Book of Poetry

Title: Wishing for Rain
Author: jim greenwald
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Bill McDonald & Betsy Beard

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1413776701

We all have feelings, wishes and desires, to some expression comes easy while to others an endless struggle or a fight they refuse to join for a myriad of reasons. I have tried here on these pages to express not just my feelings but my perceptions of others feelings. There is nothing more complex than love, look for a definitive definition and surely your search would take years. My inspirations come from many directions, experiences, words overheard, a scene that unfolds before my eyes, a movie, a song. All directed in an endless search to express love and all that it encompasses. I hope my writing draws you in and it becomes part of you, join me in the journey. Enter my book, I hope you enjoy it.

Title: Kings of the Green Jelly Moon The Book Vol. 1.5
Author: Lloyd A. King, jim greenwald, James Randy Jellerson, Mike Mullins
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Claudia Pemberton

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 146202789X

KINGS of the GREEN JELLY MOON presents a searing collection of poetry written by a group of Vietnam veterans-each successful in their craft, all award-winning poets in their own right. The title Kings of the Green Jelly Moon recalls the innocence of childhood, a time when children believed the moon was made of green cheese. Then Vietnam changed an innocent generation as truth of war became their reality. From the impact of war on young men and how they are forever changed to the stark reality that fighting in a foreign country, the poems in the collection offer, in verse, a Vietnam veterans' reunion. These soldiers were forever changed by the experience that war forces upon those who fight and return from battle. Those who were lost can never be forgotten.

Title: Blooming Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational
Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Magdelena Ball
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Don Farinacci

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B004GXB4AW

The reality of Christmas does not always resemble the images we see on commercial Christmas cards--or in our dreams. Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Mardalena Ball present a booklet that can easily substitute for a Christmas card. They portray the familar--those of family and warmth, giving and receiving. You'll also find the unusual from carols to the universe to end-of-year pondering with a couple of humorous poems thrown in for good measure.

Title: Through the Years: One Man's Journey A to Z
Author: James Randy Jellerson
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Gail Chatfield

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1451271999

Synopsis of the book, submitted by the author.

Title: She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood
Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Magdelena Ball
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: David Tschanz

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1438263791

"[Both] poets continue to write poems that don't sound either like banal Hallmark cards or the bitter-at-dysfunctional-family jeremiads that habitually torture MFA writing workshop participants."
~Kristin Johnson, screenwriter and founder of the Warrior Poets Project

She Wore Emerald Then is collaboration on the subject of motherhood by award-winning poets Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, both of them mothers and daughters. They worked together on a book of love poetry called Cherished Pulse to the acclaim of reviewers. She Wore Emerald Then is available as both an e-chapbook and paperback and is illustrated with tender photographs by May Lattanzio. As it happens, it was released the week of death of Carolyn's mother--a fitting tribute.