Anthony’s Comments (group member since Apr 02, 2013)

Anthony’s comments from the Better Than Starbucks group.

We have an amazing line up for December, but, as always, we are looking for a wide variety of poetry and fiction for our January issue!

We are live, Better Than Starbucks December 2017 Vol II No XII
https://betterthanstarbucks.org
This month in Better Than Starbucks (not you ordinary poetry magazine):
The Interview – with Mbizo Chirasha by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
Featured Poem – SOOKEYS CREEK COAL MINERS by Pamelyn Casto
Free Verse with Suzanne Robinson featuring Michael T. Smith, Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Holly Day, Lilly Bright, Neil Creighton, and Janet Smith
Haiku with Kevin McLaughlin featuring Jac Shortland, James Breslin Godfrey, Mary K. Gowdy, Veerangana, Vera Ignatowitsch, Kenneth Salzmann, Josie Gregory, Joseph Davidson, Angie Davidson, Jen Smith, John Merkel, and Mick O’Grady
Formal & Rhyming Poetry with Vera Ignatowitsch featuring Karen Kelsay, John Beaton, Michael Burch, DE Navarro, Carol Smallwood, Chris O'Carroll, and Andrew Kuck
Poetry Translations with S. Ye Laird featuring a beautiful translation by Professor Donald Mager of THE TROUT IS BREAKING THROUGH THE ICE by Mikhail Kuzmin (1872 – 1936)
International Poetry:
African Poetry with Tendai Rinos Mwanaka featuring Harry Owen, Nsah Mala, Ndifreke George (N’some), Richard Mbuthia, and Mlondi Ndlovu
Asian Poetry with Rameeza Nasim featuring Veerangana, Dr. Sandip Saha, and Sushma A. Singh
Experimental Poetry featuring Jac Shortland, and MistyRose(TM)
Sentimental Poetry featuring Pitambar Naik, and Heidi Baker
Fiction: Perma-Rest by Robert Peate
More Fiction: The Mason Jar Incident by Duane Hawkinson
Better Than Fiction: (creative non-fiction) The “80” by Betty J. Sayles
(personal essay) On Owning a Firearm by Anthony St. John
plus our Pushcart Nominations and From The Mind (of Anthony 'Uplandpoet' Watkins)

Thank you for sharing your lovely book!

We are extremely proud of the beautiful new edition, our first under new Managing Editor Vera Ignatowitsch!
Please let her know what you think. I am certain it is our best issue, ever, and expect BTS to only improve from here....

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congrats

Thank you!

Seamus, 3 Faulkners in one year! How are you liking him? (I have read EVERY Faulkner, and he is one of the very few authors i have actually reread, but i know some folks dont find him as wonderful as i do....

We are always looking for poetry, of ALL genres, as well as fiction and non fiction. We have published poetry and stories and interviews with several members of this group in the past and will be happy to consider work from anyone here (no promises on publication prior to reading)
Check us out, and consider sending us some of you previously unpublished, or previously published work, we accept both!

We are LIVE!!!!
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Better Than Starbucks! July 2017 Vol. II No. VII, Not your ordinary poetry magazine!
If good coffee (or just the concept of coffee), great books, sharp wit, and great authors excite you, we are for you!

Better than Starbucks -- The Interview Ron Silliman
Featured Poem of the month The Solar Apogee of Indigo Mystics by Catherine Adel West
Fiction by Maddie Woda and Jennie Verhey
Non Fiction Threading a needle by Rohini Sunderam
General Poetry with Suzanne Robinson
William Doreski, Jessica Nieberg, James Keane, Jason Nicholas Smith, Kiik A.K.
Haiku with Kevin McLaughlin
Vera Ignatowitsch, Jill Rivera, Angie Davidson, Joseph Davidson, Glenn Ingersoll, Honorah Murphy, MistyRose Bosworth, A. E. (Elizabeth) Faris, Joan McNerney, David Rosen
Formal & Rhyming Poetry with Vera Ignatowitsch
Michael R. Burch, Peter Branson, Thomas Locicero, Kathryn Jacobs, John Beaton, Robert Youngs Pelgrift, Jr., Janice Canerdy
Translations with S. Ye Laird
Nikolay Gumilev translated by Don Mager and Yevgeny Bonver
ModPo & Experimental Poetry with Anthony Watkins
Shirley Jones-Luke, Adam Levon Brown
International Poetry with Rameeza Nasim, and Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
Mbizo Chirasha, Wanjohi wa Makokha, Christine Coates, Dr Dilantha Gunawardana, Mojtaba Darvishi Cohan, Jane Du, April Xu, Maziar Karim
…from the mad mind of the poet Anthony Uplandpoet Watkins

Hello Margaret! We seem to have become the sleepiest of sleepy book sites. You are so right about covers. Typically the cover, and even the title are chosen by the publisher and not the writer. and sometimes they really miss it. This happens even to famous and successful writers...

welcome!

thanks!

did you go to the link?

we are working on a new forum, it is not Shelfari revived, but we are hoping it is still useful, but until we have some traffic on it, it is hard to say, so please come over, start threads, chat, about pretty much anything you like and then give us some feedback

http://anthonywatkins.wixsite.com/bts...

My uncle Walter k Everett wrote "1234 Faulkner characters" for his thesis. It has been out of print nearly 50 years but I recommend it if you find it on Amazon. I do own a copy:)

https://www.amazon.com/Faulkners-Art-...

Of his 19 novels the only one I haven't read is A Fable, and I have read about half of his 100+ short stories and his 2nd book of poetry the marble faun. As amazingly poetic as his fiction is, and I give him a spot in my top three greatest ever writers, I do not find his poetry remarkable. Maybe his level of poetry is so high in his prose that the poetry just doesn't stand out for me. Especially in light in August and go down Moses amdvthe second half of wild palms there is a passage on almost every page that is bettert poetry than my best poem on my best day!!!!

I love faulkner's writing, so I tend to agree with Ruth, I also have to say even though I don't share William's view of humanity, but he seemed to find rich old families to be disgusting hypocrites ( hint, this is actually his favorite group) he seemed to most identify, for obvious reasons, with the fallen houses of formerly rich families. But he could be completely unforgiving of the Faulknerish families in his stories. He truly hated the Snopesish conniving climbers, as well as lower class whites. He found slaves and post-slavery blacks to be almost comical.

Even though my comments make Faulkner sound like a disgusting human being (which he probably was) but he was amazing as a writer!

AK! That is great. Marc will be "calling us to order soon, maybe today.

in this case, you are the captain!

Excellent! Marc, from here on, you lead!

And one more!

Kayla Naidoo will be joining us from South Africa.

In other news, unless anyone objects, lets start the read next weekend, with Marc leading us.
Marc, you might think about what sort of start you want to post and start a new thread title something like "Absalom, Absalom! BTS Group Read"

btw, for some reason, the format here likes to cut the links off and send you to a broken link, so for those reading on line, try this:

http://www.betterthanstarbucks.org/co...

Seamus? would you like to lead, if not Marc has bravely accepted.

Marc if Seamus doesnt object, i certainly dont.