Below please find my reading of the poem “Dedication” included in Echoes Lost in Stars, by PS Conway. Literary Revelations is proud to publish Patrick’s book on March 17, 2024.
For now I hope you enjoy this poem.
DEDICATION
dedicated to my Susan my Muse when the sun refuses to enlighten me heighten my senses see things more bright even midst the depths of night when stars remind me that all is lost that all is empty and bare she takes my hand guides me to a place where loves lies hidden seductive and deep she keeps my heart secure in that darkness my angel ~ my Elpis safe evermore in her care
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
Literary Revelations is thrilled to let you know that Greenlandos by Virginia Witch is now live on Amazon.As the publisher I am extremely proud of this book.
Greenlandos is a captivating book filled with humor, adventure, and ecological lessons. This extraordinary tale has an enchanting plot. In it all the characters are vegetables, adding a unique twist to the story. While it is a book for everyone to enjoy, it particularly resonates with middle graders.
Greenlandos is not just another entertaining read; it also carries important lessons about defending our environment and taking care of our planet. Through its delightful narrative, young readers will discover the significance of environmental responsibility in a way that is both engaging and educational.
What sets this book apart are its excellent characters. Each vegetable character possesses distinct personalities that will capture the imaginations of readers young and old alike. The story unfolds with humor woven throughout, creating moments of laughter that make the reading experience unforgettable.
Parents, teachers, and educators will find Greenlandos an excellent addition to their collection of children’s books. It serves as a valuable tool to spark conversations about the safety of our environment while providing an enjoyable reading experience for young minds.
Gabriela Marie Milton
Notice: The eBooks version is a Print Replica in order to properly keep the integrity of the pictures. “Print Replica eBooks maintain the formatting and layout of their print editions and offer many of the advantages of standard Kindle eBooks. However, they don’t allow the reader to resize text and are only available on certain devices.” Fire Tablets!
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
We are thrilled to let you know that Greenlandos by Virginia Witch will be published on January 20. Literary Revelations is very proud of this publication.
Parents, teachers, and educators will find Virginia Witch’s Greenlandos an excellent addition to their collection of children’s books. It serves as a valuable tool to spark conversations about the safety of our environment while providing an enjoyable reading experience for young minds.
Please find one of the promotional videos below. Thank you for your support!
Done by Gabriela Marie Milton
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
My publishing house – Literary Revelations – will release Greenlandos by Virginia Witch on January 20th. I cannot tell you how excited I am. To learn more about the book please read the Amazon description below.
Thank you!
Amazon Description
Virginia Witch’s Greenlandos is a captivating book filled with humor, adventure, and ecological lessons. This extraordinary tale has an enchanting plot. In it all the characters are vegetables, adding a unique twist to the story. While it is a book for everyone to enjoy, it particularly resonates with middle graders.
Greenlandos is not just another entertaining read; it also carries important lessons about defending our environment and taking care of our planet. Through its delightful narrative, young readers will discover the significance of environmental responsibility in a way that is both engaging and educational.
What sets this book apart are its excellent characters. Each vegetable character possesses distinct personalities that will capture the imaginations of readers young and old alike. The story unfolds with humor woven throughout, creating moments of laughter that make the reading experience unforgettable.
Parents, teachers, and educators will find Virginia Witch’s Greenlandos an excellent addition to their collection of children’s books. It serves as a valuable tool to spark conversations about the safety of our environment while providing an enjoyable reading experience for young minds.
So whether you’re a child seeking an exciting adventure or an adult looking for a heartwarming story with meaningful themes, this book is for you too! Get ready to embark on a journey like no other as you dive into the pages of Greenlandos.
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
I want to welcome my new readers and thank to those who are still with me for some years. First, I would like to present you with an interview from Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine (fall 2023 edition) where I was the featured poet. Second comes a short poem and some announcements.
Prosetrics Interview(excerpts)
Thank you, Gabriela, for joining us as our guest poet for this issue. We’d like you to introduce Gabriela to our readers in your own words.
Thank you for having me, dearest R. It’s a pleasure to be with you and your readers. Few things about me. I write under the pen name Gabriela Marie Milton. I was born in Europe, and I live in the US. I am an Amazon bestselling and award-winning poet, and an internationally published author. I am the author of the #1 best-selling poetry collection Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: | Love Poems and Poetic Prose (Vita Brevis Press, 2021), and the author of Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis Press, 2020). I edited and curated the #1 Amazon bestselling anthologies Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (EIF, 2022) and Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology (Literary Revelations, 2023).
My work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Romanian, and Albanian. An English – Spanish bilingual edition of my poetry will be published in the spring of 2024. Presently I am negotiating the translation of some of my work into Bengali.
I am also a publisher. I am the owner of Literary Revelations Publishing House and the editor of a literary journal owned by Literary Revelations.
I was awarded 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press (NYC) and I am a 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee.
But let’s try to find a better introduction for you and your readers: I am Gabriela. I breathe the poetry of sunsets “atrocious” or not. I live in my own mind – a space where poetry engraves itself on blue walls. I believe in the words of Federico García Lorca, “In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.” I love the languor of Greek afternoons when I can read Seferis by the sea. I love the musky aroma and sweet flesh of the Tuscan melons, and I am fascinated by the echoes of steps in the night. I love cities. I crave the kind of anonymity that only a big city can offer. And as I once wrote, “I am who I am, and who I am is hidden from view.”
My journey of writing began before I went to graduate school in the US. I wrote three novels, not in English, the second of which received a prize from an international writers’ association. I wrote them under a different name. In 2017 I opened a blog – shortprose.blog – and I started writing poetry under the name Gabriela Marie Milton. I cannot hope I will ever be Fernando Pessoa who became famous under a considerable number of pen names including his real name, but I am ready to move forward in my writing journey and start writing under a different pen name.
The inspiration behind my poetry: I grew up in a family that loved poetry, art in general. Poetry was with me as my self-consciousness developed. In high school I was able to recite a good number of classics by heart. I walked with their poems in my mind. I loved with their words in my soul. I suffered with their tears in my eyes. I breathed the coolness of beautiful winters with poetry in my mind.
You can read more below:
A Short Poem
tonight I will sleep on your right shoulder wings of birds will cover us in the morning the breeze will blow us out to sea poems buried in the waves
Announcements:
Literary Revelations thanks you for your submission to our upcoming anthology Petals of Haiku. We are thrilled with the number of submissions. The deadline is January 15 so we are still receiving submissions. With a cover designed by the brilliant duo of award-winning Japanese artists, Hikari, and her mentor Naoki Kimura, please do not miss the chance to have your words grace the pages of our anthology.
Thank you for your poetry and short prose submissions to Literary Revelations. The volume of submissions that we have to read is very high so please be patient with us.
Please do not forget that we are looking forward to late December when we plan to release Greenlandos by Virginia Mateias. You can read more here.
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
Welcome to Cyber Monday at Literary Revelations. This season please do not forget to shop for book. Literary Revelations has three #1 Amazon Bestsellers. All poets who contributed to those volumes are fantastic.
‘Books are a uniquely portable magic.’
Stephen King
Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology (Literary Revelations, January 2023)
A #1 Amazon bestseller [New Hot Releases in Poetry Anthologies]
Description:
From authors featured on NPR, BBC, and the New York Times, and from emerging poets, comes a monumental anthology in which every poem sends shivers down your spine. Childhood’s joy and trauma expressed – with stunning talent and sincerity – by over 150 poets in more than 280 poems. Childhood spaces magnified by the human memory, populated by good and bad, by trips to hell and heaven, in an almost Hieronymus Bosch type of atmosphere. Over 150 voices call you to read this book. Read it. You will learn that childhood never goes away. You will be reminded of the beauty of the seraphim and the need to protect children from any form of abuse. 150 voices knock on your door. Open the door. A chorus of childhoods will tell you that our children need love.
Literary Revelations is proud to bring you this anthology and deeply grateful to all contributors for pouring out their hearts into the pages of this book.
Love, Stars, and Paradigms by Swarn Gill (Literary Revelations, April 1, 2023)
#1 Amazon bestseller in the US, the UK and Canada [Category: Love Poems]
Description:
Swarn Gill’s poetry collection, Love, Stars, and Paradigms is a must-read for anyone looking for original and stunning poems about love, social, and political issues. Through his work, Gill explores the connection between the natural realm and the human condition with an eye for detail that is both captivating and thought-provoking. Through powerful imagery and vivid language, he paints his own unique perspective on the world around us. Whether it’s about heartache or joy, Gill’s words will touch your soul. Love, Stars, and Paradigms is an unforgettable journey through the beauty of love and the complexities of relationships.
Building Sandcastles: A Book of Short Poems by C.X. Turner and James Welsh (August, 2023)
A #1 Amazon bestseller on Hot New Releases – Haiku and Japanese Poetry; on August 13, 2023, features as the #1 bestselling haiku book in the UK.
Building Sandcastles: A Book of Short Poems by C.X. Turner and James Welsh is a spectacular collection. From every page the beauty of haiku and senryu poetry jumps, inscribing itself in the soul of the reader with color, sonority, melancholy, grief, and love. Water, clouds, memories, do not only mark chapters. They become the real soul of the book. The transitory nature of haiku and senryu – with their delicate and ethereal qualities – is magically transformed by the authors into permanence. That is no easy thing to do. C.X. Turner and James Welsh create a world of splendor and depth that will forever mark those who read the book.
The book showcases seven wonderful sketches done by C.X. Turner. You will find beauty and great substance in them.
Building Sandcastles has received plenty of advanced praise:
Bryan Rickert, Editor: Failed Haiku Journal of Senryu, President: The Haiku Society of America writes: “With both broad brushstrokes and intimate details, these two poets paint the beautiful experience of their haiku worlds.”
Joe Woodhouse, Editor: Wales Haiku Journal states that: “In one breath tender and poignant, in the next stark and arresting, this collection of short poems is a journey of discovery through an evocative series of moments in nature. It is an exploration of that yearning to glean meaning from the chaotic lives we all lead.”
Roberta Beach Jacobson Editor, Cold Moon Journal and Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) tells us: “Building Sandcastles: A Book of Short Poems, the stunning new collection by C.X. Turner and James Welsh, is a must-have for your shelves. These thought-provoking haiku and senryu left me breathless.”
Thank you for the visit!
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Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
A summer with raspberry lips born from the bones of the sea and the feathers of winds on September 20th Pessoa left Lisbon the autumn brought dead perfumes and poisoned the crickets with black tongues of fumes
I linger in empty railroad stations where trains never stop anymore you, my love, slept for years on wet cobblestones the ring on your finger and under your head a Stradivarius courting suicidal moons
Delirious I am for I can hear voices I can see snakes dance on polished parket dead leaves grow from my arteries like sunrises from seas I lick from my lips the last pieces of corn remember, my love, I am the one who knows where nightingales are born.
Please do not forget that Literary Revelations will publish in December a fabulous book called Greenlandos by Virginia Witch. Please read more here and stay tuned for more news.
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
He was a great novelist. He avoided the big juvenile traps: on the one hand, repeatedly writing about one’s childhood and one’s limited experiences, and, on the other hand, confining his characters to slogans such as do good or better days are ahead.
He knew he went against the grain of what was considered acceptable in his country; a country in which the novel frequently used everything from camaraderie to horror, and from war to sex, in order to avoid the birth of a new Emma Bovary. Emma’s sensuality would have scandalized a society in which some, if not most, deified violence and crucified sensual love. Should I mention The Scarlet Letter?
He loved me. In his last note to me he wrote:
“Love and sensuality include divination: a thirst for deciphering the signs inscribed in the sacred area of our subconscious, a craving for knowing what the future holds, and the supplication that providence or god will fulfill our desires.
How much we want that which is not only given to us but that which we create too: Mircea Eliade’s homo religiosus, that alter-ego who lives inside us and conjures the meanings we create in sacred times and spaces.
The afternoon smelled of brick; the wall I used to scratch with the knees and the nails on my way to the sea.
My blood stained my socks and fed the roots of the orange tree mama planted one spring before my seventh birthday. Soon after, the tree grew blood oranges.
I used to dream I would reach the port before crickets would serenade the white cement between the bricks, and the evening wind would sew the wounds from the face of the wall.
I needed a God to lead me to the sea. In Mama’s stories, there were too many Gods leading souls to heaven. I did not want to go to heaven. I wanted to go to the sea.
I used to fail. I did not understand what failure is. The next afternoon, little ducks embroidered on the rim of my blue dress, I would start climbing the wall again.
One day I thought I would get to the port and run straight into the sea.
Little did I know that day came when I first looked into your eyes. The sea inside your eyes like laundry left to dry on a wire. Long red poles floundered left and right like the wings of a moribund bird. The body of a boat eroded by salt, and by the kisses of the women of your past agonized in green and blue.
The sea inside your eyes: on the right your love for me, and on the left, your hate for the world.
Did I say your love for me? You see, over time, I had to reconsider that formulation. Your feelings resembled more a never-ending animal magnetism than love.
Let me make one thing clear. No one person is sufficient to drive all demons from another one. You can think Goethe’s elective affinities if you wish. I cannot save you from you. You need to help me. I can carry this conversation into the night and win.
Ah, winning! The day I understood I can win, I stepped into hell.
That day was the day I lost my innocence and with that the paradise. Since then, my blood has never stained my socks anymore. The orange tree has never grown red-fleshed oranges, and Mama stopped telling stories.
featured image: Gabriela Marie Milton, Greece.
Included in my book Woman: Splendor and Sorrow
Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books:
I am deeply grateful to the Italian poet Flavio Almerighi – a poet whose work I admire – for translating my poem French Symbolism into Italian and for the feature in Gioielli Rubati 257.
French Symbolism in English
It’s still July mon amour hot sands and old lovers torment my dreams the waters are frantic the flowers are dying smell of fresh tombs and heavy perfumes.
Whispering tongues of burned summers wrap around a verse from Rimbaud A Season in Hell and another in heaven tell me my bones and my blood breathe only for you.
A Chinoise cup falls on the floor the cats too lazy to move or to purr my bras are too tight the kisses too cool your decadence runs my past tense in gerund.
Translated in Italian by Flavio Almerighi
Simbolismo francese
È ancora luglio mon amour sabbie calde e vecchi amanti tormentano i miei sogni le acque sono frenetiche i fiori stanno morendo odorano di tombe fresche e profumi pesanti.
Lingue sussurrate di estati bruciate avvolgono un verso di Rimbaud Una stagione all’inferno e un’altra in paradiso dimmi che le mie ossa e il mio sangue respirano solo per te….
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Read further HERE. Gioielli Rubati 257 features several other wonderful poets.
