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Adverti Logo n g i s e D Book e-PD Logo Advertising Advertising Cover e-Boo Tranistics Poetry Matters by Sara M. R obins on stration Illu Publishing Services X L M og L o Founded in November, 2010, Tranistics Publishing has emerged as a leading service provider for companies within the publishing industry. Our global presence, with offices in Kolkata (India), Delhi-NCR (India) and Cluj (Romania), and nearly 150 dedicated professionals puts Tranistics Publishing at the forefront of our industry as the experts in the understanding and catering to our customer’s needs, expectations and demands. Cover Why Do We Care About How Poems Come About? I Our Solutions & Services ■ Content Editing ■ Page Composition and Typesetting ■ Conversion using Markup languages such like XML, SGML, HTML5 ■ Illustration, Cover Design and Image processing ■ ePub creation (Mobi, Sony, Apple, Kindle) ■ OCR/ICR/OMR and Manual Keyboarding ■ Proof Reading Natalie Banda and Vicki H. Moss by Anna Kittrell of reading “He nurtured my love I read Silver says of her father, that catches my attention. anything and everything year, and own books by Zane a over two hundred books Asimov, Andre Norton, Anne Isaac writers than Grey, Louis L’Amour, and far more romance McCaffrey, J.D. Robb, genres and subgenres.” been a I can name, from all remember, Silver has For as long as she can to get her work school, she learned grade In storyteller. with her couldn’t get angry done first so the teacher characters, and window, making up for staring out the the years, the adventures. Through writing down their she wrote her first in the ninth grade, friend as the trend continued and ks. ing Silver and her best “when self-publish romance novel, starring weeks, in cursive writing on a me,” Silver states, and poor writing. For nine whole the story of heroines. with vanity presses composed notebook, she to self-publishing college-ruled spiral England filled e case now. 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Be small-town suburbs that combines mixed bag of big city living, the of ways o write in, or the variety is, indeed, a s published, Silver meration. entails, Silver t being a “hybrid author” books who has id author is a writer house as well as a traditional publishing XML n g i s De e-PDF Book Cover Logo Illustration rn Writers www.livingwaterfiction.com stem from her ion to diversity may One of her favorite ng appetite for reading. at see the head librarian ather taking her to the read every book in She was ten and had in the teen section, n as well as all the books Boys, Nancy Drew, Hardy Black Stallion, The card and the library his to y name added out any book in told that I could check was Mary Stewart’s out checked I e first book one of my favorites.” nners’ which is still father passed away, he day after Silver’s to find that after his books to the library remained on his name ars had passed, her begins —a nail salon tech— has in g in California, Natalie On a slow mornin she know what God to arrive. Little does recently flown from praying for clients others—one who’s walk store when two grandm to visit their paternal grandparents— s grandie rs in tow. Tennessee with two with granddaughte through her door recently received the poetry book, Brute (Winner of the 2018 Walt Whitman award), by Emily Skaja. This manuscript of some 30+ poems almost stands as one long poem. The book is about a relationship, and not a good one. There are many passages in there that could be universal to many women, for instance. So it becomes relatable. When a poet writes about personal experiences, the context is less clinical and more emotional. Having said that, we may not be so interested in all the details of emotional experiences of the writer that led to the work, as we are in how the quality of the poems are. We look for intention and then beyond that meaning. For with those two aspects we can gather what appeals to the reader. Now as writers we don’t want to burden our readers with deep background of ourselves. For one thing they may not even care, and for another how could we select whose was instrumental in the creation of our poetry. Our business is to write compelling poetry and theirs is to be moved or inspired. We use the words we’ve been collecting in our personal “poetry generator machine,” to give us the settings, be they of tone, place, or time. These are the dimensions of poetry and while we fixate on tying all of these together, we let our imaginations and our experiences add the dimension of depth. Recall that I have touched on these in past columns. So, how do our poems come about? Poet A.E. Housman generally composed his poems during afternoon walks. Relaxed and maybe a little drowsy from his lunch, his mind was free to wander among the weeds and hills. Sometimes our poems are spontaneous, jumping out of a lake, or a glass of whisky. While I don’t know if the poems in Brute were spontaneous, I have to believe they evolved from intense emotional pain and disappointments. So maybe her intentions were to heal herself and then this collection came about to share the meanings she found. When poems come about, from whatever source, we see the service to poetry. How do you see your service? Do you have a “muse” or particular inspiration that primes your writing pump? As you continue the path that is your writing, I hope you will be inspired by one person whom I found quite philosophical, Yogi Berra. “When you get to the fork in the road, take it.” Happy Writing! n ogo and Further Information Contact Us: For L Quotation r www.tranisticspub.com Cove Website: Email: [email protected] Sara M. Robinson, author of Sometimes the Little Town (her fifth book and fourth poetry collection), is founder of Lonesome Mountain Pros(e) Writers’ Workshop, former UVA- OLLI instructor on Contemporary Poetry, and poetry columnist for Southern Writers’ Magazine. Published in journals and anthologies, she is a former Virginia Writers’ Club and Blue Ridge Writer’s Chapter officer. Her website is www.saramrobinson.com XML Logo