Silver Bells! Free Kindle Version of SILVER Anthology 12/12-12/16/16 – Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the holiday season, we’re offering a free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology – available Monday, 12/12 through Friday, 12/16/16 at Amazon.com. (If you don’t have a Kindle device, you can still read the book — with free reading apps, available at this link.) If you are in the UK, try Amazon.co.uk. The free offer also appears on all the international Amazon sites.

The Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology is a 240-page collection of poetry, essays, short stories, novel excerpts, and stage play scenes from 62 accomplished and up-and-coming authors in the United States and United Kingdom. The writing ranges in style and subject matter — but all the work touches on “silver” in a variety of creative, original, and compelling ways.

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Happy Holidays!

How I Felt, poem by John Brantingham

HOW I FELT 
by John Brantingham

There was one time in the dead
center of summer after we’d
had a Santa Ana, and the glass
on the windows seemed ready
to melt but the Santa Ana was over
and storm clouds had moved in. A snap
of lightning and all the rain in the world
landed on our street. It poured for three
minutes and moved on. When it was gone,
the street steamed and hissed
until it was dry again. Last night,
I woke up at two in the morning.
You were lying perfectly still,
and you didn’t know I was watching you.
When I saw you lying there so quietly last night,
that’s just exactly how I felt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Brantingham’s poetry and fiction have been published in hundreds of magazines and venues, including Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, PEARL, Tears in the Fence, Confrontation, and The Journal. His books include East of Los Angeles and The Green of Sunset. He works at Mt. San Antonio College, where he teaches English and directs the creative writing programs.

“How I Felt” appears, along with other poetry by John Brantingham, in the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology – a collection of writing from 62 authors that centers around a “silver” theme. The 240-page book is available in paperback and Kindle versions at Amazon.com.

Exhaling Winter by Diane Eagle Kataoka

EXHALING WINTER
by Diane Eagle Kataoka

Snow retreats up mountain walls
pulled on a timed tether
 
Grasses and brush spring back
to vertical
avalanching winter’s skin
 
Along a rivulet, pale shoots test the air
while catkins of aspens
shiver in silver light
 
I smell spring long before color
flushes tree and ground
 
Tentative breaths still redolent
with winter’s waning chill
ride over my skin
 
Whispering a promise of warmth
Inhale gently
gaining green. 

“Exhaling Winter” by Diane Eagle Kataoka appears in the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology — a 240-page collection of poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, stage play scenes, and essays from 62 accomplished and up-and-coming authors in the U.S. and U.K. — available at Amazon.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Diane Eagle Kataoka lives at eight thousand feet in the Eastern Sierra, where she skis and hikes. A researcher for the late Leon Uris (Trinity and The Haj), she was director of marketing and communications for the Music Academy of the West, as well as editor-in-chief of the Mammoth Times and Mammoth Sierra Magazine. She is currently a freelance writer and editor, poet and blogger. (Visit her blog at mammothlakesview.com.) Diane’s chapbook Snow Globe,published by Two Birds Press, is a poetic history of five seasons in a mountain ski town.

 

Silver (old and used), poem by Jena Ardell

Silver
(old and used)

(Excerpt from Silver: 4 Connotations)

by Jena Ardell

Wooden coffee table
slick with dew
A rare roadside treasure
free to those who can haul it away

Two giant
wet glasses stains
in the center
accented by
silver spills
of God-knows-what

The voice inside my head
says,
“Take me,
make me new.”

Originally published in L.A. Weekly, 2/10/12, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Reprinted in the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology (November 2012), available at Amazon.com.

And Now the Internet is Haunted by Digital Ghosts, poem by Ben Myers

AND NOW THE INTERNET IS HAUNTED

BY DIGITAL GHOSTS

by Ben Myers

And now

the internet

is haunted by digital ghosts.

Sometimes

in the middle of the night

you can hear their

tiny tinny voices

screaming down

the wires. 

I want to

cut

those cables

and set them free

and make them

real.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ben Myers was born in Durham, United Kingdom, in 1976. His novels include Pig Iron (Bluemoose Books) and Richard (Picador). His stories, poems, articles, and interviews have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He lives in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

“And Now the Internet is Haunted by Digital Ghosts” appears, along with other poetry by Ben Myers, in the Silver Birch Press release Silver: An Eclectic Anthology of Poetry and Prose – a collection of writing from 62 authors that centers around a “silver” theme. The 240-page book is available in paperback and Kindle versions at Amazon.com.

Final Free Day: Monday, 11/11/13, Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology

We’re celebrating the first anniversary of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology (Silver Birch Press, November 2012) with a free gift — and feel free to spread the word by reblogging this post or emailing your friends.

On Monday, 11/11/13,  download a FREE Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology –  a 240-page collection of poetry & prose from over 60 established and up-and-coming writers in the United States and United Kingdom. Get your free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology at Amazon.com.

If you don’t have a Kindle, download free reading apps at this link.

If you are in the UK, find  at Amazon.co.uk.

Other countries, check your local Amazon site — the Kindle version is available for free there, too.

Reminder: Free Kindle Version of Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology through 11/11/13

We’re celebrating the first anniversary of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology (Silver Birch Press, November 2012) with a free gift — and feel free to spread the word by reblogging this post or emailing your friends.

Until  Monday, 11/11/13,  get a FREE Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology –  a 240-page collection of poetry & prose from over 60 established and up-and-coming writers in the United States and United Kingdom.

Through 11/11/13, get your free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology at Amazon.com.

If you don’t have a Kindle, download free reading apps at this link.

If you are in the UK, find  at Amazon.co.uk.

Other countries, check your local Amazon site — the Kindle version is available for free there, too.

Free Kindle Version of Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology

We’re celebrating the first anniversary of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology (Silver Birch Press, November 2012) with a free gift — and feel free to spread the word by reblogging this post or emailing your friends.

From Thursday, 11/7 through Monday, 11/11/13,  get a FREE Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology –  a 240-page collection of poetry, short stories, essays, novel excerpts, and stage play scenes from over 60 established and up-and-coming writers in the United States and United Kingdom. The writing ranges in style and subject matter — but all the work touches on “silver” in a variety of creative, original, and compelling ways.

From 11/7-11/11/13, get your free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology at Amazon.com.

If you don’t have a Kindle, download free reading apps at this link.

If you are in the UK, find  at Amazon.co.uk.

Other countries, check your local Amazon site — the Kindle version is available for free there, too.

Lucky Numbers: Free from 11/7-11/11/13, Kindle Version of Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology

We’re celebrating the first anniversary of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology (Silver Birch Press, November 2012) with a free gift — and feel free to spread the word.

From Thursday, 11/7 through Monday, 11/11/13,  get a FREE Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology –  a 240-page collection of poetry, short stories, essays, novel excerpts, and stage play scenes from over 60 established and up-and-coming writers in the United States and United Kingdom. The writing ranges in style and subject matter — but all the work touches on “silver” in a variety of creative, original, and compelling ways.

From 11/7-11/11/13, get your free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology at Amazon.com.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Barbara Alfaro / Jena Ardell / Melissa Berry / Jane Buel Bradley / John Brantingham / Rachel Carey / Chiwan Choi / Billy Cook / Barbara Dahl / Walter de la Mare / Colleen Delegan / Gillian Eaton / Barbara Eknoian / Merrill Farnsworth / Syed Afzal Haider / Andrew Hilbert / Donna Hilbert / Gaia Holmes / Zack Hunter / Diane Eagle Kataoka / Ruth Moon Kempher / Linda King / Thom Kudla / Moriah LaChapell / LeeAnne McIlroy Langton / Vickie Lester / Ellaraine Lockie / Gerald Locklin / Amy Lowell / Sandylee Maccoby / Tamara Madison / Clint Margrave / Daniel McGinn / Marcia Meara / Ann Menebroker / Jack Micheline / Ben Myers / Jax NTP
 / Hank Perritt / Meghan Pinson / Jackie Pledger-Skwerski / Kathy Dahms Rogers / Conrad Romo / Luke Salazar / Joan Jobe Smith / Clifton Snider / Dale Sprowl / Kendall Steinle / Adelle Stripe / Paul Kareem Tayyar / Kati Thomson / Jeri Thompson / Winston Tong / Margaret Towner / Mary Umans / Dirk Velvet / Melanie Villines / Fred Voss / Mark Weber / Tim Wells / Steve Williams / Pamela Miller Wood

If you don’t have a Kindle, no worries — download free reading apps at this link.

Foggy November, poem by Dale Sprowl

FOGGY NOVEMBER
Poem by Dale Sprowl                                                           

Mystic fog clung to air like film over eyes.
Unlike the usual silver tidal wave that strikes the coast,
it made the world invisible except for headlights and streetlamps
which created dusty pyramids reflecting nothingness.
 
The mist hung such that magical reality leapt to life—
a view of world one step back.
 
Sometimes veil of mist and shadow slows us,
and darkness, the uncertainty, reveals light.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dale Sprowl teaches writing at Biola University in La Mirada, California. During summers, she administrates and teaches at the Young Writer’s Project at UCI. Her work with the UCI Writing Project began in 1981, and she has contributed to the UCIWP texts on the teaching of writing. Her first chapbook of poems, The Colors of Water, published by Finishing Line Press in 2007, and her second chapbook, Moon Over Continent’s Edge (2009) have been nominated for a California Book Award. Her poems have also appeared in PEARL, Fire, A New Song, Ancient Paths, and Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places.

“Foggy November” by Dale Sprowl appears in the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology — available in a Kindle version at Amazon.com. The book,  which features the work of 62 authors from the U.S. and U.K., is also available in paperback.