.A. in English Literature from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Her poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, The MacGuffin, Mona Poetica, Passager, Peninsula Poets, and Penumbra. Her collection, The Nell Poems, was published by Blue Light Press in 2018. She is a retired teacher who enjoys yoga, reading, and spending time with her granddaughter. This collection is written for all those who are here and away. She lives in Birmingham, Michigan. ENDORSEMENTS "I was invited to drop into the spaces between loss, grief and healing in Karin's poetry. She carried me through generations of loved ones and significant teachers with her words of longing, tenderness and appreciation. The dull ache I sensed from the moment of reading her first lines followed me through to the end. Like so many lives, this collection ended before I was ready." - Sandra F. Johnson, Licensed Social Worker, Licensed Family and Marital Therapist "Given over to appreciating the relationships that shape us and the beauty of the world we share, these poems undertake an archeology, examining lives lost: a son, a mother, a brother and friends. Hats, paintings, jewelry, a brooch-objects become suffused with association, so what one poem calls "the science" of a son's life becomes also the art of life, these poems acting like "talismans" by means of which we can learn to go on being what we are in the midst of loss. In this perceptive and carefully wrought work, presence begins to accompany absence. The bonds we keep become the bonds which also keep us, so that in the end we endure together." - Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Author of Rain Through High Windows, Ancestral Radio, Blood Prism - [The Deep Limitless Air A Memoir in Pieces](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-deep-limitless-air-a-memoir-in-pieces/) - The Deep Limitless Air A Memoir in Pieces Mary Allen is the author of The Rooms of Heaven, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books. She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2002. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Tiferet, Real Simple, Library Journal, CNN On-line, The Chaos, Shenandoah, Spoon River Poetry Review, and in the anthology If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught at the University of Iowa. She lives in Iowa City and is a full-time writing coach. ENDORSEMENTS "Mary Allen's effortlessly original voice addresses the reader with startling simplicity and moral clarity, whether she is introducing us to the tender friendship between a young woman and a celebrated octogenarian, or allowing us to see through her eyes the beautiful solemnity of monks at their devotions, or tracing her own strange citizenship in the liminal realm of a disrupted childhood and the years that follow. Simply put, read this book. Allen's beguiling and brilliant writing will leave you exhilarated." -Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days "A snarl of honeybees in a parcel at the post office evokes a mother's long-ago rage; a medical insurance crisis arises when a sister gives birth; past loves, an old man who was kind; Boston, Iowa City, Hawaii, speculations of the afterlife.The Deep Limitless Air tells a life of successive revelation, evolving wisdom. Mary Allen's prose has the freshness of the most optimistic morning. I adore this book." -Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution, A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury "Among the reasons I love The Deep Limitless Air is that its spirituality is so light-handed and matter-of-fact and barely distinguishable from the apprehension and appreciation of ordinary life, life both lived and recalled. Mary Allen writes about growing up with a rejecting mother, of lovers, partners, friends, and a procession of animals who summon her tender and respectful attention, of learning to bear the long silence of meditation and the joyful shout of the world. A beautiful, funny, warm, and heartbreaking book." -Peter Trachtenberg, author of Another Insane Devotion, On the Love of Cats and Persons Mary Allen is the author of The Rooms of Heaven, a literary memoir published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books. - [THE GLASS IS ALREADY BROKEN](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-glass-is-already-broken/) - THE GLASS IS ALREADY BROKEN In The Glass is Already Broken, a mother navigates the decades-old loss of her son: "I keep trying to feel who I was before you / died. Listen to music I listened to then, Beatles, / The Band, Rolling Stones," she insists, before admitting "I can't / put the snake's skin back around its flesh, / the snow back into the sky." But what she can do is its own wonder: she shatters open a life centered on marriage and motherhood to reclaim her primal identity underneath. She revisits her choices. These poems grieve but they also reckon, bargain, riddle and joke, lust and croon, with every mode accented by a fine-hewed lineation. Reading these poems, and re-reading them, wrecked me in the best possible way. -Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode About the Author Sharon Charde has six published poetry collections, taught incarcerated girls poetry for sixteen years, and wrote a memoir about that work, "I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent," published by Mango in June 2020. She has received many awards for her poetry, seven Pushcart nominations and numerous fellowships, among them Yaddo, Ucross and MacDowell. A retired psychotherapist, she lives in Northwest Connecticut with her husband of fifty-seven years. - [The Light on Sifnos](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-light-on-sifnos/) - The Light on Sifnos Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize Poet and writer Barbara Quick is best known as author of the internationally bestselling novel Vivaldi's Virgins, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Her first novel, Northern Edge, won the Discover: Great New Writers prize. Her fourth novel, What Disappears, is being launched by Regal House in 2022. Some of Barbara's poems have been recorded by Garrison Keillor and featured on The Writer's Almanac. She has been the featured guest on Grace Cavalieri's long-running program from the Library of Congress, "The Poet and the Poem." Barbara's essays, poems and book reviews have been published in many periodicals, including the New York Times Book Review, Newsweek, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, the San Francisco Chronicle, Canary, the Monterey Poetry Review and other literary journals, both print and online. Her poems have been anthologized in These Trees, a large-format art book by photographer Ruthie Rosauer; Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (co-edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan for Scarlet Tanager Books); Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here (Diane Frank, Editor, Blue Light Press); Pandemic Puzzle Poems (Diane Frank and Prartho Sereno, Editors, Blue Light Press). Based on a small farm and vineyard in the California Wine Country with her husband Wayne Roden, a vigneron and long-time violist with the San Francisco Symphony, Barbara takes Brazilian dance classes whenever possible. Barbara Quick is a novelist of international reputation, and her skills are evident here, with characters we can believe; an atmosphere we can feel; and interior thoughts that deepen her observation. Every poem is a small story with personality and purpose- lines that flow like silk, holding words precise in every note. Quick gives us an island where we can go whenever we want to make beauty our own and rest in the company of flawless writing. Poetry has good reason to celebrate today. - Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate "Praise the wisdom of the wanderers / who kiss the earth, at last / returning home," Barbara Quick tells us in the final poem of The Light on Sifnos, and the reader feels satisfied with the rightness of the ending for such a beautifully rendered journey through light and dark, time and timelessness. In poems written as she read Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's Odyssey, Quick's language is as lyrical as it is accessible. While her dead are as vividly present as the living, her keen awareness of mortality doesn't interfere with the giddy release from the quotidian that travel can bring, as when she plunges naked into the Aegean to join her "selkie mate." There's deep joy in these poems. There's also deep wisdom, fully deserving of praise. - Lynne Knight, author of The Language of Forgetting The haunting power of this collection is not epic, but Sapphic: mysteries rising from a handful of fragments gleaming in the sun. Barbara Quick's Sifnos is a place of elemental beauty, alive with the Attic past, peopled with the ghosts still living, still wandering with the other shades in the poet's soul as she navigates her way (with her father's old compass) through this world, "the future home of all we are and all we dream / in gleaming transit through the dark." - George Bilgere, author of Haywire - [These Days of Simple Mooring](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/these-days-of-simple-mooring/) - These Days of Simple Mooring Winner of the 2022 Blue Light Book Award Florence Weinberger was born in New York City, raised in the Bronx, educated at Hunter College, California State University, Northridge and UCLA, and has worked as a teacher, legal investigator and consumer advocate. She is the author of five published collections of poetry, The Invisible Telling Its Shape, Breathing Like a Jew, Sacred Grafitti and Ghost Tattoo. Five times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and for Best of the Net, her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including The Comstock Review, Antietam Review, Rockvale Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, Solo, Rattle, Baltimore Review, The Los Angeles Review, Cultural Weekly, Calyx, Miramar, The River Styx, December, Another Chicago Magazine, North American Review, The Los Angeles Review, Salt, Epoc hand Shenandoah. ENDORSEMENTS "Some poetry simply must be written. It has an urgency that stops us and makes us reflect about our lives, our collective histories, our pain, our joy. Florence's poetry has that quality. Her narrative voice seems effortless, filled with compelling images that magnify her thoughts and emotions. Her poetry grabs us because it's informed by a life fully lived, with all of its hardships and pleasures." - Stewart Florsheim, author of Amusing the Angels (forthcoming from Blue Light Press) It is called "Agapanthus, Jacaranda, Bougainvillea," and it is one of the most beautiful love letters to a city, in this case Los Angeles, that I have ever read. I don't mean "beautiful" as in a touching sentiment - a "beautiful" thought. I mean beautiful as in gorgeous. It's also one of many poems in this collection that I find so fresh, vibrant and consummately skillful it rather depresses me - that a poet can write so well for so long and not be more widely appreciated. I hope These Days of Simple Mooring will get the attention it deserves. - Suzanne Lummis In the poem Whole Grains and Hard, Harmonious Ways Florence Weinberger writes, I take the measure of time. /What's mine was my mother's first/ and asks, How do I spend these final years? Her collection of new and selected poems shows us her answer. We follow her journey of flesh, bone and spirit into the anguish of history which animates the present because her artful amalgam of humor and fierce attention, compassion and hard earned wisdom pulls us from whatever might lull us into mere existence. These poems are gifts that break your heart and fill it with light often in the same stanza, sometimes in the same line. Florence's life work shines with clarity that springs from her piercing vision and fearless voice in which human experience becomes music. I fold darkness into the light, a song I heard sung/ in an ancient tongue. - Mary Kay Rummel, Ventura County poet laureate emerita - [To Light a House of Bones](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/to-light-a-house-of-bones/) - To Light a House of Bones The poems of Carey Link's To Light a House of Bones repeatedly locate and celebrate a point of grace and balance and buoyancy "between earth and sky." Earth's restrictions are heavy and real, but in a suspended cradle, a hammock, the palm of a mother's hand - even in a wheelchair - the poet is borne up and sustained by the "breath" and "breeze" of language. She sways, glides, takes wing, like two dancers holding palms and "spin[ning] circles together" in a pool of water. The delicately nuanced poems are compact, powerful - dazzling over and over, in the words of Emily Dickinson, with "truth's superb surprise." All this as "language blooms infinite colors" like a multicolored scarf - "azure, yellow rose, / orange sun, / and indigo sky. - Harry Moore, author of Bearing the Farm Away and Broken and Blended: Love's Alchemy. Reading Carey Link's new collection, I found myself breathing more slowly, easing into a world of light, color, and, most importantly, attentiveness to the moment. These poems of hard-earned transcendence admit that, yes, we all live in a 'house of bones' but also assert the possibility of transcendence: through language, through the tenderness of the mother-daughter bond, through lyrical vision. Floating in this book, I felt an amniotic sustenance, a challenge to be continually reborn, and to live fully. - Jennifer Horne, Alabama Poet Laureate, author of Bottle Tree and Borrowed Light, Little Wanderer To Light a House of Bones is a beacon of beauty "between earth and sky." Carey Link has assembled a collection of small poems made of immense images - a wren glides with pieces of earth and sky on her wings/I sway in the wings of your joined hands. Link skillfully weaves between the pages subtle undertones of lifting, flying, and soaring beyond physical restrictions. From "waist-high in a wheelchair," she extends an invitation to the reader to join her on wings made of water and to be awed by her courage and strength. - Loretta Diane Walker, member of the Texas Institute of Letters and author of five collections including Word Ghetto and In This House, winner of the Phillis Wheatley 2016 Book Award Carey Link lives in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2008, she graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Carey is living with Cerebral Palsy. In 2017, two years after developing metastatic breast cancer, she medically retired from sixteen years working in civilian personnel and Equal Employment Opportunity as a civil servant on Redstone Arsenal. Coping with her disabilities has taught her patience and gratitude. She has never stopped moving forward, and is working toward a Masters in counseling at Faulkner University. After she completes her degree, her goal is to work with clients living with life-altering illnesses and conditions. - [Topography of Dreams](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/topography-of-dreams/) - Topography of Dreams MJ Moore's rich and exuberant book of poetry offers wisdom that sees beneath the surface of life and the natural world, pointing us toward greater connections. We journey with her to Vietnam and India, kayak with her on the bay in twilight and taste apple-heavy, autumn air. She guides us to embody moon-reflecting water or crawl inside a lizard skin. We leave MJ's poems changed. I will be re-reading this book for many years, delighted and a bit haunted by the opportunity she gives me for metamorphosis. MJ Moore has lived in Miami, Atlanta, Boston, and now the San Francisco Bay Area. Her various incarnations have included technical writer, environmental activist, farm apprentice, teacher, poet, Buddhist practitioner, wife and mother. Her odd collection of skills includes milking goats, driving a tractor, editing books on meditation and library format integration, directing first-grade plays, and chanting mantras in Pali. As a bicoastal being, she thrives on salt air, wind and waves, but also loves mountains and deserts. Poetry is a source of vision and joy, a way to engage the inner life of the heart and celebrate beauty in the world. - [Transmutation](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/transmutation/) - Transmutation Finalist, 2021 Blue Light Poetry Prize Paula Camacho is the President of the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society which selects and supports a Nassau County Poet Laureate every two years. She is a breast cancer survivor and participated in various poetry organizations over the years. She moderated the Farmingdale Poetry Group for 20 years. She taught a poetry class, You Can Write Poetry, in the Adult Education program at the Farmingdale High School. She served on the Nassau Council for the Arts for three years. Her poetry has won various awards, including the Alice Abel National Literary Contest and her haiku poems won first place for five consecutive years in the Performance Poets Association Haiku contests. Her published books include Hidden Between Branches, Choice, and More Than Clouds. She holds degrees in Nursing and Theology. While the world outside knows "famine, pestilence,/ wars and rumors of wars," Paula Camacho, with eloquent grace, invites us into her private sphere of transformation. From inside her cottage, her garden, nature's bountiful beauty is a catalytic transformer - "birdsfoot violet, red trillium, pink bleeding heart" - so even if just for "a few tender moments," she knows tranquility, while "heaven and [she] connect." She transforms in the grand peacefulness of a meditative state, where "mortality is an illusion," in "small wonders" of "simple moments," when her wakened eyes can find sunlight through shadows, and her "mind empties" with focused attention, as at a sparrow's "little leaps/ from shrub to magnolia tree." She even translates herself into a beach painting's "lone memory." - Gayl Teller, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2009-11, Walt Whitman Birthplace 2016 Poet of the Year, Author of Flashlight: New and Selected Poems (WordTech/ Cherry Grove, 2019) Paula Camacho's chapbook, Transmutation gives a fascinating glimpse of self-examination and insight through reflections and observations of nature. Her precise language paints vivid images bringing the reader into her observations and introspections portrayed in snapshots of flora, fauna, and landscape. Her words evoke an awareness from the reader felt by the perceptiveness of the writer. Read Paula Camacho's poems, feel the spirituality and experience Transmutation written on paper as well as your soul. - Peter V. Dugan, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2017-19 Paula Camacho's poems present moments of quiet observation as the seasons change. Her lyrical descriptions of "begonias blooming around the house like a necklace" and " I see one lone magnolia blooming and rejoice" are original and emotional. Throughout her celebration of nature, she is acutely aware of the ending of things. This beautiful, sensitive collection was a pleasure to read. - Evelyn Kandel, Nassau County Poet Laureate The poems in Paula Camacho's book, Transmutation, invites the reader to share how the delicate balance of nature and the seasons of time interact and shape our everyday lives even to the moments of the extraordinary. Every poem is a delight to your senses in its own unique way. - Maria Manobianco - Art Teacher, Artist, Poet - [View from the Other Side](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/view-from-the-other-side/) - View from the Other Side I am undone, says the speaker in the first poem of Betsy Snider's lush and intimate journey View From the Other Side, and at once we are in the thrall of a remarkable energy. Snider's language is fueled by this energy, this force, defined by continual movement-probing wider, diving deeper, until nothing less than a complete metamorphosis is achieved. Richly threaded with themes, these poems probe and prod in search of god, of self. Water as the element of transformation holds all these threads together. The section titled Ars preces-the art of prayer-stops the heart. Compressed and untitled, these lyrics recall Hopkins' praise of his god, full of fury and passion for a divinity of human dimension. But instead of Hopkins finding god in dappled things, Snider laments the time she thought god would melt on my tongue, and now muses that perhaps god tastes of ash, smoke / born on the wind. While these poems honor and celebrate life fully lived, they also challenge the very idea of an inevitable end. In the true sense of metamorphosis, transformation by its nature continues on. She writes: The sheet is lifted over my slack face. / I dive deep into the lake, / touch the sandy bottom / and surge to the surface / aflame. Surely this is divinity in its most intense articulation. Betsy Snider is a retired attorney who lives on a lake in rural New Hampshire with the ghosts of her many cats and dogs. When she is not swimming or hiking, she writes poetry and has volunteered as a CASA Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children. She was first published in the ground-breaking anthology, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (Naiad Press, 1985). She is a winner of the 2015 Blue Light Book Award for her book of poems, Hope is a Muscle (Blue Light Press, 2015). Her poetry has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently in The Mud Chronicles (Monadnock Writers' Group, 2018); Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press, 2017); The Lesbian Body (Sinister Wisdom, Fall 2017); Amore: Love Poems (Imagination Press, 2016); Our Last Walk (University Professors Press, 2016); River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century (Blue Light Press, 2015); Poet Showcase (Hobblebush Press, 2015); and Love Over 60: an anthology of women's poems (Mayapple Press, 2010). - [Wanderer at the World's Edge](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wanderer-at-the-worlds-edge/) - Wanderer at the World's Edge 2021 Blue Light Poetry Prize Finalist Eugene O'Connor's poetry and translations have appeared in arlington literary journal, The Avocet, Classical Bulletin, Classical Outlook, Common Threads, The Comstock Review, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature, Mead, OASIS Journal, Poetry Pacific, Pudding Magazine, Roman Poets of the Early Empire (Penguin), and elsewhere. His two previous chapbooks are Derelict Mansions (2011) and The Same Sea, the Same Gloaming (2018). A native of Buffalo, New York, he holds a BA in Latin from Canisius College, an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in Classics from The University of California, Santa Barbara. His English translation, with notes and introduction, of Renaissance humanist Antonio Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus was published by Lexington Books in 2001. Eugene O'Connor lives with his husband in Columbus, Ohio. ENDORSEMENTS Wanderer at the World's Edge is a probing collection of poems pitch-perfect for this moment in time. Amid pandemic quarantines and social shut-downs O'Connor maps the anatomy of isolation, explores anger, denial, sorrow, and the inevitable soul-searching that accompany such loneliness. Yet often in aloneness one's senses may heighten. A kind of clarity reveals the "truth in dirt." Wonder and delight are ". . . in the arc/ the beauty of a line." O'Connor's elegant meditations strive to find comfort if not always reason in our fortunes and reversals, though we may have to finally ". . . be content. . .to wander at the world's edge." These poems tap into a human experience, shared but strangely separate, and they resonate with insights. - Connie Willett Everett, editor, publisher of Pudding Magazine, and author of As Good As It Gets Sometimes (Pudding House) and What Keeps Me Awake (Night Ballet Press) These luminous, musical poems paint vivid self-portraits of a modern poet as Ovid, steeped in loneliness, longing, love, remorse, and a fine attunement to nature's gifts. O'Connor evokes the notion that we're exiles from a home we've yet to know, as we roam interior spheres seeing the world through their scrim, finding solace in beauty despite decay: "Now and forever a wanderer,/let me take pleasure where I can," despite the constant ticking toward mortality, grateful that "No region of night's exile/is without its ecstasy." - April Ossmann, independent editor and author of Event Boundaries (Four Way Books) and Anxious Music (Four Way Books) - [What We Were Born For](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/what-we-were-born-for/) - What We Were Born For WINNER OF THE 2021 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD. "THIS IS THE BOOK I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. For years. Emilie Lygren writes essential, elegant poems that help us live our lives and apprehend with deepest gratitude all the gifts surrounding us." -Naomi Shihab Nye "This voice is a wild spirit disguised as human, schooling in us advantages of feral thought, wilderness virtues, the intuitive aptitude that lives within us. Read these poems and feel it awaken in you, in a realm where bees "speak the names of next year's seeds," and "the place you shine is inside." Again and again, you will be taken to the peak, to see why you are here." -Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar (Red Hen Press, 2021) "In What You Were Born For, Emilie Lygren's poems ask us to look closely then shift our perception wider -- from termites flying out of a tree stump to one's own birth, from tools to our inevitable mortality, from sea glass to islands engulfed by sea level rise. As the poems bring us into communion with each other and with the natural world, they also interrogate the constructed world of patriarchal power, perfectionism, and profit. With wonder and play, the poems call us into the wildness of our bodies and call our bodies into the earth to be reborn as seeds. As we reckon with racial violence and global pandemic, these poems offer us a window into our own renewal." -Tehmina Khan, poet and teacher, City College of San Francisco Emilie Lygren is a writer, outdoor educator, and facilitator who believes that poetry can change the world. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology-Biology from Brown University and has over a decade of experience as a writer and as an outdoor science educator. Emilie has developed dozens of publications and curricula focused on outdoor science education and social-emotional learning through her work at the award-winning BEETLES Project at the Lawrence Hall of Science. She's also done stints as a kitchen manager, life coach, barista, mentor for teens, and event organizer. Emilie's poems have been published in Thimble Literary Magazine, The English Leadership Quarterly, and Solo Novo, among others. In writing and teaching, Emilie centers awareness and curiosity as tools to bring people into deeper relationship with themselves, their communities, and the places they inhabit. - [When Angels Make House Calls](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/when-angels-make-house-calls-2/) - When Angels Make House Calls When Angels Make House Calls is a feel-good collection of short stories, both fictional and non-fictional, that illustrate miracles still happen in this day and age. These stories are the winning entries from the 2017 Seraphic Prize short story competition. These authors, mainly first-timers, felt inspired to record their personal accounts of being touched by angels and share their experiences with the world. Some stories detail miraculous healings, others are about finding one's real purpose in life. Some tell of astonishing communication with companion animals, others offer inspiration in dealing with the hurtful loss of loved ones. A few stories explore unusual realms while deep in meditation, but mainly, each and every kindhearted story will fill you with hope, warmth and optimism. Enjoy. - [Where I Live](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/where-i-live/) - Where I Live Finalist, 2022 Blue Light Book Award Pat Underwood grew up on an Iowa farm, married her high school sweetheart, and together they raised two sons on a country hillside northwest of Colfax, Iowa where the plentiful wildlife inspired many of her poems. After receiving her college degree at the age of 44, she worked in early education and retired in 2017 from her employment with the State of Iowa. Former publications include two poetry chapbooks - Portraits (Finishing Line Press 2017) and Gatherings (Celestial Light Press 2007). Her play kit The Last Supper (Meriwether Publishing Ltd.; Contemporary Drama Service 1997) travels the nation. Underwood's poems received a 2001 Pushcart Prize Nomination, a 1996 Founder's Award, and a 2002 Founder's Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. "These poems of quiet contemplation and gentle celebration of life carve their images out of an understated language elegant in its directness and radiant in its clarity. Whether remembering her childhood, commemorating beloved family members, reliving the loss of a husband, or observing the landscape of her rural home, Pat Underwood welcomes us into kinship with where she lives. Her precise attention to the natural world and her calmly passionate response to her surroundings help to illuminate the caterpillars, wood ducks, cattle, cottonwoods, and characters she reveals to us. Of earthworms, Underwood writes, they resurrect the holy ground. The same might be said of these poems. Each one revives in us the very act of seeing." - Jeanne Emmons, author of The Red Canoe "Reading Pat Underwood's Where I Live is like sitting with the poet on a porch swing at her home in the country and letting the beauty of her warmth and tenderness cascade over you in a healing wash. These poems are honest, perceptive, deeply felt, and superbly articulated with crisp imagery that resonates long after you've read them. They deal with the sadness and joy of family, love and nature, even tragedy with the calmest and clearest of hearts. She speaks as if she knows you, as if you and she are friends, as well you will be after venturing deep in the heart of where she lives. It is well worth the visit." - Michael Carey, author of The Holy Ground "Pat Underwood's voice is one singing out from the fields of Iowa. Embrace her words and listen to the melodies of rural America." - Loretta Diane Walker, author of Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom "Anyone who's read Pat Underwood's poems knows her clear and lyrical images of rural Iowa life: Snake grass, wild and outstretched/slithers along the creek bank (Country Road). But the poems in her new book live in the wider world, too, of family and travel, of love and grief, of doubt and acceptance. Not even mosquitoes, she says in The Dinner Party, can spoil/my sense of being a woman - /this place of our beautiful selves. Where I Live is Pat Underwood at the top of her game - a beautiful, lyric book." - Keith Ratzlaff, author of Who's Asking? - [You’ve Got This Baby Brother](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/youve-got-this-baby-brother/) - You’ve Got This Baby Brother Garrett Greiner is a future Guinness world record holder, an inevitable NYT best-selling author, and will one day be a massive philanthropist. One of Garrett's life dreams is to give more to the state of Iowa than any person that has ever lived. He wants to give not just in money, but in joy, wisdom, belief in what is possible, and in hope. Garrett will give all proceeds from the first 1,000 copies sold to the University of Iowa Children's Hospital. This story is about an older brother who wants to teach his younger brother the lessons he's learned thus far in his short life. In this book big brother will teach you: -The importance of failure -How to view failure -How to turn your adversity/failure into success There are only 3 things that are guaranteed in life: Death, taxes, and that you will fail at some point. We will all face some adversity or failure in our lives. It's guaranteed. This book is a simple reminder that from our mistakes come the opportunity to grow, improve and change for the better. - [Your Winning Lottery Ticket](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/your-winning-lottery-ticket/) - Your Winning Lottery Ticket Your Winning Lottery Ticket is intended to serve anyone who wants to live their best life. I believe people purchase lottery tickets because what they truly desire is not some number in a bank account, but rather an improved life, and the freedom to live their best life. In this book you will be given tools to assist you in reaching the next level of your life. Your Winning Lottery Ticket was written with the mission of making the reader's life 1% better. About the Author Garrett Greiner is a future Guinness World Record holder and inevitable NYT best-selling author. His confidence comes from his love of writing, his desire to constantly improve his craft, and his willingness to do whatever it takes. Garrett aspires to be a philanthropist- contributing to the world not just with money, but in joy, wisdom, hope, and a belief in what is possible. - [Future Rounds the Curve](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/future-rounds-the-curve/) - Future Rounds the Curve Patricia Barone lives along the Mississippi River in Minnesota and feels very lucky to have been a part of the thriving Twin Cities writing community for over four decades. With Future Rounds the Curve, Barone is publishing her sixth book. Your Funny, Funny Face and The Scent of Water were also published by Blue Light Press. Her recent collection, The Music of this Ruin, came from Taj Mahal Review/ Cyberwit. New Rivers Press published Handmade Paper, a collection of poetry, and The Wind, a novella. Barone's New Rivers Press books were given Minnesota Voices Awards. She has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in poetry, a Minnesota State Arts Board Opportunity Grant for a workshop with the Irish poet, Eavan Boland, and a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award for a short story. Barone has published short stories in magazines and anthologies, from such presses as Wising Up Press, Peter Lang, Prentice/Merrill, and Plume-Penguin. She is working on a novel as well as another collection of poetry. - [Haiku Workbook](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/haiku-workbook/) - Haiku Workbook This Haiku Workbook is unique; a handbook in summary-form on haiku, as well as a workbook that takes the reader or writer interested in this poetic style on an abbreviated trip through haiku history to become an active participant in the art of writing. It leads the aspiring poet on a journey through the power of enumerable "present moments" captured with the beauty of images of Nature alongside each haiku. Vivid photos taken and carefully curated by the author - from an Iowa squirrel munching on an apple or a San Diego hummingbird hovering with its rainbow hues on a flower. This makes the process easily accessible, interesting, and fun - especially for children, young adults, or those preferring a concise guideline for writing haiku. It's all there - a three-in-one: pictures, haiku, and space to write for instant, active participation. The workbook takes the reader through the process of writing step by step, using samples of Japanese and contemporary haiku, encouraging revisions to express the image, and placing feeling into words that capture the beauty of the moment. The Haiku Workbook serves as a chaperon to the haiku process; to inspire aspiring poets to use the photo or conjure up images of their own to express their thoughts. This gives the new author a feeling of being within the scene of the photo, a one-ness with Nature, evoking feelings and memories in the moment, while composing the haiku. - [Heart Like Leaves](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/heart-like-leaves/) - Heart Like Leaves Barbara Novack is Writer-in-Residence and member of the English Department at Molloy University. She founded and hosts Poetry Events there and, off-campus, presents highly regarded creative writing programs and workshops. Her books include the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award, full-length poetry collections Something Like Life, and Dancing on the Rim of Light, and chapbooks Do Houses Dream? and A Certain Slant of Light, both finalists for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize. I am so moved by these poems, this book. It is a work written by a poet with an enormous heart and a fine talent for expressing emotions, for making them exquisitely relatable. A book of love and loss that teaches as it reveals, Heart Like Leaves shares wisdom and offers comforting arms. There is, in this collection, a sense of bravery-not exactly strength, certainly not a false bravura, but a willingness to open, to disclose, to describe and to share emotions of pain and loss and the acceptance of the you who remains to begin an altered path, to carve out of unknown cloth the person you have to become. Whether you have experienced great loss or not, you will find familiar moments in this book as you gain the insight and the armor needed to be a human being in this life. - Dd. Spungin, author of Tomorrow Smells Invisible Barbara Novack, a fine poet and bereaved sister, shares her personal path of love, grief, and loss in a powerful collection of poems to heal her broken spirit. These poignant poems honor her brother's memory and offer inspiration to all who have cared for and lost loved ones. - Anne Dupré, author of Where Dreams Live In Heart Like Leaves, Barbara Novack gives us forty-one lyrical, beautifully written, profoundly moving poems about loss and grieving as she journeys through the illness and death of a beloved brother. This is brave poetry that never backs down in the face of unspeakable loss: sometimes nightmarish, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes heartrendingly beautiful, but always honest, clear, and steadfast, and in the end consoling where consolation at first seemed impossible. - Mary Mackey, author of The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Small Press Award Barbara Novack is an incredible poet with incredible insight into life's situation and emotion. - Lorraine LoFrese Conlin, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2015-2017 - [Hearts of Light and a Mother's Vision of Love](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/hearts-of-light-and-a-mothers-vision-of-love/) - Hearts of Light and a Mother's Vision of Love This book is a journal of love letters. It's a chronicle of a grieving mother's method to cope with the death of her son, Jai, who died very suddenly and much too young. Reading these pages, I felt like the chair was pulled out from under me several times, because of the depth, vulnerability, love and raw beauty that was being shared. It is a sacred glimpse of something so personal and private, born out of grief, which, blossomed and channeled a love that transcended what was present when Jai was alive. I think the author has cultivated a depth of wisdom that many of us who walk this life, ever grow to experience. This book, for me, was not what you would call a page turner. It's something I could only read in small doses because it stirred up so many layers and heights of emotions. It was a humbling experience for me to have the opportunity to share in a mother's adoring love for her son, departed, who is also my precious, nephew. Vicki Reccasina-Malloy lives in a small town in Iowa with her husband, Ed and cat Sunny. She has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for the past forty-six years. She loves to draw, paint, cook, be out in nature, read, spend time with friends and family especially her daughter, Kelly and pup India. She was involved in the healing arts for ten years until life shifted her focus and direction. She tries to be aware of the bigger picture that life is presenting and to know that in the end, everything is the way it is meant to be. With a full heart of unending gratitude to Divine Mother and Her continued guidance. - [Just Outside the Tunnel of Love](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/just-outside-the-tunnel-of-love/) - Just Outside the Tunnel of Love Francine Witte's flash fiction has been published in numerous journals and the anthologies Flash Fiction Funny (Blue Light Press,) New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton,) and Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton.) as well as Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions.She is the author of three flash fiction chapbooks, Cold June, (Ropewalk Press) winner of the 2010 Thomas Wilhelmus Award, The Wind Twirls Everything (Musclehead Press,) and The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon, (ELJ Editions.) Her novella-in-flash The Way of The Wind (Ad Hoc Press,) was cited as a highly recommended selection in the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her poetry chapbooks include two first-prize winners, First Rain (Pecan Grove Press,) and Not All Fires Burn the Same (Slipstream Press.) She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Café Crazy, and The Theory of Flesh, (both from Kelsay Press.) She is editor of Flash Boulevard, published by George Wallace. She is the flash fiction editor of South Florida Poetry Journal. She is a former high school teacher. She lives in Manhattan, NYC with her husband, Mark Larsen. ENDORSEMENTS "The stories in Francine Witte's Just Outside the Tunnel of Love deftly skirt the boring center of love and instead poke and prod at the before and after of what it means to fall into and out of ... everything. She takes on the smash and smoosh and broken eggs of love. The language in this collection is exquisite and playful and mournful and sexy. Witte has mastered the short form. Pull up a chair." - Sherrie Flick, author of Thank Your Lucky Stars "There are a lot of doorways, portals, tunnels, windows, a lot of rides, vehicles, a lot of moves, movement, and moving moves to be found in these startled and startling concentrated compressed compositions of Francine Witte's." "Just Outside the Tunnel of Love's microcosms record macrocosmic depth and organic reach. Like the stunning snapshots from the Webb telescope these precise and pristine pixels, these immediate and intimate images pack and unpack billions and billions of years of light, calories of heat, stretches of space, and the ultimatums of time. All I have to say is: Hang on! Let go!" - Michael Martone, author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana "A woman falls in love with a potato, another woman eats a husband made of ice cream, a cat espouses a theory about why its mistress's man left her. These brief tales of scorned lovers and shrewd daughters of swindler fathers are reminiscent of the nursery rhymes my grandmother read to me when I was a girl, the way Francine Witte's pixyish prose skips and twirls, laughs then bares its teeth. With stunning dexterity and whimsy, Witte whips up so much delight and menace. Just Outside the Tunnel of Love is an enchanting story collection by a master artisan of flash fiction." - Michelle Ross, author of They Kept Running - [Keeping Your Seat at the Table](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/keeping-your-seat-at-the-table/) - Keeping Your Seat at the Table If you are a woman over 40 and feel your confidence slipping, can't land a job despite your stellar experience and qualifications, or suddenly find yourself feeling ignored or dismissed, this book is for you. Or maybe you feel out of sync with today's younger workers and corporate culture and realize you are losing your seat at the table. KEEPING YOUR SEAT AT THE TABLE is one woman's journey of regaining confidence and learning to leverage age and experience in her favor. With humor and vulnerability, she shares her story, lessons learned, and valuable insights from experts and other women. Nori Jabba grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has had a career spanning over 30 years in corporate real estate and community development. She is passionate about mentoring women, including her three grown daughters, and loves writing to empower and inspire others. She lives in Redwood City, California. This is her first book. - [Learning Curve](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/learning-curve/) - Learning Curve Helga Kidder presents a superbly human and intuitive-not an ideological or political-view of immigration, a perspective that is sorely needed for cross-cultural empathy. Poetry, her "bridge of memory," has kept her whole through the fragmentation of immigration. Kidder's poetry has enabled her to accept her double identity. She celebrates the natural world of her Tennessee home while honoring her German childhood with rich imagery and memory from her native Schwarzwald and homage to the German poet, Rilke. A wistful spirit pervades her poetry. The poem, "What We Don't Give Up" reveals her deep nostalgia, so typical of immigrant feelings. "The Door" is a recurrent motif as she sensitively and lyrically evokes the emotions of transition. Kidder is a poet's poet. She "open(s) the gate to poetry, its sudden shudders," and opens our eyes to see the seeds of poems in nature, as when "Rilke's Swan" "has scribed poems onto water." With a judicious minimum of esoteric rhetoric, Helga Kidder gifts us with a collection that both delights and instructs. Finn Bille, author of The King's Coin: Danish-American Poems Anspruch und Verstaendlichkeit sind bei Helga Kidder eine Einheit, sie laesst sich vom Klang wie vom Sinn leiten, vom Herz wie vom Verstand, mit der Form schaffen sie eine ideale Symbiose. Ihre Gedichte sind glanzvoll, voller Sentiment, auch Weisheit, Bilder des Alltagslebens von "First Flight" to "Return to the Black Forest," Bekenntnisse zur Kraft der Liebe, der Muehen, eine "Learning Curve," sich selbst, seine eigene Kraft zu finden "What We Don't Give Up." Mut haben, den Sprung wagen und dann weitermachen mit Disziplin und Leidenschaft "Stepping through the Self," getragen auch von ihrem christlichen Glauben: "We are gifts to one another." Helga Kidder's poems, through demand and intelligence, allow sound, mind, and form to shape into an ideal symbiosis. They are resplendent with light and persuasion, reflective of wisdom, picture every-day life from "First Flight" to "Return to the Black Forest," confessions of love's power and hard work, a "Learning Curve," and finding her own strength and courage "What We Don't Give Up," to take the leap with discipline and passion as seen in "Stepping through the Self," and also carried by her belief that "We are gifts to one another" ("Interlude"). Johanna Graupe, contributor for culture "Acher-Rench-Zeitung" and Director of "Burgbuehne Oberkirch" - Germany - [Lit Only by a Few Thousand Stars](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/lit-only-by-a-few-thousand-stars/) - Lit Only by a Few Thousand Stars Winner, 2023 Blue Light Book Award "Anna Kodama is a gifted poet whose gaze penetrates Life to its bones. With masterful crafting of language, she gives shape to the Mystery, often in the voice of the shaman or wise woman. To read Anna's work is like being in a gentle rain of blessing." - Jennifer Read Hawthorne, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and author of Life As a Prayer: Poems "In vivid, intimate language Anna Kodama speaks directly to the heart in poems that convey the stratigraphy of a life layered with joy, wonder, and bereavement. This excellent and deeply personal collection weaves aspects of the natural world, memory, place, and time to evoke a sense of love and loss." - Kate Brandes, author of The Promise of Pierson's Orchard "According to the Sufi Proverb, "If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart. If they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears." Anna Kodama's wise words come directly from her generous heart. Whether Anna is telling a story or sharing a lyric moment, her poems move us in a way that we will not soon forget. Her skillful use of vivid details allows us to fully enter her world. Anna is both a poet and a painter and her exquisite use of color and attention to nature's smallest details, as well as her sensitivity to the largest issues of life and death, bring her poetry alive in the most moving way." - Angie Minkin, author of Balm for the Living About the Author Anna Kodama writes and paints in eastern Pennsylvania, a few miles from the Delaware River. She has raised children, chickens, and vegetables, and taught adult and family literacy. As "Anna Carr," she authored several books about organic gardening. She is a coauthor of Dreams and Blessings: Six Visionary Poets, also published by Blue Light Press. - [Living on a Song a Day](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/living-on-a-song-a-day/) - Living on a Song a Day Like one of her beloved muses, the Surrealist painter René Magritte, Rayne O'Brian understands that behind every object there exists another entity. She is kin to the ancient Hasidic rebbes, consorting with the spirit that all matter embodies and calling it forth for our edification and delight. Magritte believed that in a beleaguered world it is much easier to terrorize than to charm. And so, in these gentle, inventive and surprising poems, the poet chooses, as the great painter once said, 'to celebrate joy for the eyes and the mind.' It is no accident then that in Rayne O'Brian's realm a simple kitchen table can speak as movingly as any human. 'Whatever you bring me I love,' it says, inviting us to sit down and stay awhile. Rayne O'Brian lives north of the Golden Gate Bridge in a yellow Victorian with her two long-haired dictionaries. Living on a Song a Day is her debut collection of poems. - [Love Is a Tanka](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/love-is-a-tanka/) - Love Is a Tanka In 2020 Jeanne Lupton writes "in the midst/ of writing tanka/ in a café/ I already want/ this happiness again." It's a grand example of Lupton's tanka, illustrating a particular syncopation that is perfect for telling her stories, revealing intimacies, launching memories. Lupton takes ownership of the tanka form to entertain with wit, careful observation, and tenderness. She reveals a life lived over time and with challenges. The tanka come fast and amass a litany of human foibles, stumbles, generous connections, and difficulties. Lupton's Love is Tanka chronicles a fierce human spirit, that's sustained by love, as she learns to endure. - Sally Elesby, poet and painter Some of these bring instant tears, others a touch of the poignant soul. All are suffused with the divine light of the ordinary. What is most hidden and deepest is the most obvious, only to see it you must look with the eye that these tanka sharpen. I'm reminded, too, of the Buddhist saying that the most enlightened being appears to be most ordinary. These poems are a treasure. - Clive Matson, author of Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye Love is a Tanka.... As the title shows, this tanka collection is full of love. Love for people, love for nature, love for tanka, love for writing... After reading this book, I'm sure you'll feel good. Jeanne Lupton makes you happy by presenting her happy tanka in this book. a rainy noon I run across the square to the café to eat tomato bisque feeling like a poet - Kozue Uzawa, editor of GUSTS Jeanne Lupton's condensed language of tanka takes the reader on an unforgettable journey into what it is to be human. - Chantal Guillemin, author of Truchas and Mi Tierra Adentro About the Author - [Maharishi Patañjali Yoga Sūtra — Tradução Sânscrito - Inglês](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/maharishi-patanjali-yoga-sutra-traducao-sanscrito-ingles/) - Maharishi Patañjali Yoga Sūtra — Tradução Sânscrito - Inglês O Yoga Sūtra é o grande texto sobre Yoga, trazido ao conhecimento, na Índia antiga, por Maharishi Patañjali. Yoga significa "União", e o Yoga Sūtra descreve a experiênciada unidade, o estabelecimento completo da atividade da mente na consciência pura, a forma mais simples de consciência humana. Em 195 sutras curtos, este texto ilumina o ensino de Yoga e meditação, e dá uma compreensão profunda da vida na transcendência. Esta nova tradução foi inspirada pela ciência completa da consciência contida na Ciência Védica Maharishi. PROJETO DA CAPA: Lawrence Sheaff, com computação gráfica de Jay Johnson Thomas Egenes, Ph.D., ensina sânscrito na Universidade Internacional Maharishi em Fairfield, Iowa. Dr. Egenes é o autor de Introdução ao Sânscrito e outros livros sobre Literatura sânscrita. The Yoga Sutra is the great text on Yoga, cognized in ancient India by Maharishi Patanjali. Yoga means "union," and the Yoga Sutra describes the experience of unity, the complete settling of the activity of the mind. In 195 short sutras, this text illuminates the teaching of yoga and meditation, and gives a profound understanding of life in transcendence. Thomas Egenes recebeu seu doutorado pela Universidade da Virgínia, após graduar-se na Universidade de Notre Dame. Ele é professor da Universidade Internacional Maharishi e tradutor de Os Upanishads (Tarcher / Penguin) juntamente com o Dr. Vernon Katz. Além disso, Dr. Egenes escreveu Introdução ao Sânscrito, Parte Um; Introdução ao Sânscrito, Parte Dois (Motilal Banarsidass International); Aprendendo o alfabeto sânscrito (MIU Press); Todo o Amor Flui para o Ser (Samhita Productions); e Histórias Eternas dos Upanishads (Smriti Books). Seus livros de introdução ao sânscrito são usados na Universidade de Harvard, Universidade de Chicago, Universidade Johns Hopkins, Universidade Nacional da Austrália, além de outras universidades ao redor do mundo. Dr. Egenes mora em Fairfield, Iowa, EUA. - [Meditations on Seascapes and Cypress](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/meditations-on-seascapes-and-cypress/) - Meditations on Seascapes and Cypress Meg Pokrass has written an exquisite collection of linked stories. As I read Spinning to Mars I felt plunged, soaked, immersed-however you want to get down into a life both deep and wide. This book will spin you off to Mars with its exacting language and biting insight. Here is the kind of compressed writing that I long for and rarely find. Meg Pokrass is the author of seven flash fiction collections, including "Damn Sure Right" (Press 53, 2011), "The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down" (Etruscan Press, 2016), "The Dog Seated Next to Me", (Pelekinesis, 2019), "Cellulose Pajamas" (Blue Light Book Award, 2016), the chapbooks "An Object At Rest" (Ravenna Press, 2020) and "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" (V. Press, 2020) and two novellas-in-flash: "Here, Where We Live" (Rose Metal Press, 2014) and "The Loss Detector" (Bamboo Dart Press, 2020). Meg's flash fiction, prose poetry and hybrid writing has been widely internationally anthologized; in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018) and Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015), The Best Small Fictions (2018 & 2019), the Wigleaf Top 50, The Best Irish and British Flash Fiction Award, as well as many other anthologies. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Waxwing, Washington Square Review, Tin House, Smokelong, McSweeney's, Wigleaf, MoonPark Review, Five Points, Hobart Pulp, Split Lip, and over the last decade, nearly one-thousand literary journals. Meg serves as Founding Co-Editor of the Best Microfiction anthology series and Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival, U.K. - [Mindful Journal To Happiness](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mindful-journal-to-happiness/) - Mindful Journal To Happiness Hello! Welcome to the journal that incites happiness! I have designed this journal for you to manifest your happiness with these simple yet essential daily prompts, prayer list, and questions. On the second page, you will find two areas: one listed my happiness and the other my goals. Underneath my happiness, write down a list (can be big or small) of the things that make you the happiest in life. It could be walking your dog, reading, going for a run, getting a good laugh in, or spending time with family and friends. Ask yourself: who, what, and where brings me the most joy? Next, write down a list of your yearly passions, desires, and aspirations underneath my goals. Do you want to run a marathon this year, start a new hobby, start journaling, or enjoy nature more? This section will allow you to achieve those goals one step at a time. This page is designed for you to look back on throughout the use of this journal. I intended this journal to be a 'morning journal,' but you can use it however you feel best! If you want to base these prompts and questions on the next day - that works! This is for you - to help you manifest your happiness - any way you choose! :) - [Pandemic Puzzle Poems](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/pandemic-puzzle-poems/) - Pandemic Puzzle Poems This book is a gathering of community. It chronicles our Pandemic Times through the eyes, hearts, and minds of poets. The pandemic took away many things - a bevy of customary comforts, delights, and celebrations - but it also gave us surprising gifts. We hope that what you read here will help you find meaning from your own Pandemic Times and bring a new vision of what it means to be human. On these pages, you will find poems by Jane Hirshfield, Ted Kooser, Dorianne Laux, Stephen Dunn, Naomi Shihab Nye, Thomas Centolella, Marsha de la O, Terry Lucas, Barbara Quick, Melissa Studdard, Loretta Diane Walker, Marge Piercy, and many more poets who will delight and amaze you - some well known and others who also deserve to be read. Every poem in this book has a gift for you. "Poems, like birds, are alive. Each one has a heart, wings, and their own song. Poems remind us, like Kokopelli and the birds, that we too are storytellers, teachers, healers, and that we too have the ability to sing a beautiful future into existence." - Nancy Lee Melmon "Life hasn't changed much for me during the pandemic. I read, I write, I binge watch. I've been gardening, cleaning out old files, closets, drawers, and tossing what I no longer need. I've been doing what I always do when I have time on my hands, puzzles. It reminds me that the broken can be reassembled, which is what we are in the process of doing right now as a people, as a country." - Dorianne Laux "To write a single poem is a selfless act and a minor miracle. In times of trouble people often turn to poems, and poems often turn into prayers." - Joseph Zaccardi - [Postcards from Paradise](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/postcards-from-paradise/) - Postcards from Paradise Jennifer Lagier lives a block from the Monterey stage where Janis Joplin performed and Jimi Hendrix torched his guitar. She served as Area Coordinator and instructor with California Poets in the Schools, taught at Modesto Junior College, California State University Monterey Bay, Hartnell College and Monterey Peninsula College. Jennifer has published twenty books and has work appearing in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines. Blue Light Press published her full-length poetry collections Harbingers and Meditations on Seascapes and Cypress. Her forthcoming book, Weeping in the Promised Land will be published in Fall 2023 by Kelsay Books. A former editor for the Homestead Review, she now edits the Monterey Poetry Review and helps coordinate Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Second Saturday readings. - [Red Cedar, Red Pine](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/red-cedar-red-pine/) - Red Cedar, Red Pine Winner of the 2021 Blue Light Poetry Prize Gary Young's most recent books are That's What I Thought, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award from Persea Books, and Precious Mirror, translations from the Japanese. His books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received grants from the NEH, NEA, and the California Arts Council, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. ENDORSEMENTS "Since the 1970s, Young has been publishing almost unbelievably intimate and precise poems. . . Young writes with a unique combination of wisdom and terror, engendering a kind of sad calm, a hard-earned acceptance of life's difficulty and openness to its beauty." - Publishers Weekly "There's glow, wonder, in all his writing, even the poems of terrible pain, where wonder bathes the strangeness of the circumstances themselves, bathes the strength of spirit that allows those circumstances to be survived. . . He's become one of our most piercing, luminous prose poets." - Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash - [Resistance Is a Blue Spanish Guitar](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/resistance-is-a-blue-spanish-guitar/) - Resistance Is a Blue Spanish Guitar George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, editor of Poetrybay, and author of 37 previous collections of poetry, including Smashing Rock and Straight As Razors (Blue Light Press, 2017). Based in the New York City performance scene, he teaches at Pace University in Manhattan and travels internationally to conduct readings and present his work. Recent awards and honors include: Corona d'oro (Korca Literary Festival AB) 2019; Orpheus Prize (Orpheus Festival, BG) 2018; Alexander the Great Gold Medal (UNESCO-Salamis, GR) 2018; Centro Studii Archivio d'Occidente Award (CSAO, It) 2018; Naim Frasheri Prize and Festival Laureate (Ditet e Naimit Festival, MK) 2017; Blue Light Book Award 2017; Laureate, National Beat Poetry Festival 2015-16. "George Wallace's bop prosody runs rhythms deep. His lines splash like the nature of color and noise he feels so at one with. This is the poetry of a country born to be wild and a heart rapacious and spellbound; writing that is modern, mindful and as old as the native cornstalks flashing by the highways." - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth "In Resistance Is a Blue Spanish Guitar, George Wallace shows us, with lines lyrical and wise, how intricate the gearworks of our humanity truly are. There is a power of place and language in these poems. Metaphors that bedazzle and inform. There is holy text here. A tumbling word-jazz. And there is nothing less than the insistent, illuminating quintessence of our living in the offering." ¬- Robert Scotellaro, author of What Are The Chances? and Bad Motel "Poetry that John and Carol Steinbeck, Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, William Faulkner and Walt Whitman could read and either admire or quarrel over with Garcia-Lorca. George Wallace takes to the American highway and sings. A manifesto beneath. Poems on top (Takes the heart of a radical) The seductions of a bare bulb swinging" - Scott Hightower, author of Hontenares, Tartessos, and Self-Evident - [SHY LANDS](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/shy-lands/) - SHY LANDS There is a subtle and proficient music in Diane Jarvenpa's poems. They derive their power from how deeply she sees and listens to herself and to the earth. In Shy Lands she welcomes us into a world quite similar to her description of her mother's garden, its "precision of beauty, intricate storytelling, a knowledge of what blends, what harmonizes, what stands alone." And we become aware that despite the sorrow and anguish we might feel about the hell that humans have made of much of our natural world, we can still immerse ourselves in what has not been lost. Her poems remind us that we can find solace and belonging in that "light" and "articulate wonder" which can "fit so completely into the grooves of all our shadows." We can both celebrate and grieve earth's wonders, those which are extinct and those which are gloriously still with us - if we immerse ourselves in the natural world and "let it enter and grow in our bodies." - Freya Manfred, author of Loon in Late November Water While Diane Jarvenpa is a self-described shy person from a shy family in a shy land, she is a fierce poet. Jarvenpa's new book, Shy Lands, describes an imaginatively-animated world, a quiet family in the background, all the elements of nature which the poet has observed, consumed, and returned to the reader in another form through some exercise of magical alchemy. As I was reading her manuscript, I made notes in the margin - "Beautiful!" - "Beautiful! - until I figured I should come up with a word other than - "Beautiful." So here's the word - "Transformational". I have been transformed by these poems which is what great poetry does. Praise and Transform. Jarvenpa praises everything within her considerable range - "stamps, maps, lily pads, " "a comet or a wild fire." The old dog - "She is your teacher now./Scholar with tail,/Athena with canines." Shy Lands, the country Diane Jarvenpa inhabits, the country we all inhabit, is ravaged and threatened, but still, with her power to convert the observed into a "cold wild song," she finds for all of us some kind of inspired redemption. - Tim Nolan, author of Lines Diane Jarvenpa's latest collection, Shy Lands, teaches us how to engage the natural world with the careful listening of an introvert, "pushed by the wind...hearing the drops of dew." Her attention draws us to the tiny things that make up a whole landscape, and that, she tells us, "is where the village of [her] mind has brought [her]." She uses words the way an impressionist painter deploys color, "know[ing] how all this works, the close and the distant, / the heap and faded, / the swoop and the click." This new beauty is only possible in a shy and quiet land, the one she creates for us here. - Joyce Sutphen, author of Carrying Water to the Field - [Sky Holding Fall](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/sky-holding-fall/) - Sky Holding Fall Judy Bebelaar has a fat folder labeled with a red heart. It is full of notes - heartfelt, sweet and sometimes funny - from her students in San Francisco public high schools where she taught for 37 years. She and her students won many writing awards, both local and national. Her prize-winning poetry has been published widely in magazines and anthologies including The Widows' Handbook, River of Earth and Sky, and the Squaw Valley Review. Sky Holding Fall began as a chapbook called Walking Across the Pacific. Her non-fiction book, And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown (co-authored with Ron Cabral), has won ten awards and honors. - [Small Pleasures](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/small-pleasures/) - Small Pleasures "These small pleasures of intelligent thoughtful, and thought-provoking poems will warm the reader's heart." -Sandra Costich "An old song tells us that "Little things mean a lot," and rarely has this been as true as it is in Small Pleasures, Nikia Leopold's bittersweet engagements with a glorious and mortal world. The title poem describes "Pleasures with the heft of tinsel, / so small they're irreducible." Also irreducible are these sharply observed, precisely crafted poems that contain, and provoke, depths of feeling." -Michael Palma "If you want to be moved, read these poems." -Julia Wendell "Niki Leopold is an exquisite receiver-of sensory news, complex emotions, hints of meaning. Her poems are passionate, delicate, fierce, brave." -Mary Azrael "The sparse, finely made poems in Niki Leopold's Small Pleasures possess the intricacy of snowflakes, each crystalline portrait revealing the wonder of existence encountered in an ordinary moment." -Pauline Uchmanowicz Niki Leopold is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in Poetry, and has a Ph.D. in Art History, also from Hopkins. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Commonweal, Poetry East and Poetry. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Dark Feathers. Her children's book, Adam's Crayons, is out from Galileo Press. She lives with her husband in Ruxton, Maryland. - [A Daughter’s Voice on Caregiving for Her Parents](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-daughters-voice-on-caregiving-for-her-parents/) - "Part memoir/part self-help manual, Hear My Voice shares the author's intimate journey caring for her parents during their end stages of life. This is the story of a family confronting the challenges of caring for aging parents in their home. Each challenge presents the opportunity for a creative response that brought joy to her parents and comfort and peace to the family. Helpful for anyone facing the challenges of caring for a loved one with diminishing or diminished abilities. Full of rich memories and practical tips!" ~ Russell England M.D. ~ Christine England L.I.S.W. - [A Magician Among the Spirits](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-magician-among-the-spirits/) - Winner, 2022 Blue Light Poetry Prize Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore, where he lives with his wife, Abby. The two are retired from federal government service. Rammelkamp is the author of several collections of monologue. There have been many biographies of Harry Houdini but nothing quite like A Magician Among the Spirits, a nod to Houdini's own book by the same title. Charles Rammelkamp gets right under Houdini's skin to create a first person poetic autobiography of sorts that brings the world's most famous escape artist to life. A Magician Among the Spirits is a fast moving, deeply engrossing story of magic, transformation, drama, mystery, travel, and trauma in 55 poems that trace the course of Houdini's life, from his first dabblings in magic to his slightly mysterious death described in the coda by bereaved wife Beatrice. A striking portrayal of Houdini, as richly lyrical as it is engrossing. - Magdalena Ball, Editor-in-chief, Compulsive Reader Charles Rammelkamp's engaging book of poems, A Magician Among the Spirits, presents the life of America's best-known magician, Harry Houdini. Escape becomes obsession, motif, and metaphor in this astonishing book. A Magician Among the Spirits, which appropriately takes its title from Houdini's own account of his campaign to expose fraudulent mediums, is a series of autobiographical monologues in Houdini's voice, with his wife, Bess, providing a coda after his death. These well-researched poems incorporate a wealth of detail, and reading this book is like listening to an entertaining raconteur. A Magician Among the Spirits will fascinate and delight both magicians and readers with a casual curiosity about Houdini. Rammelkamp is an impressive writer - both accomplished poet and masterful storyteller. - Miriam N. Kotzin, author of Debris Field. (David Robert Books 2017) - [All In Measure - A Book of Hours, 2020-2022](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/all-in-measure-a-book-of-hours-2020-2022/) - All In Measure - A Book of Hours, 2020-2022 All in Measure, Heather Saunders Estes' gorgeous Book of Hours, is a delight for the senses and for the soul. Grounded in sensitive and sensual rhythms of earth and sea, All in Measure is truly a paean to gratitude and joy. Like the medieval Books of Hours, these poems are songs of praise, songs of ritual, songs of hope - but with a thoroughly modern twist. Heather has a keen eye and ear for nature and for her own inner workings. The poems in All in Measure are letters tapped into prayers; it is a book to read and reread, a book to treasure. - Angie Minkin, author of Balm for the Living and coauthor of Dreams and Blessings Heather Saunders Estes's writing exudes a vibrant and rich observation of the stillness of life during the pandemic. Her poems are an enchanting reminder to fully embrace the beauty available in the smallest moments of the day. -Steph Catella, PsyD licensed psychologist, author of forthcoming The Emotional Intelligence Skills Workbook: Building Better Communication and Stronger Relationships All in Measure: A Book of Hours is a profound vision of, and commitment to, daily life - a passionate celebration of family life, the world of birds, the weather, the movement of the sun from morning to night, with a ceremonial sense of time. Heather Saunders Estes is a woman living completely in an expansive view of her time and her place. I recommend All in Measure to any reader who wants to enlarge their view of poetry. I dog-eared the poems I liked best and found that there were so many that I ignored my dog's ears. - Barry Goldensohn, Author of The Hundred Yard Dash Man and Visitor's Entrance About the Author When Heather left her long-term career as Chief Executive Officer for Planned Parenthood Northern California after 37 years, she transitioned to writing poetry. Her third book intimately chronicles the gratitude, fears and contemplations in the life of one person during the three pandemic years, using an ancient cadence of days. Her beliefs about the importance of appreciation, while more pagan and idiosyncratic than the - [Amusing the Angels](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/amusing-the-angels/) - Winner, 2022 Blue Light Book Award In this richly diverse mélange of human lives, many actual and many imagined, Stewart Florsheim embraces the light and the dark much as his beloved Rembrandt employed chiaroscuro to reveal the complexity of a single individual, and thus, all individuals. Florsheim's vision is encompassing, with room enough for the emotional convolutions of family, Holocaust survivors, spiritual seekers, intimate partners, world travelers, artists, and even total strangers. Taking his cue from Aristotle, and perhaps from the painters he admires, he approaches life from the particular. Pulsing through the array of details is the tempered passion of someone who considers desire as "the trembling to be whole." - Thomas Centolella, author of Almost Human Here, as in his previous collections, Stewart Florsheim combines closely observed detail with moments of transcendence-sometimes metaphorical, other times supernatural-that conjure the lost world of European Jewry, the intimate sphere of his family life, and the lines of blood and spirit that connect the two. He steps into famous paintings as if through a looking glass and renders public events with evocative brushwork. Having read his poetry for more than thirty years, I am impressed by how consistent his body of work is and grateful for the rich worldview it provides. - Scott Norton, author of Developmental Editing: A Guide for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers, Second Edition (forthcoming 2023) In his third full-length poetry collection from Blue Light Press, Stewart Florsheim wrestles with the possibilities and contradictions of what it means today to be a man. The child of a Holocaust survivor, he lends his poetic voice to the lost and dispossessed, "amusing the angels," perhaps, by evoking his forebears, with insight and tenderness, in all their flawed humanity. Many of these poems can be read as prayers, as when he recalls his adolescent terror at facing the high jump in gym class, "hoping my wings won't get mangled/as I ascend above the trees/into the incandescent light." Without ignoring any of the familiar impulses or vanities of a husband, father, and successful man of the world, he nonetheless embraces the vulnerability of his anima. Making pesto with his daughter, he confides how much he loves the smell of basil, evoking Italian landscapes he hopes to share with her someday. His ekphrastic poems could be a volume all of their own, filled with the color, light, and stories of the paintings that come under his knowledgeable and imaginative gaze. Everything in daily life, from taking out the trash to sexual desire -"the trembling to be whole" - comes under the poet's lens as he strives to "discover the pleasures of being vigilant." - Barbara Quick, author of The Light on Sifnos and What Disappears - [Angel Intervention](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/angel-intervention/) - AI: Angel Intervention is the second short story volume of the winning entries in the 2020 Seraphic Prize Short Story Competition. Seraphim Blueprint sponsors this contest triennially. With authors from all over the world, how angels are viewed in various cultures surfaces in their stories. Some are fiction, but many are nonfiction and miraculous. Spirit not only works through angels, but in this second volume sometimes works through dogs, dolphins and dugong. One of the stories discusses the author's role in the creation of our universe, and another details a home exorcism banishing Satan. The full gamut of spiritual experience is represented herein. The authors in alphabetical order are: Dilek Bayezid, John Berns, Rita Bral, Thanapon Chaivanichakul, John Chandler, Karen Coratelli-Smith, Alma Daniel, Lucy Finch, Maria Hubbuch, Sandra McGill, Eugene Nau, Haviva Ner-David, Ozden Oke, Andrew Ramer, Ruth Rendely and Maria Sherwood. - [Another Way Home](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/another-way-home/) - Another Way Home I love the way Beau Beausoleil's poems catch hold of the invisible. They always travel to a mysterious place that transcends the appearances of the world. He reveals what cannot be expressed with ordinary language - sometimes the grief of life, sometimes the joy, sometimes what you can only see in a dream. His work embodies the inventiveness of the Language Poets but goes further, leading us through the images with a compelling narrative voice and a luminous spiritual vision. Another Way Home contains his best new writing. - Diane Frank, Author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems", Chief Editor, Blue Light Press. Beau Beausoleil's poems are impassioned daily engagements with the muse and act of poetry-making, and with the self:its losses, yearnings, regrets, love, elations, and intimations of mortality, with others, on buses and street corners, where he intuits the emotions of everyday life, lived as part of a whole personal life.He also engages with the wider world of his country's history, its 'treachery and disappointments', which 'end in grief'. Courageous and beautiful poems of witness, wisdom, honesty and remarkable emotional acuity. -Maysoon Pachachi, Filmmaker The smallest poem in this collection asks us to feel what it means to be human...how to love, how to grieve, how to hope and how to share the world. Each poem becomes part of our own memories of how we ourselves have experienced the world. As you read these, you too will fly with Javier in the back yard of an evening. You will be lifted, and you will be certain that our shared humanity is what gives us hope and makes us resilient. -Terry Schupbach-Gordon, is an artist, printer, storyteller, puppeteer, artists' book maker, and co-director of Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press in North Carolina. Poetry is the dramatization of a voice. Beau Beausoleil's Another Way Home is the voice of a traveler who must go on even as they long for their travels to end. It is the voice of one who sees everything in terms of centuries and yet must, condemned like all of us, live day to day. It knows that existence flows between the riverbanks of love and cruelty, and beauty is the water that joins them. It is the voice of one who knows we have nothing but words to leave behind, and speaks in bursts as thin and precious as a last breath. -Richard Harrison, poet, author of On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood. - [Arms of My Longing](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/arms-of-my-longing/) - Arms of My Longing Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Poetry Prize It's long before light when I begin reading Arms of My Longing, which makes it kind of early to have anything to cry over, but tears begin because Avraham's poems remind me of what matters most, how the small, deeply experienced and witnessed moments add up to a life. I love that Avraham doesn't flinch; she turns toward the difficult. Though her loss is, of course, different from mine, these poems give me strength to bear my own sorrow and what I can of the world's, and they'll do that for you too. We all have those times "that hurt/ the way love does when it takes your lungs." - Patrice Vecchione, author of My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth. The poems in Arms of My Longing tell an intimate and universal story of interconnection with the earth, ourselves and each other. The book explores motherhood, family, memory, and all that holds humanity together, and we are carried away by a great song from poem to poem. Nourishing, rich with verdant passages that one wants to read aloud and cherish, Arms of My Longing looks at the tragedies of life alongside its beauty and joy. I am enriched, my heart gladdened, having read it. - Carolyn Brigit Flynn, author of Communion and editor of Sisters Singing and Sacred Stone, Sacred Water The title and the poems in Kate Avraham's Arms of My Longing extend backward to those the writer has lost - a son who died young, beloved father and mother - and forward to a daughter carving out her own life, and to the woman the writer is becoming, someone who can "ride along in just a red tank top even though/your arms are a little flabby." Arms and hands appear in many of the poems, and the urge for touch, for contact, or even simple recognition, runs like a thread through the fine weave of these elegiac, praise poems. At times the connotations are political-sociological: "Think of all those weathered hands/plucking one plump strawberry at a time," and at other times exquisitely personal and pandemic-informed. The astonishing sequence about Nathan - who died at five - is moving precisely because the poems refuse to give into mourning and instead praise what the loss has brought home to the speaker. In "What the Meadow Gave," (which also suggests a meadow grave), she writes: "Nothing will ever bring you back. //And yet, this meadow grit/that presses against my skin//also mends." Reach out and let these poems touch you. Let them heal you. Our broken world needs them. - [At the End of My Walk](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/at-the-end-of-my-walk/) - At the End of My Walk At the End of my Walk is a memoir written in narrative poetry. Cole Bluhm is a storyteller who gets at the heart of the journey of transformation. Divided into seven sections: Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back; Childhood; The Father Complex; The Mother Complex; Lost; Found; and We Are All Coyotes, her psychological journey celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit and its desire to grow, to love, to live in community, and to become wild and free. Bio My childhood was spent in a San Francisco working class neighborhood. My diary, Sarah, became my best friend. Life in the city filled her pages: fog racing over Twin Peaks each afternoon; my Gram, brother and I dipping jelly doughnuts into milked-down coffee on Saturday mornings; our father, nicknamed Harry the Horse, driving up in his T-bird convertible, a Camel cigarette perpetually hanging from his mouth. Our glamorous blonde shiksa mother, Bunny, practicing for acting auditions. Why had the Catholic kids next-door made fun of our father's "big Jewish nose"? Why didn't I have a rosary to save my family from hell and the fire that burned forever? What was Gram saying as she crooned in Yiddish with a worried look upon her face? When we moved to the suburbs, then out to Stinson Beach and Bolinas, I kept on writing to answer those questions and never stopped. "Bluhm's passionate, stunning poems chronicle universal coming-of-age stories that are evocative, sometimes excruciating and hilarious. In poems about childhood, the longing is so pure and universal - the kid's heart is so revealed. Illustrated in bright and clear yet textured brushstrokes, Bluhm's hard-won honesty and insight transform sadness into magic." ~Terri Tate, Author of Crooked Smile "Whether exploring childhood yearning on the streets of San Francisco in Liberty Street, a complex relationship with her grandmother in Bathroom at the Ritz, reflections on matters of the heart in Romantic Love, or growth of compassion in Summer in the City, Bluhm's powerful, vivid narratives offer a front row seat on a transformative journey. A breakthrough collection in the genre of confessional poetry." ~Margit Liesche, Author of Triptych "Let us celebrate these pages, this record that Claudia Bluhm has lived a full life with her eyes and ears, her heart and mind wide open." ~Daniel Coshnear, Author of Separation Anxiety - [Bridge at the End of the World](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/bridge-at-the-end-of-the-world/) - Bridge at the End of the World Winner of a 2023 Blue Light Book Award, Bridge at the End of the World, New and Selected Poems complements Scott T. Starbuck's 30 years of activism and creative writing instruction, including his Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog with readers in 110 countries, and ecopoetry workshops the past four years at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the UC San Diego Masters of Advanced Studies Program in Climate Science and Policy. This book features new work about the climate emergency, and brings together the best poems from four climate-themed books, Industrial Oz (Fomite, 2015), Hawk on Wire (Fomite, 2017) (July 2017 Editor's Pick at Newpages.com, and chosen from 1,500+ books as a 2018 Montaigne Finalist at Eric Hoffer Awards), Carbonfish Blues (Fomite, 2018), and Between River & Street (MoonPath Press, 2021). New endorsements are from Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, and writers Jerry Martien, Michael Spring, and Diane Frank. Other endorsements are from leading activist Bill McKibben, Senior Research Scientist at IPAC Caltech Yun Wang, Terrain.org Editor-in-chief Simmons B. Buntin, and poets Henry Hughes, Craig Santos Perez, Thomas Rain Crowe, Sandra Alcosser, John Shoptaw, Daniela Gioseffi, John Keeble, Eric Magrane, Teresa Mei Chuc, Prartho Sereno, Gail Entrekin, Anne Elvey, Marybeth Holleman, Ken Waldman, Bill Siverly, Florence Sage, Daniel Hudon, and Nancy Cook. Shoptaw, a poetry lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, wrote, "Ecologists read the signs of unsustainability, poets give them voice, none more compellingly than Starbuck," and Michael Potts of the University of South Australia wrote in a 2017 review at Plumwood Mountain Journal, "Starbuck compels the reader to think about not just climate change itself, but also how deeply ideology and symbolism are embedded in the functioning of Western society and how unthinking acceptance of them has led to a world where money is digital. The digits on a screen are now no longer connected to any real or physical thing, but they are enough to make us acquiesce and take part in the continued rape of the planet [ . . . .] Starbuck attempts to cut through [this] in these poems." Vivian Hansen at University of Calgary wrote in a 2019 review at The Goose (official publication of ALECC, the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada), "Starbuck's style looks outward from his grounded position as a fisherman. [. . . .] He calls for human devotion toward the wild and climate change, a devotion that intercepts the hunter and veers toward prophecy and the promise of a new vision." Bryan R. Monte wrote about Starbuck's poems in a 2017 review at Amsterdam Quarterly, "[They are] the type the world needs in order to save the planet from wide-spread, lasting ecological destruction. [ . . . .] [This] is a powerful poetry [ . . . ] worth reading and discussing-especially in writing programmes." - [Brother Maria](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/brother-maria/) - Brother Maria 1347. Late September. Messina, Sicily. Twelve Genoese galleys arrive unannounced, and drop anchor in its bay. A few sailors struggle ashore, bearing a cargo on their backs; a terrible cargo that the world had never known before; a cargo of 'death' so virulent nothing could withstand or allay it: not fortress walls, not the swords and arrows of armies; not charms, herbs, or desperate flight; not the relics of Saints; not the prayers of the devout. Thus begins the greatest pandemic in recorded history, one of apocalyptic, Biblical proportions that men would believe was God's judgment of their iniquities; leaving nearly half of Europe dead in the wake of its wrathful scourge. Brother Ludovico has researched and painted a graphic, lurid picture of the 'Black Death', and the Great Famines that preceded it, as they swept through 14th century Italy. He has painted it with the rhyming descriptions of two men with antithetical natures: one, a learned theologian, an eminent abbot and scholar; the other, a friend of the abbot's youth, an apostate who is a lover of wine, taverns, and the arms of women. Both men find themselves faced with the harsh immediacy of death, and both strive to find meaning in the gruesome havoc with which God is ending Man's world. A story of the soul, told with the voice of the soul, a poignant poetry that tells the existential dilemma in each of us.....a story of the battles of flesh with spirit, belief with its abandon, the fragility of life with the iron certainty of death.....the myths of love with our first and final, utter aloneness. When asked about 'Brother Maria': "A kind of poetic reliquary of Man's Past; a kind of allegory of the plagues loosed on his Present; a kind of hope, perhaps the only hope for his Future." - [Civil Twilight](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/civil-twilight/) - Civil Twilight Anique Sara Taylor's chapbook Civil Twilight is Winner of the 2022 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her full-length poetry book Where Space Bends was published May 2020. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work's appeared in Rattle, Common Ground Review, Adanna, Stillwater Review, St. Mark's Poetry Project's: The World, Earth's Daughters, Cover Magazine, The National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side among others and widely anthologized. Her first chapbook Poems is published by Unimproved Editions Press. Taylor has co-authored works for HBO, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and a three-act play performed by Playwrights Horizons and Williamstown Playhouse. Her Holocaust poem "The Train" was 2019 finalist in Charter Oak's Award for Best Historical Poem. Where Space Bends in earlier chapbook form was chosen Finalist by both Minerva Rising and Blue Light Press in 2014 Chapbook Competitions. In 2015 Under the Ice Moon was chosen Finalist by Blue Light Press. Civil Twilight is a stunningly crafted sequence of small poems that deliver both an architecture and music reminiscent of the stanza. Here, the reader will enter room after room of discovery to encounter "the perfume of his cherry tobacco," or see "earthmites teethe shark-like through/ particles of sand." These poems, like little vestibules, exist between those moments that illuminate the inner life. They exist between daylight and darkness, past and present, between the living and the dead, and between a daughter and the memory of a father. Taylor's poems are keenly attuned to the language of the natural world and to all the mysteries that come with it. - Sean Nevin, Author of Oblivio Gate Anique Sara Taylor's award-winning collection is mesmerizing. Thirty poems, thirty words each, shimmer with a refined intensity at once both taut and expansive. Within this tight form, her emotional richness is as lyric as it is restrained. Grief's shadow, loss-yet love of the stubborn, simple glories of existence, emerge as gifts of her inner iconography. These resonate with Taylor's organic allusions to the natural world, her outer landscape. Starfish, eagles, crickets, thunderstorms, a sycamore tree-all conspirators in her survival story. "Half daughter, half swallow," she writes, "if only I could tie down the corners of the air." In Civil Twilight, she has done just that. - Leslie T. Sharpe, Author of The Quarry Fox and Other Critters of the Wild Catskills - [Dance of Soccer](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dance-of-soccer/) - Dance of Soccer Dance of Soccer is an inspiring story of Emily-a young girl who dreams of becoming the best soccer player on her team-the Amigos, a promising girls' team from Cincinnati. To achieve this goal Emily must overcome one challenge after another. She meets a Chinese girl, Ming, who is an equally talented player with a wry sense of humor. Together Emily and Ming deal with racial slurs, rough and rowdy boys who cause a leg injury to Emily, and some girls on the Amigos team who could be a little more polite. Ming's father, Dr. Yang, is an acupuncturist and quite a philosopher. He treats Emily's leg injury with acupuncture to prepare her for the greatest challenge of her young soccer career-to meet and beat the toughest and most winning girls' soccer team in Ohio-the Terminators. - [Dangerous Women](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dangerous-women/) - Dangerous Women WINNER OF THE 2021 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD Jennifer Grant resides in Newberry, Florida. Dangerous Women is her second collection of poetry. Her first, Good Form, was published by Negative Capability Press (2017) and a tiny chapbook, Bronte Sisters and Beyond, through Zoetic Press (2018). Her chapbook Year of Convergence was included in Blue Lyra Press' Delphi Series Vol. IX (2020). Find out more at jenniferlynngrant.com. "Jennifer Grant's Dangerous Women is a powerful and brilliant display of recreating history. What is most impressive is her ability to draw the reader into astounding lives that are of a different time and place, lives that are different from her own. She deftly engages the sensitivities of human relationships, depicting it with a mastery of style, imagery, and technique. This is a masterful book by a masterful poet, one that must be read." - Sue Walker, Former Poet Laureate of Alabama and Publisher of Negative Capability Press "With the opening lines from the first poem in her collection, Jennifer Grant draws us into the lives of fascinating women who left their mark on history by defying conventions about women's work. With lyricism, humor and surprise, Grant imagines her subjects beyond what few details historians have provided. Prospector, lighthouse keeper, spiritualist sisters, Union soldier, mountain climber, cyclist, firefighter - they speak to us from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Grant imprints us with each persona's grit and passion. Thanks to Grant's diligent research and deft writing, her dangerous women are getting the encores they deserve, and readers will cheer." - Robbie Curry, published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Eastern Iowa Review, and Litbreak Magazine - [Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/day-begins-when-darkness-is-in-full-bloom/) - Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom In her powerful new collection of poems, Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom, Loretta Diane Walker takes us on harrowing journey, authenticated by striking and imaginative attentions-a testament to the strength of one woman's spirit faced with adversity, "the colliery of darkness," both physical and emotional, personal and cultural, local and historical. The range of these poems far exceeds their considerable force as personal narrative alone. "The sky is a mortuary for stars," she writes. "A lone bulb attempts to touch its round shadow." Here we find the play of a mercurial mind whose sober confrontation with mortality, illness, and marginalization moves seamlessly, with lyric inflection, toward understanding, affirmation, and an inclusiveness of vision and heart. A remarkable achievement. - Bruce Bond I am lucky to have met and heard Loretta Diane Walker read her poems on many occasions, so when I was reading this collection, I listened for a voice I knew well: a soft, precise lament, on the edge of tears, drenched continually by unexpected pain and grief, yet still rising again and again to the light of hope, most evident in what I have always admired in her craft, the original metaphor, unique to the poem, and to me, yet still apt, piercing in truth, shining like a familiar star in the ink of the night, just like, as she writes, the "faces of angels you can only see in darkness." - Laurence Musgrove, author of Local Bird and The Bluebonnet Sutras, editor of Texas Poetry Assignment. I love these poems, these calculations of hope that emerge from a colliery of darkness fueled by cancer, racism, the pandemic and loss. I love how Loretta Diane Walker wrestles with the world as it is and emerges again and again with clear, rich poems that wash the soul in light. This is a collection of healing and hard-won hope. It opened me. - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of Hush and Naked for Tea The poems in Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom are informed by a deep grieving for both the lyric speaker's own personal suffering, and that of our larger world. We see in Loretta Walker's richly imagist poems human suffering in its many forms - whether that be one's growth into adulthood without the presence of a faithful parent, or the pain and uncertainty of a cancer patient's ongoing treatment, or the challenges each of us now face daily as we live in the midst of a global pandemic, or the individual and social turmoil engendered by racial bigotry, and its consequent injustices. Walker's is a necessary grief. It is the transformation of that grieving that - [Death and His Lorca](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/death-and-his-lorca/) - Death and His Lorca Naomi Lowinsky's Death and His Lorca is a powerful volume of poems about love, about loss but also about how lost ones still stream indelibly through a life. Though the book touches on Jungian symbols of The Self, The Anima and Animus, mostly it presents The Shadow: the fire, the wild and unknown as poems probe the lives and legacy of grandparents, parents, lovers, spouses. Again and again, Lorca's passion and Lowinsky's intertwine, adding a memorable musical lyric to the whole book. In a literal yet metaphoric way the forever question being asked by this poet is: "Who has the passports?/Must she cross/the border alone?" - Susan Terris, author of Familiar Tense The poems in Death and His Lorca, by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, contain many deaths and close encounters with mortality, but the book is as much about life as about death. Lowinsky tells the stories of the lost and channels Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, as movingly as she channels her own. And there is much dancing - dances for the dead and of the dead. In "Flamenco Dancer," which opens the collection, the dancer's "spine / is a wild and supple snake" as she arouses the spirits; in "The Russian Woman's Daughter," the "dead do a circle / dance around us." Lowinsky is equally at home with the facts of history, "the grim trains the grieving / skies of northern / Europe," and the realm of myth and dream, where a daughter of Atatürk can show her a library of books "on the unearthed goddess." Beauty and mystery are abundant in this collection. Despite death's tenacity, it's an inspiring read. - Lucille Lang Day, author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, coeditor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California Naomi does a wonderful job weaving together her dreams, her family, her heritage, Jung, Lorca - and they all seem to inform her rich and active imagination. The result is poetry that is as much a pleasure to read as it is engaging and tender. Each poem takes us on a journey where Naomi reveals a part of her life and, in so doing, she invites us along, not only to share her revelations but to inspire us to explore our own lives and impulses. - Stewart Florsheim, author of A Split Second of Light - [Deep Territory](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/deep-territory/) - Deep Territory Praise for Deep Territory There is a special sense of kinship and community in Michael Malan's poems: trees, streams, clouds, horses, and horizons. All things are alert, articulate, and time in touch with the timeless. These are poems of thanksgiving, and calm recognition. -Robert Morgan, author of Dark Energy These are visionary poems, and the world they envision is a shapeshifting realm where trees speak and rivers dream, where stones sing and the moon is "a broken compass in the heart of memory." In this territory, the dull rules of ordinary reality no longer apply. Here you might "open a window in a waterfall /and find a mirror in a forest." Anything might turn into anything else. Filled with wild images and stunning metaphors, these poems have the power to restore us to the imaginative freedom of childhood. Deep Territory is a profoundly refreshing book. -John Brehm, author of No Day at the Beach and The Dharma of Poetry Of all the gifts poetry can provide, perhaps the greatest is the work of the spirit, and Michael Malan's Deep Territory is profoundly engaged in the spiritual work of the written word. These poems grapple with the great question of what it means to be a human being alive in the world, providing us with a space of solace and light, "a tent for the living" in the midst of a chaotic century. I find myself returning to these poems again and again, captivated by their imagery and enriched by the sense of wonder they inspire. -Holly Karapetkova, Arlington County Poet Laureate, author of Towline Michael Malan is the author of Overland Park (Blue Light Press, 2017), a collection of poetry and flash fiction and Tarzan's Jungle Plane (Blue Light Press, 2019), a collection of prose poems. His work has appeared in Epoch, Cincinnati Review, Tampa Review, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry East, and other journals. He is the editor of Cloudbank, a literary journal published in Corvallis, Oregon. - [Do Houses Dream?](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/do-houses-dream/) - Do Houses Dream? Among Barbara Novack's many strengths as a writer are her eye for the telling detail, her ear for the cadence of natural speech informed by song, and her soul that always makes the human connection. She makes her people and the world they inhabit-the world we inhabit-come alive. Her poems remind readers of the value of words and the worth of the authentic voice ~~~~ Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence at Molloy College, is also a member of their English Department. She founded and hosts Poetry Events and Author Afternoons, two reading series at Molloy College that bring contemporary poets and writers to a wider audience, and she presents programs and conducts workshops on poetry, fiction, non-fiction and memoir in the New York metropolitan area. Recent books include Something Like Life (poetry) and J.W. Valentine (novel). An award-winning writer, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and Who's Who of American Women. - [EIGHTEEN](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/eighteen/) - EIGHTEEN "Eighteen, by Sandy Steinman, is authentic, penetrative, and wise. Here is an amalgam of fiction and memoir, of tradition and culture rendered with a diamond cutter's precision and art. Here are small stories that have much to impart: so honestly, so engagingly - here is an illuminated manuscript of journeys: personal, yet universal, and supremely captivating." - Robert Scotellaro, author of Measuring the Distance and Ways to Read the World "This writer is brilliant!! I'm floored by the stories I've read - her attention to detail and playfulness of language. Sandy Steinman has a seriously wonderful and vibrant voice." - Meg Pokrass, author of Spinning to Mars and Cellulose Pajamas "This accomplished collection of flash fiction/flash memoir delights the reader with humor and wisdom as it excavates the universal mysteries of the human heart. Alive with the things that a reader might desire - anecdotes, shining everyday details, family history, quirky characters -these stories are Sandy Steinman's generous life gift to us." - Mary Kay Rummel, Poet Laureate Emerita of Ventura County, California Author of The Lifeline Trembles and Nocturnes: Between Flesh and Stone "In Eighteen, Sandy Steinman offers vignettes about growing up in mid-20th century Brooklyn, New York. She writes in the voice of wife, mother, daughter, neighbor, even an Iranian cab driver. With humor and often unusual anecdotes, Steinman reveals a world where a daughter is visited by the ghost of her father, a mother loses her memory, a Jewish department store owner is chastised for having a Santa Claus, and a young girl is pressured into marrying by 18. The book ends with an astonishing synopsis of a long life from age 2, sitting on a pony, to a stunning portrait of the author with her aging mother." - Michelle Demers, author of Green Mountain Zen - [Fog and Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/fog-and-light/) - Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here In this collection of poems, we show you the city that most tourists miss - dancing the samba at Carnaval in the Mission District, the Golden Gate Bridge at dawn with the perfect angle of light, the timpani of Pacific waves in the Outer Sunset, a cappuccino before work on Minna Alley, Bird & Beckett Bookstore in Glen Park, the dog path at Fort Funston, walking home through the Civic Center in Sunday heat, the clatter inside a flat on Nob Hill by the cable car tracks, ushering at the San Francisco Opera, an inside view of the Summer of Love, the Sing It Yourself Messiah with the Golden Gate Symphony, eight-year-old friends in Bayview careening down their street on a board attached to a roller skate, the Doggie Diner, a night game at Candlestick Park, the Alemany Farmer's Market, the lively street scene at 16th and Valencia, riding the N Judah street car with two cellos to play Mahler at the Herbst Theatre on Bay to Breakers Sunday - and so much more. Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Alejandro Murguía, Barbara Quick, Thomas Centolella, Alison Luterman, Katherine Hastings, George Wallace, Beau Beausoleil, Robert Scotellaro, Daniel J. Langton, Maxine Chernoff, Katharine Harer, Jane Underwood, Kathy Evans and many other celebrated poets. - [Holding the Body Back](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/holding-the-body-back/) - The poems in Holding the Body Back hold back nothing in their honesty and their willingness to face the facts, but they also hold back none of the joy that inhabits them. In their vivid images and straightforward style, Marsha Witham Whitman’s latest poems are a gift to us all. About the Author Marsha Witham Whitman’s career has been spent in music as teacher, choral conductor, arranger, translator, impresario, singer, and instrumentalist. A bachelor’s and master’s graduate of The Hartt School, she devoted over three decades to performing, teaching, and directing choirs, including pieces she commissioned. Since her childhood days moving around the US and Europe, she has kept a journal filled with both everyday experiences and poetry. These formative years contributed to a perpetual fascination with language, an abiding interest in nature, and a love of family history. Marsha lives in Connecticut where she raised a daughter and son with her husband Frank and now enjoys visiting them and her three grandchildren on both coasts. - [Ice Sage: Living and Loving the Land](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/ice-sage-living-and-loving-the-land/) - In this book of poetry, Levi embraces those questions with a whirlwind of visions. He takes us from the ice age to the future, to cultures around the world and back in time; from stunning beauty to moments of horror; from purple coneflowers to stop signs; from the eternal change of seasons to the work of wasps and bees. He recognizes the challenges, but his words bend towards hope. There is peace, for him, in the road to resilience - the clover, the earthworms, the dirt staying put, the rye pollen in the spring. But more than anything, his visions force us to ask: Where did we come from? Where are we going? Where do we want to go? As Levi wonders, "Where will we set off walkin' / beyond dreams by dawn / with our daughters on our backs?" ~Nick Ohde, Practical Farmers of Iowa Levi Lyle grew up on a farm near Keota, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a BA in Science Education with an Environmental emphasis and a MAE in Post-Secondary Education. After ten years of teaching, counseling, and working as an academic advisor, Levi and his wife Jill returned to the farm where they raise their four children. Along with his interest in growing a variety of native fruits, Levi and his family grow and distribute fresh Aronia berries seasonally to local markets. Processing and marketing wild fruits is a passion that Levi feels brings balance to his other agricultural endeavors. Levi has worked as an organic inspector and now consults on the topic of organic transition. He has been a local leader in conservation no-till farming using roller crimping, a practice applied to cover crops that boosts sequestration on the prairie ecosystem - a role once filled by the buffalo in stampede. He passionately speaks about solving the global greenhouse gas dilemma by innovating Midwest farm policy to allow farmers to lead. - [In the Year of Leaping Ice](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/in-the-year-of-leaping-ice/) - Ria Kinzel’s fiercely honest poetry is an inspiration to speak your own truth. In her extraordinary poem, “Coming of Rage,” she witnesses against injustice and cruelty as she discovers for herself oppression in apartheid South Africa, denigration of women, and a religion of sin and shame. Follow her through time and geography to growing wisdom in “Questions of Voice.” With humor and tenderness, she shares “Grace Notes” of her life — midwives, meditation, laughing children, ice mountains, wolverine ecstasy, spring sun, and doves of forgiveness. Ria Kinzel’s poems have taken root “deep in the dandelion cracks of my mind.” Her poetry is powerful and can open the hearts of her readers. Ria Kinzel grew up in South Africa. After clashing violently with the Apartheid government, she emigrated to Canada to teach Inuit students in the Far North. Doing a complete u-turn, much of her time since then has been devoted to fostering world peace. She has taught elementary and high school English in Alberta and Iowa. Central to her pedagogical theory is the prevention of boredom. Her interest in meditation led to the study of sections of India’s Vedic literature. She currently lives in Calgary, close to family and the Rocky Mountains, where she teaches meditation. - [Kabuika Wants to Make New Friends](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/kabuika-wants-to-make-new-friends/) - Kabuika is from Congo. She just arrived in Chicago and wants to make new friends. But the other children think she is different. Her accent is different, they say. Her clothes are different. Her hair is different. And she even smells differently. Will Kabuika be able to make new friends without losing her cultural identity? AUTHOR BIO: Kabuika enjoys traveling and meeting people. She had just come out of the rainforest in Congo when she heard that her first book was published. When people ask her where she is from, Kabuika replies, “I’m from ChiCongo. I’m from Chicago and the Congo.” Kabuika loves to immerse herself in different cultures. She speaks French, English, Lingala and is learning Tshiluba. This book is inspired by her life story. ILLUSTRATOR BIO: Bilakov is an illustrator from Congo. He lives in Kinshasa. He loves to draw comic books and mangas. Bilakov says his name means the Peace Warrior. This is his first children’s book. - [Lost Letters and Windfalls](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/lost-letters-and-windfalls/) - “He makes everything greater because he’s a smart singer, every poem is a win. Moments shine with an unselfconscious voice. We cannot imagine how easily paint can be applied if we just speak in real-time of consequential things with a depth of heart. Within that modest framework, the passage of words has a capability and a sphere of influence without limits. The poetry dynamics here are a genuine voice, believable encounters, and the ability to make everything new with the belief that no one’s watching you, and nothing can come of it, and there’s nothing to get. This is poetry at its best.” Grace Cavalieri, Review of Library Rain in The Washington Independent Review of Books “Like a painter saturating the colors of Earth, exalting its geography from delirious beauty to war nightmares, Larson takes the reader on a dreamlike journey, filled with flashbacks, family memories, and ghosts.” Helene Cardona, Review of The Philosopher Savant in The Enchanting Verses Literary Review “Even for Rustin Larson, a master of invention, Lost Letters and Windfalls breaks into new territory. I love the images he chooses and how he transforms them. It’s fascinating to see where he goes in the shorter jewel-like poems of this book. Brilliant writing, a delight on every page, a joy to read!” Diane Frank, Author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems “Rustin Larson is a terrific, elegant, original poet whose voice rings so truly we become better people just by reading him.” Naomi Shihab Nye “Among cornfields, junkyards, and a Dairy Queen, the eclectic cast of Rustin Larson’s Lost Letters and Windfalls marches across a rural stage: an old woman small ‘like a burlap bag/ full of nylons,’ family members, angels, finches, the wind, the muse, and a young girl in a Degas painting. The poet asserts: ‘The light falls upon all things. I have/ my memory of you—quiet as a/ picture frame among all these broken houses.’ In poem after poem, Larson captures images firmly cast in time yet eternal—even slightly holy: ‘But here’s what we are: each man, each woman,/ each neuter object, a church.’” “‘Listen,’ Larson urges, ‘the world/ begins in a moment.’ The moments described in these poems are painterly and vivid. The poet trusts only his ‘sense of touch.’ They conjure a world of isolated stillness where characters can ‘choose to stand outside of ourselves if we wish, the snow falling.’ But also a world of connection where ‘planets are fishing/ for us, wanting/ us’ and ‘[t]he moon is the friend of the earth / and the earth of the sun.’ This is a book of small tendernesses and lightning bolts that will stay with you.” Nynke Passi, Director, MFA in Creative Writing, MIU - [Loving the Dead](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/loving-the-dead/) - Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Press Book Award We belong to each other “even in the worst day,” Helga Kidder writes in her fourth collection of poems, Loving the Dead. That belonging encompasses the arcing heavens, the “bruised moon,” the trilling Earth, the sometimes prideful tug of our closest relations. Growing up in Germany’s Black Forest, Kidder brings “luck in [my] luggage” to a new continent, with new eyes and hopes, to remind us, “You must turn on your own light.” And she does, honoring both her sister’s life and packing us for the luminous journey into memory’s beam and vapor. About the Author Helga Kidder is a native of Germany’s Black Forest region and lives in the Tennessee hills with her husband. She was awarded an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She is co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild and leads their poetry group. She has participated in workshops in San Francisco, CA, Rockvale, TN, and Auvillar, France. Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies. She has three poetry collections, Wild Plums (2012 Finishing Line Press), Luckier than the Stars (2013 Blue Light Press), and Blackberry Winter (2016 Blue Light Press). - [Nocturnes: Between Flesh and Stone](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/nocturnes-between-flesh-and-stone/) - Reading Mary Kay Rummel's poems is more important than ever. During this pandemic, I read her poems to remember how spiritually connected we are to each other, no matter where we are on this planet. Her poems express her spiritual journey. Color, light, music, and art, are woven into these poems that read like psalms. In one poem, she writes, "Lapis lazuli, original blue mined from earth/in Afghanistan, ground to aquamarine of illuminations,/found in the teeth of a medieval female/ scribe, ground to paint the Virgin's gown in centuries of Annunciations." In another poem, we journey with her to Paris, the Notre Dame Cathedral, and again to St. Paul, Minnesota where she is from, to end the poem: "A surge of strings against the night. /Past present future one smooth stone." We can't ignore what is happening in the world. Rummel reminds us to focus on finding beauty, and transform the chaos into hymnal music. Mary Kay Rummel was the first Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA. Nocturnes: Between Flesh and Stone is her ninth published poetry book, her seventh full collection. Blue Light Press also published Cypher Garden, The Lifeline Trembles (a winner of the 2014 Blue Light Press Award) and What's Left is the Singing. This Body She's Entered, her first book, won the Minnesota Voices Award for poetry and was published by New Rivers Press in 1989. It was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her work has appeared in numerous regional, national and international literary journals and anthologies and has received several awards, including a Loft Mentor Award and eight Pushcart nominations. She was a co-editor of Psalms of Cinder & Silt, a collection of community poems related to recent California wildfires published by Glenna Luschei at Solo Press. Mary Kay has read her poems in many venues in the US, England and Ireland and has been a featured reader at poetry festivals including in Ojai and San Luis Obisbo, CA. She has participated in numerous poetry residencies and workshops and loves to perform poetry with musicians. Born in St. Paul, she has been on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Duluth campuses and California State University, Channel Islands. She is a board member of the nonprofit Ventura County Poetry Project. She and her husband, Conrad, live in California and Minnesota, near children and grandchildren in both states. - [Now We Will Speak in Flowers](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/now-we-will-speak-in-flowers/) - Now We Will Speak in Flowers speaks of the silences and languages that construct family, history, self, and our place on this earth as Micki Blenkush invites us through “the narrow gate” of memory, praise, and loss. While these poems are rooted in natural imagery populated with lost minnows, abandoned quarries, stone-flecked fields, and “freshmelt mud,” they also explore the complications of inheritance. Throughout the collection, silence and naming offer their revelatory charms. Threaded with nostalgia and perseverance, grit and gleam, Blenkush asks, “anyone can work / with rags and water. What about / some real transformation?" Real transformation is exactly what these poems are after. Read them, let them work their magic on you. Micki Blenkush was selected as a 2017-2018 fellow in poetry for the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series program and was a 2015 & 2019 recipient of grants awarded through the Central MN Arts Board, funded through the McKnight Foundation. Micki’s writing has appeared in numerous journals including: Typishly, Cagibi, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota and works as a social worker. - [Postcards From a Dream](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/postcards-from-a-dream/) - It’s a stunning act of courage when Johanna Ely manipulates twenty-six letters and spells out a depth of pain, yearning, and everyday contemplations from the alphabet soup of her mind. Her voice, attuned to brilliant imagery, is both subtle and striking as she wields her palette of pinks, greys, and metallic threads over each page of this collection. She’s a language artist who travels through dappled sunlight and bleak shadows to bare her gifted essence. About the Author Johanna Ely is the author of two chapbooks, Transformation (2015) and Tides of the Heart-Poems for Benicia (2018). She is an award-winning poet and had a poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. She has been published in many journals and anthologies, including The Poeming Pigeon and California Quarterly. Johanna served as the sixth poet laureate for Benicia, California. In 2018, she collected poems written by the Benicia First Tuesday Poets and put forth the anthology, Light and Shadow, published by Benicia Literary Arts. She hosts the monthly series, Poetry Inside Out, inviting poets from all over the Bay Area to come to Benicia and read their work. She also enjoys writing ekphrastic poetry and has coordinated many ekphrastic readings at the local galleries. - [Snow Hangs on the Branches of Evergreens](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/snow-hangs-on-the-branches-of-evergreens/) - In Snow Hangs on the Branches of Evergreens, Stuart P. Radowitz gives the reader a remarkable gift, a gift of beautiful poems, each a sparkling faceted gem, evoking in ripples of memory the shadow architecture of life, each place a moment with all the contradictions of the natural world and all its inhabitants. There is magic here, for through these poems, Stuart takes the ephemeral and makes it immutable. Stuart P. Radowitz, a Long Island poet, has had a long and successful career in business and education. He is presently an instructor in the English Department at Molloy College, teaching creative writing and critical reading classes. Stuart looks to nature as a canvas for spirituality and a portal to our souls. His travels have influenced much of his writings. Stuart has been published in various literary journals and has read his poems throughout the New York area including his poem “Closer to God” at Bethany French Baptist Church in Jamaica, NY in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his poem “Peconic Bay” at the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Huntington, NY in honor of Walt Whitman’s Bicentennial. He also participated in poetry readings for Poets in Nassau, Bards Initiative’s annual book launch, Nassau County Poet Laureate Society’s annual book launch, Mid-Island Y JCC’s poetry reading series, Performance Poets Association, and the Molloy College poetry series. Stuart has his master’s degree in creative writing and literature from Colorado State University and has studied as an undergraduate at Syracuse University with W. D. Snodgrass, Philip Booth, and Donald Justice. He lives with his wife Sherry, Violet the cat, two aquatic turtles (Mr. & Mrs. T), and his giant 60lb. tortoise, Snuffy. His daughter Stephanie, her husband Dave, granddaughter Emily, and grandson Ryan live in the Connecticut hills. - [Some Kind of Miracle](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/some-kind-of-miracle/) - Paul Stokstad is a work in progress, which has included, and still includes, at various stages of construction, improv theatre, tennis, college teaching, linguistics, musical theatre, disco, stand up comedy, The TM Program, and time spent in the love lost and found. He inherited poetry from his mother and crowd control from his father. Everything else came due to the kindness of former strangers, or he simply made it up. He does put a lot of attention on words, but he is even more fond of silence, and its home in the space that holds all creativity, love and possibility: the now. - [The Bomb That Blew Up God](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-bomb-that-blew-up-god/) - THE BOMB THAT BLEW UP GOD And Other Serious Poems is a tender poetry collection full of adventure and wit. Freddy Niagara Fonseca weaves seven major themes of life into a vast, spiritual journey spanning the globe and universe. There's a wild side to his poetry that's both dead serious and totally charming. The title poem, a modern fable, depicts the age-old struggle between good and evil, with a surprise ending. A ray of hope starts enlivening a universe on the verge of spiritual darkness. Dances, music and magic explode with energy, joy and tuneful poetry in exotic settings. Poems steeped in conflict have us dealing with existential fears. How will we overcome these? We’re getting some relief from previous challenges. Brief, daring sketches, mini dramas, humor, and more. Death shows its terrifying face from multiple sides. We are trying to cope. Sometimes successfully. New doors open to theatrical poems full of life, and profound monologues heralding spiritual transformation. Nature shines at its most beautiful and uplifting. We gain a measure of appreciation and gratitude in our much too hectic lives. Fonseca evokes lively, tropical rhythms from South America. His poems range from three line haiku verses to three page epic poetry in the blink of an eye. Using free verse and rhyme, he pours his heart out into accessible, life-affirming poetry. - [The Fellowship of the Rain](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-fellowship-of-the-rain/) - Set amidst America’s uneven economic recovery, Amarylis Douglas provides a poetry of witness to the epidemic of homelessness. These poems are individual and unforgettable portraits of Americans we don’t want to see, and for whom the word recovery hasn’t applied. Amarylis Douglas is originally from the Berkshires, in western Massachusetts. She has lived for forty years on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, where she brought up her three children and taught in the island schools. She also lived in Portland, Oregon for ten years, where she worked in the Title One program for Portland Public Schools. She has been in many writing groups in all three areas, most recently The Martha’s Vineyard Poets’ Collective. Now back, based on the island, she returns often to spend time in Portland. Her poetry was first published in Our Place, A Selection of New England Poets, and also in “The Vineyard Gazette” and “The Martha’s Vineyard Times.” - [The House of Wolves](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-house-of-wolves/) - This is a collection of dramatic works, containing haunting passages, grave effects, and dire circumstances. The voice is fresh, the imagery exact, and fascinating. Now, perhaps, visiting someone's darkness is not for you, perhaps this would not be for the timid, those who enjoy light verse or common poetry. Yet it is for exactly those reasons I found this collection a very worthy read, indeed. About the Author Brian was born into Scorpio on a cold November evening in a prior century. He grew up in California with a fascination for nature, wildlife and especially the ocean. After high school he worked a series of manual labor positions, various and nondescript. He enlisted in the Army in 1991 during the build-up to Desert Storm. Somehow he attained the rank of Sergeant and served as a gunner on a M1A1 tank. Following military service he returned to California and eventually earned a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science from California State University, Fullerton, a degree he has never applied to any practical use. For years after he worked in animal sanctuaries helping rehabilitate exotic animals rescued from abusive environments. Currently he operates his own facility helping domestic and exotic animals recover from abuse and abandonment. Any animal that has passed away from old age or infirmity is buried on the property and visited every evening. Brian is a born-again heretic and an avowed neo-Marxist. Brian K. Turner's literary interests began by reading the work of Edgar Allan Poe when he was a young person. He attended creative writing classes at California State University, Hayward with Don Markos, a renowned poet from Piraeus, Greece. When attending California State University, Hayward, he was invited to read at the Hayward Arts Council auditorium. He has read at cafés in San Francisco, Castro Valley, and Dublin, California. He was a featured reader in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal's readings at the Sacred Grounds Café and the BEAT Museum in San Francisco. He has been invited twice by the California Geographical Society to read at the "John Muir Festival" during their annual symposium at Yosemite National Park. Brian K. Turner has had fifty publications in thirty-six different literary magazines. Some of these include Occam's Razor (California State University, Hayward), Lucidity (Bear House Publishing), Direction (Los Angeles Pierce College), Voicings from the High Country (Casper, Wyoming), The Storyteller, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Bear Creek Haiku, Hiram Poetry Review, Tiger's Eye, Love's Chance, and The Lives of Artists from Dance of My Hands Publishing. His poetry is included in the Inkwell Press' Anthology from Mesa, Arizona. He has been published internationally in Poetic Hours from Erran Publishing, Nottingham, England, in First Time from East Sussex, England, Pennine Ink from Burnley, Great Britain, The Eclectic Muse from Richmond, Canada, as well as in Australia. - [The Willow Tree](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-willow-tree/) - The Willow Tree shares a story that is common to many young children -- being scared of going to school and feeling lonely. As you read this book, you will find a true friend that you won’t expect. The story continues from one generation to the next. The book is timeless, for any age. Read alone or read with others. It’s a MUST READ!! - [Through the Kaleidoscope](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/through-the-kaleidoscope/) - In a kaleidoscope, the pieces of color and light go wherever they will. In Carey Link’s Through the Kaleidoscope, feelings tend to precede understanding. In a quiet “fold” and “shifting,” Link guides her reader through the sensually known realities of this world, such as bittersweet chocolate-raspberry. However, these concrete pieces are not a permanent destination. The link takes one further into her poetic imagination, primarily through the abstract in which the concrete images move. Like the kaleidoscope, Link does not layout for the reader what mystery exists in the multi-colored lights. We must find it for ourselves, in her “rounded puffs of breath,” “the colors of a whisper,” “the ghost” we must let go Carey Link lives in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2008, she graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She is living with Cerebral Palsy. In 2017, two years after developing metastatic breast cancer, she medically retired from sixteen years working in civilian personnel and Equal Employment Opportunity as a civil servant on Redstone Arsenal. Coping with her disabilities has taught Carey patience and gratitude. She has never stopped moving forward and is working toward an M.S. in counseling at Faulkner University. After she completes her degree, her goal is to work with clients living with life-altering illnesses or conditions. Carey’s poems have previously appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Hospital Drive, Poem and elsewhere. In 2011, her poetry sequence titled, What it Means to Climb a Tree, was released by Finishing Line Press and in 2017 her poetry collection, Awakening to Holes in the Arc of Sun (Mule on a Ferris Wheel) was awarded second place in the Alabama State Poetry Society Book of the Year contest. Carey’s forthcoming chapbook, I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net, will be released by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Carey enjoys mentoring emerging writers with disabilities through The Handy, Uncapped Pen online program. - [Two-toned Dress](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/two-toned-dress/) - Two-Toned Dress shows us good times, times of abundance, but does not shy away from showing the lonely times. Dig in! This well-crafted collection expertly deals with relationships, and does so with beautiful honesty. This poet helps us to remember our own times of being in love and leads us toward a compassionate view of others, including our parents, who have also known what it is to negotiate what life throws at us. Lucy Adkins grew up in rural Nebraska, received her undergraduate degree from Auburn University, and her MFA in Creative Writing in 2016 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her poetry has been published in many journals, including Rhino, Northeast, South Dakota Review, Concho River Review, and the anthologies Woven on the Wind, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Crazy Woman Creek, and the Poets Against the War anthology. Her chapbook, One Life Shining: Addie Finch, Farmwife was published by Pudding House Press. She has also co-authored a book of non-fiction, Writing in Community, which won an “Ippy” in the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. - [What I Know About Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/what-i-know-about-light/) - Finalist, 2020 Blue Light Poetry Prize In language fearsomely open and fiercely raw, Bruce Majors’ newest collection, What I Know About Light, is full of poems that deal with the difficult stuff of real life. From waking where “mortality meets me / face to face each day” (“A Certain Chill”) to being “a dream of some sleeper’s indulgence” (“Hall of Mirrors”), Majors’ engagement with his subject is honest and heartfelt, sharing with the reader his pain as “I thought of my own un-holiness . . . . / I thought of a thousand ways to die” (“Heat Lightning”). This collection explores one person’s relationship with nature, with God, and with self and examines the question of a life well lived when loss and loneliness have crept past the joy like the “Winter Sun”: “a hollow thought / after the light has done its work.” Bruce Majors has published poems in Pirene’s Fountain, Ontologica, Wordgathering, Arts and Letters, Pinesong, The Distillery, River Poets Journal, Number One, and other fine literary journals. His collection, The Fields of Owl Roost, was named finalist in the 2005 Indie Excellence Book Awards. Two chapbooks, Last Flight of Angels and Small Patches of Light, were published in 2013 and 2015 by Finishing Line Press. He co-published an anthology, Southern Light, Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets. Mr. Majors is a member of the Chattanooga Writers Guild. - [Zeus at Twilight](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/zeus-at-twilight/) - These inviting, conversational poems are up to something audacious. Giving voice to the arthritic Olympian amidst our familiar streets and houses, Will Walker alerts readers to the gods that live among—and in us. Whether bitching at time, ambition, and other people, or reaching near-transcendental joy in praise of a baby, a leaf, or a functioning household appliance, Walker restores a little divine mojo to our mortal step. —Julie Bruck Praise for Will Walker’s first book, Wednesday after Lunch Will Walker has written a collection of poems so intelligent and clear that reading them I wake up–and find myself alive in the world. This is what art can do–and every time it happens it’s a miracle. Here is a miraculous book–awake to what the Buddhists call the “full catastrophe” of living right now. If you want to feel yourself alive and in great company, buy this book and read it, and then pass it on. —Marie Howe, author of The Kingdom of Ordinary Time —Marie Howe, author of The Kingdom of Ordinary Time There is a calm meditative grace to the poems in Will Walker’s Wednesday After Lunch. His is a narrative “in the American grain,” to use William Carlos Williams’ phrase. While some are quiet lyric poems of love of landscape and streetscape and quite human dogs, and some of a sweet domestic love, even asleep, a man and his wife “on your own side/of the bed/ split neatly into neighboring countries,” Walker’s work has that very American room for Khrushchev at the UN pounding his shoe, and rhinestones, and Monopoly, and Jack Ruby, and Marilyn Monroe. In a tour de force of a poem, he writes of a dream of a bonfire, a barbecue on the flats in Provincetown, everyone from his Edenic past reunited, and “even the ocean loves to gather by fire.” These are poems to warm yourself by. —Gail Mazur, author of Zeppo’s First Wife If you want a batch of poems that are consistently good, if you consistently enjoy the poems of, say, Billy Collins or William Stafford or Sharon Olds, and if you were inclined to take any one of them with you to a desert island, mountain retreat, or simply to your own home, you may find yourself content in the company of Will Walker’s poems. —Peter Money, editor and publisher of Harbor Mountain Press Will Walker’s poems are vivid, poignant, often funny, and always big-hearted. He writes with a keen eye, a generous heart, and an expansive spirit, both embracing the everyday and transcending it. His poems always make me see with new eyes. They are love poems to the world. —Thea Sullivan, poet and teacher of The Intuitive Voice - [A Boy in the City](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-boy-in-the-city/) - A Boy in the City is a masterful poetic sequence and a testament of the human spirit. It is written in the best of what is "the American grain." Philip Roth comes to mind, in his exhibition of tenderness as comic relief, when Michael Miller's "boy" finds his grandmother's corset; or when that same child touches his "right side," asking "God to keep/ My appendix whole," after he loses his mother, who wasn't "supposed to die/ From a ruptured appendix." More so, this sequence is also a significant homage and elegy to the Brooklyn Bridge, and is not dissimilar from Hart Crane's masterpiece, The Bridge. In Michael Miller's poem, we traverse the span where we feel both the bridge's reverberation and the poem's sheer resonance: "I stopped in the center/ Of the bridge, its cables/ The links of consistency/ Its curvature a graft/ Of the eternal." And as in Walt Whitman's work, Michael Miller's poetry evinces both loss and healing. - Wally Swist, author of Taking Residence Poetry is an ocean into which all sorts of rivers enter, like boisterous guests. One of literature's obsessions is childhood. We all know Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield, the only real difference is their surroundings. They are intrigued by two things, the world and themselves, but they are fascinating because they think about and explore what we realize we should be doing. Michael Miller looks back, way back. He is experienced enough to know the world he writes about is gone, and then he brings it back to life. He is one of those poets who demand re-reading as soon as you finish reading, and the effect is stimulating. There is the dissemblance of adolescence, and some deaths, and all you can think of is the taste in your mouth of your first strawberry. Yes, that's what poetry does. - Daniel J. Langton, author of Personal Effects Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University About the Author Michael Miller's poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review,The Southern Review, Raritan, The Yale Review, and other journals and books. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. - [The Emancipation of Emily Rosenbloom](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-emancipation-of-emily-rosenbloom/) - The Emancipation of Emily Rosenbloom is 50-something’s Bridget Jones Diary. Masterfully written in the archetype of the female antihero, this debut novel unfolds with a wicked sense of humor, even when you’re shouting, “Emily, don’t do it!” The pages of this novel are populated with unforgettable characters—Dr. Rothman, the invisible psychiatrist; Emily’s intuitive and exasperating mother in Florida; and Raspberry, the wonder dog. Highly recommended when you want to forget about the world and just laugh. Elinor Gale has been a writer, observer of human nature, and lover of the English language since childhood. An inveterate eavesdropper, she has woven her curiosity about human behavior into her work as writing teacher, editor, and creator of humorous yet poignant fiction and poetry. Her essays, poetry, and articles have been published in print and online. Elinor moved to the Bay Area from New England 20 years ago. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and his chubby Burmese cat. - [The Light Tears Loose](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-light-tears-loose/) - Sky, trees, water, birds: though nature appears everywhere in Ballentine’s work, it rarely does so for its own sake. It is more symbolic of internal or external struggle, development, and thought rather than “pretty” detail. The poems in The Light Tears Loose move from illustrations of light into dark – then darker –territory before it morphs back to light. Past and present circumstances often feel overwhelming, but it is in seeking that “silver lining” that we find reason to move forward, to keep going when the way seems vague or threatening. Our fear in living does not keep us from experiencing love and beauty, friendship and brightness along the way. As witnesses in the world, by connecting with nature, we can indulge ourselves with rest and renewal because we see it happen day after day, season after season. Darkness and winter come to us all but so do sunshine and spring. This is what we hold on to, even when the shadows creep so close we can’t breathe. Keep moving forward: on the other side is the light. - [The River Speaks Softly](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-river-speaks-softly/) - The River Speaks Softly calls forth a com-passionate response for both one’s personal journey and for the world. From Darla Wolgast Romano’s reflections of being a good girl with soft pin curls, to that of working towards peace and stewardship of our earth, she ponders the geese in V formation and asks, when will we learn the art of surviving together? Darla poses whether our destiny may best be accomplished through love, mercy and compassion for ourselves and for each other. Darla spent her childhood amidst the farms and lakes of Michigan. Her adult life has been on the West Coast — gardening, living near the ocean, and immersing herself in urban and natural landscapes. She met her husband and raised their two wonderful daughters in San Francisco. Darla has been a psychotherapist and group facilitator for many years. This is her first collection of poems. She began writing poetry two years ago in workshops with Diane Frank, and appreciated her inspired teaching and unwavering support. She is grateful to her husband Richard’s willingness to listen to her poems day or night, and the feedback and kind words from many workshop poets, family and friends who have shared in her journey. These poems are memories in the moving stream of life. This book reflects important transitions in her life, and perhaps will evoke whispers of your own. - [THE TEMPORARY WORLD](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-temporary-world/) - In this lovely collection of poems, one could almost refer to them as meditations or contemplations, Martin Willitts, Jr helps us to see time and our relation to it in fresh ways. Present, past, and future create a fresh music. We feel as if we’re hearing it for the first time and yet it is also familiar. His work here reminds me of ancient Chinese poets, Tomas Transtromer, and Jean Valentine. A strong book of poems should leave us wanting to return to it again and again. Martin Willitts, Jr’s book does that. Martin Willitts Jr. is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 15 Pushcart and 13 Best of the Net awards. He provided his hands-on workshop “How to Make Origami Haiku Jumping Frogs” at the 2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the 2015 Amherst Poetry Festival. Winner of the 2012 Big River Poetry Review’s William K. Hathaway Award; 2013 Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest; 2013 “Trees” Poetry Contest; 2014 Broadsided award; 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Contest; Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, June 2015, Editor’s Choice; Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, Artist’s Choice, November 2016, Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, 2018. He won a Central New York Individual Artist Award and provided “Poetry on The Bus” which had 48 poems in local buses including 20 bi-lingual poems from 7 different languages. - [Trespassers Welcome](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/trespassers-welcome/) - Kathy Evans’s full-length debut, Trespassers Welcome, is a long overdue extravaganza of imaginative leaps, bounds, and deep dives, a worldwide web of seemingly unlikely but delightfully believable connections . . . from the everyday to the unexpected. Her work is profoundly playful and playfully profound—no mean feat in these parlous times. KATHY EVANS is the author of three other collections of poetry: Imagination Comes To Breakfast, As The Heart is Held, and Hunger and Sorrow, which won the Small Press Poetry Prize. She has taught with California Poets in the School (now Cal Poets), at Marin County Juvenile Hall, The University of San Francisco, the College of Marin, as well as The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and is currently a poet-in-residence at The Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland and San Francisco. She lives in San Rafael, California, by the library. - [UNHINGED](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/unhinged/) - The poems in Unhinged open wide the doors between love and loss, past and present, life and death. Charde teaches us that to study any subject is to reckon with its opposite: how she can choose the commitment of marriage, while wanting “to keep moving”; how she honors the loss of her son, a grief that still shouts “like the emperor peonies/ burning red in [her] garden,” while also wanting “to lasso [her] life to a more merciful anchor”; how she faces her own mortality, thanking death for giving her “singularity, a kind of dignity” exactly when she is “learning to love the fire” of life. Charde’s honesty is disarming: here, grief is not melodramatic but intimate—these poems teach us that to let grief open us we must let it lead us beyond what›s static, standard, or finite. Only then can we claim the hard-earned understanding that “the life [we] have is/ the one worth living in. Sharon Charde is not only a poet. A family therapist, a former shaman-in-training, a volunteer writing teacher to delinquent girls in a residential treatment facility, a minimally competent carpenter and devoted yoga practitioner, she is a veteran of fifty-five years of marriage to the same man. Her life as wife, mother and grandmother informs her poems as well as a memoir that will come out next year. She has been published widely in literary journals, including Poet Lore, Upstreet, Rattle, Calyx and Ping Pong, and has one full-length poetry collection, Branch In His Hand, as well as four prize-winning chapbooks and many award-winning poems. Four Trees From Ponte Sisto, an hour-long radio drama shaped from her poems was broadcast by the BBC in 2012. She currently continues to teach the women’s writing retreats she developed twenty-five years ago and has been leading ever since. Charde has been awarded fellowships to The Corporation Of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center For The Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. - [Your Funny, Funny Face](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/your-funny-funny-face/) - Pat Barone’s new book of poetry, Your Funny, Funny Face, illuminates the passages of a marriage and its many revelations of desire and mortality. In stunning language, Barone reflects on all the transformations we make as women, partners and mothers. Poignant and wise in the telling of her loss, we see sorrow as one more way to find tenderness and newly recognized wonder. There is a luminous harmony in this couples’ voices, but also honesty in their ‘backward forward dream’. This is a testament about how one makes a map together with a loved one. A truly beautiful book. Patricia Barone’s latest book, Your Funny, Funny Face, Blue Light Press, is her fourth book, third collection of poetry. A previous collection, The Scent of Water is from the same press. New Rivers Press published her first book of poetry, Handmade Paper, and a novella, The Wind. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies such as Bless Me Father, by Plume/Penguin, and Inspired by Tagore, Birmingham, England, as well as others from Peter Lang, Prentice Merrill, and Wising Up Press. Periodicals include The American Poetry Journal, The Shop (Ireland), Great River Review, Pleiades, Commonweal, The Seattle Review, Visions International, and the Widener Review. She has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in poetry, a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award for a short story, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant for a workshop with the Irish poet Eavan Boland. - [ZERO GRAVITY FUNK LIBIDO](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/zero-gravity-funk-libido/) - Winner of the 2019 Blue Light Book Award David Hurlin is a new and distinctive voice in modern poetry. While he follows the contemporary norm of using free verse almost exclusively, he has a way sometimes suggesting quatrains or stanzas of other equal lengths to give the illusion of form. He uses dialogue patterns similarly and invokes haiku in its original line capacity. These nods to form are all the more surprising because his material is consistently (if that is possible) anarchic and apocalyptic. Hurlin lives in contradictory images. This is soaring poetry of mixed impossibilities. The image shifts are often dizzying as the reader is rushed from ‘fetus’ to ‘stalactite.’ A sublime celebration of Impressionistic art leaves the persona with ‘chicken-turd-whitewashed florescence’—’typical absurdism . . . guaranteed to alienate.’ A ‘stampede through the Zodiac’ enters you ‘like floodwater’; ‘blinding white underpants’ are ‘like a stained glass dove on the sun.’ ....This book is a rainstorm of imagery, thought-provoking yet open-ended. David Hurlin is a professional drummer and percussionist. Drummer for Apocalypso Tantric Noise Choir, Soulmath, Elizabeth Moen, Annalibera, and most recently with The Mike Dillon Band, he has toured all over the country and is in high demand, both as a performer and session drummer. He is working on drum performances and collaborations which lean more toward sound art/sculpture and performance art. David received his BFA in photography and tabla (Hindustani classical music tradition) from Maharishi University, including seven months abroad in India. His photography took him around the United States photographing his favorite poets – James Tate, Charles Wright, Kim Addonizio, and Cole Swenson, to name a few – which deeply informed his reading and writing of poetry. He took graduate poetry workshops in support of his degree and was involved for a decade with the Monday Night Poets led by his mentor, Diane Frank. David lives in Fairfield, Iowa with his wife Emily, his son Dil, dog Mochi, cat Monarch, African Leopard tortoise Tortellini, 15 chickens, and 3 ducks. . - [Green Mountain Zen](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/green-mountain-zen-2/) - Green Mountain Zen renders the cycles of the human spirit as it surrenders to the shortest, most shut-down days of winter, keeping the coals of itself aglow, and then opens to celebration as the earth softens, greens, and again offers its abundance. This is a wise book, attentive to the nuances of inner and outer weather in a way that might best be called devotional — patient and deeply respectful. Image by image —Romaine seeds ‘the size of a baby’s eyelash,’ the raindrop ‘that lingers/like a diamond in the cup of the lupine’s fan-shape leaf’— Demers renders the feel of seasons, much as Chinese painters did through spare, careful brush strokes. This is the perfect book to dream with beside a warm fire, or overlooking a harvest-ready garden while morning sun is still fresh and cool. Michelle Demers holds an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches poetry and writing at the Community College of Vermont. She also leads her own workshops, First Thoughts Writing Workshops, regionally. Her chapbook Epicenter won the 2006 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Michelle lives and writes in Williston, Vermont, with her brilliant husband and exceptional cat. She is inspired by Vermont’s spectacular countryside as well as the deep spiritual questions of life. - [I Am Sparkle The Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/i-am-sparkle-the-light/) - Sparkle Simmons was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. In 1999, she started her own business as a professional clown. There was no need to choose a different name as a clown, "Sparkle" fit perfectly. She loved making children smile at birthday parties, clown classes, and visits to area hospitals. She earned her certification as an instructor for Global Relationship Centers (GRC) in 2003 and spent several years traveling the country teaching personal development workshops. Her favorite course —Understanding Yourself & Others, which allowed participants to re-exam their life decisions and make new choices. In 2005, she and her two children moved to Fort Myers, Florida, where she continued teaching and worked as a marketer for the Fort Myers GRC franchise. Sparkle fulfilled one of her lifelong dreams by graduating from college in 2015, where she earned her BA in Psychology and Marketing from Florida Gulf Coast University. She was the recipient of the Excellence in Civic Engagement award for outstanding service in the community. She is currently active as a social worker for the Florida Department of Children and Families, ensuring children are safe. Sparkle continues to serve her community in SW Florida as a charter member of the Fit for A King Mentoring Program. She loves lavishing God’s love on the girls and empowering them with the tools they will need for adulthood. Her prayer is for them to see themselves the way God sees them and walk in their divine royalty. Sparkle believes that your gift will always make room for you, (Proverbs18:16). She brings joy to the world through her stage- character Mrs. Penelope - the Church Lady, where audiences are left in stitches as she shares God’s word through comedy and a helping of motherly wit. Sparkle has practiced ministry for several years including: dance ministry, flag team and worship team. She enjoys crafting godly garments, planning special events and fundraising. During her quiet time, she creates skits, monologues, and dances. Sparkle's credo: God has placed purpose in each of us. If you want to know who you are and whose you are, simply tap into the everlasting flow of the Holy Spirit. She knows her purpose! She shines her light in dark places by sparking encouragement, inspiration, and passion... That all people will be drawn to the Father. (John 12:32) - [And the Light Strikes Home](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/and-the-light-strikes-home/) - And the Light Strikes Home is the memoir of a marriage, the almost-60 year union between Ned Tranel and Virginia Holmberg, an alliance that began as a blind date on Friday, the 13th of May, 1955 and continued until Ned’s death on April 14, 2016. If the measure of a marriage is longevity, this is the story of a successful union, elusive moments of happiness that go by in a blink and often are recognized only in hindsight. But it is also the story of misunderstanding, loneliness, disagreement, discouragement, doubt--both spouses wondering how they could have done better, been more understanding, patient, thoughtful, loving. Ultimately, it is a story of Trying. Trying and failing and Trying again. The narrative opens in the final semester of Virginia’s senior year at Clarke, Dubuque’s Catholic college for women. She is engaged to a former high school classmate, an Army private stationed in Germany. The senior prom is approaching. She wants to attend, but has no one to ‘take her,’ as people said then, as if she were an umbrella. A friend recommends a ‘nice guy’ in his final year at Loras, Dubuque’s Catholic college for men, a smart, unsophisticated guy who spent the past three years in a dorm designated for young men who’ve expressed interest in becoming a priest. A nice guy named Ned, six feet tall, dark hair, studious brown eyes, neither timid nor ill-at-ease, instead a kid out for recess, compensating for musical deficits by stepping to the beat of his own drummer. At evening’s end, undaunted by the engagement ring on Virginia’s left hand, he kisses her good night, generously and with fervor. She kisses him back. And their story begins. About the Author Virginia Tranel was born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated from Clarke College with a degree in English and Spanish. In January, 1957, she married Ned Tranel and moved west, settling in Montana. Her essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including the Notre Dame Press anthology of best essays, Family. Her first book, Ten Circles Upon the Pond, a collection of essays on child rearing and family, was published by Knopf in 2003. Tranel’s second book, Benita: Prey for Him, published in 2010 by 1st World, describes a classmate’s twenty-year entanglement with a Catholic priest. In her current book, And the Light Strikes Home, Tranel tells the story of two individuals trying to assert their individuality while remaining committed to the promise of their union in marriage. - [An Affront to Gravity](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/an-affront-to-gravity/) - As far as poetry is concerned, I am neither sure-footed nor clear. Metaphorically speaking, I am out on a leafless limb with just spider webs and moss, listening to the silken slip of water over stone. And the fact that no one understands me, doesn't make me an artist. My poems will probably not send a flurry of palpitations through the Gallery of Important Things Said, but then, my expectations have always been unreasonably high. Sometimes, when a poem fails, I carry around my ineptitude like a bowling ball, for the rest of the day envisioning the blank page just lying there, a fallen tree from the forest, soundlessly waiting. I would much prefer my poems give the reader a sudden inhalation of joy-a reflexive gasp of awe and wonder-like seeing a Ferris wheel for the first time. If this volume has that effect on even a small portion of the reading populace, I will be ecstatic. About the Author There are few activities that give me more pleasure than nudging words across the blankly disquieting page, and pushing clay around, into, and through itself. I have been fortunate to work in two disciplines, writing and ceramics, and I have discovered the end result seldom exactly matches the goal in either. It is the work that matters-the engagement of my imagination, the intuitive use of my mind and hands. In the end, the artist discovers art has a mind of its own, and it is these repeated realizations that enrich my life. As much as any other work that I do, these small transformative journeys carry me (for the most part) forward. My mother owned a bookstore from 1962 to 1985 in Petaluma, California. It was called Alta's Old Book Shop, and its value lay not in glossy modernity, but in its being a sort of dusty delivery room for the birth of ideas. It was for me, a refuge from hasty judgment, a source for answers and insights which enlarged my personal life and gave it meaning, and also generated an impulse to write. I am currently teaching a poetry writing class at the Vintage House Senior Center in Sonoma as part of the Santa Rosa Junior College Older Adults Program. There is magic in this group of people; they are blossoming as poets and contributing immeasurably to my own ability to write poetry. I am most thankful for their presence in my life. - [At The Edge Of Forever](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/at-the-edge-of-forever-2/) - At The Edge Of Forever inhabits a landscape where humans hum with each color and hymn of the natural world. Each bird, dream and cloud quilt will hold your breath in beauty. Angel Elisa Collier writes from a big sky. Paws trespass your arm, the trees and breathe out of the forest. This is the perfect book to read after a hectic day and your entire being craves beauty. Angel Elisa Collier published her first book, The Zen Of Falling Leaves, in 2016. She follows up with her second book of poetry, At The Edge Of Forever. For several years, she has studied under the direction of poet and author Diane Frank. Angel is the recipient of the H. Edward Cannon Memorial Award for the poem “Polonaise For Chopin.” She grew up among the woods and rolling hills of Minnesota and Wisconsin. She received her B.A. in Art at Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, where she currently resides. - [Beginner’s Guide to Loss in the Multiverse](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/beginners-guide-to-loss-in-the-multiverse/) - Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Book Award Claudine Nash’s words once again tug at the very fabric of space and time. Her poems peel back layers in such a way that the reader can simultaneously witness the molten core of the earth and the innermost depths of the narrator’s soul. The body of work contained in Beginner’s Guide to Loss in the Multiverse expounds upon her own constant exploration into the unknown and provides us with the roadmap to follow her there. I hope you will join her on this cosmic journey, for it is one you’re not likely to forget. Claudine Nash is a psychologist and award-winning poet whose collections include the full-length books The Wild Essential (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2017) and Parts per Trillion (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Things for Which You Thirst (Weasel Press, 2020) and The Problem with Loving Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also edited three poetry anthologies: Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love (Transcendent Zero Press, 2019), Destigmatized (Madness Muse Press, 2017) and In So Many Words (Madness Muse Press, 2016). Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer, Pushcart and Best of the Net Anthology Prizes and has earned numerous literary distinctions including prizes from such publications and artistic organizations as Artists Embassy International, Thirty West Publishing House, The Song Is…, and Eye on Life Magazine among others. Internationally published, her poetry has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. - [Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/birds-of-san-pancho-and-other-poems-of-place/) - The seventy-four poems in Lucille Lang Day’s Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place take the reader on a journey across continents, seas, and time itself. Charged with a lyricism that is at the same time tough and vulnerable, the poems recreate and preserve images of a beauty that is on the verge of disappearing or has already disappeared. Sometimes it is the beauty of the rain forests of Costa Rica or the birds of the Galápagos or that of cities like Athens, San Miguel de Allende, or Venice in flood. Sometimes it is a beauty that exists only in a single word such as “Oregon, …from wauregan, an Algonquian word for ‘beautiful river.’” Yet for all the beauty she evokes, Day does not shy away from difficult topics like global warming, genocide, regret, loss, and death. The result is a remarkable collection of poems that are deeply layered, deeply felt, and deeply moving. Lucille Lang Day has published six previous full-length poetry collections, including Becoming an Ancestor, and four chapbooks, including Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. She is also a coeditor of two anthologies, Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, and the author of two children’s books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her books have received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, the Blue Light Poetry Prize, and two PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Literary Awards; her poems, short stories, and essays have received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. The founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, she received her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley. - [Colorfast Part 2](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/colorfast-part-2/) - The Meter is Irregular, Volume 5 Colorfast – Part 2 - The Meter is Irregular, Volume 5, is the fifth installment of a multivolume collection of hundreds of poems, from bestselling author Rodney Charles. Each volume follows the evolution of the author who hopes to leave a poetic legacy for his children dealing with self-identity, self-honesty, grief, death, spiritual progress and loving. Within these pages, he chronicles his own unique discoveries and imaginations in the hope of leaving a few life-lessons-learned for his family - his muse. ~ Rodney Charles is the author of Parenting Teenage Werewolves, Liberating Teenage Werewolves, The Inner Life of Turtles, The Land of Love, Art & Genius, Miracles of the Saints, Lighter Than Air, Publish It Now, Book Marketing Basics, and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. My dearest consort tells me she is misunderstood, unappreciated by kith and kin— all the world. Your voice is pretty, like a morning bird, but the patient stars hear each litigant, bearing witness to all sides. Mute with wisdom, stars say nothing, and every plaintiff, washed in the awe of starlight, confesses nothing whatsoever of injustice. - [Dancing on the Rim of Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dancing-on-the-rim-of-light/) - In Dancing on the Rim of Light, Barbara Novack displays a talent for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. Red checkered tablecloths, Irish soda bread, a mother and child on a bus, gravestones, old photographs: nothing is solid, nothing endures; and, like her favorite painter Magritte, nothing she gives the reader is what it seems to be. Haunted by the dual tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy, the poems in this fine collection hover between birth and death, birth again, and death again, as Novack dances on the rim of light defending herself and the world against chaos. About the Author Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence at Molloy College and a member of their English Department, is an award-winning, internationally published writer. Her recent books include poetry collections Something Like Life, nominated for a Paterson Poetry Prize and a New Mexico Book Award, Do Houses Dream? and A Certain Slant of Light, both finalists for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize, and the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award. - [Dreams and Blessings](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dreams-and-blessings/) - Dreams and Blessings — Six Visionary Poets: Lisha Adela Garcia ~ Jennifer Read Hawthorne ~ Anna Kodama ~ Nancy Lee Melmon ~ Angie Minkin ~ Suzanne Dudley Six Visionary Poets: Lisha Adela Garcia Jennifer Read Hawthorne Anna Kodama Nancy Lee Melmon Angie Minkin Suzanne Dudley Edited by Diane Frank Foreword by Jennifer Read Hawthorne #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul We dream together. Write together. Celebrate together. The six of us — Lisha Adela Garcia, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Anna Kodama, Angie Minkin, Nancy Lee Melmon, and Suzanne Dudley — are all students of Diane Frank, San Francisco poet, teacher, and founder of Blue Light Press. Our poems take us deeper, show us what we value, help us explore the themes of our lives. We write to understand ourselves better — and to explain the world we live in. We write to understand how all beings connect, in this world and beyond. We write to celebrate what is good in the world and why we would like our planet to survive. — Excerpted from the Foreword - [Extreme](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/extreme/) - Hope Ellson is from the wrong side of the tracks, but her genius transcends class. When Hope joins FearToShred, a Silicon Valley extreme gaming startup, Hope’s mission is to groom the scrappy company for prime time. Enter Doug Wiser, her very married ex. While the two work in tandem, nefarious forces are at work behind the scenes. Adding to the excitement of this thriller are the stars and heroes of surfing and skateboarding. With a keen eye on women in tech, business ethics and dangerous stunts, “Extreme” will leave you breathless. Winner of the Cervena Barva and Chaffin Fiction Awards, Joan’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Rattle, Pank! The Meridien Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicken Soup for the Soul and over 200 literary journals, blogs and magazines. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan has worked for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, Chiat/Day Advertising and other Bay Area companies. She currently coaches writers and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. - [Haiku Country](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/haiku-country/) - Haiku Country celebrates all of life seventeen syllables at a time. As our Haiku Country tour guide confides, “Yoda loves this place.” My guess is you will too. Haiku Country is Lawrence Eyre’s tribute to “everywhere folks love life simple,” a spirited tour through memories, songs, proverbs, postage stamp portraits, jokes and silent encounters with nature’s rich simplicity. Haiku Country celebrates all of life, seventeen syllables at a time. - [A Certain Slant of Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-certain-slant-of-light-2/) - The poems within A Certain Slant of Light are expertly tuned, perfectly pitched meditations about nature, time, and the seasons — radiant windows of keen observation that rise up from their surface glimmering, and reveal the talents of a disciplined and skilled artist. I was struck by the ease of her voice, the lush use of sonics, and her compassionate wisdom. This is a marvelous book that reveals a sense of wonder, as though the inspired moment has never been before; its illuminations are bright and timeless. Barbara Novack is Writer-in-Residence and member of the English Department at Molloy College. She founded and hosts Poetry Events and Author Afternoons there and, off-campus, presents creative writing programs and workshops. Her recent books include the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award, full-length poetry collection Something Like Life, and the chapbook Do Houses Dream?, finalist for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize (2015). She is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and Who’s Who of American Women. - [A Glyphic House: New and Selected Poems 1976 - 2019](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-glyphic-house-new-and-selected-poems-1976-2019/) - These poems are interested in the traces of the missing and the possibility of light getting in between their shadows. They don’t tell us that they are in mourning. Instead they pause between stanzas using silence as punctuation, as if they need to break out of the page “until everything/ in our pockets/ has a different name. - [At the Edge of Forever](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/at-the-edge-of-forever/) - At The Edge Of Forever inhabits a landscape where humans hum with each color and hymn of the natural world. Each bird, dream and cloud quilt will hold your breath in beauty. Angel Elisa Collier writes from a big sky. Paws trespass your arm, the trees and breathe out of the forest. This is the perfect book to read after a hectic day and your entire being craves beauty. Angel Elisa Collier published her first book, The Zen Of Falling Leaves, in 2016. She follows up with her second book of poetry, At The Edge Of Forever. For several years, she has studied under the direction of poet and author Diane Frank. Angel is the recipient of the H. Edward Cannon Memorial Award for the poem “Polonaise For Chopin.” She grew up among the woods and rolling hills of Minnesota and Wisconsin. She received her B.A. in Art at Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, where she currently resides. - [Beyond the Mystical Near-Death Experience](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/beyond-the-mystical-near-death-experience/) - Beyond the Mystical Near-Death Experience and Into the Unitive Experience Unitive Consciousness is the rarest and highest expression of enlightenment as shown to us by Christ. The author of Beyond the Mystical Near-Death Experience and Into the Unitive Experience was gifted with mystical experiences, a near-death experience, and the very rare Unitive Experience which led her to the very heart of God. In her own words… “As if a door were suddenly left ajar into some world unseen before, the fullness of my essence revealed there to be no distinction between self and God. My union with God burnt like living coals in my soul, burning with unspeakable, pure love. I lived in God; I saw and understood through God. My ego was non-existent.” The teachings of the great mystics and saints whose lives were gifted with profound union with God insist that we have the ability to be restored to “Christ Consciousness” or in other words, Unitive Consciousness. This Consciousness is the evolutionary process and the ultimate potential of our species. The essence of everything you will learn in these pages comes down to learning of the process to discover the mysteries at the heart of our Higher Self and not the ego-self. The author draws not only upon the mystics’ and saints’ wisdom but also upon her own mystical knowledge given to her during her transcendent Unitive Experience. The reader will be challenged to cross the threshold into living a soulful life, one that will realize the depths of who we really are. The near-death experience should not be taken as an isolated event or end-point of development but should be seen in the larger context of an Awakening event that starts the experiencer on the mystical path and our inner return to our Divine Source in consciousness. If you have not had a near-death experience, then please allow this book to serve as your official Mystical Awakening. - [Colorfast ~ The Meter is Irregular, Volume 4](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/colorfast-the-meter-is-irregular-volume-4-2/) - ~ Colorfast - The Meter is Irregular, Volume 4, is the fourth installment of a multivolume collection of hundreds of poems, from bestselling author Rodney Charles. Each volume follows the evolution of the author who hopes to leave a poetic legacy for his children dealing with self-identity, self-honesty, grief, death, spiritual progress and loving. Within these pages he chronicles his own unique discoveries and imaginations in the hope of leaving a few life-lessons-learned for his family - his muse. ~ Rodney Charles is author of Parenting Teenage Werewolves, Liberating Teenage Werewolves, The Inner Life of Turtles, The Land of Love, Art & Genius, Miracles of the Saints, Lighter Than Air, Publish It Now, Book Marketing Basics, and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. ~~~ - [Dressed All Wrong for This](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dressed-all-wrong-for-this/) - Dressed All Wrong for This is a splendid demonstration of the depth and range of the short-short story, an art form whose relevance and influence are rapidly growing in this digital age of compressed communication. Francine Witte brilliantly illuminates nuanced truths of the human condition in this collection, truths that could be expressed in no other way. Francine Witte’s flash fiction has been published in numerous journals and the anthologies Flash Fiction Funny (Blue Light Press) and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton.) She is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks, Cold June, (Ropewalk Press) winner of the 2010 Thomas Wilhelmus Award, and The Wind Twirls Everything (Musclehead Press.) Her novella-in-flash The Way of The Wind (Ad Hoc Press,) was cited as a highly recommended selection in the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her poetry chapbooks include two first-prize winners, First Rain (Pecan Grove Press,) and Not All Fires Burn the Same (Slipstream Press.) She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Café Crazy, and The Theory of Flesh, (both from Kelsay Press.) Her play Love is a Bad Neighborhood was produced off-Broadway by Miller Coffman Productions. She edits the column Flash Boulevard on George Wallace’s Facebook blog poetrybay. She is an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal. She is a former high school teacher. She lives in Manhattan, NYC with her husband, Mark Larsen. - [Every Glittering Chimera](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/every-glittering-chimera/) - Rosalind Brenner, in her fine and brave debut collection, Every Glittering Chimera, takes on the difficulties of loving when the models for such are dysfunctional. These are the poems of a survivor of family life, someone who wishes to ‘return memory to its grave,’ and in so doing presents the struggles of becoming oneself, a cathartic journey forged by honesty and made beautiful by art. Rosalind Brenner, poet, painter and glass artist, explores the mysterious energies of imagination and memory in her art and in her poems. She expresses her vision through sound, symbol, color, and the wisdom that comes from her deep concern for this planet and other human beings. In her figurative abstract paintings, she often starts with words. They are an invitation into the artwork that emerges as she creates layers of imagery. She is a lover of nature and a fierce supporter of women. Her poetry is lyric and narrative. It is rich with stories and sensory portrayals of her world. She gives clarity to strong feelings about the issues we tackle as we live and grow. The work evolves into strength of statement as well as a field in which to journey. Rosalind grew up in New York City and lived in Heidelberg, Germany for three years. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and lives with her artist husband in East Hampton, New York, where they run Art House, their much loved Bed and Breakfast. Rosalind is the mother of two sons, grandmother of three grandsons. She loves to travel and draws inspiration from her visits to the Far East and as much of the world as she can get to. Her previous publications include Omega’s Garden, a chapbook; All That’s Left, a book of her poems and paintings; and poems in many journals. Rosalind exhibits her paintings in various gallery shows and has glass installations in private, commercial and ecclesiastical venues. - [Heartland Haiku](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/heartland-haiku/) - I learned about haiku in third grade but lived happily for the next half century without writing one. Haiku started showing up unaccountably a couple years ago. I didn’t have the heart to turn them away, but what started as an innocent hobby now borders on obsession. For peace of mind, let’s claim Heartland Haiku is healthy self-expression for a sprightly septuagenarian, OK? All verses in my book are oldfangled five-seven-five, but I’ve stretched the traditional haiku framework so echoes of Aesop, the Bible, Shakespeare, Poor Richard, Black Hawk, Mark Twain and Burma-Shave have room to ricochet. Life is so fast now that haiku length may match our full attention span. Feel free just to sample the prairie psalms, proverbs and postage-stamp portraits in Heartland Haiku. Or stay as long as you please--you’ll always be welcome. Born in Iowa along the Mississippi River, Lawrence Eyre holds a B.A. from Yale in American Studies. He has taught history and coached tennis for thirty years at Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa. The United States Professional Tennis Association named him national high school coach of the year in 2009. - [How to Disappear](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-to-disappear-2/) - Reading How to Disappear, I have the sense of someone tearing the past apart and rebuilding with naked raw hands. Claudia Reder is a storyteller and this book is her lyrical gift to us, poems of growing up in the teeming city with the complex women who shaped her—immigrant grandmother and mother whose rich mix of languages turned the struggling young girl into a poet who survives to tell their stories. “The list of ghosts / who, no matter where I wonder, / who I marry, / who as mother, wife and sister, / haunt me still.” These full to bursting poems recreate large, unavoidable terrors and the seemingly small but necessary moments of joy that make art an act of love. They constantly go farther, go deeper with language that is wildly alive, informed by erudite and whimsical exuberance. How to Disappear is a splendid book, serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning. As I read it, I keep thinking, “This is why I love poetry. Claudia M. Reder is the author of Uncertain Earth (Finishing Line Press) and My Father & Miro (Bright Hill Press). She has received the Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize from Lilith Magazine, selected by Alicia Ostriker. She has a passion for helping other people tell their stories. She has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Workshop and a Ph.D. in Storytelling from New York University. For many years she was a poet in the Schools on the east coast and has offered many workshops for all ages in creativity. She teaches at California State University at Channel Islands. - [I Didn't Mean to Forget](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/i-didnt-mean-to-forget/) - Winner of the 2018 Blue Light Poetry Prize “Christine Vovakes’ I Didn’t Mean to Forget is homage to love’s spectrum of emotions and impact; it is cinema of the heart. At times raw, ‘to open your mouth and share, tongue to tongue.’ Beautiful, ‘for us to smooth the love rumpled-bed.’ Tender, ‘then, gently cradling me in your strong arms.’ Unwavering, ‘loving fiercely through the distance.’ Transparent, ‘a lover as vivid as this fuchsia.’ This collection is a transcript for those who have loved, do love, and will want to love again after reading this book. I Didn’t Mean to Forget makes ‘the heart flutter.”’ Christine Vovakes, winner of the 2018 Blue Light Poetry Prize, lives in northern California. The Cape Rock, San Pedro River Review, Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, Poetry Breakfast, Aethlon Journal of Sports Literature, California Quarterly, JAMA, Eclectica, Boston Literary Magazine, Watershed, Apple Valley Review, Shamrock Haiku Journal and the Marin Poetry Center Anthology are among the publications where her poems have appeared. Her articles and photos have been published in The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle. Her short story won a Patricia Painton Scholarship at the 2005 Paris Writers Workshop. - [Inner Sunset](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/inner-sunset/) - About the Author Heather Saunders Estes grew up in a small New England town and now lives in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. The blue jays look different, but crows are the same. Fog has replaced winter snow. She transitioned to poetry in 2017 from her long-term career as CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California. Her writing is inspired by experiences as a social worker and activist, as well as early studies in ceramics and elementary art teaching. Poetry is laughter, reflection, appreciation, and a call to action. She lives with her professor-writer husband of 45 years, and their biologist-writer daughter lives nearby. Inner Sunset is her debut book of poetry. This book is full of lyricism, animist and mystical often, about the natural world of ocean, trees, fog, birds, insects, and yet, surprisingly and vividly anchored in the city, the house, through windows, walks and wide open eyes. It rewards reading and rereading, as its full context enriches and widens. - [Lucky Witness](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/lucky-witness/) - One senses that Kathleen Lynch — in her brilliant, sometimes devastating book — intends her title to be read un-ironically. As in Ingmar Bergman films, the poems cast a light on various darknesses that in their exposures, their witnessing, are the essential cries and whispers of poetry. In “Throes,” she says, “The saint flung himself / into a thorn bush to incur / wounds worthy of his joy.” Lynch’s poems have that kind of complexity, and seem to know “We need a face / to express the hidden / face.” When that face is found, as it often is in these poems, it contains a voice, which can make us smile as well as wince at life’s absurdities. About the Author Kathleen Lynch’s first book, Hinge, won The Black Zinnias Poetry Book Award. Her chapbooks include How to Build and Owl and Alterations of Rising, both in the Select Poets Series from Small Poetry Press; No Spring Chicken, winner of the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Prize; and Kathleen Lynch Greatest Hits: 1985-2001 in the Pudding House Press Greatest Hits Series. Her poem, “Abracadabra”, won a 2018 Pushcart Prize. Lynch won the 2019 Genosko Flash Fiction Award first prize. Kathleen lives in Sacramento, California. - [No Longer Gravity's Partner](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/no-longer-gravitys-partner/) - What more could you ask for from this slim volume? The radiance of JP Di Blasi’s poetry artfully illuminates new paths through our cares and our human, ongoing struggle with demons to grace. This is the respite of poetry. In a few, a delectable humor reverberates deep within perception. Quietly redemptive. JP DiBlasi is a native New Yorker currently living and writing in the Hudson River town of Ossining. “Au Nom de Pere” was published in Carrying The Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). Her poems have also been published in Chronogram, Poetry Breakfast, and RiverRiver. She is interested in traditional Irish music, attends local music sessions and teaches the bodhrán, the Irish goat skin drum. Friends love her sense of humor. - [Nothing Is Ever One Thing](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/nothing-is-ever-one-thing/) - Nothing Is Ever One Thing is a Master Class in flash fiction. These elegant stories shine a slanted light on the high wire act of human existence with a unique blend of pathos and grit. Robert Scotellaro’s microfictions are breathtaking little epiphanies. Robert Scotellaro has published widely in national and international books, journals and anthologies, including W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, NANO Fiction, Gargoyle, New Flash Fiction Review, Matter Press, and many others. Two of his stories were included in Best Small Fictions (2016 and 2017). He is the author of seven literary chapbooks, several books for children, and three full-length story collections: Measuring the Distance, What We Know So Far (winner of The 2015 Blue Light Book Award), and Bad Motel. - [Painting the Cat's Vision](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/painting-the-cats-vision/) - The poems in Painting the Cat’s Vision, by Alice Elizabeth Rogoff, cover a lot of territory in time and space—from 1930’s San Francisco to present-day Hungary and Ireland. They also cover a wide range of contemporary and historical social and political issues—from the fight for autonomy in Northern Ireland to the working conditions of women in the garment industry, from the bombing of Hiroshima to the plight of current immigrants in the U.S.A. What makes these poems special is the search for fresh perspectives—‘I try for the spirals of the / Eye, the teetering, the / Search for balance’—and they give us new views of the world we share. Alice Elizabeth Rogoff ‘s poetry book Mural won a Blue Light Book Award in 2004. Another poetry book, Barge Wood, was published by CC.Marimbo in 2012. She has been published in the anthologies River of Earth and Sky (Blue Light Press), It’s All Good and Your Golden Sun Still Shines (Manic D Press), Walking Through a River of Fire: One Hundred Years of Triangle Fire Factory Poems, and Poets 11. Her poetry has been published in many literary magazines including Borderlands and Gyst. She received a Cultural Equity grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for a poetry project about San Francisco women labor organizers. Her short stories are on the online magazines Caveat Lector and So To Speak. In 2018, she was a finalist in the Dora and Alexander Raynes Poetry Competition by Jewish Currents. Originally from New York State, she has been living in San Francisco since 1971. She has a degree in Anthropology from Grinnell College, MAs in English: Concentration Creative Writing and Drama from San Francisco State University, and a Certificate in Labor Studies from City College, San Francisco. She is a Co-editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. Alice reads her poetry at Bird and Beckett Bookstore, and in the San Francisco Public Library. - [Susquehanna](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/susquehanna/) - “Who is this Indigo? I read this fine collection of poetry by Indigo Joanne Hotchkiss with excitement. Little did I know that I would be flung into a world full of singing oceans of trees, dark muddy rivers, sunlight on children running down a summer street, listening to piano music in dusty sunlit hallway and hunkered down in a cozy van on a rainy day entwined with a lover. Indigo’s poetry moves you on journeys full of singing trees, alders, aspens, redwoods, magnolias. Her poetry is populated with complex lovers, parents, siblings, the suicidal grandfather whose name she bears. She is gentle and kindly in her estimation of these people and of her own frailties. Her journey winds from the sunny lakeside porch of 10 Kendall Avenue along the Susquehanna River, through the wilds of Montana, sturdy Seattle farmers’ market, down to majestic Yosemite and urbane Golden Gate Park. She is Indigo, sister to the trees, breathing in the moonlight and exhaling the pure poetry of her soul. Come prepared, gentle reader, the journey begins . . .” Indigo Joanne Hotchkiss was born in Binghamton, New York in 1933. She graduated from Dana Hall School for Girls in 1950. She received a BA in English and minors in art and music from Skidmore College in 1954 and took graduate courses at the University of Washington and San Francisco State University. Her first poem was published in the only Chinese-English newspaper in San Francisco in 1968. A series of poems was published in the same year in the Greek Issue of Hanging Loose. She has had her poems published in San Francisco Magazine, Plexus, Cries of the Spirit — A Celebration of Women’s Spirituality (Beacon Press), and The Other Side Of The Postcard (City Lights Foundation). She and Cliff McIntire were the Founding Editors of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. She helped launch the Haight Ashbury Soup Kitchen and has been a volunteer for the Bound Together Collective’s Prison Literacy Project. She has organized and hosted poetry reading series including ones at the Sleeping Lady Café in Marin County and Café International on Haight Street. She has taught yoga and worked with runaways as a policewoman in Seattle. - [Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/swerve-poems-on-environmentalism-feminism-and-resistance/) - The late W. S. Merwin said Akers’s nature poems are a “joy to discover” because they embody a “lost sense of the living world.” In Swerve, Akers celebrates the wild while facing climate change, extinction, and loss. These poems confront us with the many threats to our world, eventually guiding us through stages of grief towards hope and action. The poems in Swerve give voice to the shock, fear, and desperation many feel about the Trump administration’s life-threatening policies. They meditate on the beauty of the non-human world. They champion women in the #MeToo movement who are empowering themselves and making vital changes. Powerful and compassionate, Swerve is ultimately a call to activism, inspiring readers to “swerve” and demand a better world. Ellery Akers ’s most recent collection of poetry is Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance (Blue Light Press, 2020). She is also the author of Practicing the Truth (Autumn House, 2015), winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, the San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award, and an Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry; Knocking on the Earth (Wesleyan University Press, 1988), named a Best Book of the Year by the San Jose Mercury News; and Sarah’s Waterfall (Safer Society Press, 2009), a children’s novel. - [Tarzan's Jungle Plane](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/tarzans-jungle-plane/) - In Tarzan’s Jungle Plane, Michael Malan interrogates the world, and exposes its wonders and absurdities with an elastic imagination, and a quizzical, mordant wit. These are prose poems of great tensile strength—they hold firm even against the most mind-bending jump-cuts, psychic jolts, and astonishing events. Malan recognizes that the miraculous and the humdrum are simply two sides of the same coin, and as he makes clear in the title poem, he’s not afraid to “let the monkey fly the plane. Michael Malan is the author of Overland Park (Blue Light Press, 2017), a collection of poetry and flash fiction. His work has appeared in Epoch, Cincinnati Review, Tampa Review, Washington Square, Grist, Denver Quarterly, Poetry East, and many other journals. He is the editor of Cloudbank, a literary journal published in Corvallis, Oregon. - [The Bridge Under Construction](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-bridge-under-construction/) - Scott Caputo artfully explores the overarching metaphor of the bridges in our lives — to foreign destinations, new jobs, family homes, courtship and marriage, fatherhood, spiritual peace. Nestled within this engaging landscape are a number of ekphrastic and humorous poems that both illuminate and surprise. This collection is a love song to life. Originally from Salem, Oregon, Scott Caputo has had a life-long love affair with writing poetry and creating games. His first book of poetry, Holy Trinity of Chiles, was published by Blue Light Press in 2010. His work has appeared in Red Rock Review, Ruah, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and Saranac Review. He also has five published board games, including Völuspá, based on the Nordic epic poem of the same name. He currently resides in Newark, California, with his wife and two sons. - [The Case of the Six-Sided Dream](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-case-of-the-six-sided-dream-2/) - The poems that make up Matthew Monte’s collection, The Case of the Six-Sided Dream, are a study in love and nature, the temporal world and razor-sharp longings and regrets. The imagery and language makes the reader “greet the fact of this body: bones and sinew in delicious revolt.” We have the pleasure of standing with the poet and experiencing his vivid narration, “a crystal palace crowded with flora craning for light.” The poems explore subjects of journeys and longing, and finding comfort in the rituals of modern life, all the while showing us the tiny details that make us alive, “litter the ground with spare change, silvery bread crumbs leading to…hope.” I was especially entranced by Hitchhiking in Waiatarua, its reflexive form, and smattering on the page, “silt settled puddle-cupped and clean.” I’m so excited for his readers to hold such a beauty in their hands. Matthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The Snackbar Collective, and the Poets 11 Anthologies (2014 and 2016). He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. His debut collection, The Case of the Six-Sided Dream, won the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Prize. - [So God Made a Farmer](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/so-god-made-a-farmer/) - So God Made a Farmer "Paul Harvey would be proud of Levi Lyle. He truly embodies what it means to be a steward of the land. He has shown that working with nature can not only improve the environment but can be financially profitable as well." ~Dale Hilgenkamp, President, American Aronia Berry Association "With farmers facing climate challenges now more than ever - we need bold leaders and innovative strategies to reshape U.S. food and farm policy. Levi calls us to action to revitalize the American farm and revolutionize the future of farming in the U.S." Rosalyn Lehman, Executive Director, Iowa Organic Association "Levi exposes the fundamental flaws in our system of modern, industrialized agriculture and lays out a regenerative vision for the future of agriculture." ~Tom Wahl, Red Fern Farm "Levi lights a hopeful path forward..." ~Christophe Jospe, President, Carbon A List 'This book shows a deep understanding of the land and a well-honed perspective of the many intricacies of life as a farmer." ~Patrick O'Malley, Ph.D., Native Fruit Association "Levi is not just a philosopher of the history and culture of agriculture; he is an innovative farmer who marries technology with ecology." ~Francis Thicke, Soil scientist and organic farmer In a state dominated by mono-cropped GMO corn and soybeans and hog factory farms, sixth-generation farmer Levi Lyle offers a new, comprehensive, and holistic, yet practical vision to regenerate rural Iowa-and America-that he thoughtfully and eloquently presents in "So God Made a Farmer:"A Retrospective on The Living Words of Paul Harvey by an Organic Farmer." Levi sees the problems with the current corporate-dominated industrial agriculture methods that are eroding Iowa's rich soils, polluting its waterways, and hollowing out its once vibrant small towns. But Levi's thoughtful message is not one of division but one of hope, aiming to bring people together to revive rural communities. Levi's perspective is solidly grounded on his family farm with its diversified production based on organic and regenerative agriculture practices. Levi Lyle is not only a farmer, but in his prolific writings, such as So God Made a Farmer, he is also an eloquent spokesperson for a new vision of agriculture that is quickly gaining ground in America and around the world. In this way, Levi Lyle may become the Wendell Berry of his generation. ~Ken Roseboro, editor, The Organic & Non-GMO Report - [FROM THE INSIDE](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/from-the-inside/) - FROM THE INSIDE: NYC through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here NYC From the Inside is a gorgeous compendium: 179 poets you have and haven't heard of, generating over 280 boisterous pages of pure joy and pure pain, comedy and memory, satire and lament, lovers and haters, pizzas and drink and drugs, pavements; a call-and-response of Loisaida flinging its truths to the boroughs and getting those truths back again. Come and get it! - Alicia Ostriker, Poet Laureate, New York State 2018-2021 An unending array of pleasure: a feast, a banquet, a new taste on every page. It's my desert island pick. - Grace Cavalieri, producer, The Poet and the Poem, US Library of Congress This amazing Anthology, with its captivating rhythms, sounds and beats takes us in an all-encompassing arc around New York - this "selfish city amoeba" with "its shifting forms" under a moon "which looks like an overdose." The poems are connected to each other, a collective stream of consciousness which causes us to wander through neighborhoods in a kind of Joycean Ulysses' trip. The poets' acute eyes for details show us all the different worlds which compose this fast moving place - "with that click-clack speed city rhythm," but also unearth much of the unexpected and the unremembered like a "thin line between explorers and natives - the culture which keeps everyone captured, to which everyone emulates." This is a book of people "doing people things in their small frames." Walking down the subway stairs, we enter the final episode of this trip - the underworld, with its train whistles, its platform buskers, its schizophrenic poets, its blanket-clad people with "beards wet with liquor" - a mélange of absurdities, an immense panorama of futility and anarchy; a metaphor for our contemporary world. - Antje Stehn, curator, Rucksack, A Global Poetry Patchwork Project, Milano, Italy Here are bird's eye views, up close and personal. Here is high life and low life, high energy and quiet reflection. Here are the multifarious moods and aspects of a great city, found in abundance in this inclusive and exhilarating volume. These poems are wide-awake, as befits poems for the city that never sleeps - we see and experience the great metropolis as if for the first time. To re-phrase Dr. Johnson, if a person is tired of New York, then they are tired of life. - Penelope Shuttle, poet and novelist, UK, Cholmondely Award 2007 - [Gabriel & the Remarkable Pebbles](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/gabriel-the-remarkable-pebbles/) - Gabriel’s early years in a French orphanage contradict his glorious outcome. He struggles in his interactions with adults because of his exceptional ways of knowing what others do not. At the age of nine, Gabriel is at last adopted by a warm, loving couple, Nicole and Jean-Pierre Honors, and shares their boat home on the river Seine. The Honores, professionally trained geologists, assist Gabriel in the interpretation of his precious pebble dreams. In a series of adventures, pebbles corresponding to those of Gabriel’s dream are found at uncommon location throughout the world. It is discovered that the pebbles contain unique properties and are capable of creating heat, without burning, and purifying polluted waters. As a result of Gabriel’s dream, and the trust given to him by his parents, all nations are equally benefited with a clean inexhaustible energy source. - [Where Do I Belong?](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/where-do-i-belong/) - A Loblolly Tree is removed from the only home he has ever known and sent on a journey where he faces fear, uncertainty and physical transformation, all the time wondering where he belongs and where his new home will be. After a difficult adventure, he arrives at his new home, learning he was never really alone, and discovering new friends, new purpose and new opportunities. - [PCs for Peewees](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/pcs-for-peewees/) - Pcs for Peewees provides parents and carers with the necessary support for educating their children on the use of computers. Perfect for busy parents and overwhelmed instructors, this book offers all of the vital information to help young individuals advance their technological skills quickly and easily. Using unique interactive games and fun activities, the learning process is made easy for both teacher and student. There is even an additional adult section that works as an excellent guide for readers exploring the features of a PC. - [How to Start Your Own Improv Comedy Group](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-to-start-your-own-improv-comedy-group/) - What if all the theatre books in the world taught people how to rehearse but not how to perform? Nothing on presentation. This odd situation exists in the genre of improv theatre books, where there are quite a few published tomes providing improv training, but nothing, really, on how to perform it in front of a live audience. This book gives all the tools that a reasonably competent adult would need to understand improv theatre, train others, form a performing group, and keep it together as long as possible. The unique element of this book is it's focus not only on improv concepts and games but on practical guidelines for creating a viable performing group and staging improv games for live audiences. The book includes an extensive game list with staging comments. - [Night of the Realtors](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/night-of-the-realtors/) - In this spectacularly entertaining first novel, David Jenneson takes us into the world of obsession and redemption. Ray Seawee, recently released from jail and working to make a new start, comes under the spell of Red Devlin, who believes God made him "the greatest realtor who ever lived." Red mesmerizes Seawee and many others with promises of money and phenomenal success in a scheme to realize his dream of selling the White House-the greatest deal of all time. And he will stop at nothing. The Night of the Realtors is a hilariously raucous ride through the dangerous territory of real estate scams, cross and double-cross, and the power of greed. This very funny novel was runner-up to the Robertson Davies First Novel Award and winner of the 2004 Chelson Award for fiction. Considering the current state of American politics, it is more timely and hilarious than ever. - [A Lesson For Neddy](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-lesson-for-neddy/) - Here is a captivating story about a little fir tree who gets a wonderful lesson about life and himself. It is a story that every boy and girl will relate to and ultimately learn from. - [A Very Busy Day In The Garden](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-very-busy-day-in-the-garden/) - Here is a captivating story about a little fir tree who gets a wonderful lesson about life and himself. It is a story that every boy and girl will relate to and ultimately learn from. - [Camp Ghoulog](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/camp-ghoulog/) - Camp Ghoulog, follows two children on their summer vacation at the beach. Magic and mystery unfolds when one of the children discovers that he can speak and understand the language of sea creatures. Whales, dolphins and octopi all express their concern for how humans mistreat the oceans and together the children come up with a plan to … - [Christmas Present](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/christmas-present/) - James Hrdlicka’s reflections on memories of family Christmases bring to light the power of celebrating one’s own cherished traditions. Through heartache and personal challenges, the author reminds us of the magic and wonder of Christmas and exhorts us to keep the magic lively even beyond the last week in December. Hrdlicka highlights friends and family members who have helped make his Christmases so wonderful. He values the simple life with his wife, Debbie, and his black Lab, Kallee. The story shows how over the years Christmas has inspired him to “see the good in others” and recognize the blessings of health and happiness. The unique sparkle of poetry enriches the fabric of this timeless narrative as well as the fine touch of New England humor and insight to keep you going. Delightful illustrations by Char Russell capture the essence of each chapter. For a very special Christmas Present add this touching holiday tale to your shopping list. - [The Face on Mars](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-face-on-mars/) - The Face on MarsHarold Allan Purchase Now! Few authors have attempted to present a serious philosophical work in the form of a novel. Still fewer would seek to incorporate legitimate ... scientific concepts into what is primarily a science fiction mystery. In The Face On Mars we have just such an unusual blend of ingredients. Although intended to inspire thought into the nature and purpose of the universe, it will have definite appeal to ... - [Rider Down](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/rider-down/) - An elementary school teacher believed the fluff of a picturesque brochure and signed up for the adventure of a lifetime, on horseback in the High Sierra's. Before she had time to question her own sanity, she ends up smack in the middle of driving a herd of horses and mules over one hundred miles, in just four days. The terrain was brutal. In the evenings worn out bodies were refueled with alcohol. The mixture of high altitudes, exhaustion and strong liquor led to explosive, outlandish behavior, as riders celebrated and stories flowed. Rider Down is filled with romance a splash of humor and fast paced dialogue with characters so real you can almost touch them - [Garden of Riejh](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/garden-of-riejh/) - Angel, Brooke, Reagan, and Tiffany-four girls who couldn't be more different, who wouldn't possibly have ever met in their average lifetimes-are tossed together because of a single similarity. Crafts. Not just any crafts either, but crazy-powerful, totally unrestrained, completely unnatural crafts. Threadborn Intellectual Seer. Roseborn Shadow. Metalborn Architect. Creationborn Compassionate. One can see the future. One is often mistaken for a shadow. One has an uncanny fondness for metals. One can create life from paint. The four girls have crafts that few understand, and pasts that create problems for them. Here's the first segment of four of Garden of Riejh, a book about craft and friendship. Enjoy! - [How I Became A Big Brother](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-i-became-a-big-brother/) - “How I Became A Big Brother” is a children’s book that explains adoption to young children. It is a simple story of how a little boy who doesn’t have any siblings suddenly becomes a big brother to an adopted child. The story is told from the point of view of the toddler and touches on many of the concerns and fears that a child might be experiencing when their family decides to adopt. This book is a must read for anyone who is considering adoption of another child when they already have young children. - [How I Became A Big Sister](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-i-became-a-big-sister/) - Author: Dave Moore Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4218-9870-4 Pages: 24 Editions: 978-1-4218-9870-4 - Softcover: $12.95 978-1-4218-9871-1 - eBook: $10.95 - [Judy's Rainbow](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/judys-rainbow/) - This is an autobiographical story about a little girl who tries to catch the rainbow for her mother. A delightful narrative that children will be able to identify with. - [Dad and Me go to School](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dad-and-me-go-to-school/) - Dad and Me Go to School is a delightful tale of how the author's father accidentally shrinks himself, smaller than an ant, with a scientific potion he is testing. In order to become large again, the mini-DAD makes friends with an ant named Albert and a candy-person named Andy, who first help find his family, and later help find the DAD who is lost in a big city-center. - [Lulu's Words to Parents](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/lulus-words-to-parents/) - Lulu’s Words to…Parents was written with passion, simplicity and wisdom, in hopes that parents will understand the importance of loving their children unconditionally, from birth to college. - [Principal Dusanek](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/principal-dusanek/) - Principal Dusanek is a kind loving soul. This is a book of poems and thoughts from a tiny percentage of the many students who benefited from his love and teaching skills. This book is our way of saying thanks to him. Thank you Mr. Dusanek for helping us by your example. ~~~~ Anya and Aman Charles, Children's Poetry Editor - [Toggin and the Naughty Sniffit](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/toggin-and-the-naughty-sniffit/) - Are you always wishing you were somewhere else? Do you day dream of magical places, creatures of the unknown? Then search no more, this is the book for you. Step into a world of Morgs, Sniffit and the adventure of the old English country side. Join Toggin and his friends for a story of excitement, charm and humor. Escape every day life and see through the eyes of the little people in Dawn Gorman’s delightful book “Toggin and the Naughty Sniffit.” - [2008 Poetry and Stories](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/2008-poetry-and-stories/) - Author: FMS Students Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4218-9069-2 Pages: 184 Editions: 978-1-4218-9069-2 - Softcover: $14.95 978-1-4218-9070-8 - eBook: $6.00 - [2009 Poetry and Stories](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/2009-poetry-and-stories/) - Poetry and Stories by 6th grade students of Fairfield Middle School - [Poetry 2007](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/poetry-2007/) - Author: FMS Students Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: Pages: 152 - [Washington Elementary 2009](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/washington-elementary-2009/) - A Collection of Poetry and short Stories by students of Washington Elementary School. - [I Used To Be Afraid Of Animals](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/i-used-to-be-afraid-of-animals/) - A girl grows up in the Congo near the rainforest. She is afraid of animals. Any animal! And in the Congo, animals live everywhere. She hides in her bed when there is a boa loose in the vegetable garden. She runs from dogs, cats, cockroaches, even a friend’s pet rhinoceros. When she eats her favorite food, stir-fried crickets, she has to close her eyes because she’s so scared. There is only one animal she’s not afraid of, her sister’s monkey, Coco. Coco steals her bananas and plays pranks constantly. She does not like him. He even laughs while throwing coconuts at people from the high palm trees. Can a monkey teach a girl to be fearless? - [If We Could Find Another Way](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/if-we-could-find-another-way/) - Tim is a little Elf. On a bright, beautiful morning, he decides to go hunting in the forest he has always called home. He has no idea what he will learn and who he will meet during this unexpected journey, sure to change his life forever... - [Monty the Fish Goes on Vacation](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/monty-the-fish-goes-on-vacation/) - Monty was an idea. I had to occupy my children and their friends on a stormy day in Texas. Give them the latitude to discover their imagination. From here, Monty came to life. Thanks to those youngsters, my thoughts went to a fish that behaves like a child, doing the things children love most. So here we are with Monty going on a vacation. Have fun and enjoy. - [Monty the Fish Goes to the Zoo](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/monty-the-fish-goes-to-the-zoo/) - Monty was an idea. I had to occupy my children and their friends on a stormy day in Texas. Give them the latitude to discover their imagination. From there Monty came to life. A fish that behaves like a child, doing things that we love to do. Thanks to those youngsters, my thoughts went to what out of character other animals can do. So here we are with Monty going to the Zoo. I hope you enjoy - [Musicians of Darfur](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/musicians-of-darfur/) - Sometimes, luck finds us when times are worst. In the middle of August, terribly hot in the Darfur region of Sudan, Africa, there lived two lucky brothers, Luis Carmono and Ulysses Delmar, who owned nothing whatsoever. Luis and Ulysses lost their parents to terror attacks, but never once did they complain for more than what they had. They sang together every day, and at night, they slept in peace looking forward to tomorrow. THE MUSICIANS OF DARFUR follows the life two unlikely heroes who charmed millions with their natural gifts. ~~~ Proceeds from the sale of this book are sent to: The HELP SUDAN FUND founded by the LOST BOYS OF SUDAN whose goal is to provide food and water to children in Darfur and to build schools to educate the uneducated. Programs include recruiting school administration, integrating community involvement, providing funding to teachers and administrators, constructing school buildings, and drilling water wells for the school campus. - [The Unlikely Confederacy of Hoggy, Froggy and Ernie](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-unlikely-confederacy-of-hoggy-froggy-and-ernie/) - When a pig, a frog, and a woodpecker set out from Swami's Beach in Southern California on a three wheeled motorcycle bound for the ancient redwood forests of Big Sur, a lot can go wrong. There's the usual stuff like getting caught in a magnitude 8 earthquake and being followed by the ruthless bounty hunter known as Reacher. One expects that sort of thing. But when they get lost at midnight in the middle of nowhere, are being stalked by a hungry eagle and find themselves facing a nine-thousand-year-old blood feud with a gang of revenge seeking Rakshasas (think Orcs, only meaner) hot on their trail, things get a bit tricky and they can use all the help they can get. Someone's got to have their back. It's times like this when it's good to have friends. Like Swami, who spends most of his time surfing but can do some amazing things; or Calliope Rose, the shotgun toting inn keeper; or Vashti, the ten-thousand-year-old holy man; or Anansi, the shape shifting trickster; or Stokes, the ageless mountain man. And of course, it's always nice to have Fred, the deranged Ninja, on your side as well. An unlikely confederacy, indeed - [Pavement](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/pavement/) - Winner of the 2016 Blue Light Poetry Prize Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, Saranac Review, Poets & Artists and other magazines. He is the author of The Wine-Dark House (Blue Light Press, 2009) and Crazy Star (selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005). Larson won 1st Editor’s Prize from Rhino Magazine in 2000 and has won prizes for his poetry from The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation among others. A seven-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 & 2004, a featured writer in the DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts in 2007 & 2008, and he was a featured poet at the Poetry at Round Top Festival in May 2012. - [The Wieght of Snow](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-wieght-of-snow/) - Sharon Lask Munson’s poems travel through space, tunnel through time, and cross generations. Whether free verse, prose poem, haiku or haibun, they carry, lean on and converse with each other in this exquisite volume of poetry. Personal history, family traditions, food, the natural world, pop culture, all blend into a sumptuous word stew. Reality is often heightened. Snow becomes more than snow. A collection of watches becomes an emblem of time. A dessert pastry becomes more than a dessert, ‘no two… cut from the same dough.’ She shows us that life can be painted with marvelous colors, sensuous images, and at ‘end of day’ be ‘strewn with possibilities. Sharon Lask Munson was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She taught school in England, Germany, Okinawa, and Puerto Rico before driving to Anchorage, Alaska and staying for the next twenty years. She is a retired teacher, poet, coffee addict, old movie enthusiast, lover of road trips — with many published poems, two chapbooks, and one full-length book of poetry. She now lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon. She says many things motivate her to write: a mood, a memory, the smell of cooking, burning leaves, a windy day, rain, fog, something observed or overheard — and of course, imagination. She has a pin that says, “I Make Things Up. - [Poetry for the Leader Inside You: A Search and Rescue Mission for the Heart and Soul](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/poetry-for-the-leader-inside-you-a-search-and-rescue-mission-for-the-heart-and-soul/) - Over the past 25 years Dale Biron has coached an extraordinary number of successful leaders and teams, fulfilling his mission to support clients in both their work and personal lives. Using bold, powerful language, he is transforming how timeless narratives and poems are experienced and applied. Bucking tradition, Dale uses poetry in story-rich, entertaining and engaging ways that ignite the mind, unleash the imagination, and touch the heart and soul. He has long observed how great stories and poems integrate and draw out the best of our intellectual and emotional selves. Such poems and stories have wholehearted conversations built right in, making them exceptional tools for those who want to improve their communication and accomplish more together. Dale has presented and taught at large and small venues throughout the West, including TEDx Marin, national business conferences, The Herbst Theatre, and Dominican University. He is former Poetry Editor for A Network for Grateful Living and served on the Board of Directors of the Marin Poetry Center. Dale’s own book of poems—Why We Do Our Daily Practice—was published in 2014. Growing up in the Piedmont region of North Carolina under the watchful care of a New England-bred Father who read voraciously and a Southern-born Mother who loved poetry, literature and Latin, Dale’s love for language was predestined. He now lives, works and gardens in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. - [The Meter is Irregular, Volume 3 - Inner Life of Turtles](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-meter-is-irregular-volume-3-inner-life-of-turtles/) - ~ ~ The Meter is Irregular, Volume 3 - INNER LIFE OF TURTLES, is the third installment of a 3 volume collection of two hundred poems, from bestselling author Rodney Charles, which follows the evolution of an author who hopes to leave a poetic legacy for his children that deals with self-identity, grief, death, spiritual progress and loving. Within these pages he chronicles his own unique discoveries of faith, doctrines, self honesty and imagination in the hope of leaving a few life-lessons-learned for his family - his muse. ~ ~ ~ ~ Rodney Charles is author of The Land of Love, Art & Genius; Miracles of the Saints; Lighter Than Air; Publish It Now; Book Marketing Basics; and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. ~~~ - [The Meter Is Irregular - Parenting Teenage Werewolves](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-meter-is-irregular-parenting-teenage-werewolves/) - ~ ~ The Meter is Irregular - Parenting Teenage Werewolves, a collection of seventy-two poems from bestselling author Rodney Charles, introduces a new direction in the author's work. Grappling with the everyday challenges of parenting, the author hopes to leave a poetic legacy for his children that deal with self-identity, grief, death, spiritual progress and loving. Within these pages he chronicles his own unique discoveries of faith, religious doctrines, self-honesty and imagination in the hope of leaving a few life-lessons-learned for his family - his muse. ~ ~ ~ ~ Rodney Charles is author of The Land of Love, Art & Genius; Miracles of the Saints; Lighter Than Air; Publish It Now; Book Marketing Basics; and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. - [The Meter Is Irregular, Volume 2 - Unleashing Teenage Werewolves](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-meter-is-irregular-volume-2-unleashing-teenage-werewolves/) - ~ ~ The Meter is Irregular, Volume 2 - Unleashing Teenage Werewolves, a collection of seventy-four poems from bestselling author Rodney Charles, introduces a new direction in the author's work. Grappling with the everyday challenges of parenting, the author hopes to leave a poetic legacy for his children that deals with self-identity, grief, death, spiritual progress and loving. Within these pages he chronicles his own unique discoveries of faith, religious doctrines, self-honesty and imagination in the hope of leaving a few life-lessons-learned for his family - his muse. ~ ~ ~ ~ Rodney Charles is author of The Land of Love, Art & Genius; Miracles of the Saints; Lighter Than Air; Publish It Now; Book Marketing Basics; and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. ~~~ ~~~AUTHOR NOTE: "This is the most remarkable work of literature written today. You can trust me completely because I wrote it today. If you question my objectivity, believing my views may represent a conflict of interest ...well that's just all wrong. Go ahead, "Look Inside the Book." You'll see. This work is as pithy and depressing as any great literature. Go ahead. Look inside. It's my second work of poetry. That means it is twice as good as my first, right?" ~~THE AUTHOR - [The Perfume of Leaving](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-perfume-of-leaving/) - WINNER OF THE 2016 BLUE LIGHT PRESS AWARD KB Ballentine’s poetry embodies what James Wright called “the delicacy and strength of lace.” Love and blues are her subjects, and she is faithful to them in lines that are firm yet fanciful, offering trellises with blooms in every season. Perhaps this is the “season of want,” but in KB’s hands the season is plentiful; the poems regale and nurture us, croon and soothe. The Perfume of Leaving is a gift that each song gives back after sorrow. From the elegant lyricism of “Blueshift” to the grudges “clutched like salt,” our poet has the confidence and sureness of craft and spirit “to get it right / this time.” — Marilyn Kallet, author of 16 books, including The Love That Moves Me, Black Widow Press KB Ballentine’s The Perfume of Leaving questions whether moments serve as arrival or threshold, blessing or sorrow. After all, we live in a context where “Eternity stains the air.” So, too, memory–its possibilities, its promises, as well as its erasures, its regrets. Her poems offer a way to “refus[e] the news and its dirges,”–both national and personal, both present and past– despite recognizing that “the path to the future lies broken.” Ballentine’s poems stand clear, steadfast, aware that even though “the way ahead [is] unclear,” we must “trust our hearts to that first step.” — Jeff Hardin, author of Small Revolutions and Restoring the Narrative In Celtic spirituality thin places are where the physical and spiritual, the visible and invisible, merge. Ballentine’s work is full of such places, where past and present meet as “ghosts swarm,” and where the “moment of blessing, moment of sorrow” are one and the same. Ballentine studies “the names they left” for clues to how past loss produces present strength. In response to “What could I offer now?” she offers the answer of deeply observed details: “... surf spooling around our ankles / Fireflies, hope flaring in twilight.” This book is itself “a pause between ridges that capture(s) the light” and the note of this book’s perfume is all heart. — Kimberly L. Becker, author of Words Facing East and The Dividings In The Perfume of Leaving, KB Ballentine weaves alchemical word magic, with an astounding tenderness in vision and voice. Her poems are elegant jewels, with a powerful sense of place in the Appalachian mountains. Her writing weaves sensual beauty, transparent emotions, and language that sings — poems running wild in the landscape of the heart. Her poems will call you to see the world in a different way. — Diane Frank, author of Blackberries in the Dream House - [The Village Schoolmaster; two Daughters, Two Cultures](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-village-schoolmaster-two-daughters-two-cultures/) - In 1938 our father Herman Larsen takes a position with the Alaska Native Service to teach in a small Athabascan Indian village. Herman, his wife Mae, and their eight-year-old daughter Etola travel from Mandan, North Dakota, for 58 days to get to their new home. In April of 1941 Mae and Etola return to Mandan to wait for the birth of their second daughter Yvonne. On March 3rd of 1942 an Indian woman gives birth to twins who appear to be white. The news of the birth of white twins spreads around the village, but Herman, the only white man in the village, denies any involvement saying the mother's husband is part Russian and the villagers are a bunch of "gossips". The Larsens experience tragedy in March of 1943 when Etola dies of hepatitis. Subsequently they live in three other Alaskan villages, during which time Robert (Bud) and Elaine are born, then leave Alaska forever. Nearly 50 years later, Yvonne returns to Alaska. There a native woman tells her that we have a half-sister. - [The Will of a Wildflower](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-will-of-a-wildflower/) - Children change after a near-death experience, even though they can’t process any of it. We return with gifts we don’t even know we have—until we use them. The Will of a Wildflower is my spiritual journey through this life. Everyone has a unique story. This one is mine. What I learned—once I stopped avoiding the past and bravely turned around and faced it—amazes me every single day. Author and speaker Pegi Robinson has been featured at the International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS) Radio Talkzone and at the IANDS Conference in Denver. Her experiences have been included in reference and research books. - [THIS ENDURING GIFT](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/this-enduring-gift-2/) - "A poem is...it cannot be otherwise... seldom explained...it spreads its words...on a page...hovering in a white sky..." So begins world-famous singer/songwriter Donovan in his poetic foreword to This Enduring Gift. This Enduring Gift is a collection of timeless and memorable poetry that digs deep and delivers. The 76 poets come from many parts of the US, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, and several countries in Europe. They have one thing in common - they live or have lived in one buzzing, cosmopolitan small town in America's Heartland: Fairfield, Iowa. In nearly 300 poems, these remarkable poets not only share important nuggets from their own lives, but they communicate in universal terms, touching the very heart of our existence. Each poem speaks in its own distinct voice. Regardless of the many different styles and approaches these poets exhibit, each of their poems complement the others in a larger context. All 16 chapters read like a little book each expressing many variations on its theme, which you can savor in your own sweet time. Freddy Niagara Fonseca, Renaissance man, poet, dramatic reader, impresario, and creator of This Enduring Gift has immersed himself in the arts all his life and has read tens of thousands of poems in five languages. In 2004 he founded the Candlelight Reading Series, and in 2007, the Chamber Music Society Fairfield. With the collaboration of expressive readers, musicians, dancers, and actors, he has presented over 50 poetry readings on universal themes culled from poetry of all styles, eras, and cultures. He regularly invites noteworthy musicians - statewide, nationwide, and internationally - to perform chamber music in Fairfield, Iowa. Freddy Niagara Fonseca believes that poetry and the whole world will drastically change once a new, spiritual paradigm of consciousness and language emerges. Poetry will then be experienced, written, and appreciated in universal terms, and a sublime awareness of the Earth will manifest. He has lived in Fairfield for over 20 years and calls it home. "This Enduring Gift is a wonderful compilation of the many rich voices and gifted poets who live in Fairfield, IA-a unique spot on the map. This anthology should not only endure, but inspire, enlighten and entertain all who touch its pages." - MARY SWANDER, Poet Laureate of IA, Author of The Girls on the Roof "This Enduring Gift is a testament to the abiding power of poetry within a particularly unique community and, by extension, speaks to poetry's universal relevance. Here, a convergence of voices from places near and far, gathered in a small Midwestern town, observe, reflect, meditate, and wonder. From evocative lyrics to compelling narratives, from precise moments of deeply felt experience to inquiries of mystical complexities, these poems resonate with individual authenticity and true collective spirit." - WALTER E. BUTTS, 2009-2014 Poet Laureate of New Hampshire "This Enduring Gift reads like a collection of polished mirrors reflecting the valor of Fairfield poets - valor born of candor and insight that takes center stage and performs a love affair with language." - KIRA ROSNER, Author of When Souls Take Flight "The poems of This Enduring Gift...indicate an original awareness, a sensibility, a clarity of image, rhythm, and color from a group of individuals who have lived in Fairfield, Iowa - far more than a geographical location, but more a state of mind, or consciousness, seemingly, as there is a remarkable texture-ness to them all, each one unique in its shine and feel. I am startled at the creative light found in this wonderful collection so well arranged, edited and created by Freddy Fonseca." - RUDY WILSON Author of The Red Truck, and other novels. - [THIS FOOL'S JOURNEY THROUGH TAROT'S 22 MAJOR ARCANA](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/this-fools-journey-through-tarots-22-major-arcana/) - Living artfully, with integrity, guides my life. I seek to express Truth in personal vision, to communicate honestly with consideration, committed to excellence in all endeavor. I choose to be authentic. -Melanie Gendron Born in Boston, MA, Melanie attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in affiliation with Tufts University. She has developed a unique style rich in symbolism inspired by many cultures. Proficient in a variety of media, Melanie enjoys a renaissance attitude, creating with inspiration her authentic expression of Spirit. Melanie's prize winning artwork is widely exhibited and represented in numerous collections, both public and private. Among her publications are the internationally acclaimed Gendron Tarot, A Journal for Cat Lovers and The Goddess Remembered, a Spiritual Journal. Melanie is a multimedia, multi-tasking, professional artist who has served a variety of clients as: animator, art director, author, book designer, fashion designer, graphic artist, illustrator, poet, painter, portraitist, teacher-metaphysician, intuitive counselor-whatever skill applies to give her best effort. She currently manages Gendron Studios in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, offering fine and commercial art and tarot products and services, on the web at www.melaniegendron.com, Email gentarot@comcast.net. ENDORSEMENTS: The personified tarot cards in This Fool's Journey talk about themselves, making the archetypes accessible to the reader. The line drawings of the Gendron Tarot major arcana make this book a visual as well as consciously expansive treat. -John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Melanie Gendron infuses the 22 major arcana with her own spiritual journey. Her insights make the archetypes come alive. The result is delightful-a book of reflections, poetry, and artwork that reflect her skills as an innovative multimedia artist. -Stewart Florsheim, Author of A Short Fall from Grace and A Split Second of Light The "fool" according to Ms. Gendron, is a manifestation of child-like innocence. Melanie's work is a magical compilation of art, poetry, and everyday experience inspired by Tarot's major arcana. It is an invitation for all of us to awaken to the innocence, fullness, and beauty of life as it is. -Don Lofland, Ph.D., Author of Powerlearning and Thought Viruses Melanie Gendron takes you on a personal voyage of self discovery, This book is a beautiful example of self actualization. Very entertaining. Her latest book This Fool's Journey, will inspire you and stir your imagination, inviting you on the journey as a divine Fool to gain mastery of the Universe. This is a trip worth taking. This is a book well worth having in your collection. -Peggy Black, Author of Morning Messages "We Are Here" Transmissions and Morning Messages Invitations Contained by a cohesive vision, Melanie Gendron partitions her poetically painted rooms, housed in This Fool's Journey. Cleverly calling upon the elemental spirits, she spins cycles in duality's direction, the four corners of life: North and South, East and West, instilled inside our Center. As she shares each Arcana from her personally insightful journey, she weaves hidden names and messages within the patterns of our lives, moving emotions overflowing our empty cup. Melanie Gendron 'geminizes' words with dual meanings, unfolding archetypal visions released to channel the enlightenment of self-actualization and free will through her penetrating poetry. So, "Breathe" in "Shadows" of Pandora's Box while "Dancing with the Demon," "Reaching . . ." "Though Miles Apart," the senses from the "Love" of "My Goddess." -Justin R. Hart, Poetic Author of Harmonic Hart Visions of Goddesses, Angel, Mermaids, and Fairy Tales and The Crystal Kaleidoscope of a Searching Silhouette www.harmonic-hart-visions.com - [Traveling, with Children: 10 Simple Tips for Making Travel a Pleasure...for Everyone](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/traveling-with-children-10-simple-tips-for-making-travel-a-pleasure-for-everyone/) - BONUS OFFER: Get a free eBook with this purchase and correspond directly with the author via email. We've all traveled by car, bus, train, and plane. The reasons could be for short trips, long journeys in and around the country, and overseas-as vacationers, tourists, college students, businesspeople, and more. When we travel, it's not unusual for us to encounter families with little infants and toddlers. How often on these travels have we come across families with young infants who are simply unhappy travelers, so unhappy that eventually their parents get frustrated and exhausted, making it diffi cult for fellow passengers to be comfortable as well? These are times we want to put on the headphones and blast the music with maximum volume or wish someone had developed a technology to block sound out completely. Even the most adorable babies can become tiresome, with others passengers becoming increasingly impatient with restless unhappy infants. Babies don't have to be cranky-we simply have to know how to care for them. - [What The Wind Taught Me](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/what-the-wind-taught-me/) - Pearl Werbach’s debut collection of poems gives young readers the opportunity to read poetry written by someone their own age. Wise beyond her years, she has a wonderful way with language, and her poems are full of delightful surprises. Highly recommended for young and adult readers. Her poems will call you to you see the world in a different way. Pearl Werbach is an eleven-year-old poet who attends the Brandeis School of San Francisco. She was awarded second place in the Northern California Immigration Council writing contest in 2017. When she is not writing poetry, she is with her quirky bird, a Sun Conure named Mango. - [When Angels Make House Calls](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/when-angels-make-house-calls/) - Represented authors: John Chandler, Sandra McGill, Özden Öke, Rita M. Bral, Emine Karakurt, Curt Buettner, Helen Fernald, Masaru Yoshihara, Mary Hernandez, Sibel Eşiyok, Ruth Rendely, Nancy Brandt, DVM, Taraku (pen name), Alex Brandin, Andrew Ramer (poem). When Angels Make House Calls is a feel-good collection of short stories, both fictional and non-fictional, that illustrate miracles still happen in this day and age. These stories are the winning entries from the 2017 Seraphic Prize short story competition. These authors, mainly first-timers, felt inspired to record their personal accounts of being touched by angels and share their experiences with the world. Some stories detail miraculous healings, others are about finding one’s real purpose in life. Some tell of astonishing communication with companion animals, others offer inspiration in dealing with the hurtful loss of loved ones. A few stories explore unusual realms while deep in meditation, but mainly, each and every kindhearted story will fill you with hope, warmth and optimism. Enjoy. - [Yoga of the Impossible](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/yoga-of-the-impossible/) - Take an American geisha, a sculptor who knows everything the geishas know about love. Put her in a society that’s morally profane and ask her to find her way. The story is told through the soul of a sculptor who lives her life as a contemporary Aphrodite. Katarina sees everything through the lens of an obscure Indian philosophy, Yoga of the Impossible. Early in the novel, two young teenagers face a trauma that will ripple through their lives unless they turn around and deal with it. You’ll meet a tribe of late-blooming artists searching for love on a crooked path. Dripping with fine art, YOGA OF THE IMPOSSIBLE is populated with musicians, dancers, sculptors, radio talk show hosts, and mermaids transforming lunacy into poetry. - [You Can't Hide a Dead Fish](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/you-cant-hide-a-dead-fish/) - "His body had been discovered inadvertently, spilling out of a ripped plastic bag full of garbage and dirty diapers while being dumped into a landfill." In the first chapter of You Can't Hide a Dead Fish, a senseless, brutal murder starkly exposes the inadequate resources, skewed priorities and bureaucratic nonsense that put all children, and ultimately all of society, at risk. The book proceeds to address many of the challenging issues facing public school educators today, offering positive suggestions and proven strategies for success throughout. Writing in a frank yet heartfelt, conversational style, Cecilia Thomas simply shares her observations and experiences as an elementary school counselor in an effort to motivate and empower the average citizen to "...be as vital as a railway switch, shifting a life from one track to another at a critical junction." - [Your Multiple Souls - How They Direct Your Creativity, Genius, Complexity, and Moods](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/your-multiple-souls-how-they-direct-your-creativity-genius-complexity-and-moods/) - Often when some breakthrough in science or technology occurs, several individuals, unbeknownst to each other, simultaneously arrive at the same conclusions. For the past twenty-five years Ruth Rendely has been waiting to see if someone else would come forward with the revolutionary discoveries about the nature of souls that she first comprehended in 1989. At that time she was living in Japan, and began occasionally doing past-life readings, exploring her abilities as a psychic counselor, in addition to being a lecturer at two Tokyo universities. For some unknown reason, while she was doing these readings, a spirit guide began imparting some new information to her about human souls. He kept showing her clients who had more than one soul, and saying that it was normal. This book is the result of that exploration, which reveals why souls might want to share a body, and what happens when they do. This theory helps to explain complexity in human behavior. Complex normal behavior can mean problems in relationships and career choices; while complex deviant behavior can mean murder, mayhem and suicide. Although most of us hold a reverential feeling about the nature of the soul, in reality souls vary in levels of maturity and treat bodies on a sliding scale between respect and disrespect. Ruth has been shown instances of souls treating bodies much like teenagers going for a joy ride in a stolen car-riding for a few days, and then abandoning the car. What almost nobody realizes is that quite a few souls avoid attachment to a body before that body reaches physical maturity. When Ruth's spirit guide first presented these theories to her, she was naturally dumbfounded, but after he trained her to practically apply them, she became convinced of their veracity. Since those early years, she has assisted souls in entering and exiting human bodies. Her talents go beyond clearing entities, or lost souls, from a person's aura, which many adepts can do. With the help of spirit guides, Ruth has literally induced what the author Ruth Montgomery referred to as "Walk-ins". Most individuals who have experienced these changes have felt profound relief. Ruth has stopped counting the number of suicides that she helped to prevent in utilizing this knowledge and procedures. - [The Land of Love, Art and Genius ~ Master Artists of India](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-land-of-love-art-and-genius-master-artists-of-india/) - Bonus offer: Free ebook ...and talk to the authors. Over 110 color images. ~~~~ The origin of Vedic painting is as old as time itself. In the earliest writings of ancient Indian civilization, 7000 years ago, we find records of the practice of Vedic painting. Vedic painting requires that the artists devote themselves fully in expressing their individuality within the guidelines of specific cognitions inspired by ancient sages and kept alive through an oral tradition within the family lineage. Today there are only a handful of artists throughout India who still strive for so exalted a vision of perfection, avoiding the more lucrative path of commercialism. ~~~~ Few living have witnessed the great treasures of India. In modern times, her majesty has become obscured even to her native sons and daughters. Although in her long and varied history she has known more golden ages than any country of our earth, poor journalism and modern media have fooled us into believing that India is a broken, impudent country characterized by poverty, starvation, and corruption. ~~~~ This is true in part, but by looking between the cracks, it is impossible to miss the fundamental footprints of Indian majesty. They lay just beneath the surface squalor of it's daily life and reveal a heritage of infinite complexity and sophistication. In her past, India's character has been shaped by such abundance and freedom that all the great leaders and conquerors of history have marveled at her material wealth and metaphysical wisdom. ~~~~~ During the early 1990s Nandini Badhwar and Rodney Charles traveled throughout India, navigating a course bound to understand the principles of the world oldest painting techniques. In the end, they barely scratched the surface of an ancient school of art that is as fundamentally transcendent as the human soul. This modest presentation is as much a memoir for the authors as it is an introduction to a greatly under-investigated goldmine of human culture and development. ~~~~ The authors are happily married and love to walk and ride their bikes in the Iowa countryside. "India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only." ~ Mark Twain "India conquered and dominated China culturally for twenty centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border." ~Hu Shih Ambassador of China to USA "If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India." ~Romain Roland "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made." ~Albert Einstein - [The End of Fear; the Path to Freedom with the Formula](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-end-of-fear-the-path-to-freedom-with-the-formula/) - In response to physical and emotional crises, Dr. Sylvest* became open to learning what is true and found the path to his own healing which he has shared in his practice bringing similar relief to many patients. Now in this imminently practical volume ¬combining personal experience with discoveries made in the laboratory, in clinical research and through the Spirit of Truth ¬Dr. Sylvest offers a simple, fresh perspective for understanding the cause of emotional distress and illness and the dynamics of healing. He has bridged the gaps separating medicine, psychology and mysticism for the reader, making it possible to bring all problems to solution. *Dr. Sylvest can be visited at Healing Waters Lodge of Virginia ( www.healingwaterslodge.com; 540-396-3466), a holistic retreat center he and his wife, Anne, are operating. Endorsements An exciting, challenging, and mind-expanding book that is a new vision of what we can become once we strip away our fears. It is full of riveting information that is sure to revolutionize the way we see ourselves and others. Brilliantly conceived! ¬Nancy Clark, Author of Hear His Voice and My Beloved At a time when society seems like a ship that varies between being powerless and being towed in a mighty chaotic storm, there is a need for a spiritual formula which has sustained humanity in times of trial. Dr. Sylvest has eloquently stated The Formula. Use it to sustain your commitments to a healthy happy and spiritually productive life. ¬C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. President, Holos Institutes of Health Professor Emeritus of Energy Medicine President Emeritus Holos University Graduate Seminary Author of 26 books; most recently MEDICAL INTUITION--A Science of the Soul When one cannot tolerate the labor pains of life and is overcome by fear, it is self destructive and time to seek help. This book can help guide you to a place of understanding, peace and healing. ¬Bernie Siegel, MD Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles; How to Live Between Office Visits; Peace Love and Healing; Love, Magic & Mudpies and 365 Prescriptions For The Soul - [The Case of the Six-Sided Dream](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-case-of-the-six-sided-dream/) - The poems that make up Matthew Monte’s collection, The Case of the Six-Sided Dream, are a study in love and nature, the temporal world and razor-sharp longings and regrets. The imagery and language makes the reader “greet the fact of this body: bones and sinew in delicious revolt.” We have the pleasure of standing with the poet and experiencing his vivid narration, “a crystal palace crowded with flora craning for light.” The poems explore subjects of journeys and longing, and finding comfort in the rituals of modern life, all the while showing us the tiny details that make us alive, “litter the ground with spare change, silvery bread crumbs leading to…hope.” I was especially entranced by Hitchhiking in Waiatarua, its reflexive form, and smattering on the page, “silt settled puddle-cupped and clean.” I’m so excited for his readers to hold such a beauty in their hands. Matthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The Snackbar Collective, and the Poets 11 Anthologies (2014 and 2016). He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. His debut collection, The Case of the Six-Sided Dream, won the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Prize. - [The Book of Cold Mountain](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-book-of-cold-mountain/) - ~~~ Winner of the 2016 Blue Light Book Award ~~~ "Cameron Scott writes like a river... his is the language of water and gravity, the silence of an empty desert basin, the smell of sage on cool mornings. The Book of Cold Mountain is a place where words on a page become a porcupine on the road or dandelion seeds in the wind. And these things, these tangible, familiar things, become something more visceral: desire, hope, longing; truths you recognize but have never been able to articulate... ." -Dylan Tomine, Author of Closer to the Ground ~~~~~ Cameron Keller Scott graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA in poetry. Most recently he has worked for Chiloquin Visions in Progress and Fishtrap as a writer in residence, as well as helping to implement Fishtrap Story Lab (www.fishtrap.org). His freelance work has appeared in High Country News, The Drake, The Fly Fish Journal, and The Ski Journal and he currently writes an outdoor column called Steelhead Nation for the La Grande Observer. He is also the author of The Book of Ocho and an editor for A Democracy of Poets, a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards. - [Stop Trying to Fix Me: I'm Grieving as Fast as I Can](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/stop-trying-to-fix-me-im-grieving-as-fast-as-i-can/) - The author's world turned upside down after her husband of 49 years died. While the advice and comments from friends and family were well-intentioned, they often felt like salt in an open wound. Nancy Clark lays bare her very personal journey from anguish, anger and despair to hope and even joy. Unlike other books about grief, this one includes evidence of the afterlife as Ms. Clark recollects her own near-death experiences and describes several after-death communications, offering reassurance that our loved ones are always with us. ~~WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING~~ “Stop Trying to Fix Me: I’m Grieving As Fast As I Can is the unflinching personal experience of a widow who is just now beginning to emerge from profound grief some two years after her husband’s death. Clark shares what it has been like to experience his rapidly declining health, the death itself, and the two years since his death-what she has found helpful and what has increased her sense of grief and isolation. She reminds readers that each person’s grief is unique to them, including the process of healing itself and how long it takes until they begin to have a glimpse of resuming life without their loved one. Her earlier near-death experience and profound spiritually-transformative experience have supported her in the grieving process in that she is certain of life-after-death, but they do not blunt the raw pain of missing a life-long love. Experiences of after-death communication from her deceased husband have contributed to her healing process as well. She has courageously written of her loss in the midst of the loss, not from the vantage point of someone who is writing about the memory of a loss. From that perspective, her writing will be especially helpful to people who are currently undergoing overwhelming grief. One of the most helpful things we can experience when we are in the midst of grief is to hear the personal story of someone who is working through her grief and beginning to see a glimpse of hope for the future. Nancy Clark is that companion on the journey and I recommend this book not only to bereaved loved ones, but also to counselors, friends and people with near-death experiences and spiritually- transformative experiences as they strive to be helpful to bereaved people in their lives.” ~~Pam Kircher, MD ~~Author of Love is the Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares her Experience of Near-Death and Dying - [Smashing Rock And Straight As Razors](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/smashing-rock-and-straight-as-razors/) - George Wallace is Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace (2011-present), first poet laureate of Suffolk County NY, and author of 30 chapbooks of poetry. A seminal figure on the New York City poetry performance scene, Wallace maintains an active international schedule of workshops, lecture presentations and poetry readings. An adjunct professor of English at Pace University and Westchester Community College, he is editor of Poetrybay, Walt's Corner, and co-editor of Great Weather For Media and Long Island Quarterly. In 2015 he was named laureate of the International Beat Poetry Festival. - [Shiny](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/shiny/) - When 12-year-old Shiny Apalaris is taken from her home and placed into foster care, one secret love story ends and another begins. Years later, her brother Carl remains obsessed by the loss of a sister with whom he discovered a love so intense, it tore their family apart. He is still haunted by cached memories of the shy, funny girl he loved but could not protect. Carl searches for Shiny, by now almost a ghost to him, as he wanders through faltering relationships, dead-end jobs, and vivid flashbacks to a time in which he once felt whole. The people he meets along the way will by turns aid and hinder his search, but not until the final passages will he encounter the one person who can help him make sense of a life spent in a spectral world. This is a love story in the deepest sense, a story that does not end... ~~ ~~ ~~ Rudy Wilson is the author of three previous novels, THE RED TRUCK, A GIRL NAMED JESUS, and SONJA'S BLUE. He is the recipient of a CCLM-GE Award for fiction published in The Paris Review, an NEA Fellowship, and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where he attended and taught. He has also taught at three other universities. He has published in many outstanding literary journals including The Paris Review, The Indiana Review (3), Gordon Lish's Ouarterly, The Literarian, and others, and has been nominated for a PUSHCART PRIZE for 2014. He is presently editing his new book, EXIT -ANGEL. - [River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/river-of-earth-and-sky-poems-for-the-21st-century/) - Poems for the Twenty-First Century ~~~~Selected by Diane Frank A poem is a parallel universe that creates an experience line by line. The universe unfolds in a series of images which change the inner experience of the reader. If the poem goes deep enough, the writer and the reader will be changed in a significant way by the end of the poem. River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century mixes the poetry mahatmas of our generation with the grass roots. In these pages, you will find poets who have won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, along with lesser known poets who also deserve to be read. ~~~~ "Congratulations on this fantastic coming together of voices." -Jane Hirshfield, author of The Lives of the Heart, The Beauty, and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry ~~~~ "Anywhere I turn to read, masterly and compelling work." -Robert Scotellaro, author of Measuring the Distance and Rhapsody of Fallen Objects ~~~~ "Kudos to you for putting together such an impressive collection! What a thrill to see my poem 'Leaving Montana' rubbing elbows with Willa Cather's 'Prairie Spring'!" -Judith Waller Carroll, author of Walking in Early September ~~~~ "What an honor to be published among some of the writers I've looked up to my whole life - Stephen Dunn, Jane Hirshfield, Kim Addonizio - wow!" -Sarah McKinstry-Brown, author of Cradling Monsoons and When You Are Born ~~~~ "Such an honor to rub shoulders in print with so many extraordinary voices." -Laurie Kuntz, author of Women at the Onsen - [Physics for Beginners](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/physics-for-beginners/) - In Physics for Beginners, John Harn seems to bend the natural world to his will, upending what we know to give us something fresh. His poems inhabit loss and though they are often steeped in the indifference of geologic time and weary religious notions, they are tempered by humor and ‘fragile beauty.’ This is an exceptional first book. JOHN HARN was born in Dayton, Ohio, grew up near Detroit and attended Michigan State University. After graduating with a BA in Education, he spent a year in Galveston, Texas, working at the Community Arts Center on the Strand. In 1978, he joined the MFA Poetry program at the University of Oregon in Eugene where he was an advisee of Ralph Salisbury. He taught introductory poetry writing there for two years and for one year at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. - [Passion for Place: Embracing Global Wanderlust](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/passion-for-place-embracing-global-wanderlust/) - This story captures the improbable travel adventures of an isolated farm kid who grows into a geography professor. Representing different stages of adult life, the chapters are a series of journeys to six continents. These include the very first trip: from the family farm in rural New York State to the city of Mainz in Germany, a determined quest to visit all 3143 US counties, buddy trips to South America and Australia, a Fulbright assignment in Russia, Europe with kids, and university travel courses to the Czech Republic, Croatia, and Ghana. The author is a passionate traveler who creatively finds the means to explore the world and make adjustments when things don't go as planned. In sum, this volume demonstrates that travel is the best education that a little money can buy. ~~~~ ~~~~ - [Revelations from the Light: What I Learned About Life's Purposes](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/revelations-from-the-light-what-i-learned-about-lifes-purposes/) - This true story could change the way you look at life, death, and love. In Revelations from the Light: What I Learned about Life’s Purposes, Nancy Clark bares her soul as she describes her four encounters with the Light-God during her life. She describes her very touching childhood mystical experience with God, her near-death experience when she died during childbirth and woke up in the morgue, her amazing and inspiring near-death-like spiritually transformative experience while delivering a eulogy, and a mystical experience later in her life. Here, right in your hands, is the author’s luminous message for us brought back from Heaven’s Great Teacher, the Light-God. It is a message that each of us is being called to hear. Who are we, why are we here, and what is life all about? The author’s description of her journey to the Light will take one’s breath away! What is unique in this book is the benevolent guidance the author gives us to lead us toward greater awareness of our own spiritual transformation by demystifying the soul and its purpose. The revelations she was taught by her Great Teacher, the Light-God bear witness to the transforming presence of the Divine in human consciousness. We are being inspired to live our life reviews NOW while we still have time– thoughtfully, meaningfully, lovingly. In This Book, You’ll Learn About The different types of transcendent experiences The aftereffects that take place in experiencers The nature of God The soul The different realms in the afterlife The ego and the soul and its effect upon our lives Life reviews following physical death and its meaning for our lives NOW How to understand our destiny Questions often asked - [Placenta - the Forgotten Chakra](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/placenta-the-forgotten-chakra/) - The placenta, the root of your origin, is a miraculous organ that shares and protects your life. It is the conductor that unites you with your mother and serves as the control panel of the womb-ship that sustains you until you are born. It was conceived at the moment of your genesis. Your placenta is genetically identical to you. Though you share some of your parents' genetic identity, unless you have a monozygotic (identical) twin, no one, except your placenta, has ever been so perfectly, exactly you. Sexual reproduction, the act of creating new life, only works because of the placenta. As mammals, we reproduce sexually, so sex is the reddest, hottest tile in the mosaic of our earthly lives, and the placenta is the mandala in the center of this miracle. Historically, our creation stories tell of the Earth Mother birthing the world: her amniotic fluid became the oceans, the placenta became the Tree of Life. This demonstrates how essential the placenta is to our survival and how embedded it is in our psyche. According to Chaos Theory, dynamic systems are sensitive to start up conditions. Human beings are extremely dynamic systems, and our survival hinges on the strength of our individual immune systems. The placenta is the commander-in-chief of the baby's immune system during embryonic development (i.e. condition of start-up). Thus, we must protect our offspring's placentas by being gentle during the transition of birth, to give our children the best possible start and protect the very foundation of their immune systems. - [Out of the Box: A Journey In and Out of Emotional Captivity](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/out-of-the-box-a-journey-in-and-out-of-emotional-captivity/) - This book is for anyone who grew up trying to be “good”-- high achieving and competent --and then who found themselves boxed in, slowly eroded, broken, and struggling. It will provide readers with a living map of how one such woman made it out, re-writing her life from the inside out. Christina is a credentialed life coach and certified Master Oasis Trainer. She lives in New England with her family and a unique assortment of old dogs. Her favorite days involve hiking, writing, helping others, and spending time with her family and friends—and laughing a lot along the way. - [Obstacle Illusions; Transforming Adversity into Success](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/obstacle-illusions-transforming-adversity-into-success/) - This fun and fast-moving book is a collection of the truly remarkable experiences - highs, lows, and most embarrassing - of Stephen Hopson, with each story revealing its own life lesson. Some are hilarious while others are profound enough to change your life. Whether your passion is career and business, home and family, or finding yourself spiritually, the power in Obstacle Illusions will inspire you to get up and give your cherished dreams a chance to succeed instead of giving up and wondering "what could have been." Stephen J. Hopson was born deaf but quickly learned to speak and began attending public school. At five years old, he told his parents he would become a pilot and was dismissed as being foolish, but as an adult he made aviation history by becoming the world's first deaf instrument-rated pilot. He also became an award-winning Wall Street stockbroker. He is now a transformational speaker, inspiring thousands of people worldwide to believe in themselves and achieve the impossible. - [now leaving nowheresville](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/now-leaving-nowheresville/) - Philip Kobylarz is an itinerant teacher of the language arts and writer of fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays. He has worked as a journalist, a film critic, a veterinarian's assistant, a deliverer of furniture, and an ascetic. He currently teaches at Santa Clara University, Notre Dame de Namur, and Menlo College. His work appears in such publications as Paris Review, Poetry, The Best American Poetry series, Massachusetts Review, and Lalitamba. His first book, Zen-inspired poems concerning life in the south of France, is entitled rues. He lives ever so temporarily in the east bay of San Francisco. ~~~ You don't know who the alien is, you or the other guy, or girl, or possibly both. Not that that makes you compañeros; so we learn in these wry stories, told with the air of a disabused Mediterranean wanderer run aground, occasionally, in the American west. From Kobylarz, both poet and storyteller, let there be more. -David Hamilton author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm, Ossabaw, Hard Choices: An "Iowa Review" Reader ~~~These stories are the product of a first-rate talent that doesn't let the reader down, intellectually, artistically, or viscerally: no boring, standard literary tripe here, but a healthy serving of smart, readable, sophisticated stories that remind us of the age we live in, of the everyday grotesquerie we're attempting to beat in any way we can-with art that matters and helps us to get by. Philip Kobylarz is really, really good. Turn on to him and spread the word. -Stephen D. Gutierrez, author of The Mexican in His Backyard ~~~And NOW-Nowhere 21st Century America-teeming with rivers and rooms, t.v. icons of glamour and war, mysteries of the visitor, the stay-at-homes, the all-nights, and anything but and including the plain as day. We hear it all with the one voice that impels us to wake-up, to embrace both the ordinary and the uncanny figures who dwell outside and inside of ourselves. These stories of leaving do happily confound the reader's arrival at every turn, and serve to confirm us in our belief we are all living the lives of the innocent and inescapably, that of the experienced. -Jeannine Savard author of Accounted For, My Hand Upon Your Name, Trumpeter, Snow Water Cove - [Mosaic: Caribbean Short Story Collection](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mosaic-caribbean-short-story-collection/) - This collection by Jamaican-born writer, Barbara Paul-Emile, presents stories that focus on the vicissitudes of daily life as experienced by people in small towns and rural districts in the Caribbean islands. These tales deal with personal dilemmas, psychic crossroads, and social issues as shaped by the legacy of slavery, colonialism and national sovereignty, the complex heritage of the region. Set in the lush landscape of the tropical islands, individuals struggle to find personal fulfillment, advancement and validation in relationships and in society. Mosaic captures the important subtleties and nuances involved in island-living and presents the varied faces of the islands in vibrant and compelling portraits which allow readers to engage with characters whose voices mesmerize as they share details of the dramas that punctuate their lives. Written in clear, fluid prose that mirrors a painter's brush, Mosaic presents a canvas of images and characters so colorful, so vivid and so evocative that it is undoubtedly a masterwork. - [Maharishi Patañjali Yoga Sūtra](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/maharishi-patanjali-yoga-sutra-2/) - The Yoga Sutra is the great text on Yoga, cognized in ancient India by Maharishi Patanjali. Yoga means "union," and the Yoga Sutra describes the experience of unity, the complete settling of the activity of the mind. In 195 short sutras, this text illuminates the teaching of yoga and meditation, and gives a profound understanding of life in transcendence. - [Inward Outward Upward](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/inward-outward-upward/) - I was at an annual assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) years ago, and the theme was "Inward, Outward, Upward." At the time that denomination was doing some soul searching and restructuring as a result of economic difficulties, and the theme provided an entry point for examining the inner workings of the church, the church's relationships with those outside the church and denomination, and with our Father above. The day I began this book, years after the church assembly, I referred to the same theme to describe efforts to bring community leaders representing different groups and institutions together. These leaders each have to focus inward to run their organizations effectively, but they can't afford not to have an outward focus on other organizations, and they also focus upward as they seek to craft stronger organizations for community progress and the good of their citizens. I am a big believer in reflection and introspection. I have referred to the inscription above the Oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece before: "Know Thyself." I believe we have to be at peace with ourselves and take care of the inward before we can be much good to others, but the longer I live, the more I realize that we really need to cultivate the outward, too. Granted, my chosen professions of teacher, coach, school administrator, and pastor are much more relationship-driven than some other occupations. Still, I believe that happy and productive people understand the power of relationships and have mastered the outward. For me, personally, the inward and outward have been enhanced tremendously by a focus on the upward. My Christian faith has brought about positive changes in my life, benefiting both the inward and outward. I'm sure there are other higher causes that provide upward benefits for people, too. This book is going to be an exploration of the inward, outward, and upward. It is organized into three parts, containing six exhortations each. Each of the six exhortations is a chapter relating a theme that runs inward, outward, and upward through all three parts of the book. At the risk of confusing the reader, I'll share that I wrote Chapter 1 in each section before going on to Chapter 2 and so on. If you don't mind turning back and forth between inward, outward, and upward, you can read it in the order I wrote it. Otherwise, you can read it section by section. The best thing that could happen with this book is that someone would read it and benefit from it. If you find the book helpful or want to discuss the book, please feel free to email me at sathofar@gmail.com Enjoy! - [Indian Rope Trick](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/indian-rope-trick/) - Winner of the 2018 Blue Light Book Award Prartho Sereno is author of three previous poetry collections, including Elephant Raga, Call from Paris, and Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives & Loves of Kitchen Utensils (illustrated by the author). She served as Poet Laureate of Marin County, California, 2015—2017, has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University and was awarded a Radio Disney Super Teacher Award for her 19-years’ work as a California Poet in the Schools. Prartho’s poems are informed by many years living in a meditation community in India, but she also credits excursions into other “art forms:” counseling psychologist, mother of two, vegetarian cook, meditation instructor at Cornell University, book illustrator, and amateur singer-songwriter. Her life’s ambition is to be a tour guide of the as-yet-unimagined, a tender of life’s creative fires. She lives a little north of the Golden Gate Bridge with a sweet man who takes her rowing on the bay. - [How to Disappear](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-to-disappear/) - Reading How to Disappear, I have the sense of someone tearing the past apart and rebuilding with naked raw hands. Claudia Reder is a storyteller and this book is her lyrical gift to us, poems of growing up in the teeming city with the complex women who shaped her—immigrant grandmother and mother whose rich mix of languages turned the struggling young girl into a poet who survives to tell their stories. “The list of ghosts / who, no matter where I wonder, / who I marry, / who as mother, wife and sister, / haunt me still.” These full to bursting poems recreate large, unavoidable terrors and the seemingly small but necessary moments of joy that make art an act of love. They constantly go farther, go deeper with language that is wildly alive, informed by erudite and whimsical exuberance. How to Disappear is a splendid book, serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning. As I read it, I keep thinking, “This is why I love poetry. Claudia M. Reder is the author of Uncertain Earth (Finishing Line Press) and My Father & Miro (Bright Hill Press). She has received the Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize from Lilith Magazine, selected by Alicia Ostriker. She has a passion for helping other people tell their stories. She has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Workshop and a Ph.D. in Storytelling from New York University. For many years she was a poet in the Schools on the east coast and has offered many workshops for all ages in creativity. She teaches at California State University at Channel Islands. - [Hear His Voice](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/hear-his-voice/) - Imagine what it would be like for the human spirit to experience, embrace and be transformed by that Universal Love that created the entire universe. Is that Divine Love trying to get humanity's attention during these turbulent days? In this national award-winning book, Nancy Clark lovingly opens her heart to share the Light's message of love and hope for humanity and to tell us there is indeed a transcendent component to the human experience. In the early 1960s Nancy died during childbirth, had a near-death experience and experienced the Light's immense love for her. She wanted to remain with the Light forever, but returned from Heaven's door and woke up in the morgue. In 1979, her soul was "invited" once again by the Light to enter more deeply into the realm of the Sacred, an experience so profound that nothing is ever the same again. This "near-death-like" experience proves there are many triggers for the release of the soul to transcend the physical dimension and enter into the Ultimate Reality. Coming close to death is only one trigger. What happens to you during the experience is what matters, not what brings you into it. The implications of what Nancy has to share with us are immense. Our indestructible spiritual nature is revealed with clarity about life's existential questions: Who am I, why am I here, Is there a God? Hear His Voice will bring new radiations of Light to the reader coming from the original Source. It can change your life! With a foreword written by Kenneth Ring, PhD Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of Connecticut Author, Lessons From the Light - [Green Mountain Zen](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/green-mountain-zen/) - Green Mountain Zen renders the cycles of the human spirit as it surrenders to the shortest, most shut-down days of winter, keeping the coals of itself aglow, and then opens to celebration as the earth softens, greens, and again offers its abundance. This is a wise book, attentive to the nuances of inner and outer weather in a way that might best be called devotional — patient and deeply respectful. Image by image —Romaine seeds ‘the size of a baby’s eyelash,’ the raindrop ‘that lingers/like a diamond in the cup of the lupine’s fan-shape leaf’— Demers renders the feel of seasons, much as Chinese painters did through spare, careful brush strokes. This is the perfect book to dream with beside a warm fire, or overlooking a harvest-ready garden while morning sun is still fresh and cool. Michelle Demers holds an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches poetry and writing at the Community College of Vermont. She also leads her own workshops, First Thoughts Writing Workshops, regionally. Her chapbook Epicenter won the 2006 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Michelle lives and writes in Williston, Vermont, with her brilliant husband and exceptional cat. She is inspired by Vermont’s spectacular countryside as well as the deep spiritual questions of life. - [Dreaming of France Winner of the 2017 Blue Light Book Award](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dreaming-of-france-winner-of-the-2017-blue-light-book-award/) - Kerry Tepperman Campbell’s brilliant debut delves into the imaginations of American women who are fascinated with France. These jewel-like vignettes and prose poems weave their way between an imagined world and a real one. Immersed in luminous moments, the characters find themselves in a series of fully realized French landscapes including a well-preserved Roman amphitheater in Provence, a refugee camp in Calais, and Empress Josephine’s famous rose garden in Rueil-Malmasion. The reader will be swept away by these seductive vignettes, set in a world where archetypes hover and even small moments become indelible. Kerry Tepperman Campbell is a writer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the New Millennium Poetry Prize. Her work has recently appeared in New Millennium Writings, Bitter Oleander, Paterson Literary Review, Laurel Review, Cloudbank, The Round, American Mustard, and Unstitched States. Dreaming of France is her debut collection of prose poems and vignettes. - [Divine Moments; Ordinary People Having Spiritually Transformative Experiences](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/divine-moments-ordinary-people-having-spiritually-transformative-experiences/) - Nancy Clark's life was transformed forever by a near-death and a near-death-like experience that resulted in her passion to show us that humans can experience the reality of their true, authentic self - the self that is rooted in the divine and brimming with love for all humanity. She has been researching spiritually transformative experiences for thirty years and now in this groundbreaking book, she has compiled diverse spiritually transformative experiences happening to ordinary people today. The experiences are varied and include near-death and near-death-like experiences, out-of-body experiences, after-death communications, spiritual awakenings, religious conversion experiences, meditative and prayerful experiences, and mystical experiences. Ÿ Learn how these individuals awakened to a new understanding of their deepest assumptions about the eternal questions: Why am I here? Where am I going? What is the purpose of life? Ÿ Learn how their inner wisdom can assist all of us in understanding that we are more than biological beings; we are spirits of consciousness that are gifted with a love born of our divine nature. - [Colorfast ~ The Meter is Irregular, Volume 4](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/colorfast-the-meter-is-irregular-volume-4/) - ~ ~ Colorfast - The Meter is Irregular, Volume 4, is the fourth installment of a multivolume collection of hundreds poems, from bestselling author Rodney Charles. Each volume follows the evolution of the author who hopes to leave a poetic legacy for his children dealing with self-identity, self-honesty, grief, death, spiritual progress and loving. Within these pages he chronicles his own unique discoveries and imaginations in the hope of leaving a few life-lessons-learned for his family - his muse. ~ ~ ~ ~ Rodney Charles is author of Parenting Teenage Werewolves, Liberating Teenage Werewolves, The Inner Life of Turtles, The Land of Love, Art & Genius, Miracles of the Saints, Lighter Than Air, Publish It Now, Book Marketing Basics, and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. ~~~ - [Burned: A Memoir](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/burned-a-memoir/) - A Memoir Winner of the Wisconsin Library Association Award, 2011. An Oprah Magazine Great Read Louise Nayer illuminates both the emotional intensity of loss and the surprising strength that is summoned up for the sake of loved ones. Burned is the story of a family stripped to their barest elements and held together by love. “Your parents were extraordinary people. It seems a miracle that they could have a reasonably normal and content life after that tragedy.” —Isabel Allende “Meticulous and moving... Louise Nayer’s memoir makes a large statement about human healing.” —Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. “As a poet and writer Louise Nayer has established herself as a singular voice of her generation.” —Robert Creeley “Louise’s beautifully crafted story took great courage to write. ough it is about a freak accident and two children separated from their parents, it is ultimately about the road they all took to become a family again—the strength to feel the truth of what happened and the strength to carry on.” —Julia Scheeres, NYT best selling Author of Jesus Land and A ousand Lives. “ is gripping memoir is written from both the child and parent’s perspective and vividly captures the angst that Louise and her family endured as a result of a tragic accident. e book follows the transforma- tion of an amazing family determined to heal from a catastrophic event.” —Charlene Pell, Author and Head of Facing Forward. “An extraordinary book.Heart-wrenching yet always readable. is book is a learning opportunity about all sorts of trauma.” —Dr. Anne Benham, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Stanford Univerisity. - [Blessed or Cursed](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/blessed-or-cursed/) - "Rayco Saunders speaks with the heart of a child who witnessed the death of his mother at age 11, and who never had a father, the soul of a complex man still looking for simple truths. His biography is a triumphant tale. A stunning tribute to perseverance, courage, and the 'die hard' will to never give up. Raw truth-telling...It's shared testimony for young men who struggle in the streets of the United States of America. A true story of uncommon bravery and power told by a man and father who vows to never be like the man who helped conceived him." - [Beyond the Mystical Near-Death Experience and Into the Unitive Experience](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/beyond-the-mystical-near-death-experience-and-into-the-unitive-experience/) - Unitive Consciousness is the rarest and highest expression of enlightenment as shown to us by Christ. The author of Beyond the Mystical Near-Death Experience and Into the Unitive Experience was gifted with mystical experiences, a near-death experience, and the very rare Unitive Experience which led her to the very heart of God. In her own words… “As if a door were suddenly left ajar into some world unseen before, the fullness of my essence revealed there to be no distinction between self and God. My union with God burnt like living coals in my soul, burning with unspeakable, pure love. I lived in God; I saw and understood through God. My ego was non-existent.” The teachings of the great mystics and saints whose lives were gifted with profound union with God insist that we have the ability to be restored to “Christ Consciousness” or in other words, Unitive Consciousness. This Consciousness is the evolutionary process and the ultimate potential of our species. The essence of everything you will learn in these pages comes down to learning of the process to discover the mysteries at the heart of our Higher Self and not the ego self. The author draws not only upon the mystics’ and saints’ wisdom, but also upon her own mystical knowledge given to her during her transcendent Unitive Experience. The reader will be challenged to cross the threshold into living a soulful life, one that will realize the depths of who we really are. The near-death experience should not be taken as an isolated event or end-point of development, but should be seen in the larger context of an Awakening event that starts the experiencer on the mystical path and our inner return to our Divine Source in consciousness. If you have not had a near-death experience, then please allow this book to serve as your official Mystical Awakening. - [Benita; prey for Him](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/benita-prey-for-him/) - BENITA: prey for him is the true story of bright, vivacious Benita Kane and the Catholic priest who lured her from childhood into a disastrous, twenty-year entanglement that changed the course of her life. What happened to this fatherless girl in the hierarchical, patriarchal world of Dubuque, Iowa during the 40's, 50's and 60's is not simply one more tale of clerical sexual abuse, but rather an astounding, maddening, compelling account of what it was like to grow up in a family, community and culture so dominated by the Catholic church that no one could recognize the ominous events developing around them. As Benita's friend and classmate from second-grade through college, Virginia Tranel writes from the unique stance of both participant and observer. - [Awakening the Holographic Human: Nature's Path to Healing and Higher Consciousness](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/awakening-the-holographic-human-natures-path-to-healing-and-higher-consciousness/) - Awakening the Holographic Human is a comprehensive reference book on healing and higher consciousness through the use of the natural intelligence found in flowers, herbs, gems, color, the human energy system, and the astrological archetypes. It is for anyone interested in physical, psycho-spiritual, and emotional healing; personal and/or planetary transformation; the development of higher states of consciousness; or actualizing human potential. - [Another 40 Days - of Faith, Family, Work, and Fun](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/another-40-days-of-faith-family-work-and-fun/) - Another 40 Days of Faith, Family, Work, and Fun keeps the focus right where it should be for people to get the most out of life and enjoy the journey. Each entry provides opportunities to reflect about what is most important to the reader. The book is very readable and conversational and can be used as a daily reflection or read straight through. ~~~~ - [Angela ~ Childhood in War-Torn Germany ~ The History Omitted from "Official" Texts ~ A Memoir](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/angela-childhood-in-war-torn-germany-the-history-omitted-from-official-texts-a-memoir/) - Angela's mother was a secret agent for the American military government. WWII was over, Angela was five, but vividly remembers her family's flight from the Russian army and wandering "like stray dogs" for nine months. Earlier, to reunite the family, Angela's grandfather had hiked the Ural Mountains alone in winter and navigated the Volga River disguised as a Russian Orthodox priest, all the while winning money by playing cards with three ordained priests. Settling on the outskirts of Stuttgart, the family housed fourteen refugees in a one-bedroom apartment. Each of these personalities is seen against the historical background of post-war Allied atrocities against German citizens, conveniently omitted from the "official" history texts (Eisenhower death camps and engineered famine). Among these refuges were: ~ A fifteen-year old holocaust survivor ~ A sixteen-year old musician, a "Swing Kid," who fought against Hitler ~ A writer who knew too much and had to be concealed ~ An elderly couple from Silesia, part of post-war forced migration, perhaps the single greatest movement of population in human history ~ An unwed mother, kicked out by her village, who enlists Angela to raid farmers' fields at night for food Other prominent persons: ~ An outwardly ordinary shepherd who taught Angela to meditate, helping her through her war experiences and adding spiritual dimensions to her life ~ Albrecht Leo Merz, senator, architect, artist-teacher, and founder of the Merz Schule, which was designated as a "model school" by UNESCO ~ A streetcar driver who spoke only in classical rhymes ~ Viemsie, a black market contact, for whom Angela and her best friend collected cigarette butts and raided American garbage cans There was never enough food, but life was diverse and culturally rich. It ends when Angela's mother announces that she and her two girls will immigrate to the U.S.A., leaving all they love behind. - [A Simple Memoir of My Early Years](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-simple-memoir-of-my-early-years/) - To the best of my recollection, this is the story of my early years. Like me, it is simple and direct. It was inspired by my daughter Erika, who worked hard to gather the details, and later prepared for publication by my son, Rodney. Many of the essential stories were contributed by my brother Julian, whose memories and experiences were broader than my own. Without them, this memoir could not have been written. I never intended this project to be a history lesson—just a collection of memories, feelings, challenges, circumstances, and inspirations that led me to Canada, where the family life we all share together began. Remember This: I want to pass a message along to my children, grandchildren, and hopefully great-grandchildren: Value others on their potential, not their history. Never give up. Always hold on to hope. Things will always get better if you do. Always. • Despite the challenges of my life, I believe I was, and still am, very lucky. I have always felt this—that a guardian angel was watching over me every moment. - [A Certain Slant of Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-certain-slant-of-light/) - The poems within A Certain Slant of Light are expertly tuned, perfectly pitched meditations about nature, time, and the seasons — radiant windows of keen observation that rise up from their surface glimmering, and reveal the talents of a disciplined and skilled artist. I was struck by the ease of her voice, the lush use of sonics, and her compassionate wisdom. This is a marvelous book that reveals a sense of wonder, as though the inspired moment has never been before; its illuminations are bright and timeless. Barbara Novack is Writer-in-Residence and member of the English Department at Molloy College. She founded and hosts Poetry Events and Author Afternoons there and, off-campus, presents creative writing programs and workshops. Her recent books include the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award, full-length poetry collection Something Like Life, and the chapbook Do Houses Dream?, finalist for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize (2015). She is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and Who’s Who of American Women. - [40 Days to Reflection and Peace: Thoughts for Busy People and Ethical Leaders](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/40-days-to-reflection-and-peace-thoughts-for-busy-people-and-ethical-leaders/) - ~40 DAYS to Reflection and Peace is a road map for readers to consider their core values and find peace in a chaotic world. Each day of reading offers humor and insights about life that will cause readers to think twice about their own values, priorities, and lives. 40 Days makes the discipline of daily reflection enjoyable and will energize busy professionals, organizational leaders, and anyone who values faith, family, and work. Art Sathoff grew up in small town Iowa valuing faith, family, and hard work. These remain core values of the Sathoffs to this day. Art graduated from Iowa Falls High School in 1984 and went on to study English Education and play basketball at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, where he was the Outstanding Senior English Graduate and Outstanding Senior Male Student Athlete in 1988. He earned an M.A. in English Literature at the University of Northern Iowa in 1993 and principal's certification, followed by an Ed.S. degree from Drake University in 2004. In 2009 he finished the licensed minister's program through the Christian Church of the Upper Midwest. Currently he serves as superintendent for Fairfield Community School District and pastor at Fairfield First Christian Church. He lives in Fairfield with his wife of 24 years, Cindy. Cindy and Art have two sons: Jordan, who works in the investment field, and Trey, who is in college. Art has been employed in public education in a variety of roles for 26 years. - [The Weight Of Snow](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-weight-of-snow/) - Sharon Lask Munson’s poems travel through space, tunnel through time, and cross generations. Whether free verse, prose poem, haiku or haibun, they carry, lean on and converse with each other in this exquisite volume of poetry. Personal history, family traditions, food, the natural world, pop culture, all blend into a sumptuous word stew. Reality is often heightened. Snow becomes more than snow. A collection of watches becomes an emblem of time. A dessert pastry becomes more than a dessert, ‘no two… cut from the same dough.’ She shows us that life can be painted with marvelous colors, sensuous images, and at ‘end of day’ be ‘strewn with possibilities. Sharon Lask Munson was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She taught school in England, Germany, Okinawa, and Puerto Rico before driving to Anchorage, Alaska and staying for the next twenty years. She is a retired teacher, poet, coffee addict, old movie enthusiast, lover of road trips — with many published poems, two chapbooks, and one full-length book of poetry. She now lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon. She says many things motivate her to write: a mood, a memory, the smell of cooking, burning leaves, a windy day, rain, fog, something observed or overheard — and of course, imagination. She has a pin that says, “I Make Things Up. . - [Thou Shalt Not Think](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/thou-shalt-not-think/) - Every once in awhile, there comes a book of such incomparable grace and gentility - a book which proclaims and celebrates the divine, innate perfection in every single human being and the unquestionable supremacy of the human condition with such overflowing praise and devotion - that it makes its readers fall in mad, boundless love with themselves all over again. Well, this isn't that book. No, this book is a bitch-slap. for the whole damn human race. THOU SHALT NOT THINK: The Brutally Frank Guide to Life is the book which takes a bold, uncompromising stand and admits what few today will admit: that thinking - true thinking - is reviled, and that all those who even attempt to truly practice it are criminals in the eyes of "decent" society. In a wholly unholy manner, THOU SHALT NOT THINK combines a profound sense of philosophical outrage and extreme psychological disturbance with a light-hearted and, most likely, completely inappropriate sort of gallows humor. Inspired by such chapter titles as "The Most Insidious Kink: The Bondage of Religion" and "The Completely Rotten, Low-life Bastards of the Mental 'Health' Industry", voodoo priests, soccer moms, and other militant, jittery addicts of the sadistic status quo everywhere will clamor en masse for its total and utter destruction, armed with pitchforks and torches in hand. If you've ever secretly hungered for a book that tells it like it is, THOU SHALT NOT THINK is for you. If you've ever felt privately and painfully alone in a world of nightmarish stupidity, THOU SHALT NOT THINK is for you. If you've ever yearned for a book that might at least present options for survival in the face of such horrible odds, THOU SHALT NOT THINK is for you. .But if none of these things applies to you, THOU SHALT NOT THINK is most definitely not for you. Try another damn Sudoku book instead. - [The Passion Test](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-passion-test/) - "The Passion TestTM provides the simplest, clearest way to get started on knowing what you want-by getting clear on who you are." -from the Foreword by T. Harv Eker, #1 NY Times best-selling author, Secrets of The Millionaire Mind ~~~~ "The Passion TestTM has given me incredible insight into what was missing in my life, where I was not 100% spot on in pursuing my passions. It's simple, it's easy, and it's profound. Out of it came the creation of an organization I'd been putting off for six years and a fuller expression of my love and my commitment to my family. I think there's nothing more important than that." - Jack Canfield, co-creator of the #1 NY Times best-selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul® - [The Pillar of Celestial Fire](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-pillar-of-celestial-fire/) - According to the cycles of time, we are now on the verge of a global transformation that is completely unprecedented, involving unparalleled developments in every field of human endeavor. The Pillar of Celestial Fire explains the celestial mechanics of this coming transformation in simple, intuitive terms, and heralds the development of miraculous new technologies and coming changes that are destined to take place on our planet. - [The Invitation](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-invitation/) - In 1974, a group of teenage Peruvians became part of a facinating journey through the remote mystical places of Peru. Through the narrative of Sixto Paz Wells, the reader is confronted with one of the most complex cases of ET contact ever documented. A rare case which has astounded journalists, from nearly every country, as they defiantly witnessed the undeniable physical presence of an advanced civilization. The invitation stands as a document so provocative and upsetting to our routine lives, that the author's work has been surpresssed by organized agencies trying to destroy it. The question is : Why? Its pages are filled with the messages of hope, renewal and self-actualization. The humility of the author's revelations gives us the powerful tool to understand the great glory of being human. It complels us to share that unique glory with our brothers and sisters from beyond our planet and perhaps beyond time and space as we know it. After THE INVITATION, you will never see the world the same way. - [The Final Event](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-final-event/) - Robert Cox's The Final Event provides major new insight into the timing and significance of the momentous events beginning now to unfold on planet earth at this most crucial period of human history. Based upon his own intuitive cognitions, the author ties together prophetic indicators derived from the Vedic, Egyptian, Christian, Greek, Judaic, and Mayan traditions to develop a predictive historical model, which spans the last 13,000 years and, for the first time, connects the Precession of the Equinoxes with the cyclic unfolding of the four Ages of Man. The model accurately pinpoints, describes, and aligns the cultural and spiritual character of historical periods and points to June 2009 as the end of the current cycle of Ages and the beginning of the next. The author predicts that this date will mark the beginning of the 42-month period indicated in The Apocalypse of St. John, when all of humanity will traverse the Valley of the Shadow of Death making our way toward a new Golden Age, or Age of Truth. Like most birth processes, this global transformation is likely to be traumatic, and the author supplies advice on how to prepare for it physically and spiritually. Nevertheless, he argues that this risky and challenging passage will provide the greatest opportunity for transcendence ever offered to humanity, and he advises us how to take advantage of this opportunity through ego-mastery and meditation. The model predicts that the 42-month transition period, which marks the time of Tribulation, will end on December 21, 2012, when the light of the new Golden Age will first be seen. - [The Art of Parallel Programming](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-art-of-parallel-programming/) - The first edition of his book The Art of Parallel Programming was adopted as a course text by 62 universities. The Art of Parallel Programming is intended as a text for a first course in parallel computing, taught at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Now completely revised and updated, this book provides in-depth coverage of the major organizational techniques for parallel programs, including specific parallel algorithms to illustrate these techniques. Author Bruce P. Lester covers topics such as data partitioning, multiprocessor architecture, synchronous parallelism, MPI standard library, communication streams, data sharing, replicated workers, and much more. The free software package available from this website contains a complete Parallel Computer Simulation System that runs on an ordinary Windows PC. C* Compiler and Parallel Computer Simulation System Download Windows Version For further information send an email to: request@artofparallelprogramming.com Instructors By writing to the above email address, instructors may request: • Solutions Manual for the exercises. • PowerPoint Presentation containing all the example programs and figures from the book. • A free Examination Copy of the book. - [On Wings of Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/on-wings-of-light/) - ON WINGS OF LIGHT is about love: love of self, love of life and how to enjoy the experience of being a spiritual/human being. We are in a time of transition. An accelerated transformation process in which more and more people are feeling divine discontent. More people are speaking of their paranormal experiences as we make contact with angelic beings, step through dimensions of awareness and tap into our higher consciousness. We all have the ability to access our Soul Self or Higher Self and to draw on the wisdom of the Creator. We are all co-creators, either of fear, lack and limitation; or of abundance, peace and joy. ON WINGS OF LIGHT is about how to create your perfect reality, your version of paradise and then sharing your manifested dream with others. It is about unity and miracles, and how to reach up and touch an angel. 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Written in a readable prose-like style, A Voice For The Planet, A Voice For Humanity reminds us, like it or not, that we are all participants in polluting our common birthright and we must understand and acknowledge that fact before we can take steps to correct it. - [A Dream: Once Upon a Quiet Mind](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/waleed/) - A Dream: Once Upon a Quiet Mind reminds us of who we are ... beings with the potential to dream life into existence. Within our soul lives the source of our dream...within our dream lives the heart of our desire...within our desire lives the fulfillment of our soul. This is the promise we have given ourselves. We are magical, mysterious, powerful ... even as love itself. - [A Woman’s Walk](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-womans-walk/) - Sherry's flowing writing describes a woman's heroic evolution that shouts and sings of the ways and means of character development with which most women can identify. 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In the end, you will come to live the wisdom of the Saints from time immemorial”. - [An Awakening Soul](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/an-awakening-soul/) - E. Noah Sarath Purchase Now! E. Noah Sarath presents a personal odyssey that will strike a chord in the heart and soul of spiritual seekers everywhere. Written for the ordinary (and ... how social, economic and family problems are really “problems of the soul” dissolved by spiritual practice. Using examples from his own ... - [Astrology for Life](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/astrology-for-life/) - A practical guide to creating and interpreting horoscopes for yourself, your family and friends. By David M. Hawthorne and Professor V.K. Choudhry Now, you can learn to read astrology charts the quick and easy way. And, with greater accuracy than you ever thought possible. With this revolutionary new book, you will discover how easy it is to: CREATE CHARTS. The book includes step-by-step instructions for creating charts without having to learn mathematical computations. The book includes the Internet website addresses for both: A FREE Vedic Astrology software program that is easy to download and install. An online World Atlas resource you can go to in order to retrieve longitude, latitude, and time-zone information. With this book to guide you, it is easy to create and print Vedic Astrology charts with the planetary positions and time periods you will need in order to read charts and predict events. LEARN THE ESSENTIALS.There are only four elements in astrology: 1. The planets; 2. The signs; 3. The houses; and, 4. The planetary periods. You will quickly learn the fundamentals for each of these elements and how they interact with each other. For example, you will learn which planets become functional benefics or functional malefics for the various rising signs, and why planets and houses become strong or weak. You will also learn what to look for in any chart to see the past, present or future circumstances of any individual, organization, or significant event. READ HORSCOPES. This book will provide you with a simple, systematic approach to interpreting horoscopes. With the Systems' Approach, you will learn a proper order of sequence in which to read charts and to apply proven principles in order to make clear and relevant predictions. You will learn why the planets operate differently in various charts, and why their significations will or will not manifest. And, when they will manifest. - [Being Our Own Heros](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/being-our-own-heros/) - What started as a meeting of minds quickly became a melting of hearts. What did I expect at our first gathering, a continuing education class in memoir writing? I knew, of course, that these students would be seekers, though not of my own 60s generation. These were people of my parents' age, who had families and careers and a whole lifetime of friends- and then somewhere in midlife started over in this community of meditators in Fairfield, Iowa, to help create world peace. I didn't anticipate how deeply they would connect to writing. Each of their stories, so simple, so honest, revealed deep truths of life. I could never have predicted how stimulating, how rewarding and how fun it would be to teach them. These students' minds were settled and alert. Instructing them was like dropping a stone in a quiet pond-the ripples reached the far ends of the universe and bounced back with even greater power. There was something magical about our meetings ..... - [Being The Titus concept](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/being-the-titus-concept/) - Explore what The Titus Concept can mean to (and for) you in the way of unlimited abundance - health, wealth, friendship, love, and success. Al Diaz’s system is simple to use, and just as powerful. 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You become more of who and what you truly are, resurrecting your original innocence, and having everything that no longer serves you for your best and highest good just melt away. In science the simplest explanation is the true one. So it is with the science of abundance - the simplest way of achieving it is the true way. It is time and we deserve it. - [Blackberries in the Dream House](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/blackberries-in-the-dream-house/) - What would happen to us if we were to undertake the discipline of turning our life entirely and self-consciously into a poem? Through Yukiko, who becomes both a contemplative Buddhist and a geisha skilled in the refinements of sensuous pleasure, Diane Frank allows us to live within the soul of a young woman who has undertaken to create a life imagined and expressed as a poem, in every moment, waking and sleeping, making love or meditating. With its power of language, Blackberries in the Dream House will seduce many readers into considering whether a prosaic life is the only choice we have. Pierre DeLattre Author of Walking on Air and Tales of a Dalai Lama "Diane Frank's exquisite sensibility manifests throughout in Blackberries in the Dream House; it is both erotic and metaphysical. In fact, her great strength is that for her there's no division between the two. The result is this fine lyrical novel." Stephen Dunn Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet - [Blind Faith](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/blind-faith/) - Whenever Lucinda Walters experiences tragedy and loss, she knows there's one sure place where she can turn for solace and strength: her Church. She counts on her faith to carry her through when her daughter Rita dies, leaving behind two little boys and a devastated husband with a weakness for alcohol. Lucinda steps in to help her son-in-law Mike O'Donnell raise David and Jack, and as Mike's alcoholism progresses, so does her need for the comfort only her faith can provide. When Father Louis Delanoit offers to spend extra time with Jack, now twelve years old and just beginning altar boy training, Lucinda is honored to have her grandson receive special attention from the priest. But Jack's innocence is shattered when the priest's true intentions are revealed, trapping the boy in a web of silence and abuse, woven by Father Delanoit's manipulation and the blind faith of the community. Blind Faith is the story of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal as seen through the eyes of young Jack O'Donnell and his family in the late 60s and early 70s, and the pain, heartache, and challenge to their faith which they endured because of one priest's abuse and the systematic cover-up engaged in by church hierarchy. - [Butterfly At Daybreak](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/butterfly-at-daybreak/) - Enjoy this easy to use, rule-free approach to self-discovery by creating basic collage using magazine photos and optional craft materials. If you can use scissors and glue, this book is for you! In a pictorial language more powerful than words, express your feelings safely. And hear the voice of your deep, inner wisdom, using an effortless writing technique to converse with your collage images. Make a collage and unload stress, replenish your energy and face challenges and transitions with strength and creativity. Create collages on paper, in boxes and bags, in three dimensions, and in your own collage journal. Create a life-size body collage and make a mask of your own face. Use collage to explore childhood fairy tales, build a bridge to the unknown, and create a new vision for your future. Guidelines are included for organizing a collage-making group for yourself and your friends. Includes 75 vibrant, full-color illustrations. - [Conquest of the Mask](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/conquest-of-the-mask/) - This short book of aphorisms is delightful. Nothing preachy or solemn .they are light hearted and playful. The author has created these aphorism as a small treasure chest of Life-Lessons-Learned intended to elevate the reader's soul on a day by day basis. Although many of principles seem familiar in meaning, almost none of them are familiar literary or philosophic phases. They are simple, direct, fun, funny and whimsical at times. The author even throws in a few jokes to contemplate. All of the Aphorisms are pregnant with inspiration and meaning and the author's tone is soothing, simple and free. His voice is crystal clear and the poetry of the aphorisms have an excellent rhythm. The artistry of the lines is visual, spiritual and casual. Enjoy - [Cosmic Cradle](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/cosmic-cradle/) - Cosmic Cradle is filled with wisdom gathered from interviews with gifted individuals as well as classical and traditional sources - philosophy, cultural anthropology, history, biographies, religion, poetry, and mythology. This knowledge has never been synthesized and compiled before into a single volume. - [Destiny](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/destiny/) - Christi Daniel, a Washington D.C. attorney, is distraught over the dysfunction of our legal and governmental systems, and determined to find a better way. In her search, she learns America was founded upon secret spiritual truths rooted in ancient Egyptian and Kabalistic traditions. As Christi is led deeper into this knowledge, she meets a future George Washington and learns a new way of seeing reality as he instructs her in seven spiritual principles for government. Her adversary, Winston Harp, a corrupt attorney and politician thrusts her into conflict between the old paradigm and the new. Christi shares her journey with her close friend, Tom Francis, a physics instructor searching for the connection between quantum physics and metaphysics, and Hap Hayes, a blind attorney who sees the drama of the courtroom through the eyes of the spirit. - [Dream Talk](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/dream-talk/) - In Dream Talk, Irene Martina will take you on a journey through the mysterious and amazing world of dreams. You will acquire eleven keys that will reveal the capacity of your dreams and you will learn that the ability to dream is a powerful gift that can guide and enrich your life. Dreams are all about you, your relationships to others and to your world. Come along and discover your real Hidden Biography! - [Eclipsed Moon Coins](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/eclipsed-moon-coins/) - Twenty-Six Visionary Poets. This anthologies contain poems by Diane Frank, as well as other poets. - [Educating Your Star Child](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/educating-your-star-child/) - Wanting smart children is a universal desire of parents. The promise of an easy way to parent smarter children—and one that really works—is bound to get attention. Educating Your Star Child deals with how parents routinely and inadvertently interfere with nature’s plan for developing intelligent young and how they can easily rectify the situation. - [Entering the Word Temple](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/entering-the-word-temple/) - Entering the Word Temple is Diane Frank's fifth collection of poems. Tomas Transtromer once said that poems are meeting places for souls. Diane Frank can enter, at will, that region where visions reveal themselves like snapshots. She transcribes these as jewel-like images on the page, through a vocabulary steeped in the natural world and the insistent predilections of the human heart. This is a journey made with luminous eyes. Author bio: Diane Frank is an award winning poet. Her friends describe her as a harem of seven women in one very small body. She has mentored hundreds of writers at San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, The University of Vermont, and the Professional Writing Program at MIU in Fairfield, Iowa. Currently, she lives in San Francisco, California - where she dances, plays cello, teaches writing workshops, and creates her life as an art form. She is also a documentary scriptwriter with expertise in Eastern and sacred art. Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. - [Freedom From Food](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/freedom-from-food/) - Entering the Word Temple is Diane Frank's fifth collection of poems. Tomas Transtromer once said that poems are meeting places for souls. Diane Frank can enter, at will, that region where visions reveal themselves like snapshots. She transcribes these as jewel-like images on the page, through a vocabulary steeped in the natural world and the insistent predilections of the human heart. This is a journey made with luminous eyes. Author bio: Diane Frank is an award winning poet. Her friends describe her as a harem of seven women in one very small body. She has mentored hundreds of writers at San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, The University of Vermont, and the Professional Writing Program at MIU in Fairfield, Iowa. Currently, she lives in San Francisco, California - where she dances, plays cello, teaches writing workshops, and creates her life as an art form. She is also a documentary scriptwriter with expertise in Eastern and sacred art. Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. - [God Speaks Here and Now](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/god-speaks-here-and-now/) - by Dorit Har Purchase Now! This is not another book about God. It is a message from God; a unique conversation with the source of All Knowing in contemporary language. God Speaks Here and Now is an authentic and powerful message of love, knowledge and inspiration. 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Now I am delighted to also recommend Heavenletters, for they too answer the deepest desires of the human heart." ~Dr. Laura De Giorgio, Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner "You may think I generalize and am not speaking to you, but I do speak directly to you. If your eyes fall on this page, then I am speaking to you." ~God, in Heavenletters About The Author: Gloria Wendroff, a teacher of English and business Wendroff communications, grew up without religion or thoughts about God. No one, least of all Gloria, would have guessed that she would become a GodwriterTM and, through God's words, bring thousands of people closer to God and their own hearts. Today Gloria receives and sends out HeavenlettersTM every day, gives GodwritingTM workshops, works on her next book, How to GodwriteTM, and makes CD's - all with an ear to the Still Small Voice and bringing earth closer to Heaven. - [How To Have A Nice Day](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-to-have-a-nice-day/) - This system is practiced daily throughout the United States and in 22 countries worldwide. Its success is due to its innocence and simplicity! It's proven. It works. We are all becoming more powerful each and every day. We've learned that we must become the "change that we seek." This book shows us how with amazing results. Read the testimonials at the start of this book. Then take the Power Quiz. There are no wrong answers. After you've read the book, take the Power Quiz again. You'll notice a shift. Then you can receive a FREE POWER QUIZ ANALYSIS directly from the author. We can be happier, healthier, and more peaceful. This is our hope, our dream, and our privilege. We can Have a very Nice Day, every day. Miracles cease to be called miracles when they occur with regularity. Here's what some have said about the author and "How to: Have a Nice Day." We hope you'll send us your story too! "After 17 years of emergency rooms, doctors, psychiatrists, pain, depression and many, many medications I have finally found relief. I am Having a Nice Day, everyday. Thank you, Gary." ~Jason Gay, Irrigation Engineer; Tarpon Springs, Fl. "I earn over $1 million dollars per year and Gary has been one of my teachers. I am Having a Nice Day, everyday. Thank you, Gary" ~Shawn Casey, author, www.ShawnCasey.com; Duluth, Ga. "A buldging disc has aggravated me for many years and I was told surgery was the only answer. My world has opened in so many ways since reading Gary's book. Now, I am pain free and Having a very Nice Day.Thank you, Gary." ~Phyllis Cole,Mgr. Insurance Industry; Tarpon Springs, Fl. "After 27 years of Multiple Sclerosis the symptoms are miraculously regressing and I am finally Having a Nice Day. Chapter 5 has changed my life. Thank you, Gary" ~Sandra Kischuk, www.LivingBeyondLimits.com and former IBM Project Mgr.; Tampa. Fl. "I've purchased four copies of Gary's book. Why? Because the greatest gift I can give is health, happiness, and peace. Thank you, Gary" ~Susan Sexauer, Animal Behavioral Specialist, Tampa, Fl. - [Illumination](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/illumination/) - Illumination is about the pain of awakening to something hidden—a secret kept from us since the beginning of time itself. A secret that surrounds us with such obvious force that it is missed with common regularity. This Gnostic Handbook has a disturbing edge to it, a challenge to everything that most of us have been taught and believe. It alarms sensitivities and insults lifestyles. it will scare those who wish to make more of this word than it is, for it will intensely confront the idea that there is any real meaning in this dark place other than recognizing its shadow nature. - [India Mirror Of Truth](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/india-mirror-of-truth/) - India: Mirror of Truth A Seven Year Pilgrimage India: Mirror of Truth is the true story of a young American monk sent to India by his guru to teach meditation. His life-transforming seven-year spiritual odyssey takes him from the coastal waters of Kerala to the high Tibetan plateau. Along the way, he encounters saints and shamans, politicians and pundits, astrologers and ascetics, villagers and artisans. He visits ancient holy sites, meets swamis living at the source of the Ganges, participates in arcane purificatory rituals, experiences the excitement of thirty million pilgrims at the Kumbha Mela as guest of a maharaja, initiates India's elite into meditation, and shares the company of lamas at Tibetan monasteries in Ladakh in an awesome journey that is as culturally rich as it is spiritually stirring. Deep within the Himalayan peaks, he reunites with his ageless Himalayan Master patiently waiting for his return. The author's dream of pursuing enlightenment is realized when he renounces his work in order to seek spiritual liberation in an isolated mountain ashram. - [Ingram Mountain](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/ingram-mountain/) - "Ingram Mountain" tells the story of ADAM FINLAY, a wealthy businessman who, through association with an environmental group learns of the serious problems facing planet earth. 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During his recovery he realizes this woman possesses spiritual wisdom far beyond what he has ever before encountered in any other person and also learns this wisdom contains the true solutions to environmental destruction. Through a strange twist of events he finally engages her counsel and gradually begins to understand the direct link between spirituality and the environment. She reveals in a clear compelling manner what must be done to halt the destructive trends if it is not already too late. The surprise ending enables Adam to put together the remaining pieces of a puzzle that permanently changes his direction in life. Although presented as fiction the story is based on facts and should be heeded by all who hope to avert the ultimate disaster facing mankind. - [Insights/Secret Teachings of Jesus](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/insights-secret-teachings-of-jesus/) - Among the Gospels of the early Christian Church stands a document so provocative that it was banned by the Church and kept out of the orthodox Bible. The Gospel of Thomas contains "secret sayings of the living Jesus" that the politically organized church tried desperately to destroy. The question is: why? Insights from the Secret Teachings of Jesus gives us a powerful clue, and provides guidance in understanding this beautiful and wonderful collection of Jesus' teachings. The book reaches inside the reader and awakens a slumbering spirit. It is like listening to Jesus speak, and in hearing, one comes to understand why his teachings alarmed the ordinary, and enlivened those who longed for a deeper reality. - [Invitation to Personal Peace](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/invitation-to-personal-peace/) - Whether you are aware of it or not, there are constant daily challenges to your personal peace. In addition to the typical challenges that have existed for ever, there are countless modern distractions that can devour your time, energy and focus and can leave you hungry for greater meaning and personal peace in your life. An Invitation to Personal Peace offers easy step-by-step practices that will help you develop a deeper sense of your own spirituality. An Invitation to Personal Peace will teach you practices to help you: • Remove blocks that prevent you from achieving personal peace. • Get more connected to what most matters to you. • Pay full attention to what really matters to you. • Develop a deep and meaningful sense of spirituality. • Enrich your relationships • Connect with the Inner You • Empower yourself through understanding your core If you are like most, and you have not been giving yourself the time and care you deserve to cultivate your spiritual mindset, this delightful guide offers fifty-two inventive and easy-to-follow practices to help you achieve personal peace. Use one practice a day or one practice each day for a week. That decision is up to you. Remember, not making a decision is a decision. Make your decision to take the action to change your life starting today. You will experience a deeper sense of joy in all aspects of your life as you learn to develop personal peace. Life does not have to be dull, uninteresting, boring and full of multiple stressors and frustration. You can learn to thrive, not just survive, as you become your own powerhouse and live everyday positively in self nurturing and love. When you start experiencing true personal peace, your personality will radiate a joy that will attract abundance into your life. - [Isis](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/isis/) - Isis is Diane Frank's first collection of poems and contains the best of her early work. The poems take their own imaginative pathways and never go quite where you expect them to. "Disintegration — Early Morning" won the Whiffen Poetry Prize. - [Life, and Everything in Between](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/life-and-everything-in-between/) - LIFE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN is original and honest. Stephen Dodds is deeply impassionate and a talented word-smith who seems in no way pretentious. He removes himself from his poetic works and the reader is infused with an untainted "witnessing" that the author himself seems to possess. The author's greatest strength is in his simplicity. The poems are in themselves very simplistic, yet they carry an echo of spontaneity and joy despite an objective and balanced perspective on a tapestry of subject matter from boxing to philosophy, 9/11, cultural commentary and just plain daydreaming. Much of this poetry is pregnant with metaphor and the author's tone is soothing, simple and free. His voice is crystal clear and the poetry has an excellent rhythm. The artistry of the lines is wonderfully visual, spiritual and sensual at times, when the author is steeped in his natural philosophical passions. - [Life. Itself.](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/life-itself/) - In early 1999 I somehow came to a recognition of Being in my life. Nature dealt me a blow later that year when I was told I had cancer. Somehow I fell into this knowledge with my arms open. After I finished chemotherapy I went to New York to be with my Mother and I spent the last two weeks of her life with her before she died. Through these times, the daily ramifications of those events solidified that initial recognition. Written on these pages is the living of my life in this process - small portions, taken from the books I filled with poetry. What each of us goes through in our pain and suffering, grappling with issues, our continually changing and ageing bodies - grief, death, rage, love, happiness . . . To me, this is universal, shared. This is our humanity, whatever trials we experience, we must ultimately resolve. This is Life Itself. ~Meeting cancer ~Living on the edge ~Measuring time in days ~Almost the end, a new beginning ~A mountain of existence in three years - [Life’s Little Lessons](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/lifes-little-lessons/) - Life's Little Lessons - A Guide Book to Get You Through is a self-enhancement book written in a simple, easy to understand format. It reveals how we can become self aware, improve our relationships, cope with stress, overcome adversity and envision what is truly achievable. Each concept is explained in detail and illustrated with examples from everyday life. What make this book unique is that it not only provides the knowledge and tools to assist us in effecting a change in our lives, but it further explains, step by step, how to use the tools provided. 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May these words provide an open door to the Spirit of Love as they become your guide to your innermost heart and soul, your own Holy Grail.” - [Lighter Than Air](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/lighter-than-air/) - A fascinating series of traditional, and not so traditional, stories of men and women, from all cultures, who challenged the accepted interpretations of human potential and were crowned victorious with the ability of unaided human flight. Full of wonder and adventure ... insight and inspiration. - [Maharishi Patanjali Yoga Sutra](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/maharishi-patanjali-yoga-sutra/) - The Yoga Sutra is the great text on Yoga, cognized in ancient India by Maharishi Patanjali. Yoga means ”union,” and the Yoga Sutra describes the experience of unity, the complete settling of the activity of the mind. 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Many of us have been taught our whole lives that God is something outside of us, something grander and more abundantly pure than we could ever be. We are taught to feel limited, to feel as if we are incapable of getting everything we want out of life. “Mirror of Love” helps us approach the number one barrier between us and our wildest dreams, fear. By overcoming our fear, understanding our guilt, judgments, and shame we can move towards mending the wounds. Once we have healed we are able to attack the illusion that we have created for ourselves, the illusion that we are only individuals instead of the embodiments of God. “Mirror of Love” is an empowering, life altering book that emphasizes how we already have everything we could ever want or be. 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The wisdom, inspiration and healing offered is simple, direct and easy to assimilate by everyone, regardless of their life’s path and level of personal and spiritual development. As you read Peeling the Onion, you will find a fellow seeker, friend and confidant sharing the journey with you. In these pages you will find comfort, love and support, all the things a modern seeker needs in our busy technological world to be successful at living in oneness with all of creation. - [Rediscovering Our Heart](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/rediscovering-our-heart/) - by Mahi A Collection of Poems “I am the flow of life the return of the child the still quiet voice the eternity of what is. I am the Heart I speak to everyone You are already near so near to your - [Rhododendron Shedding Its Skin](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/rhododendron-shedding-its-skin/) - Rhododendron Shedding Its Skin is full of shaman poems and Goddess mythology. This book has sharper edges than her first collection, but they open to a new level of vision. The poet depends on touch rather than vision to see the real world; often the eyes are used to look beyond reality. - [Riding the Wind](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/riding-the-wind/) - by Dr. Robin Shaprio Purchase Now! A collection of stories, ideas, suggestions and reflections celebrating the “whole person process” of healing. These ... pages offer the reader a window of healing possibilities to peek into and serves as an invitation to explore the meaning of a healing journey. The ideas discussed in Riding the Wind are simple and do-able, as they spring from everyday experiences that connect us to ... - [Secrets to a Happy Marriage](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/secrets-to-a-happy-marriage/) - This is not only an autobiography, but a book to show others that happiness in marriage is possible …but takes work, consideration and a commitment. We must always be aware of our partners' feelings to develop a happy relationship. Being kind, understanding, and considerate of others is not always easy, but is attainable if you are happy at home. We live in a very harsh world and "Happiness Starts at Home". I am giving you insight into my personal experiences. I have accomplished the most beautiful relationship in the world. Maybe my book will do the same for you. - [Seer](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/seer/) - SEER, set in the Caribbean, traces the mystical adventures of Becka, shaman/healer, as she travels into the spirit-world on a mission to resolve the life and death issues faced by her neighbor's son. Becka endeavors to heal the spirit and thereby heal the body. During these dream-travels she encounters entities and intriguing characters that explode her understanding of "time" and reconfigure her sense of the "real." The plot builds in such a way as to reveal startling developments and revelations about connectedness and the essential unity of people through time. The element of suspense is strong because the shaman's journey is hazardous and the outcome uncertain. The prose is interspersed with poetry and song which serve to heighten its lyricism. Rich in fantasy, myth and magic-realism, the narrative captures the color and cadence of village life and the strong mystical and animistic roots of Caribbean folk culture. Barbara Paul-Emile, Professor of English and Maurice E. Goldman Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, holds a Ph.D. in English. Her work centers on 19th century English Literature, Myth and Caribbean literature. A member of the faculty at Bentley College, Waltham, MA, she was named Massachusetts Professor of the Year for 1995 by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She has published numerous articles on scholarly topics, but has remained true to her first love, creative writing. She is presently completing Mosaic, a Collection of Caribbean Short Stories and a manuscript on the Mystical Path of the Warrior Woman. - [Seer (Advanced Review)](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/seer-advanced-review/) - SEER, set in the Caribbean, traces the mystical adventures of Becka, shaman/healer, as she travels into the spirit-world on a mission to resolve the life and death issues faced by her neighbor's son. Becka endeavors to heal the spirit and thereby heal the body. During these dream-travels she encounters entities and intriguing characters that explode her understanding of "time" and reconfigure her sense of the "real." The plot builds in such a way as to reveal startling developments and revelations about connectedness and the essential unity of people through time. The element of suspense is strong because the shaman's journey is hazardous and the outcome uncertain. The prose is interspersed with poetry and song which serve to heighten its lyricism. Rich in fantasy, myth and magic-realism, the narrative captures the color and cadence of village life and the strong mystical and animistic roots of Caribbean folk culture. Barbara Paul-Emile, Professor of English and Maurice E. Goldman Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, holds a Ph.D. in English. Her work centers on 19th century English Literature, Myth and Caribbean literature. A member of the faculty at Bentley College, Waltham, MA, she was named Massachusetts Professor of the Year for 1995 by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She has published numerous articles on scholarly topics, but has remained true to her first love, creative writing. 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This is the ultimate and brilliant act of will and the hero’s way with the potential to schedule a new and joyous defining moment for our planet. “This material is the result of a deep, spiritual search that has made me the shallow, happy person I am today.” - [Seraphim Blueprint](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/seraphim-blueprint/) - The Seraphim Blueprint introduces an advanced spiritual system that has been dormant for thousands of years. In 1994 a high Angel, a Seraph, began initiating Ruth Rendely into this long-forgotten teaching. She shares the amazing experience of that first of many meetings, when he tells her that she is to bring out an ancient healing modality that existed in Atlantean times. The Angel then proves the power of the system by transmitting healing energies into her in six-minute installations. These energies sing through her body, fixing minor pains, and leaving her exhilirated. He tells her that these energies are now available to be accessed effortlessly by anyone for their own benefit or the healing of others. ACCLAIM FOR SERAPHIM BLUEPRINT " I enthusiastically endorse this book. It is not just a book, it is a journey into life. Through my experience in medicine, I have come to realize that there is more to life than contemporary science can explain, and that is the human soul. Ms. Ruth Rendely has proven this to be right. She has explained her life journey in a way that all of us can relate to, and, more importantly, through her knowledge and experience, she has given hope, belief, and love. I am truly impressed with her God-given talent, and her way to express it so that we all can understand and appreciate it. " -Adrian, Bocirnea, M.D. "I'm thrilled to see that Ruth Rendely is helping people to make contact, and to work more intimately, with their companion angels. Nothing could be more important at this key point in the evolution of both species. When humanity moves, individual by individual, to fulfill its true destiny, it will be with our angels at our sides. This is an ancient promise and it is coming about in our lifetimes. May those with ears, hear." -Timothy Wyllie, co-author Ask Your Angels "This book is a simple story of how one woman opened to the angels and then began to share what she learned with others. Slowly, as you read her tale, you will find shifts happening to you as well. Subtle is the technology of angels, not like knives or guns or bombs. It's a soft technology, and yet it's a powerful one." -Andrew Ramer, co-author Ask Your Angels From the Foreword: "Seraphim Blueprint is a fascinating account of one woman's journey as she develops the power of healing by explicitly following the guidance of angels. Rendely provides a "must-read" book for anyone who believes in the power of angels to help guide us into becoming our best selves." -Randy Peyser, author The Mind, Body, Spirit Speaker's Guide - [Signs of the Times](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/signs-of-the-times/) - The Signs of the Times is a fascinating account of how time and history follow an astrological structure. This structure consists of astrological ages that are chronicled from before the Age of Cancer, and the invention of agriculture around the world, to the present end of the Age of Pisces, and the much-prophesied Apocalyptic end of the world. Within this pattern an end-time cycle emerges that explains the Apocalyptic energies that we see around us today. Astrology also promises, in the coming Age of Aquarius, a new golden age and gives us indications of what needs to be done to survive this end-time. Robert FitzGerald is an artist, photographer, and theoretical astrologer. For more than 25 years, he has been pushing the boundaries of astrology into theories of religion, mythology, mathematics, genetics, geology and physics. Signs of the Times reveals a revolutionary vision of history based on the ancient cycles of astrology. His vision of life on this planet promises to change the way humanity looks at history and at the world around us. He grew up in California and now lives and works at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, a community dedicated to expanding our knowledge of the world by combining spiritual knowledge with the scientific. - [Succession](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/succession/) - by Chrystelle Kohl Purchase Now! Get set for a trip inside the cosmic soul. ... along with the ninth—the male component, change. Now is the time of the succession; God is leaving, calling out for one of her creations to take ... - [Teach the Children Meditation](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/teach-the-children-meditation/) - Our children are our life blood, our truth, our being and they are our future. Whatever is fed into our children by example, peer pressure, teachers, and media, is going to impact their lives in ways we may not want. Life is more difficult, more confusing, than when we were children. Because of this, it is necessary to give them a safe base within, where they feel secure and where their own truth lies. Meditation is one of the ways. How lovely it would be if we taught the children at an early age how to Meditate, to go within, so that they reach their teens and adulthood feeling centered and aware. And how best to be taught than by you, the parent. Not only will your children benefit from the experience of having you take them through the meditation process, but you too will benefit from the closeness that will occur from this sharing which is so special. - [The All Night Yemenite Cafй](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-all-night-yemenite-cafй/) - Diane Frank's third book of poems. The poems in The All Night Yemenite Cafй range from Iowa to San Francisco and late night Tel Aviv. Inspired by a journey to Israel two months after the Persian Gulf war, this book is an artistic journey of emotional risks and a powerful coming to terms. These are poems that push the edge with language alchemy, emotional intensity and visual beauty. - [The Book of Eros](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-book-of-eros/) - Selected from Yellow Silk The Book of Eros is an evocative collection of poems, short stories, and art celebrating and exploring the myriad forms Eros takes in our lives, selected from the award-winning journal Yellow Silk. Authors such as Jane Hirshfield ... Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Ntozake Shange, and Diane Frank have lifted the subject of Eros up from genre fiction and into the mainstream of contemporary literature 0-5178861-2-X ... - [The Book of Holy Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-book-of-holy-light/) - LISTEN TO ITS RHYTHMS WITH AN OPEN HEART The Book of the Holy Light reveals the nature of God in the form of the Son of God. The first chapter, The Testament of the Holy Light of God, opens the framework of existence in the body of God revealing the nature of light in the embrace of unity. The book continues with The Testament of the Son of God inviting the children of light to return home to the inner space of God. The next chapter, The Twelve Transformations of the Holy Light of God, awakens the inner transformations of consciousness transmuting the children of light into the body of God. Next, The Trans-portal Matrix of Divine Grace describes the inter-connecting matrix of consciousness binding the children of light in the body of God. The book continues with The Dimensions of Light opening the multi-dimensional universe to the children of God. The next chapter, The Forms of Ascending Light, triggers the mechanisms of ascension in the consciousness of the child of light. Finally, The Circle of Ascending Light weaves a tapestry of light around the children of God connecting them to the body of God. "This is the story of light told through revelation. To appreciate it fully you must set aside your intellect and, like poetry, listen to its rhythms with an open heart." ~ Tony Ellis, award winning poet and author of There is Wisdom in Walnuts - [The Dance of Life: Poems for the Spirit](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-dance-of-life-poems-for-the-spirit/) - Profoundly powerful and evocative in voice and tone, this collection of introspective and visionary poems is inspired by Barbara Paul-Emile's search for deeper meaning behind the seemingly disparate experiences of life. The thoughts and feelings expressed in this collection reveal a compassionate and mystical approach towards experience. In the words of the poet, "the dance of life is the continual flow between pain and joy, fear and love, hopelessness and triumphant overcoming demanded of us as we negotiate the field of existence." This collection is influenced by the rich shamanic heritage of the West Indian islands and follows Paul-Emile's recently published novel, SEER, a magical tale of redemption set against the lush landscape and spicy aromas of the Caribbean. Described as an exciting new literary voice with broad cross-cultural appeal, the poet speaks with the interpretive depth and power of the mythic shaman who has found the bridge that connects to deeper realities. ~ Barbara Paul-Emile is Professor of English and Maurice E. Goldman Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at Bentley College, Waltham, MA. - [The Feng Shui Factor](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-feng-shui-factor/) - This fascinating book by MaryAnn Russell elucidates the essentials of feng shui. You will learn how to analyze all aspects of a property from the neighborhood setting to the interior of the bedroom. After reading this book, feng shui will no longer be a complex or foreign subject. 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The Global Oracle is a revolutionary rediscovery of the fundamental blueprint of life—64 universal principles uniting body, mind, spirit and cosmos. Ancient seers expressed the essential order of life as oracles like astrology, Tarot and the I-Ching. Now, for the first time in history, author Ed Tarabilda reveals the common basis of the ancient oracles in simple terms. This is holistic knowledge to ... - [The Golden Frog](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-golden-frog/) - by Dr. Michael Mamas Purchase Now! A captivating adventure about life’s mysteries, The Golden Frog follows the friendship of two boys in a series of enchanted childhood summers . . . ... suspense builds as he is tormented, provoked, and intrigued by the enigma of Nathaniel. Bruce is a natural born skeptic. Nathaniel is a ... with life’s deepest meaning. 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The speaker in these poems seek the oneness and is nourished by his affinity to it. In a single dewdrop the speaker states: from a single drop of dew is the pathway to a million civilizations whose voice we never hear except in the gentle breath of breeze and the quiet hum of life infinitely growing This economy of words, unembroidered, allows for the graceful and effortless slipping of the bonds of the commonplace as we enter timelessness and connect with past and future. The sparkling dewdrop becomes the gateway to connect with the eternal since it carries within itself the essence and the paradigm of all of life and is part of the magnificent and all-encompassing software that is nature. In the poem sometimes, the speaker explains: there is nothing so fulfilling as the white tassle of a carpet seen through the eyes of everything, or a simple green pot sitting clean on a perfect surface - [Time in the Garden](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/time-in-the-garden/) - Time in the Garden is a collection of new and selected poems that best describe my life as I see it. Many of the poems you find here previously appeared in chapbooks, privately printed in limited additions, and various workshop journals, since my retirement from a corporate career, in 1999. - [To Play Along The Path](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/to-play-along-the-path/) - Richard Campagna and his team of optimistic, pragmatic, spiritual, existentialist merrymakers have done it again. 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Summers, he takes naps. ~~~~~ "Ed meek digs underneath the broad lawns and narrow minds of the suburbs to unearth a deeper and at times darker, truth about ourselves and our lives." ~Doug Holder, editor and publisher, Ibbetson Street Press~~~~ "Ed Meek's poetry has always impressed me. In these recent poems, Meek is a master of his craft. His poems are brilliant, fresh, and full of subtle surprises. That this new volume of poetry has come out is a blessing. I have no hesitation in judging it one of the year's best." ~James Chichetto, editor, The Connecticut Poetry Review~~~~ "Poets are most important when politicians and advertisers are most energetically and dishonestly bending words against meaning, trying to fool us and sell us rather than delight us and shock us into recognition. The best poems are the antidote to lies and fraud, and false advertising. Ed meek's poems, apparently humble and unassuming but often wonderfully surprising, show us what's real and true, whether it's terrifying or funny as hell." ~Bill Littlefield, host of national public radio's "Only a Game." - [Who Lives In Your House](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/who-lives-in-your-house/) - “Who Lives In Your House – Discover Yourself Through Poetry” lets you immerse yourself in a satisfying experience of reading an assorted collection of poems filled with subtlety and humor. Written for easy reading, they will inspire you to think about things that you haven’t thought about for a very long time, if ever. You will become aware of your feelings on a myriad of subjects and discover things about yourself that you never knew were there. - [Wild Knowing](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wild-knowing/) - Wild Knowing is spiritual and erotic, stunning and mysterious. 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What the man learns about love from this absorbing experience would benefit us all." ~John Daniel, author of The Poet's Funeral "It may be true that men are from Mars and women are from Venus--but after reading Wild Knowing --they will both wish they were from Daria. " ~James N. Powell, author of The Tao of Symbols "Wild Knowing is like a healing balm. It is an extraordinary odyssey told with the sensitive passion of a woman's wisdom. Beautifully written with eloquent assurance, the author weaves a story that invites us to explore the very real world of intuitive love." ~ Rodney Charles, author of Every Day a Miracle Happens - [Wild Knowing - Spanish](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wild-knowing-spanish/) - Mas Tenue Que La Brisa es una historia de amor, una fantasia metafisica, y una novela de ciencia-ficcion con un argumento dinamico. Se desarrolla en el planeta Daria y empareja a un hombre de la Tierra con una bella y sabia mujer Dariana. Lo que el hombre aprende sobre el amor de esta experiencia absorbente nos beneficiaria a todos. --John Daniel, autor de The Poet's Funeral Los ciudadanos del planeta Daria son humanoides, pero capaces de un supremo refinamiento fisico, espiritual y relacional. En parte es una historia de modales. Las descripciones de la narrativa del tacto Dariano nos recuerdan los niveles de cortesia que uno suele encontrar en la cultura de las cortes japonesas. Puede que sea cierto que los hombres vienen de Marte y las mujeres de Venus---pero despues de leer Mas Tenue Que La Brisa---ambos desearian ser de Daria. --James N. Powell, autor de The Tao of Symbols "Mas Tenue Que La Brisa es una inspiradora historia de amor, con un sentido de etica impecable-una trama interplanetaria con grandes ideas que leeremos avidamente, escrita en la voz de la experiencia de la Mujer Sabia." --Diane Frank, autora de Blackberries in the Dream House "Mas Tenue Que La Brisa es como un balsamo curativo. Es una odisea extraordinaria contada con el delicado apasionamiento de la sabiduria de una mujer. Escrita admirablemente y con elocuente conviccion, la autora teje una historia que nos invita a explorar el muy real mundo del amor intuitivo." --Rodney Charles, autor de Every Day a Miracle Happens "Mas Tenue Que La Brisa es un maravilloso y asombroso libro. En prosa lirica, Anya Luz Lobos cuenta una historia de amor altamente original y visionaria, que abre para el lector nuevas dimensiones de espiritualidad y consciencia. Deleitara y cautivara a todo aquel que ha sentido alguna vez el deseo de una profunda union mistica con un amante adorado. Con su alto poder imaginativo y profundidad de sentimiento, la historia de Steve y Satia en Mas Tenue Que La Brisa es digna de colocarse al lado de Tristan e Isolda, Abelardo y Eloisa, y otros grandes amantes que han enriquecido nuestra literatura a traves de los siglos. La guardaran como un tesoro todos aquellos que la lean y esten abiertos a su vision transformadora - [Wind of the Spirit](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wind-of-the-spirit/) - Wind of the Spirit is the autobiographical spiritual journey of Gene Vosseler spanning five decades—as a poet, minister, political activist, friend of freedom, and valiant defender of the faith. As Gene likes to say, Wind of the Spirit is an extraordinary journey by an ordinary man. Yet, when you read Gene’s sermons, his freedom messages or any of his many poems, you will recognize that Gene’s dedication, and inner wisdom is extraordinary. You will come to know Gene as the flame of freedom that speaks, a friend of Christ and a respected spiritual elder. 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He went to law school at Florida State University, and then completed an advanced law degree in international and comparative law at George Washington University. After a short stay at the U.S. Department of State, Roger went to India by invitation of the Dalai Lama's admin-istration, to advise them in the drafting of a constitution for an autonomous Tibet. Roger also worked on the political conflicts in Burma, Kashmir, and Afghanistan. His first book, The Wandering Peacemaker, is about his experiences during this work. America's Highest Destiny is his second book. - [Book Marketing Basics](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/book-marketing-basics/) - Book marketing has changed forever. The new model for promoting your book uses the timeless fundamentals of book marketing and combines them with the almost limitless networking technologies of the internet. The goal of this book is to give new authors the insight and tools to compete in the same playing field as seasoned professionals. 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As a neuroscientist, he has conducted and published pioneering research on the interaction of consciousness and matter at the quantum-mechanical level. The well-known physicist Dr. George Farwell (his father) collaborated in this research. Dr. Larry Farwell invented a direct brain-to-computer communication system using electrical brain activity. He discovered the technique of Brain Fingerprinting to identify criminals and clear innocent suspects by measuring brain-wave responses to relevant words or pictures presented on a computer screen. CBS Evening News, ABC World News, CNN Headline News, the Discovery Channel, the New York Times, the Washington Post, US News and World Report, and television, radio, newspapers, and magazines throughout the world have featured Dr. Farwell and his discoveries. Dr. Farwell's personal philosophy is that anything is possible. He sees his scientific research as a process of discovering the unlimited possibilities available for human life. 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The work describes a bus ride to accomplishment and what to do when the bus encounters obstacles along the way. It is important that we remember that people in these organizations are volunteers, not paid employees, and as such must be provided with meaningful tasks for which they can see results...and they must receive the proper recognition for what they do. Good management principles show that Achievement and Recognition are the two most important motivators for people. The book encourages officers in organizations to be sure to provide a large measure of both to their members. This work discusses the importance of letting the community and the world know about the good work of your organization and discusses how to do this. Finally, the book encourages members to keep on keeping on. To find ways to overcome the obstacles and accomplish the great goals of the group. WE MUST ACT NOW IF OUR ORGANIZATIONS ARE TO SUCCEED. This small book, full of BIG IDEAS shows us how. - [Relationship w/Computer](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/relationship-w-computer/) - How To Have a Meaningful Relationship With Your Computer is the ultimate user-friendly book that tells you what you need to know to be a confident and knowledgeable participant in today’s computer world. Whether you are buying your first computer or looking to expand your productivity as a current computer user, Sandy’s insights and information will get you going in the right direction. - [Inside Sales Management](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/inside-sales-management/) - Inside Sales Management is that rare business book which addresses the most challenging situations that managers encounter, often on a daily basis. 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Mark Wilensky clearly explains how to understand and grow the people you manage. It’s about time somebody put it all together in one volume! Robin Domeniconi, President, Time Inc. Media Group To really serve your clients, you have to know how they think. In this book Mark Wilensky provides you with the codes to unlock your customers, your salespeople and what's happening between them. Even if you implement only a fraction of his strategies, you’ll see a dramatic upward trend in sales revenues! Steve Sachs, Publisher, Real Simple Magazine Getting inside the mind of salespeople – and clients – is the key to successful sales management, and that is exactly what this book does. I gained dozens of invaluable insights into how to motivate people, buyers and sellers, and you will too! – Don Combs, president, Colonial Equipment Co. This is the first book I’ve seen that clearly describes how to grow people! Mark Wilensky’s unique insights into what makes salespeople successful and what holds them back should be required reading for anyone hoping to develop a successful sales organization. – Ian Scott, CEO and President, Bauer Ad Sales. Managers - If you’re tired of not meeting your forecasts, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. The stories and examples make this vital knowledge come alive. I’ve read the chapter on becoming an all star coach three times, and I’m not through learning from it. – Richard Daniels, Vice President of Sales, PDI. At last – an understanding of salespeople, and how to ensure better sales results, all written in a style that any sales manager can readily grasp. Everyone with a stake in their company’s success will thank you for presenting the strategies in this book. – Charlie Browning, Publisher, New Homes Guide. I’ve read many books on the sales management process, and Mark Wilensky deals very effecively with the underlying causes of success and failure in managing sales. He demonstrates how to easily build a dynamic sales force that will exceed company goals. These insights will definitely increase your sales! - Frank Wintroub, president, The Rose Company There is nothing more important in managing the sales process than understanding the people involved…salespeople and clients – their expectations, their fears, and how to deal with them. Wilensky’s book gets inside the minds of buyers and sellers, and managers will benefit tremendously from this penetrating knowledge. - Gib Dickey, President, Housing Guides of America. Mark Wilensky has helped us double sales year after year, and I’m delighted that he has collected his strategies in this volume, which truly leads you inside sales management. – Don Alducin, founder and CEO of HJ Ford. - [Island](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/island/) - Island, a memoir What happens to a woman who leaves everything behind and moves to an island to change her life? Can a place change a person? This honest memoir tells the story of what that woman found, for better or for worse. A masterful journey of transition. - [Mural](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mural/) - Winner of the 204 Blue Light Press Award Alice Elizabeth Rogoff lives in San Francisco. She has been an Editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal since 1984. She has a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College, Masters Degrees in English: Concentration Creative Writing and in Drama from San Francisco State University, and a Certificate in Labor Studies from City College San Francisco. She has been published in Poetry At The 33, The San Francisco Bark - A Gathering of Bay Area Poets, Borderlands - Texas Poetry Review, The Small Pond Magazine of Literature, Beat (Poetry and Arts), and The Noe Valley Voice. She received an Honorable Award in the Artists Embassy International Dance-Poem Contest. She is on the Steering Committee of the National Writers Union Bay Area chapter. She is the Recording Secretary for the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, and leads drama workshops for low-income adults. - [A Boffin Puts To Seas](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-boffin-puts-to-seas/) - “The book describes the erratic career of an eccentric character, Archie S. 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Doctors and policymakers should read this book and act upon it.” - [No Justice](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/no-justice/) - The names have all been changed...to protect the guilty. No Justice is a thought provoking insider’s view of the Federal Government’s diabolic quest for financial profit. It is an exclusive—into the very heart of drug cartel politics, from the deeply involved south of the border. A first hand expose’ into the CIA’s “street level” manipulation of the black markets, the tacit cooperation of south and central America’s largest illegal drug wholesalers, and the white House’s determined underwriting of both. No Justice is written as fiction—because the truth is simply too hard to believe. - [Roots of Wealth](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/roots-of-wealth/) - Roots of Wealth applies the rules, tools, and processes to KNOWING true financial security instead of simply hoping you have it. 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Humphreys - [Benita](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/benita/) - BENITA: prey for him is the true story of bright, vivacious Benita Kane and the Catholic priest who lured her from childhood into a disastrous, twenty-year entanglement that changed the course of her life. What happened to this fatherless girl in the hierarchical, patriarchal world of Dubuque, Iowa during the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s is not simply one more tale of clerical sexual abuse, but rather an astounding, maddening, compelling account of what it was like to grow up in a family, community and culture so dominated by the Catholic church that no one could recognize the ominous events developing around them. As Benita’s friend and classmate from second-grade through college, Virginia Tranel writes from the unique stance of both participant and observer. - [The Emerging Markets Book](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-emerging-markets-book/) - This compelling book is a powerful howto for every investor who wants to profit from the explosion of free enterprise around the world. Keith DeGreen has combined his humor, years of experience, and excellent on-the-money research to create the manual for successful emerging market investors. Whether you are a first-time investor or a sophisticated money manager, you'll want to read and re-read this powerful book. Topics include: Emerging markets defined. How to beat the S&P; with emerging markets. Threecompellingreasonstoinvestnow. How much you should invest.How you should invest. Countries and Regions Covered: Brazil, Russia, India, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Emerging Europe and Central Asia, Central and South America,and the rest of Asia. - [Because of You](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/because-of-you/) - Rambling? Sure. Neurotic and funny? Yes. Meg is an aspiring writer that no publishing company seems to want to give the time of day. On a whim, she signs her last submission for a sweet romance novel like it was written by a man, "borrowing" her boyfriend's name Marcus. Marcus is really only interested in marrying Meg and having their farm together and is barely excited about having to carry on as the writer once the company accepts the book. Turns out the company thinks the angle is super and so do the millions of women who run to the booksellers to snatch up their copies. 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You won't have to do a lot of in depth thinking to read this one, right? - [The Second Declaration](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-second-declaration/) - Peter Drucker, The Father of Modern Management and Master of Masters, said: “The next information revolution is not a revolution in technology, machinery, techniques, software, or speed; it is a revolution in CONCEPTS.” The Second Declaration ignites this revolution. It elucidates the truth that the future determines the present. Today, in an era characterized by unprecedented changes, it is absolutely essential that everyone learn how to understand the future, cope with the future and manage the future. The Second Declaration teaches us how. This book is overly stuffed with information, covering high technological, anthropological, esthetic, literary, economic, political and scientific histories of the orient and occident. Absolutely original, with vivid style, verve, imagination and sharp view points, The Second Declaration is a fascinating vision of future economies, future cultures, and the development trends of future mankind. The Second Declaration is Xiaoping’s first work published in English. - [Trespassing in God’s Country](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/trespassing-in-gods-country/) - My life has revolved around airplanes since I was fourteen years old. It didn't come as a surprise to me when my three sons all decided to become commercial pilots. I never remember encouraging any of them to pursue a flying career. In fact, I may have suggested alternatives, but that didn't stop them from doing the one thing that was completely natural to them. All my children, including my three daughters, grew up reading maps. Each took their turn sitting in the co-pilot seat acting as the navigator. Their navigation skills were superior to many of the pilots that I hired. On one occasion, my oldestson, John, had to map read for a pilot who got lost when he decided to fly over a fog bank. When the fog finally cleared, they were about twenty miles beyond their des-tination, Raney Lake. There were no rec-ognizable lakes in sight. John spotted a village on a lake and they landed to ascertain their whereabouts. Once they had established their location, John easily navigated them back to Raney Lake. That same pilot never did learn to read a map and eventually got stranded for several days on a lake near James Bay.When John completed his commercial license in the spring of 1972, he hadn't yet trained on the Beaver and we needed another Be a ver pilot immediately. I had confidence that he could learn the skills q u i c k l y, so I took him with me on a fire patrol in Biscotasing, twenty miles south of Chapleau. We we restationed there for about four days when I was called back to the base in Chapleau for some other emergency. I had an aircraft fly down to pick me up and left John with the Beaver to continue by himself. The weather was still very dry and the fire danger was extreme. Two days later, it began raining to the west and the Beaver was no longer needed for fire patrol. By the time John arrive dback in Chapleau, the storm was very close and the winds were blowing down the river at over 30 mph. He landed the Beaver in front of the airbase. Then his difficulties began because he couldn't get the aircraft turned downwind to taxi it back to the dock...... - [Wheel of Eternity](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wheel-of-eternity/) - Keith Shearing’s Wheel of Eternity explores not only the realm of Earth but also a fascinating parallel reality known as Second Dimensional Earth. Throughout the story we follow the characters of Ken and Carol Spearman who work with contacts from the Far East and develop a key strategy to generate success for their business. During this time the couple begins to experience an unusual phenomenon that allows them to share each others dreams. In these dreams they travel to a strange world they come to know as Second Dimensional Earth. The unusual situation at hand becomes even more complicated by someone attempting to fraudulently take over their business. When the bad news reaches the team, personal and work relationships are put into jeopardy in an effort to uncover the truth and find the anonymous criminal. In the heat of the company’s fall out, Ken returns home to find he is unable to awaken Carol from an unnatural, consuming sleep. To save the mind of his wife, Ken enters into Second Dimensional Earth to face the challenges set forth by the unfamiliar environment. Understandings of life are unveiled and strength of character is tested, as this mysterious adventure ties together the plots of its two worlds in not one but two unique and powerful endings. - [Unfulfilled](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/unfulfilled/) - Shaymin Cumbersome has had to experience so many disappointments in her life. She was conceived through a one-night rape incident. Her mother was addictive to drugs later abandoned her at the age of three. Because of her abandonment, Shaymin was reared in an orphanage and many foster homes. Finally, at eleven years old, the Cumbersomes adopted Shaymin… Shaymin now thirty-two years, reflects back on her life, she thought that she had placed that entire life behind her once her business became very successful, and she was now engaged to Carlos. For years, Shaymin looked for love and completeness in things, money, sex and alcohol. She confided in her girlfriends Roche’ and Ashley whom she thought had the ideal marriage…Can Shaymin find fulfillment in an unfulfilled world. - [The Pyrite Years](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-pyrite-years/) - A hilarious take on the theme of an aging couple who flee their suburban lives by escaping to — and finding enlightening encounters in — the Adirondacks. With characters ranging from an Athabaskan shaman to a baritone toad, the two Ivy League refugees from North Neck, New Jersey, find more than enough to alter their lives, not to mention their consciousness. - [The Blackened Canteen](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-blackened-canteen/) - On June 20, 1945, just before the end of the war, 123 American bombers took off from the island of Guam for an attack on Shizuoka, a Japanese city at the foot of Mount Fuji. The raid destroyed two-thirds of the city, taking the lives of two thousand of its citizens. Twenty-three American airmen also died when two of their planes collided in mid-air. That these twenty-three men were enemy soldiers mattered little to one Japanese person who buried their remains next to the graves of the Shizuoka citizens killed in the attack and erected a memorial for them there. Many years later, in 1971, another Shizuoka citizen learned of this. He began holding his own ceremony beside the memorial, praying for the souls of the twenty-three Americans each year on the Saturday closest to June 20. - [The Double Life Of The Bathing Beauty Killer](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-double-life-of-the-bathing-beauty-killer/) - The Double Life of the Bathing Beauty Killer is a fictional story about a tortured soul—a young, handsome, and intelligent man named Chad. Never knowing his real mother and father, Chad was raised in Colorado by his two abusive old maid aunts. Despite the material wealth and comfort they provided him, their lack of love left Chad lonely, confused, and angry. Chad’s heartwrenching youth contributed to his downfall—a twisted mind that finally led him to multiple murders. After being tried and sentenced to a mental hospital for life, does Chad have any hope left? - [The Farce Side of Hell](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-farce-side-of-hell/) - An often humorous take on the deadly serious challenges of cancer treatment, with the implications of a need for change in medical practices. With the devil playing a leading role, several of the characters find temptation to be overwhelming, until even the evil one meets his match in the form of innocence and devotion to the cause of healing. - [The Inanity of Music and Wings](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-inanity-of-music-and-wings/) - In his eagerly awaited poetic debut, Zachary Michael Jack takes his readers on mind-bending, mytho-poetic travels from modern-day rural Mexico to the American Great Plains of the early century and back again. Employing an unlikely list of dramatis personae ranging from Tom Selleck to Nikita Krushchev, Jack's many-voiced story-in-poems follows his narrator's solitary stay in a Mexican mission and the heart-rending dialogue with Bird-an anthropomorphized alter-ego and trickster figure-that ensues. By turns, sad, funny, and wise, The Inanity of Music and Wings is both inimitable and delightfully uncanny-a wonderbeast of a collection part American Gothic, part Don Quixote, and wholly original. ~~~~~~Bio: Zachary Michael Jack is the author of the fine arts poetry chapbook The Story of Grief and the editor of two previous essay collections: Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom and The Furrow and Us. His poetry has earned him the Prentice Hall Poetry Prize, a nomination for a Pushcart (Best of the Small Presses) Prize, and writing residencies at New York's prestigious Blue Mountain Center and Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Centre, among others. A native of Iowa, where his family has farmed since before the Civil War, Jack is an assistant professor of English at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois and the director-founder of Iowa School of Lost Arts for children. - [The Lamb Cart](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-lamb-cart/) - The life of Jennifer Barnett had entered a time of uncertainty, complicated by the arrival of four small children who were unexpectedly placed in her care. Unable to care for the children alone, Jenny is forced to swallow her pride and turn to her parents for help. Cooper Barnett wants only to be left alone to work his ranch in southern Idaho. He urges his daughter to turn the children over to the Child Welfare Services Agency for placement in foster homes, but Jenny refuses her father’s argument. She vows to keep the children together, and promises never to abandon them. She is a fierce protector, and willing to risk everything, including her freedom. - [The Optimistic Existentialist](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-optimistic-existentialist/) - The life of Jennifer Barnett had entered a time of uncertainty, complicated by the arrival of four small children who were unexpectedly placed in her care. Unable to care for the children alone, Jenny is forced to swallow her pride and turn to her parents for help. Cooper Barnett wants only to be left alone to work his ranch in southern Idaho. He urges his daughter to turn the children over to the Child Welfare Services Agency for placement in foster homes, but Jenny refuses her father’s argument. She vows to keep the children together, and promises never to abandon them. She is a fierce protector, and willing to risk everything, including her freedom. - [Ripples](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/ripples/) - Three unique and intriguing stories disclose how human conduct and decisions have a rippling influence in the affairs of men, and sometimes, nations. “The Event” guides us through an encounter with three people in rural Texas changing forever the life of each. “The Sphere” tells a story about an altruistic mind colliding with a militaristic mentality and the disastrous outcome. “Soviet 7” exposes the challenge of man’s ingenuity against technology and how such intertwining can sometimes mold history. All human behavior has a rippling influence upon others, and when ripples collide, both are changed forever. - [Searching For Camelot](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/searching-for-camelot/) - Once upon a time, over half a century ago, a female child was born in a faraway land called Brooklyn in the kingdom known as New York. No one outside the immediate family knew about this special event. It was kept a secret from the world, but the powers of the universe knew and waited. Time passed and childhood fled by, almost without a memory. The teenage years had their ups and down, culminating in marriage to a neighborhood boy, a house in the suburbs, two children, two cars, four bedrooms, three bathrooms and one dog. And in its proper turn, a divorce. Which led to the beginning of her journey to discover the truth about life and the power she had to make it better. - [Soldier Hollow](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/soldier-hollow/) - Compelled by tragic events to abandon his native home in Scotland, Old Stewart, dedicated and determined, embarks upon a long… - [Someday](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/someday/) - An insightful study of the reactions of a Nebraska lad to the Big City in 1976. Encountering many of the varied denizens of the city, from the bohemian crowd in Greenwich Village to the Vietnam vets homeless on the streets, Nick Haugen distills the essence of city life as seen through the eyes of a farmland innocent. Humorous, thought-provoking and thoroughly timely, this is a story for all the country to read and reflect on. - [Sophie](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/sophie/) - There are few books you read which change your life and your outlook on the peoples of the world—but Sophie is most definitely one of them! Looking back to my days on active duty from 1965-1968 during the Vietnam War as a young United States Navy JAG officer, I simply did not have an appreciation or understanding of the terrible plight of the people in Cambodia who were under the threat of a brutal Communist takeover, which would essentially destroy their world as they knew it. The hero of the book is a law student named Savy in Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia, in 1975 when he sets out on a dangerous, exciting, and yes romantic journey from his homeland and family in Cambodia to America. Savy takes the reader back to his happy, youthful days in Cambodia before the Communist Khmer Rouge victory and the fall of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. His vivid portrayal of everyday life in Cambodia before the Communist takeover of the country gave me entirely new insights and a really deep empathy for the Cambodian people—much different than reading an Encyclopedia’s factually accurate but emotionless view of Cambodia and its people. Sophie is overflowing with emotion throughout the book leading up to the ending which will make you cry. Believe me, reading this book will jolt your senses and change your life forever. - [Its Wednesday Lets Do Lunch](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/its-wednesday-lets-do-lunch/) - It’s Wednesday, let’s do lunch is the story of six very special ladies who made meeting for lunch at the Silver Lake Cafe every Wednesday for over thirty years a way of life, filled with friendship, laughter and lasting love. There’s DeeDee, who recaptures her postponed dreams of being another Brenda Starr covering glamorous events, as well as dangerous criminals, when she goes to work for a local newspaper. Sally, a procrastinator extraordinaire, marries her best friend, only to meet her real soulmate later, while Stevey, who feels betrayed by her parents and brothers, finds solace in her kitchen as she salivates at the thought of the gourmet dinner she is about to cook for herself. Lilonnie, after leaving her cheerleading days and one love behind for a city career in advertising, returns to take care of her aging parents and finds love again. May, a sexy and beautiful nurse, brings joy and laughter to the group as her belated “White Knight” turns out to be the ultra quiet village doctor, whose life is transformed as she brings joy filled light into the darkness of his despair. Celia, a teacher with hidden sexual desires, completes the “Sensational Six,” as she runs and jogs through life with a secret love whose brush with death awakens his love for her. - [Marty Vaugn](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/marty-vaugn/) - Marty Vaughn chronicles the life of a woman born in late 19th century Iowa. Daughter of a German maid and an English nobleman, Marty spends her earliest years in England. Due to her father's untimely passing, however, her mother sends her back to the United States to live with an aunt and uncle on an Iowa farm. Once her mother remarries, she also returns to the United States with her new husband. Marty is reunited with her mother, and in the ensuing years she completes school, finds work in a hotel, falls in love, and marries. As she matures, she begins to have experiences of a supernatural nature. Woven into the fine details of rural Iowa living, births, deaths, and the mysteries of a fine wooden trunk are all presented with Midwestern frankness and quiet passion. - [Mary Jane](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mary-jane/) - Call him T, Winkers, or Tiddlywinks, Hal Watt is a man with a gift for marijuana, and he shares his life’s passion with us in his engaging and exuberant memoir Mary Jane. The first trauma of T’s young life occurred in the early 1960s, when the Bridgeport, CT police hauled off Uncle Noodles, cannabis cultivator extraordinaire, together with a full haul of mature, budding marijuana plants. Fortunately, by the time T is out of high school, Noodles is no longer behind bars, and he’s more than willing to share his botanical skills with his equally green-thumbed nephew. Mary Jane is an exuberant, amorous, picaresque look at a much more innocent time, when criminals were funny, drugs weren’t scary, and life was all about getting a good buzz on. - [Omnipotent](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/omnipotent/) - Joel Sampson was an introverted computer programmer before he agreed to be the guinea pig for Professor Kelbeck’s age reversing machine. Then he became embroiled in a frantic effort to fulfill Kelbeck’s dream of releasing the poor people of the world from oppression and ignorance. To achieve this goal he must face and overcome the efforts of gangsters, drug lords and despots in a crusade that spans the United States, then leads to Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, China, Palestine, and finally to the Oval Office of the White House. Along the way he met and fell in love with Elena the woman of his dreams. Will he be allowed to continue his Quest that challenges the basic concept of evolution for the planet Earth? - [Good Lyrics Make Great Poetry](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/good-lyrics-make-great-poetry/) - An eclectic collection of poems, songs, and musical theater. In a recent column, Ms. Amy Dickinson stated, "When you sing, you are communicating poetry that was so beautiful that a composer decided to set it to music." American Literary Press Editor: "In this eclectic collection of poems, songs, and musical theater, Murphy pens both humorous and sensitive words that are filled with colorful descriptions, double entendres, and fitting Southern drawls. The author combines a lyrical feel for cadence, rhythm, and rhyme with a strong command of the English language to deliver some poignant and witty explorations of the human psyche. From macabre descriptions to heartfelt sentiments, Murphy bares an emphatic soul. His forays into musical theater are noteworthy, but particularly exceptional is "Luke and Sarah," which, in telling the story of two feuding mountain clans, dichotomizes the prim and the salacious, the virtuous and vulgar. It would be wonderful to see this work performed on stage as it is a sort of backwoods "West Side Story." The words to "Member" and "Truck Stop" are also lyrics that can be independently enjoyed for their purely poetical properties." - [Passage From Innocence](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/passage-from-innocence/) - The mid-fifties and early sixties were times when joy and excitement flourished in the hearts of young Americans. With the birth of controversial ‘rock n’ roll’, and the glitter of inescapable Hollywood, teenagers flooded the streets with hot rods and wild attitudes. The generation enjoyed a care free existence and took their lessons of right and wrong from the rugged John Wayne thundering across the silver screen. Unfortunately, the fun times would not last. A cry from the tropical mountains of Vietnam brought the peaceful tranquility in the United States to an abrupt end. The harsh reality of the county’s youth being maimed and killed in a foreign land almost destroyed the nation. “The Final Farewell” is a fictional account of how young lives were changed during the violent years of the Vietnam War. It tells the story of two friends Sergeant Cleat Davis and Sergeant John Truman and their journey through some of the most desolate times in our nation’s history. Together the war brothers endure the hardships of a brutal post high school life where they are tested beyond measure on the harsh battlefields of Vietnam. This touching and inspiring story brings to life the heart and soul of one of the most influential times in our country’s history. - [Earth 2](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/earth-2/) - In 2546 the population has risen to 35 billion. All cities and transport systems are underground and vast farms cover the surface. Seven people on a train journey from the UK pass through an underground network of tubes on their way to the Himalayan Mountains. On the journey, the seven must contend with a catastrophe that will change all their lives forever. During the journey, a meteor strike in Ukraine causes widespread devastation. When the travellers reach their destination, they realise all is not well on the outside and set to work immediately to help other travellers who are arriving. But shortly after the last travellers arrive, a meteor storm starts, pounds the surface of the planet for three days, and ends life on earth as they knew it. After finding they are completely isolated, the remaining few are left to pick up the pieces and create a new civilization in the Himalayan Research Centre. For the lucky survivors, it is a new beginning—one that will challenge everything they know. - [H](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/h/) - H, an orphan from Bermuda, is kidnapped onto a splendid sloop and finds himself involved in many adventures that take him to the Amazon rainforest, through the Bermuda Triangle, even unto Boston. Massachusetts. Joining forces with Fiona Hitch, a Scots scientist studying natural healing in the Amazon, H discovers a hint of magic, a lovely young descendant of the Aztecs and the joy of belonging to a vital mission. - [Free At last](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/free-at-last/) - Author: Marilyn Avient Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4218-9976-3 Pages: 292 Editions: 978-1-4218-9976-3 - Hardcover: $26.95 978-1-4218-9975-6 - Softcover: $18.95 978-1-4218-9977-0 - eBook: $12.95 - [Hail to the Chieves](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/hail-to-the-chieves/) - Hail to the Chieves is a whimsical romp through the first 4 months of an historic 4th term for Governess Dawn Ho, a retired adult film Legend who's been Mainna's Chief Executive since 1992. Read how the Legend works her own special magic to: lure jobs away from a successful neighbor state because their new 1st term Governor is infatuated with her and only became the Governor to meet Dawn; break paralyzing Congressional gridlock with the help of her loyal sisters who inevitably get caught up in Dawn's Karmic web of influence with surprising results; initiate the first-ever tax cuts in Mainna as well as minimum wage increases that catapult her approval ratings with female voters from 3% (with a 3% error margin) to over 75%!; and find the man of her dreams to marry and plan her future with. Guaranteed to make you laugh, think and wonder. And maybe cry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - [His Own Blood](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/his-own-blood/) - Just when legendary retired soldier John Raven thought he had soaked in the extreme vestiges of life, with scars to prove it, his past comes to haunt him. His ex wife, a well respected officer, confronts him with the unfortunate news that his old friend and colleague has died. In an effort to right the wrongs of the past, John Raven takes on the task of training the new recruits of the elite fighting force, Unit Invincible. As the training begins, he is approached by one of his recruits; a young man who turns out to be his unknown son. With this new, emotionally charged responsibility, John Raven is ultimately forced back into service to once again fight for his country and protect His Own Blood. - [Home of the Brave](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/home-of-the-brave/) - A slight breeze moved the French lace curtains as Karen leaned against the verandah doorframe. She watched the men struggle with the awkward and heavy feather mattress she had re-upholstered. The ornate bed was large and high off the carpeted floor. She had fallen in love with it the moment she and Bonnie had seen it at the estate sale. The antique maple bed and steps matched her furnishings in the room to perfection. This room for some particular reason was the only one in her home furnished with antiques, right down to her eagle photographs in ornately carved frames. Normally, Karen was comfortable with anything and everything modern. It wasn't until the past year that she'd started replacing her bedroom furniture with antiques. After the men left, she spent the afternoon organizing and moving the rest of her bedroom. Nodding her head in agree-ment with herself, she looked about the room with a critical eye. It was almost as if the bed was the last piece of the puzzle. Its headboard was strategically placed against the wall with the two windows from floor to ceiling on each side. The bed faced the verandah, the armoire to the right of the bed, the bureau and matching vanity to its left. Karen smiled. The room looked comfortable and inviting. - [I Did Not Sign Up For This](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/i-did-not-sign-up-for-this/) - Gigi James’ touching and comical novel, “I Didn't Sign Up For This!” travels back through the outrageous memories of the young physician assistant, Jillian Moulton. Jillian recalls her happiness, hardships, and heartaches with her friends and family, particularly her life with her ex-husband, Tony Moulton. Tony was a dreamboat. The wealthy, confident, gorgeous Jamaican had such blatant appeal that every woman within a 10 mile radius was trying to land him. Though life appeared ideal with her beautiful husband and their new family, Jillian’s reality quickly unraveled with her discovery of the audacious affairs her husband was having with not one, but four women. The young mother is torn between her contempt for his unacceptable behavior and the undeniable comfort and draw of her “perfect” husband and the fantasy lifestyle he represented. After continuous confrontation, battle after battle of ridiculous logic and pagesous perspective on the game of life. - [2012 The Symphony](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/2012-the-symphony/) - 2012 The Symphony is a futuristic novel that provides possible answers for many of the questions we are asking today. It is the story of 13 people who meet ‘by chance’ in Cancun, Mexico, where they are told of an ancient Mayan prophecy predicting the end of a 26,000 year evolutionary cycle on December 21st, 2012. Returning home, they discover compelling evidence to support what they were told. They then transform their lives to align with the next stage in humanity’s evolution, one that will revolutionize mankind. - [Angles Now And Forever](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/angles-now-and-forever/) - “Angels Now and Forever” is a heart warming story of four courageous soldiers and their quest for world salvation. The small group of self sacrificing heroes sets out to end world suffering but along the way they find something surprising, themselves. Watched over by holy power, the compassionate intentions of the four young men unite and overcome what appears to be the impossible. For an inspiring spiritual adventure, come fly with the angels and take hold of a new perspective on life - [I've Had Enough Of Being Nice So Here It Is](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/ive-had-enough-of-being-nice-so-here-it-is/) - I’ve Had Enough Of Being Nice So Here It Is, is a hilarious insight into the things that most people have thought about but are too apprehensive to say. These precious statements, phrases and photos are put together to allow readers to share chuckles, quotes and moments with friends, co-workers, relatives, spouses but more importantly… themselves. This book is based on true encounters from the author’s daily life; the silent yet lovable everyday issues. Above all the goal is pure and simple…. to make people laugh! - [Archimedes Of Syracuse](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/archimedes-of-syracuse/) - In the summer of 1499 Leonardo di Vinci is hired by Cesare Borga as a military engineer. Leonardo begins to work on a steam canon that had originally been an idea of Archimedes of Syracuse some 1500 years earlier. Cesare invites Leonardo to his headquarters for diner to learn more about Archimedes. He soon discovers that Leonardo seems to know a great deal about Archimedes. Leonardo has in his possession a wooden chest filled with drawings and ideas from Archimedes. In the course of the evening, Leonardo tells Cesare all about the life of Archimedes. With the help of documents from the chest, Leonardo tells the story of Archimedes of Syracuse, and how he made many discoveries in mathematics and science. Archimedes determined the true value of pi (3.14159) before the concept of a zero was understood. He discovered the laws of levers, equilibrium, and bouyancy. He invented many machines including war machines that held the might of the Roman army at bay for a year. At the request of his king, Archimedes visits Alexandria and the great library there. He had corresponded with many of the great scholars who resided at the nearby museum. While in Alexandria he falls in love with Princess Helena, and inspite of their age difference, they marry and return to Syracuse. Soon Helena gives birth to their only child, a daughter they name Arsinoe. For nearly fifty years, Syracuse experiences peace, and avoids being drawn directly into the frequent conflicts between Rome and Carthage. However, eventually war comes to Syracuse, and Archimedes must use all his vast knowledge to defend Syracuse and his very family from the Romans invaders. As Leonardo concludes his story, Cesare offers to purchase the chest of ideas from Leonardo. Leonardo declines the offer and leaves Cesare’s headquarters, taking the chest and its secrets with him. Who know which of Leonardo de Vinci’s inventions were really the brainchild of Archimedes of Syracuse? - [Blackghost](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/blackghost/) - A young man named Marcus Leveret Johnson lives the life of a teenage high school nerd. When he is given a homework assignment that causes him to go down to the local power plant, a deadly accident falls upon him. Not killed by the accident, he is given superhuman powers. Marcus soon comes to the realization that he should use his powers for good and gives himself a secret identity, the BLACKGHOST. With the city of Atlanta in great turmoil from the Notorious Criminal Mastermind OMAR and his 3 Kings of Evil, the BLACKGHOST takes it upon himself to stop OMAR, but even with superpowers how can the Blackghost stop Omar and deal with the everyday life of being a teenager at Paul Adams High School. - [Let Tomorrow Come](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/let-tomorrow-come/) - How to have and enjoy a healthy relationship. If you have ever been heart broken this book is a must read for you. Single or married this book causes you to grow to another level in relationship. Let Tomorrow Come is purposed to help heal the broken hearted. It is also a revelation of how dating is effecting us spiritualy, and teaches how to have and enjoy a healthy relationship. - [Many Candles](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/many-candles/) - It may be the quotes, which are a distinct cut above the current common caliber, seasoning everything we read lately, or it may be the penetrating expressions on student's faces that reach right to the core of the reader … but there is a sense of unity about this book. There is wisdom in the student’s perspectives. If there is a concern for a "dumbing down" in America, it is NOT apparent in this book. These high school graduates seem to be going somewhere. That somewhere isn't on the usual charts. They seem content. They seem to radiate truth. They speak of enlightenment. As a nation, maybe what we have called "smart" and what we have called "intelligence" need to be looked at again. Looking at society today, it's been a while since we could say that intelligence brought inner happiness. - [Moms Come First](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/moms-come-first/) - by Dvorah Adler Purchase Now! Moms Come First! 3 Steps to Enlightened ... radical parenting concept for the 21st Century. It's a breath of fresh air in parenting. It states that the heart soul, and spiritual foundation ... - [Poetry by 6th Grade Students of FMS](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/poetry-by-6th-grade-students-of-fms/) - In our poetry unit this year, our sixth graders read and memorized famous poems, were exposed to many different types of poetry, and tried their hand at writing their own poetry. Some of those poems include tanka, cinquain, haiku, acrostic, bio, concrete, diamante, ocean research, couplets, title down, and limericks. My students had fun creating poems that expressed who they really are. They also quickly discovered that writing poetry is very revealing, which can be scary. I am proud of their willingness to share this part of themselves with others. The openness and ease with which they write, along with their wit and honesty, simply amazes me. I hope you enjoy reading their work as much as I have. They should be very proud of their accomplishments. ~~~~~~~Ann Gookin, 6th Grade Language Arts Teacher - [Prime Time](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/prime-time/) - Do We Have the Power to Craft Our Life After 60? Dr. Diane Schaupp tackles this question in her important dialogue about the ”new life” that can be created by those who have passed through the hoops of parenthood or professional lives or work-a-day-worlds and who finally have the time and space to craft the years ahead with the same energy a college student commits to figure out his/her major or career choice. This book gives new meaning to the terms self-acceptance, personal adaptability and interdependence. PRIME TIME identifies three developmental stages of aging. It chronicles the journey from around age 60 when confusion sets in about the emotional and physical challenges associated with the inevitable declines of aging and the issues of retirement, relationships and living arrangements. The individual begins to address the ways they can learn to flourish while at the same time leaving a meaningful legacy. Dr. Schaupp illustrates how the vulnerabilities aging adults face offer them a unique opportunity for self-reflection and self-fulfillment, as they craft a “new life” with the requisite psychological tools and strong determination. PRIME TIME focuses on the emotional aspects of aging and how one can achieve emotional balance, which is important if one is to flourish in their lifetime. Areas such as ease in relationships, financial security and personal well-being follow along when one’s being is emotionally balanced. In PRIME TIME, Dr. Schaupp discards the outdated perspective that old age is a time of decline. She adopts a new, positive view of aging, illustrating the path individuals can follow so they can capture the elusive qualities of flourishing and thriving emotionally and psychologically. - [Seattle](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/seattle/) - Seattle, Shady Beach, The Avalon and Everything is the story of a teenager growing up in Seattle during World War II, entering high school as the war started and graduating as the war ended. Experience the cars, girls, summers on Vashon Island in Puget Sound, and a unique dance called the Avalon as you take a trip down memory lane with Roger Thompson. - [The Cranky Yankee](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-cranky-yankee/) - Author: Virginia Leaper Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4218-9862-9 Pages: 176 Editions: 978-1-4218-9862-9 - Softcover: $19.95 978-1-4218-9863-6 - eBook: $12.95 - [The Husband’s Manual](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-husbands-manual/) - The Husband's Manualby A & T Murphy Purchase Now! This books shows a man how to be happier while making his marriage work better. Based on the principle that our choice of mate is more than just physical ... better with women. Every year 2.5 million couples get married in the United States and every year it’s only the brides who get advice. Until now. Most marriage books are written ... - [The Story of My Life - by Shayna](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-story-of-my-life-by-shayna/) - The story of my life is about dog racing and a good deal more. It is about cruelty, the human capacity for cruelty towards human animals and animals of other species. Dog racing, commonly known as Greyhound racing, is not a sport because no legitimate sport uses enslaved/involuntary participants and murders many of them once they start losing and no longer are competitive and profitable. Dog racing is, in fact, a deadly form of entertainment, as are horse racing, dog fighting, cock fighting, hunting and circuses that use enslaved other-specied animals. Incidentally, I remember Greta talking about a form of entertainment that was popular in Ancient Rome and which took place in public arenas. There enslaved humans known as gladiators were forced to engage in deadly combat against each other to the delight of cheering crowds. Often the losing gladiator was killed outright, and sometimes he lived depending upon the mood of the spectators. Unlike some spectator sports whose fans identify with and form emotional attachments to the athletes, dog racing fans care little or nothing about the Greyhounds. This detachment can be attributed to the racers' short racing careers; some race for just one season or part of a season at a specific track, and then are shipped elsewhere. But let's return to my story. Please know that I am real, as are other characters. On the other hand, some characters are not real. They are fictional. And although some of the events discussed in Part One are based on real happenings, some are not, and Part One is a work of fiction. In conclusion, I hope with all my heart that this book touches the hearts and minds of its readers. - Shayna Lanesboro, MA (1998) - [The Village Schoolmaster](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-village-schoolmaster/) - In 1938 our father Herman Larsen takes a position with the Alaska Native Service to teach in a small Athabascan Indian village. Herman, his wife Mae, and their eight-year-old daughter Etola travel from Mandan, North Dakota, for 58 days to get to their new home. In April of 1941 Mae and Etola return to Mandan to wait for the birth of their second daughter Yvonne. On March 3rd of 1942 an Indian woman gives birth to twins who appear to be white. The news of the birth of white twins spreads around the village, but Herman, the only white man in the village, denies any involvement saying the mother’s husband is part Russian and the villagers are a bunch of “gossips”. The Larsens experience tragedy in March of 1943 when Etola dies of hepatitis. Subsequently they live in three other Alaskan villages, during which time Robert (Bud) and Elaine are born, then leave Alaska forever. Nearly 50 years later, Yvonne returns to Alaska. There a native woman tells her that we have a half-sister. - [The Voice of Washington Elementary School](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-voice-of-washington-elementary-school/) - The voices of our children speak to us in many ways. This collection of poetry was created by the students of Washington school for their enjoyment, as a learning experience and for your pleasure. Many of our students and staff were reluctant to become involved in this project. However, as the process evolved, both the students and staff became more and more enthusiastic about what was happening in the classrooms. Students started cranking out a variety of material that showed both insight and a creative thinking side that many had not displayed in the past. Staff became more excited to see the enjoyment the students had in producing, as well as sharing their writing. This has been an outstanding project for our whole school community and we recommend it to others as a positive teaching aid for writing and self discovery. One teacher said, I didn't think my class (students) would be able to participate in this project, but they proved me wrong. This has been a great experience for us. My students really surprised me! I will incorporate this poetry unit in my class next year." We hope you will enjoy reading and pondering the thoughts of our children." ~~~PRINCIPAL DUSANEK~~~ WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL "For we children, the most beautiful thoughts are already poetic. We are magical, fresh, exciting and wise enough to know that we can change the whole world by just being ourselves. Our feelings are special. We are tender and we carry our own colors, each different with different shades. The poems that follow are written by children and selected by children as winners of an ongoing poetry competition. These poems are intended to introduce the wonders of poetry to the new generation." ~~~ANYA AND AMAN CHARLES ~~~ CHILDREN'S POETRY EDITORS, 1ST WORLD LIBRARY. - [Wing Tip Shoes](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wing-tip-shoes/) - In a small mid-western town in the 1960’s a fresh young girl had a fleeting passion to see the world. Looking past the Iowa corn fields she yearned to see grand oceans, legendary statues and exotic palaces. In 1964 the dreamer found the perfect cup to house her desires. Despite fear, competition and doubt, she was accepted into a life of excitement, culture, and friends as a first class flight attendant for TWA. Wing Tip Shoes – Memoirs of a Flight Attendant is the autobiographical story of the charming, timeless encounters of Mary Elizabeth Spreitzer. The original stories and unique interactions are brought to life by the author’s down to earth style and personal photographs. If you need to get away without ever leaving your house Wing Tip Shoes is just thes in the coming years. - [Every Day A Miracle Happens](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/every-day-a-miracle-happens/) - Everyday a Miracle Happensby Rodney Charles Purchase Now! 365 compelling miraculous ... and historic — scholarly, yet irresistibly charming and readable. Each day is associated with a day of the year. Includes 165 maps and bibliographies at the end of each account. USA- Best-selling inspirational book. A compelling collection of 365 miraculous accounts. Contains both modern and historic accounts. One story for every day of the year. The ... - [Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - A Living Saint for the New Millennium](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-a-living-saint-for-the-new-millennium/) - Forty years ago, in May of 1959, His Holiness Maharishi Ma-hesh Yogi first visited the United States of America. It seems only fitting to bring out a commemorative edition of the book written by my mother in 1967 wherein she described the adventures of Maharishi's first summer in this country. It is a book so like Maharishi, a tender story told simply about a great man with a superhuman goal. During these forty years, I have had the opportunity to quietly witness this great man going about the manifestation of a phenomenal vision-a vision based on the principle that everyone should naturally and innocently live 200 percent of life: one hundred percent inner spiritual joy along with one hundred percent outer material satisfaction. Maharishi wanted to bring humankind out of suffering and restore to us our rightful human dignity. He envisioned a world in which its citizens could enjoy a life free from problems-an ideal life based in good, useful and virtuous thoughts, words and actions; where we could enjoy the blessings of spontaneous good health, excellent and effective systems of education for our children, increased economic prosperity, and improved social well-being on all levels of society; where the spiritual ideals of all religions could be realized and lived in daily life; and, most importantly, where we could live in lasting world peace and real friend-ship with one another. And Maharishi offered a simple, powerful solution for realizing that goal-an easy, natural, mental technique that he called Transcendental Meditation, which allows anyone to develop his or her full potential while simultaneously nourishing the surrounding environment..... - [The Third Creation](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-third-creation/) - The purpose of this book is to reconcile evolution theory and creation faith, to prove the reality of the Creator God, to reconcile all sacred beliefs and to forewarn man of an impending consequence, the beginning of which began over 100 years ago. - [Twin Galaxies-World Records](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/twin-galaxies-world-records/) - Walter Day is the world’s only electronic games referee. He runs the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard—the “official scoreboard for the world of video game and pinball playing.” As the founder of organized video game playing, Day has judged contests and high scores submitted by arcades as far away as South Africa, Australia, Ireland and Japan. He has written the official rule book for video game and pinball playing sponsors two major contests every year to allow new players to enter the Official Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records. - [All Else is Bondage](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/all-else-is-bondage/) - There seems to have been a time at which sentient beings have not escaped from the dungeon of individuality. In the East, liberation was elaborated into a fine art, but it may be doubted whether more people may not have made their escape from solitary confinement outside the organized religions than by means of them. In the West reintegration was sporadic but in recent years it has become a widespread preoccupation. Unfortunately its technical dependence on oriental literature- sometimes translated by scholars whose knowledge of the language was greater than their understanding of the subject-has proved a barrier which rendered full comprehension laborious and exceedingly long. There it appears to be essential that such teaching as may be transmissible shall be given in modern idiom and in accordance with out own processes of thought. Enlightenment and the Extinction of 'Me' It: On Realizing the Mind This Phenomenal Absence Potential Reality Potential Being Seeking the Seeker - [Conspiracy of Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/conspiracy-of-light/) - This is a simple, yet expansive guide through the labyrinth of Unity Consciousness. Touching upon current evolutionary physics, ancient philosophical principles, comparative religion and metaphysical practicality - the "Academy of Ur" beckons one toward Self and Universal exploration. Terry Goodman weaves humor and humility, through what can seem daunting subject matter, creating a path of investigation that offers concrete tools, alternate perspective and direct knowledge of the individual awakening experience. - [The Sharp Knife of Forced Simplicity](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-sharp-knife-of-forced-simplicity/) - “The writing is clean and clear, and the insights are informed with the passion and excitement oof original discovery.” - [Tweed](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/tweed/) - For many centuries racism has gone unabated; TWEED is the exhaustive efforts to try and understand where this dark phenomenon originated from. This book is very candid in its attitude and very direct in its approach. TWEED has a very heavy spiritual tone. As well, it discusses the many different paths that this dark phenomenon travels. This book also discusses the destruction that is along the paths that racism has treaded. It is certain to open up the most closed of minds, and to set ablaze those minds who teeters on the brink of total collapse by ignorance. - [Oasis In the Mountains](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/oasis-in-the-mountains/) - Artist, Lorrie Bortner paints in Taos, New Mexico. This book contains 44 color plates of her paintings and murals. Her contemporary paintings are organized in 5 chapters; animals, trees, spirit, women and murals. This book is enjoyed by all ages. - [How to Be Your Own Best Tennis Pro](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/how-to-be-your-own-best-tennis-pro/) - You've had what seems like a million tennis lessons, but you get out on the court and it all goes away. You revert back to old habits and what made sense in the clean green and white world of the tennis pro is lost out there on the gritty high school courts where you are losing again to Hacker Charlie. You get steamed, throw your racket and go home frustrated. This book addresses the problem of getting what you learn in lessons out onto the court where you are hitting the ball with an actual opponent. The book challenges you to take charge of your own growth as a tennis player. It presents a system of "point projects" to help you systematically gather tennis knowledge and effectively incorporate it into actual play situations. This system is applicable to tennis practice, practice matches, match warm-ups, and during competitive match play. The book includes a number of sample point projects on every major stroke for you to try, plus a goal-setting chapter to give you the beginnings of an overall plan for self-improvement built around your own list of point projects. For less than the cost of one tennis lesson, you can double the value of all your other lessons, and start to become your own (best) tennis pro. Praise for How to be Your Own Best Tennis Pro "Paul Stokstad's book puts the attention of the player where it belongs: on self-development. Only by taking a serious look at your own game, by pulling apart and examining the details of every stroke, can you put it all together again as a bigger and better game. The book has an interesting, systematic method of analysis that should take any player to a new level of understanding of their own game and of tennis in general." -Jack Kramer - [Blood Rivers](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/blood-rivers/) - Author: Lisha Adela Garcia Published By: Blue Light Press ISBN: 978-1-4218-9134-7 Pages: 80 Editions: 978-1-4218-9134-7 - Softcover: $15.95 - [Flying Backbone](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/flying-backbone/) - Flying Backbone collects Christopher Buckley’s poems from 1979 through 2007 responding to the life and paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. Taken from one full-length book and two chapbooks—all long out of print—plus two new poems, the project concludes at 52 poems. Also reprinted is an essay in which Buckley not only speaks to his process, but to comment from art critics over the years. Buckley explains that he was compelled by “The vitality she found in everything—from bones in the desert to skyscrapers in Manhattan—the way the work suggests a practical cast, one that cherishes the earth and praises the strength of the human spirit as it endures here.” - [Holy Trinity of Chiles](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/holy-trinity-of-chiles/) - Join Scott Caputo on a pilgrimage where we are offered nothing less than the full measure of being human. Accessible, these poems are made from the whole cloth of experience. Caputo never shies away from his religion or the marketplace. Astonishment lies down with humor. In Holy Trinity of Chiles the wanderer and the word-lover find nourishment. - Kit Kennedy, poet and host of Gallery Cafe Reading Series, San Francisco - [I’m An Aspie](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/im-an-aspie/) - A Poetic Memoir for Living the Human Experience Through the Eyes of Asperger’s - [Leaves By Night, Flowers By Day](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/leaves-by-night-flowers-by-day/) - After days and hours spent poring over manuscripts, judges Rustin Larson, Nynke Passi, and Christine Schrum are pleased to present the winners of the Iowa Source 2006 poetry anthology: Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day. The anthology contains poems from 34 poets living across the United States and in Australia and Indonesia as well. We received scores of submissions, but somehow we managed to whittle them down to these 65 poems, which stood out in some way for all three judges, whether for the poem's humor, poignancy, lyricism, striking imagery, craftsmanship, or a skilled combination thereof. - [Mysterious Light](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/mysterious-light/) - Delving beneath the surface of things, Joyce Uhlir’s poems explore and shed light on a multi-dimensional world of nature where sight, sound, feelings, smell and taste mix — like paint on a pallet — to the delight of body and soul. Jasmine plays at the tip of my nose./ Cranberries splash round/ the playfulness of my tongue,” she writes. The light in her poems can also thread its way into “the black fabric of night” as “Distant stones in a dark universe/ blink...” and as stars arrive “in the yawn of evening.” Sensuous and spiritual at the same time, this light often seems like x-ray vision, making the opaque transparent and beautiful. Fortunately for us, she has shared her word paintings here, poems filled with “mysterious light.” —Paul Fisher, Author of Rumors of Shore - [Omega Factor](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/omega-factor/) - If you would, take a walk with your mind through a period of a life when life, love and even death played on my particular gray matter. The pictures that you will envision are the same that reside inside your own chamber of electrical impulses. Take some time to walk outside of your own mind and into another, walk slowly and carefully; the mind that you step on might be your own. So enjoy the trip, travel through reality and fantasy with stops along the way that might surprise you. The walk is to enjoy that which life provides in all of its designs. So hold next to your hearts those thoughts that emerge along the walk for they are yours. - [Oracles for Night-Blooming Eccentrics](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/oracles-for-night-blooming-eccentrics/) - “Right out of the headlines, participant in, on and of the edges of the dangerous and ‘bejeweled’ world, listener of sages ubiquitous, public radio opinionated, cable tv hysterical, spinning on the deck of the luxury liner of night itself with an ‘Excedrin habit’ and a penchant for small dogs and oracular insomnia, this is Nancy Berg’s poetry, seeking its soulmate inside an emerald and unlike anything else being written, ‘crackling like early electricity,’ heavy with art. When will this walking full-production Hollywood musical of a poet come to your town and make you a deal deep inside, ‘tangling all arteries’ with her abundant literary grace and charm? You can only hope and dream. But she is here now in this booty-kicking little number. So, pick it up, try it on. It looks great on you.” — Rustin Larson, author of Crazy Star and Islands - [Petroglyphs](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/petroglyphs/) - In Petroglyphs, Fred Ostrander distills a life filled with travel and observation into a series of poems that probe the depths of meaning in language that makes the failure of words all the more poignant and meaningful. Whether describing nature or art, the attention to detail is absolute; the deference to image steeped in reverence. In poem after poem, experience and memory, image and the effects of image are examined through the lens of language to erupt into the beautiful. Here is the essential quest revealed. This is a collection of poetry one simply must read again and again. —James Michael Robbins, Sulphur River Literary Review - [Rumors of Shore](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/rumors-of-shore/) - Paul Fisher’s poems in Rumors of Shore are set with both deference and a gentle yearning in the center of the wonder, mystery and occasionally terrifying randomness and brutality of the natural world. He generously beckons to us, the readers, to join him in his experience of nature, his questions, his sweet hungers: “Like a dew-studded seedling / I wanted to wear the rings of wisdom / rippling the heart of a redwood tree.” His is a soft, evocative, welcoming voice, resonant with a deep humility toward this world: “Sometimes I watch winter geese / veering back through dreams, / wild wings spread / like shadow-puppet hands, /. . .What use is it?. . . / no answer to my question / put to sun and moon and rain.” Paul’s thrifty, precise use of language, and in particular, metaphor, can astonish us with its unexpected, evocative images of the living world that expand its meaning, its importance, its essentialness: wishful skin, warm wine blooming, the moon rowing on, the pirated gimcracks of autumn, weeds riddling our walls with roots, as far as the wind can snake. This is a first book to be taken very seriously, and I am eager to read more. —Becky Sakarelliou, author of The Importance of Bone - [Schooled Lives](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/schooled-lives/) - “This is what poetry was meant to be, neither overly-sentimental nor veiled in obscure imagery. The poems read like music you have discovered as you search across the radio dial. Once found you stay tuned, turning the pages for more. This is adult poetry with risky passion, psychological pain, sensual thirst and the ache of longing. There are no forced inventions or over-clever literary devices. In fact, you are rarely aware of the writer, only the emotional landscape that unfolds with each line. - [Something About](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/something-about/) - Author: Andrena Zawinski Published By: Blue Light Press ISBN: 978-1-4218-9136-1 Pages: 96 Editions: 978-1-4218-9136-1 - Softcover: $15.95 - [Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/sunday-evening-at-the-stardust-cafe/) - Winner of the Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize ~~~~ "I am taken with W.E. Butts's quiet lyricism and his ability to make the most everyday occurrences on one hand sparkle with the surprise of discovering a previously unknown universe, some previously untapped power, and at the same time be immediately useful to the soul and enriching and within reach of every reader's sensibilities. He can make you believe that the clouds and the weather and the sparrows were conspiring all along to buoy us intact to this moment, giving us the strength to confront the next precarious instance of time, history, memory, and existence." --------- Rustin Larson, Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize Judge, author of Crazy Star (Loess Hills Books, 2005)------- "W.E. Butts makes a brilliant and deeply skilled debut in Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe. While he depicts the seemingly vacuous routines and scenes of small town life, we find we're witnessing the most poignant of places where the inside of the nothing that seems to be happening is equal to the weight of whatever we're capable of feeling. He's sculpted the voice of the average guy, but a guy who's super-sized the child of wonder inside him. What a relief and gift it is to discover that there are still avatars out there, walking unnoticed on the edge of their senses among us. Like they used to say when it meant what it said: 'marvelous'" ----- Jack Myers, Texas Poet Laureate, 2003-'04 author of Routine Heaven (2005 Texas Review Poetry Prize)----- "The poems of W.E. Butts are wryly observant, cleanly written, and above all elegaic -- haunted by the past in a way that scrupulously avoids sentimentality and the glib reckonings which characterize so much contemporary poetry. Quietly soulful, these are poems we can trust, both for their craft and for their maturity of vision." ----- David Wojahn author of Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 (University of Pittsburgh Press)----- ~~~~~~ABOUT THE AUTHOR: W.E. Butts has published poems in The 1997 Anthology of of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor Books), Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, and several other magazines and anthologies. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, he is also the author of a chapbook, Sunday Factory, from Finishing Line Press. Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe was chosen as a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from the University of California/Fresno. - [The Dryland Fish](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-dryland-fish/) - Dryland Fish, edited by Matthew MacLeod is the winner of the Chelson Award for Poetry ~ Iowa 2003. The Chelson is awarded annually to the most distinguished literary talent of the year by the Association for Literary Arts, a division of 1st World Library - Literary Society. "The Dryland Fish...what the hell is that?" people ask. I'd always wondered so myself. Actually, until about a month ago I'd never heard of the thing. I had nearly finished sifting through the hundreds of poems I received for a contemporary anthology of Iowa poetry but was without a title. One night I was sitting in a booth at the 2nd Street Cafe ...."Do you have any dryland fish?" he hollered towards the swinging kitchen doors and then, before anyone could answer, stormed out the door, exposing a sliver of prairie sky. I never saw the man again and soon forgot the details of his face but Dryland Fish swam about in my head for days. I didn't know what Dryland Fish meant following week I learned that Dryland Fish is another name for "morels", the mushrooms which Iowans search the woods for, high and low, each spring. For two weeks in late April or early May nearly everyone collects morels which are these large, sponge-like mushrooms considered to be a mid-west delicacy. They sell them across local radio stations, on street corners from the open backs of run-down pick-up trucks and at local farmers markets..... - [The Girl Behind The Closed Door](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-girl-behind-the-closed-door/) - I am so proud to finally let you meet The Girl Behind the Closed Door. She was in hiding for a very long time, but as with anything that is life changing, the wait was worthwhile. I have suffered greatly from loneliness, fear and depression and only through my writing and other learning tools, did I find ways to emerge as a stronger and more powerful woman. Poetry was a wonderful gift that I was given to free myself from the ugly grips of depression, and now I want to share its healing power with you. In every poem, I guarantee that you will find a piece of the heart of the girl behind the closed door. That girl, who used to be me, is resting now, but her wonderful essence is still alive in these works. All that I am today is because of the courage that she showed every day, just to survive. Be gentle with her, and she will show you her love. I will bet that when you find her heart, you will recognize it as a part of your own. - [The Heart Comes First](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-heart-comes-first/) - Crystal Smith's, The Heart Comes First, is filled with moral passion, but is in no way "preachy" .nor does it spoon feed the reader. The author's voice is clear and feminine (the poems are infused with an intuitive rhythm), but not meek or submissive .quite the opposite .it is powerful even frightening at times .but the heart comes first and our intellect is left to follow behind. - [The Short Fall From Grace](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-short-fall-from-grace/) - WINNER OF THE 2005 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD ~~~ Stewart Florsheim was born in New York City, the son of refugees from Hitler's Germany. He has received several awards for his poetry and has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. He was the editor of Ghosts of the Holocaust, an anthology of poetry by children of Holocaust survivors (Wayne State University Press, 1989). He wrote the poetry chapbook, The Girl Eating Oysters (2River, 2004). He also writes non-fiction. Stewart's day job is in the technical writing field. He also sits on the board of directors of Compassion and Choices of Northern California, an organization that helps the terminally ill make end-of-life decisions. Stewart lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two daughters, and dog. ~~~~~ The following poems appeared in Round Table, 1986: "The Girl Eating Oysters," "The Jewish Singles Event," "The Best Bread in Montparnasse" "The Jewish Singles Event" appeared in Ghosts of the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 1989) and in Unsettling America: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Poetry (Viking Penguin, 1994) "The Kitchen Sink" appeared in Karamu, 1993 (under the title, "The Hotel Albert, 1969") and in Slipstream 19, 1999 "My Father's Autopsy" appeared in DoubleTake, 2:4, Fall, 1996 "Recent Findings, 1996" appeared in And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century (under the title, "Recent Findings") (The Ashland Poetry Press, 1999) "The Only Jew in Oswiecim" appeared in Poetry on the Akeda as Modern Midrash by Rabbi Steven Chester, 1999 "Exposed" appeared in Rattle 14, 2000 "Thirst" appeared in 88, A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Issue 1, December, 2001 and Compassion and Choices Magazine, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 2005 "Survival" appeared in the Seatttle Review Volume XXV, Number 1, 2002 "Retribution" appeared in Poetica, 2003 "Initiation" and "The Unseen" appeared in Full Circle, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2003 "Mr. S" and "Once, After Swimming" appeared in The 2River View, Winter 8.2, 2004 - [The Wine-Dark House](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-wine-dark-house/) - The Wine-Dark House is a triumph by Rustin Larson. The poems are evocative and finely wrought, brimming with detailed, sensual images and delicately crafted lines. The poet leads us gently, yet with a firm purpose, on a tour of shadowed memory, both distant and more recent, that explores memory’s hard truth. Yet, with patience, he leads us to the seductive comforts of memory. The poems entertain with an informed point of view. They always have that “click” close readers need to beckon them back for a second and third sampling of their writer’s careful and rigorous craft. —Michael Carrino - [This Enduring Gift](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/this-enduring-gift/) - Fairfield's No.1 Bestselling Poetry Book. This Enduring Gift is a collection of timeless and memorable poetry that digs deep and delivers. The 75 poets come from many parts of the US, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, and several countries in Europe. They have one thing in common — they live or have lived in one buzzing, cosmopolitan small town in America’s Heartland, Fairfield, Iowa. In nearly 300 poems, these remarkable poets not only share important nuggets from their own lives, but they communicate in universal terms, touching the very heart of our existence. Each poem speaks in its own distinct voice. Regardless of the many different styles and approaches these poets exhibit, each of their poems complement the others in a larger context. All 16 chapters read like a little book each expressing many variations on its theme, which you can savor in your own sweet time. - [Under A Prairie Moon](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/under-a-prairie-moon/) - In Under a Prairie Moon, Susie Niedermeyer doesn’t so much observe the natural world as experience it flowing through herself. In a poetic voice that is at once down-to-earth and visionary, she explores inner and outer landscapes as they intersect and shape one another. Many of these poems are rooted in close, delicate observation of plant and animal life in the rural Midwest and are animated by the poet’s acute sensitivity to the life within her and abroad. These poems carry the weight and the wisdom of lived experience: how memories accumulate in individual lives and cast their shadows on the present; how illumination and understanding can come suddenly, in a moment. These are poems of promise and regret, of fulfillment and loss, of love and longing, written by a poet who knows that “From all our moments something / must remain” (“Advent of Autumn”) and yet also that the earth continues “huge against the smallness / of our passing” (“Amigo”). There are special moments here when individual being expands and there is no separation between observer and observed, whether under the vastness of a night sky or at the edge of waters, or in moments when the poet falls “deep into the quiet of trees” (“Home”) or knows that couched within all things is an effulgent light. There are reminders here of Mary Oliver and Denise Levertov; these poems speak gently, with a fine intelligence, of a life reflected on by a woman who can feel, on a winter evening, “the body of the earth / Becoming my body, filled / with quiet stars and snow” (“Night Vision”). — Bryan Aubrey, Ph.D. - [Under The Cedar Tree](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/under-the-cedar-tree/) - In Under a Prairie Moon, Susie Niedermeyer doesn’t so much observe the natural world as experience it flowing through herself. In a poetic voice that is at once down-to-earth and visionary, she explores inner and outer landscapes as they intersect and shape one another. Many of these poems are rooted in close, delicate observation of plant and animal life in the rural Midwest and are animated by the poet’s acute sensitivity to the life within her and abroad. These poems carry the weight and the wisdom of lived experience: how memories accumulate in individual lives and cast their shadows on the present; how illumination and understanding can come suddenly, in a moment. These are poems of promise and regret, of fulfillment and loss, of love and longing, written by a poet who knows that “From all our moments something / must remain” (“Advent of Autumn”) and yet also that the earth continues “huge against the smallness / of our passing” (“Amigo”). There are special moments here when individual being expands and there is no separation between observer and observed, whether under the vastness of a night sky or at the edge of waters, or in moments when the poet falls “deep into the quiet of trees” (“Home”) or knows that couched within all things is an effulgent light. There are reminders here of Mary Oliver and Denise Levertov; these poems speak gently, with a fine intelligence, of a life reflected on by a woman who can feel, on a winter evening, “the body of the earth / Becoming my body, filled / with quiet stars and snow” (“Night Vision”). — Bryan Aubrey, Ph.D. - [Unexpected Guests](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/unexpected-guests/) - Unexpected Guests is a collection of poems notable for the quiet intensity of its language as well as its sweeping engagement with place and history. I am deeply engaged by the voice throughout this collection, at once playful and serious, attuned to the world and its occasions of wonder and loss, as well as to Schneider’s desire for something more enduring than the world’s ephemera. Unexpected Guests is full of clear, urgent poems, sensitive to the threats of violence and terror that characterize our times as well as an abiding sense of wonder at the ordinary miracles in the natural world. —Daniel Tobin, author of Th e Narrows and Where the World Is Made - [Wednesday After Lunch](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wednesday-after-lunch/) - There is a calm meditative grace to the poems in Will Walker’s Wednesday After Lunch. His is a narrative “in the American grain,” to use William Carlos Williams’ phrase. While some are quiet lyric poems of love of landscape and streetscape and quite human dogs, and some of a sweet domestic love, even asleep, a man and his wife “on your own side/of the bed/ split neatly into neighboring countries,” Walker’s work has that very American room for Khrushchev at the UN pounding his shoe, and rhinestones, and Monopoly, and Jack Ruby, and Marilyn Monroe. In a tour de force of a poem, he writes of a dream of a bonfire, a barbecue on the flats in Provincetown, everyone from his Edenic past reunited, and “even the ocean loves to gather by fire.” These are poems to warm yourself by. —Gail Mazur, author of Zeppo’s First Wife - [What's Left is the Singing](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/whats-left-is-the-singing/) - In this accomplished book, Mary Kay Rummel spins words into mysticism and magic. “Not to be ordinary,” she was drawn into the convent where she was forbidden to read fi ction because the Superior didn’t like it. In “Patterns of Obedience,” she writes that she was able to leave when “words whispered in that wind/telling her to go forth and read, to never ask again.” Set free, she read and wrote and traveled, visiting early Irish history and myth. Th roughout her book, bells chime in celebration as her words become exquisite lyric poems. —Jill Breckenridge, Poet, Th e Gravity of Flesh - [Cabbages & Roses](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/cabbages-roses/) - Treasured recipes that have been reached for time and time again over the years, covering many ethnic angles and featuring savory, well tried vegetarian dishes. Chicken and turkey have not been neglected (fish has), nor have sweets for all occasions. Soups have been a favorite focus. The recipes have been honed to practical and efficient use of time and ease of reading for busy people who still go for a touch of home cooking, with love. Of course, how could I resist relating some of the adventures of the cook along the way! They are all in Cabbages & Roses. - [Classic Literature Catalog](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/classic-literature-catalog/) - Our Company Catalog - [Cosmic Perspective](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/cosmic-perspective/) - Cosmic Perspective is actually two books in one—both of which are essential for a more realistic assessment of our wondrous and mysterious universe. Part One features a revolutionary treatise focusing upon cosmology and certain philosophical implications of evolution. The dynamic concept of the principles of cosmic reincarnation is seen to unite observation with theory. In Part Two there is a most enlightening discourse on biblical authorship, along with insight into a little known but widespread system of symbolism—whereby ideas are given preference to mere physical events. Yet another topic concerns a disgraceful cover-up of evidence found in the Dead Sea Scrolls—evidence which would reveal many Christian beliefs to be without foundation! - [Elementary, My Dear](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/elementary-my-dear/) - In a delivery that is comfortable and conversational, Tree Stevens presents the reader with an easy-going, easy reading blueprint for the low fat lifestyle. The beginner learns how to set up a kitchen for the effortless preparation of luscious low fat foods, while the maven will find how the use of savory ingredients excites the palate while keeping the fat grams at exceptionally low levels. - [Financial Success for Seniors!](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/financial-success-for-seniors/) - These are not easy times for seniors— people “age 60 and better” — to make important financial decisions. From changes in the estate tax to worries about Social Security benefits, seniors face more complex issues today than ever before. In Financial Success for Seniors, you will learn proven techniques for: 1) increasing your current income; 2) making sure you never outlive your money; 3) maintaining your lifestyle and financial independence; and 4) avoiding the “risk traps” and hidden costs that Wall Street won’t discuss. Right off the bat, you will benefit from “12 Golden Rules for Seniors.” - [Hey! I Can Do This!](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/hey-i-can-do-this/) - If you find goal setting easy but achieving your goals difficult, then this book is for you. Many people start with big goals and end with little progress to show for it. Hey! I Can Do This! takes up where good intentions get bogged down in the day- to-day world of ever-shifting priorities. Learn and apply tools designed specifically to focus, empower and persistently keep your goal priorities “top of mind.” Easy to read, Hey! I Can Do This! provides new insights and success tools to the experienced goal setter who wants to take their goal achievement to new levels; at the same time, it puts the novice goal setter squarely on the path to goal achievement success. - [Publish It Now](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/publish-it-now/) - Purchase Publish-It-Now, by Rodney Charles and recieve a FREE Publishing Teleconference Seminar and FREE Publish-It-Now eBook, a value of $110.00. ~~~~~~Find out the insider secrets to publishing your book from Rodney Charles, author of the best-selling book Every Day a Miracle Happens. ~~~~~~"There are 3 things that you need to succeed as a published author. And by succeed I mean earn enough money through book sales to allow you to continue writing full time." ~Rodney Charles~ ~~~~~~You will Also Learn: ~1. How to get published easily, quickly and affordably. ~2. How to compete on the same playing field as seasoned professionals. ~3. New publishing technologies. ~4. New marketing strategies for today's best selling authors. ~5. Why the new publishing paradigm favors authors. ~~~About the Author ~~~ Rodney Charles is an innovative, self-motivated, entrepreneur and business leader who conceived the 1stWorld Publishing business while acting as President and Managing Editor of his own self-built book publishing company, Sunstar Publishing Ltd. (1992) His diverse experiences, ranging from media management, business-to-business aggregation and hands-on daily interaction with authors and publishers have resulted in the assembly of many of the resources required to implement 1st World. He has authored four books: The Land of Love, Art & Genius; Lighter Than Air; The Secret Meaning of Names; (editor) and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens - [Scholarship Pursuit](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/scholarship-pursuit/) - Hundreds of methods exist for finding out about the numerous college scholarships available today. 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Enjoy the process. - [The Nigerian Directory-The List](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-nigerian-directory-the-list/) - The Nigerian Directory - THE LIST. Must have directory if you want to do business in Nigeria A Complete Directory of Notable Companies and Federal Establishments in Nigeria. Nigeria's social and economic life has remained vibrant. With a population of 154 million people (United Nations' estimate), and 'the happiest and most religious people on earth' (British Broadcasting Corporation survey) that is to be expected. Democratic Governance has thrown up a lot of challenges and opportunities. Government as a matter of policy is putting emphasis on attaining a private-sector-driven economy. Privatization and/or commercialization of Government owned Commercial ventures and deregulation of the economy are on course. Although these exercises have experienced some hiccups here and there, the deregulation of the Telecommunication sector and the subsequent introduction of Global System for Mobile Telecommunication is simply a revolution in the country. Small- and Medium-scale Investment Equity Scheme (SMIES), a policy that require Commercial Banks to put aside ten percent to their profit-before-tax for joint equity investment has erected a favourable situation of cash chasing after investors. Moreover with the recent directive from the Central Bank of Nigeria requiring operating banks to have a minimum paid-up Share Capital of 25 billion naira by December 2005, the country will have stronger investment-friendly banking services We advise that you use this directory diligently to reach our Corporate community - manufacturers, providers of equipment, machineries, services, and even the banks and other financial institutions that have the funds. Investment opportunities are bound in Nigeria especially in the Real Sector - Agriculture, Manufacturing, Solid Mineral and Tourism. All you need is THE LIST to meet your marketing, communications, strategic planning and overall business interaction. We sincerely thank our numerous advertisers for their faith in this medium. Do make the very best use of "THE LIST". A Nigerian Directory compiled in Nigeria, printed, published, distributed and marketed world-wide from the United States of America. - [The Omega Virus](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-omega-virus/) - For hundreds of years all business, organizations and governments have tried to resolve the problem of internal theft, corruption and greed by using repression, security control and audit systems. The fact is, none of these methodologies have made a significant dent in this growing worldwide problem. In “Omega Virus” we follow the life of Robert, the Director of Merchandising, who is lost in his search for the source of massive loads of missing merchandise. The company's profits are swiftly flowing downward and Robert falls into a state of desperation as he watches his personal and professional life crumble to obscurity. In the thick of the crisis, the broken Robert has a strange encounter with a mysterious woman. She tells him, that in order to regain control, he must help the people around him, and in doing so, he will provide himself with the needed assistance to overcome the Omega Virus, the source of the problem. This potent work offers brilliant practical solutions to hundreds of years of business struggles and entertains as it educates through an original and inspiring story. “Omega Virus” is a must read for any person who craves a powerful new methodology for attaining three dimensional success in life. - [U.S. Fact Book](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/u-s-fact-book/) - USA Fact Book has valuable information regarding the origins of the country we call The United States of America.Learn about the Presidents, the States,Wars,Patriotic song lyrics and historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. All Americans can benefit from the knowledge contained within this book. Author Bio: Christopher L.Hickman was born and raised in Michigan City,Indiana and lists professional basketball and baseball among his favorite pastimes. Books he has enjoyed reading are The Holy Bible,The Holy Quran, books on Buddhism and nearly all books on American history and culture. This book was assembled to help citizens,children and immigrants get basic information of the USA easily and effectively. Christopher splits his time between Michigan City and Milwaukee,Wisconsin where he lives and works. - [Wings and Wildlife in the Wetlands](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/wings-and-wildlife-in-the-wetlands/) - Wings and Wildlife in the Wetlands is a collection of powerful wildlife images that portrays the peace and serenity inherent in the wetlands. With each photograph, Annette Boelk presents her interpretation of the wild in order to educate about the habitat, survival skills, and unique beauty of the wetland creatures. - [Miracles of the Saints](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/miracles-of-the-saints/) - This book covers the lives of hundreds of miracle workers and leaves you feeling like you know them all personally. - [The Inner Game of Russian Roullete](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-inner-game-of-russian-roullete/) - The eldest of six in a family who rarely miss a service at their rural Midwestern Protestant church, Ananda, like her ancestors, grows up on a diet of King James Bibles, hymnals, prayer books, and catechisms. As one of the first among her kin to venture onto a liberal arts campus, she spends her restless young adulthood gnawing through tomes of a more free-thinking nature, and develops a particular fondness for the word “liberation,” along with all of its synonyms. Readers may chance to see her scampering about the feet of various enlightened masters. Generally she prefers the Eastern ones for their practice of ahimsa (non-violence to all creatures). - [Walking into Oneness](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/walking-into-oneness/) - I have written about my experiences and deep understandings developed during a 40-day pilgrimage from my home to a local lake. Such a pilgrimage opens the possibility for anyone seeking their own Light and Truth to do so without having to leave their home and daily commitments. Insights from this experience—how to lead a simple life and be close to nature—may help guide others through their deepest understandings of truth, to enable them to move forward and liberate themselves in this new era, by consciously awakening into Oneness. Only from the ocean of oneness can we see how our individual journeys are interlinked, forming the tapestry of the greater reality. Once one finds this diamond of pure bliss within, it will radiate its light to all the parts of the Self. - [A Thousand Pearls](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/a-thousand-pearls/) - A Thousand Pearls The Ultimate “How To” Book by Leo M. Jones III has been hailed as one of the most important books written in the past quarter century. Written in a unique and powerful literary style, aphorisms, these succinct and condensed perspectives express universal human experiences that can be understood by individuals from all cultures, religions and backgrounds. The direction offered the book is one of reverence towards the mysteries of life and living, as well as, providing guidance how to advance on the path of personal evolution. The book lays out fundamental principles with regard to: How to raise happy children (Chapter 4); How to maintain a healthy marriage while fulfilling the purpose of marriage (Chapter 3); How to maintain one’s youth (Chapter 5); How to find wisdom from life’s experiences (Chapter 6); How to develop ultimate spiritual illumination (Chapter 8); How to conquer the sorrow of death (Chapter 9). These are not in any way flashy subjects popularized by the mass media. The book touches on some of the most important and personal topics that matter to all of us at our most critical times. This book will serve as a guiding light to our intellect when we feel the need for direction. The writing is very approachable, yet the subject matter penetrates some of the deepest concerns before each and every one of us. Don’t miss this book, read it at the beach, before bed, at lunch, but definitely read it. Your life will never be the same. - [Eating Your Way To Low Cholesterol](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/eating-your-way-to-low-cholesterol/) - Finally, an alternative to drugs and tasteless foods for high cholesterol! Ms. Serpa has found a way—actually hundreds of ways—to make lowering your cholesterol pleasurable. Her masterfully crafted meals are a sure recipe for cholesterol-lowering success, with something for every palate and occasion. —Kimberly Beauchamp, ND, Providence Nutrition Examiner - [From The Pit To The Pinnacle](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/from-the-pit-to-the-pinnacle/) - From The Pit To The Pinnacle provides readers with powerful insights and information for conquering depression. In his book, author Richard Link inspires his audience with his personal journey in, through, and out of depression. The contrast between the dark pits, overwhelming sadness, and his final triumph continues to inspire and help so many in need. This book details encounters from individuals who have suffered depression, anxiety and stress and how, with Richard’s help, they were able to overcome it and go on to live happy lives. Now is the time to take control of your life and find the happiness you deserve; in the words of the author “don’t talk about it, fix it!” - [From where I am Standing](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/from-where-i-am-standing/) - The author’s trademark down-to-earth spirituality is encapsulated for you, the reader, in this wonderful workbook which will allow you to examine feelings and thoughts that you may not have known that you even have. Marilyn experienced deep depression and bipolar disorder in the 1980’s and used the pain she experienced at that time as a means of growth, rather than becoming victimized by it. She knows that she can only talk about the world of emotions from where she is standing, but through her questions about each topic, Marilyn invites you to examine that same world from your own unique vantage point. - [Global Culinary Adventures](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/global-culinary-adventures/) - An insatiable cook and traveller, Gloria Preston Olson has now written an unprecedented tome of approximately 600 ethnic recipes which reveal her palate of exquisite sensitivity and taste buds of discriminating discernment. The lucid instructions and comprehensive information on foods, wines, cooking equipment, and, techniques make GLOBAL CULINARY ADVENTURES a truly remarkable cookbook. This comprehensive collection of recipes is arranged geographically, providing insight to the historical relationships of the foods of the entire world. Each chapter introduces the reader to the countries whose recipes are included; thus, it is also a must for the armchair traveler and those with an intellectual curiosity of the world. Extensive head notes reveal the Herculean and sometimes tumultuous adventures endured during Gloria’s quest for culinary knowledge. They include a close call with Rwanda’s Hutus and Tutsis which resulted in meeting Boutros Boutros-Ghali in an elevator; arriving in Kabul on the eve of the Communist coup; and Gloria's most memorable experience-a personal visit to the Shilat caviar processing site on the Caspian Sea in Iran, where she observed the entire production of caviar, followed by an invitation to partake of all five types of caviar, as well as lunch with five Shilat executives. - [Picture Framing as a business](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/picture-framing-as-a-business/) - Author: J. Edwin Warkentin Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4218-9001-2 Pages: 220 Editions: 978-1-4218-9001-2 - Softcover: $17.95 978-1-4218-9002-9 - eBook: $12.95 - [Preparing For College Admissions](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/preparing-for-college-admissions/) - Preparing for College Admissions clarifies and demystifies the unknown components of the college admissions process and leaves you with a quiet sense of well being, knowing that you have done the best for your future. Preparing for College Admissions shows parents and students, in simple steps, how to organize the process, how to select the college that is the best match, and where to find the money to pay for a great education. If you want to know: How to define your goals and plans Which high school courses lead to successful college admissions How extracurricular activities can lead to scholarships How to package a winning college application Tips for a successful college interview Specific web sites to help you select colleges and locate scholarships Where to find scholarships in your community How to get financial aid This book has the answers. - [The Information Book](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-information-book/) - This book provides information on how to handle simple legal matters yourself without a lawyer. When you finish reading this book, you’ll know if you need professional help. Even if you conclude that you will need help from a lawyer or other professionals, you will be sufficiently informed to evaluate whether of not they are dealing honestly with you. So read this book to learn how to: Deal with personal injures Dispel financial crisis Buy-Sell and rent houses Prepare simple wills and codicil Prepare power of attorney to appoint someone to act on your behalf if needed Get your own divorce without a lawyer Prepare simple contracts when needed Deal with Social Security and Medicare to get benefits that you are entitled to make a smooth transition when you move to a new community AND MORE! This is a great book for handling routine legal matters. It provides step by step instructions in plain English. - [Trauma Recovery: You are a Winner](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/trauma-recovery-you-are-a-winner/) - You Are A Winner—Trauma Recovery is a story of one person's vision to see beyond the apparent—beyond pain, horror, and suffering—and into the hearts and unseen possibilities of young people at a turning point. Most of all, it is a story of courage in the face of grief and loss—the courage to draw out the emerging individual in each child by trusting natural movements to activate the brain and neuropathways beyond survival and towards growth. If we are to transcend our limiting survival patterns, we must (each and every one of us) heed the call to return to the body—to encourage the eyes, ears, hands, feet, and sensory perception—in order to wake up the whole brain.—Dr Paul E. Dennison Co-originator of the Brain Gym® learning programe whole brain. - [The Secret Meaning of Names Revised Edition](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/the-secret-meaning-of-names-revised-edition/) - Author: Rodney Charles Published By: 1st World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4218-9892-6 Pages: 692 Editions: 978-1-4218-9892-6 - Hardcover: $36.95 978-1-4218-9893-3 - Softcover: $28.95 978-1-4218-9894-0 - eBook: $18.95 - [Thirty Years of Mondays](https://1stworldpublishing.com/book/thirty-years-of-mondays/) - The classroom teacher holds a powerful position. Once the door of our room closes it is up to us to provide the students with a quality and rich learning experience. None of this happens without hard work and dedication. There is nothing easy about teaching. You have to be prepared and ready for every day. The challenges you will face are deep and everlasting. Like the students you work with, you must have a desire to learn and a thirst for knowledge. Care enough to take teaching seriously. Care enough to stay current. Care enough to meet the individual needs of each student. Care enough to provide your students with a challenging program that will engage them in their learning. Care enough to be there for them and care enough to get them the help they need. Just care enough and all will be well. Thirty Years of Mondays provides you with an opportunity to quench your thirst for knowledge. 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