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.

For the Record, poem by Anggo Genorga, drawing by David Barker

FOR THE RECORD
by Anggo Genorga 

Charles Bukowski
made poetry simple.
he shoved metaphor
out of his way and
never look back;
something the academics
will never understand.

***
“For the Record” by Anggo Genorga and drawings and writing by David Barker appear in the Silver Birch Press Bukowski Anthology — a 272-page collection of poetry and prose about Charles Bukowski as well as portraits of the author by over 75 artists and writers around the world — available at Amazon.com.

A Bird Black as the Sun, poetry collection by Green Poet Press

In September 2001, Green Poet Press released A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens, edited by Enid Osborn and Cynthia Anderson. The 162-page collection features poetry by 80 of the Golden State’s finest poets, who hold forth 
on the theme of crows and ravens — offering passionate, vivid, sometimes humorous, 
and ever-surprising views of these common yet mysterious birds, called 
”black as the sun” by Gary Snyder.

Myths and Texts (Excerpt)
by Gary Snyder

Raven
on a roosts of firs
No bird in a bird-book
Black as the sun.

Contributors include two poet laureates of the United States and other iconic poets 
such as Christopher Buckley, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), Lawrence 
Ferlinghetti, and Ann Stanford.

Other outstanding contributors include: Sylvia Alcon, Ron Alexander, Maureen Alsop, Len Anderson, Cathryn Andresen, Jennifer Arin, Rochelle Arellano, Lisl Auf der Heide, Bettina T. Barrett, Abigail Brandt, M. L. Brown, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott, Jeanette Clough, Constance Crawford, Patrick Daly, Carol V. Davis, Frances Pettey Davis, ellen, Roe Estep, Robert W. Evans, Joan Fallert, Paul Fericano, Molly Fisk, Mary Fitzpatrick, Dan Gerber, W. K. Gourley, Lara Gularte, Kevin Hearle, Katie Goodridge Ingram, Sheila Golburgh Johnson, Greg Karpain, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Kit Kennedy, Lois Klein, Steve Kowit, Danusha Lameris, Noreen Lawlor, Andre Levi, Ellaraine Lockie, Perie Longo, Paula C. Lowe, Friday Lubina, Glenna Luschei, Maia, devorah major, Diane Kirsten Martin, Julianna McCarthy, Kathleen McClung, Deborah A. Miranda, Charlotte Muse, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jim Natal, Ruth Nolan, David Oliveira, Melinda Palacio, Robert Peake, Connie Post, Peg Quinn, R. S. Read, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Halie Rosenberg, Mary Rudge, Mary Kay Rummel, June Sylvester Saraceno, Edwin Shaw, Kim Shuck, Dian Sousa, Barry Spacks, David Starkey, Joseph Stroud, Patrice Vecchione, Doris Vernon, Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Jackson Wheeler, Charan Sue Wollard, and Cecilia Woloch.

 A Bird Black as the Sun is available at Amazon.com.

Free on Tuesday, 8/13: Kindle Version of Silver Birch Press Green Anthology

Thanks to everyone who downloaded a free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Green Anthology on Monday, 8/12,  the collection of poetry & prose has hit #5 on the Amazon Top Free List for Poetry. The Silver Birch Press Green Anthology Kindle version is yours for free on Tuesday, 8/13, and Wednesday, 8/14.

Tell your friends! We’d love to give away enough copies to hit #1 on the Amazon Top 100 Free list Poetry List. We’d appreciate any reblogs, tweets, or facebook posts. 

The Silver Birch Press Green Anthology features poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, essays, and memoirs that revolve around the many and varied connotations of the word “green” — nature, luck, money, envy, young love, new life, the environment, food, trees, seasons, water, eden, and much more — from over 70 authors in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Europe, and Africa.

Get your free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Green Anthology at Amazon.com.

Fan Letter for Silver Birch Press GREEN ANTHOLOGY

Dear Silver Birch Press,

Bravo!  Reading your new book (GREEN) invoked beautiful images, places, and people!  I love how you put green in different clothes – as a color, an emotion, in love and in life.  “Just Enough Poison” by Merrill Farnsworth is delightful, full of good humor and good heart. “The Road Previously Not Taken” is a LOL piece – poet Clint Margrave is a funny man. I really liked “Dirt” by Rachel Carey. It spoke to me. And Philip K. Dick (“Beyond the Door”) is always fun. Thumbs up!!

I’m in Portland — thank you for a wonderful afternoon by the river!

Love!

Jenny

PHOTO: “Silver Birch Press GREEN ANTHOLOGY by the river in Portland, Oregon” by Jenny Funkmeyer, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Find the Silver Birch Press GREEN ANTHOLOGY at Amazon.com.

Chicago, Poem by Joan Jobe Smith

CHICAGO

by Joan Jobe Smith

Driving my green ’72 Dodge four-door with
green upholstery: a perfect getaway car for a
spy in a broccoli forest, I went to see my
lover for nine years every weekend 42 miles
away in L.A. and listened to my Sinatra tape
as I sped upon the freeways through the grand
canyon of all those Goliath-shouldered skyscrapers
and when Frank sang “Chicago,” I’d sing along
“My kind of town LOS ANGELES IS” because I
couldn’t wait to see my lover even though he
didn’t love me, wouldn’t take me to Chicago
where I wanted to go more than Paris or Rome
Chicago where he went all the time to see his
folks and I couldn’t go because he was ashamed
of me because I was married and wanted me
to stay that way and one day while I sang along
with Sinatra singing “Chicago,” right around that
freeway mesa in downtown L.A. where everyone’s
deciding where he’s going: Pasadena, Ventura,
Santa Monica, Bakersfield, a car older than mine
ahead of me had a blowout and its wheel rubber
black exploded all the way around and came straight
at me and my Dodge and I swerved into the fast lane
to miss it and found a miracle in the eye of the
hurry-cane: no pickup towing a speedboat, no
oil tanker, no RV loaded with kids and bicycles
just me and my green ’72 Dodge and Frank Sinatra
and Chicago: strange, lucky angels hightailing it
onto the Hollywood Freeway to the Echo Park off-ramp
to Sunset Boulevard and left onto Lucile to my lover’s
tiny garage-converted pad and our wows and what-ifs.
Later, after I divorced my husband and my lover got
cold feet and pushed me off the 100^th story of a
heartbreak hotel, I landed into the arms of a
tall, dark, handsome poet and my ex-lover
went to Chicago with someone else.

“Chicago” and other poetry by Joan Jobe Smith is featured in the new Silver Birch Press release GREEN: An Eclectic Anthology of Poetry & Prose, available at Amazon.com.