Circling Rivers doesn’t publish what most people would call “beach reads.” On the other hand, contemplating the ocean (or a lake, or people playing at a park, or whatever scene you’re relaxing in) and dipping into a poetry collection go very well together. When you head out, take along a few volumes of our pocket … Read more
Read in the new year with poetry! Signed collections available at the Circling Rivers bookstore. Free shipping, easy pay. Travelers, by David Michael Belczyk: Places, love and loss Alcestis in the Underworld, by Nina Murray: A Ukrainian in Moscow Blue, by Erin Wilson: A mother’s love and a child moving through depression Love’s Fingerprints, by Bernard … Read more
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. – John Adams author-signed | free shipping | easy pay via PayPal or credit card Circling Rivers welcomes David Michael Belczyk, whose poetry collection Travelers will be published by CR in June 2023. “These are poignant songs of longing and desire that evoke the complexities of … Read more
What to give? A gift card for a couple of cups of mediocre coffee? You glug it down in the car, you get heartburn and/or the jitters, and you’re left with a throwaway cup. Or there’s poetry. You read a poem, and your mind and imagination ignite each other. Another poem, or even another read … Read more
Getting close! June 21 — the Summer Solstice — is publication date of Nothing But Light: Poems, by Barbara Schwartz and Krista J.H. Leahy. Nothing But Light explores the sacred feminine through the poets’ shared visits to places and people of spiritual revelation—a mosque, a temple, a shaman, a tree. Its poems form a guidebook … Read more
Introducing Circling Rivers youtube channel! We have two playlists: Walt Whitman, Himself and Circling Rivers Writers A few on the CR writers playlist:Nina Murray, on working as a Foreign Service Officer but mostly on poetry, in convo with POPO (August POetry POstcard Fest) founder, Paul E Nelson youtubeBernie Horn reading from his CR collection LOVE’S FINGERPRINTS, via … Read more
Featured Poet Book Giveaway & a poet’s C-19 message To help keep poetry out of isolation, Circling Rivers is hosting a series of Featured Poet Book Giveaways. Our featured poet for this giveaway is Erin Wilson. Publication day of Erin’s At Home with Disquiet passed, well, quietly. No celebration gathering or bookstore reading. So let’s throw a little … Read more