Böcker utgivna av Calling All Poets, Inc.

Fred Poole's poetry does not rely on tricks to strike you right in the heart. But we have to meet him where he lives. He doesn't spare us, because he doesn't spare himself. He looks at his present state with clear eyes and reports on how he feels about it.Age and infirmity have been slowly reducing his movement in the outside world, stealing away freedoms that he used to take for granted, as most of us do. His condition now keeps him stationary in a place that he didn't choose and where he'd rather not be. It could happen to any of us. He speaks to us directly.He's not trying to teach us anything, for which I'm grateful. (There are so many wise and pretty posts on Facebook, and too many of these are platitudinous and useless.) He's doing something much more important. He's bearing witness to a life, to his life as he's living it now, to Life. The work is classically elegiac, as it's about loss, about the death of certain beloved things, so it's profoundly sad. Fred's poems are a rich offering. I'm grateful. Outside my rented flat, I see my cats curled in in a sunny spot on the veranda. Bombs are pummelling Kyiv. Fred is writing in the room he didn't choose and wondering about the lives of birds he sees out the window.

A poetry and visual art anthology for social justice. "We are living in a time of fragility, where some will break, but most will survive. I believe we are strong. For the poems contained within speak to our strength, our love, our resilience, our ugly truth in America, and the beauty of the idea of an America. Without sounding trite, if the sun rises, we can potentially change any circumstance we may find ourselves in. Never lose hope but be ready to stand up for what you know is right in your soul."-Editor Poet Gold

Exhibition catalog for the Ekphrasis 2020 show at the Roost Gallery (New Paltz, New York). In 2020 with Calling All Poets embarked on its twenty-first year and our second joint collaborative Ekphrasis project with the multi-disciplined, multi-talented members of Roost Studios. Our first Ekphrasis exhibit and publication in 2017 inspired several artists and poets from across the Hudson Valley and New York City to stage their own exhibits and programs of art responding to poetry and vice versa.Art inspires art. It’s what makes life livable and the spirit able to soar.