Poetry requires stripping oneself
to the bone--and beyond--as both
the reader and writer of it.

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She Wore Emerald Then Imagining the Future
Cherished Pulse Blooming Red

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Carolyn's
First Poetry Chapbook

Compulsive Reader's
Top Ten Reads

Palms to Pines
50 Favorite Books
 

Tracings is a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press.
She is also the author with Magdalena Ball of the Celebration Series of chapbooks.

Tracings is a Multi Award Winner

Military Writers Society of America named Tracings for Excellence,
Compulsive Reader.com named Tracings to their Top Ten Reads list,
 and
Dawn Colclasure named Tracings one of her
50 favorite books
in her
Palms to Pines blog.

For an excerpt from Tracings

Click here for reviews on the multi award-winning poetry chapbook Tracings.
Cover photography by art by Leora Krygier.

Tracings is a featured chapbook in an article on poetry.

 


Sample Poem
From Carolyn's File of Hundreds of Poems in Waiting

This poem,  a mild rant;
gives readers an idea of the accessibility
I reach for in most of my poems.

Eavesdropping at the Writers’ Fair (c)

Two words only. Bon mots.
so lovely our language adopted

them, our authors aspire
to deserve their application

to their literary efforts.
 I hadn’t heard

them since French I and II
but here, with liquid amber

leaves fallen at my feet, writers
at my elbow, I hear them twice.

Repetition makes me think
a translation of “good words”

not up to scratch for the efforts
of their countrymen Flaubert

or Malraux, equally deficient
for even Faulkner’s folderol

Hemingway’s doodling. Duped
by Francophiles once again!

The bookish and bogus
impressed by the echo

of vowels in their noses.
say belles lettres,

hold them in their mouths
as if they were bon bons,

relish their crème.
We English do better with words

rooted in blunt Germanic
soil. Bons and belles, simulated

pearls, do nothing for an aging neck
that the real thing wouldn’t do as well.

                                          CHJ © 2007


 

A Poetry Freebie

Matters of the Heart, edited by Lea Schizas is a free e-book of poetry with contributions from her MuseItUpClub including a few from Magdalena Ball, my co-author of Cherished Pulse, and me. Use the link to download your own .pdf copy.

 

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Honored Poets

 

Sona Ovasapyan, Rita Gabrielyan, Carolyn Howard-Johnson
and Christine Alexanians (l. to r.)
show California State Legislature Certificates of Recognition
issued by Paul Krekorian
at an event at the Glendale City Library
where Howard-Johnson introduced
Ovasapyan and Alexanians as emerging poets.
Garbrielyan, a young poet, was an aide.

 

 

 


CAROLYN READS POETRY ON RADIO

 

Here are two of my favorite streaming radio/podcasts of my poetry


MORE PUBLISHED POETRY

§          Copperfield Review: Poem “Peril,” 2003.

§          Sparks Magazine, Subtle Tea: The Feminist Journal: Poem “Woman’s Day:” 2003.

§          Yarrow Brook Review: Poem “Where I Am,” 2002;

§          Poetic Voices: Villanelle “Adaptation” Sept. 2003.

§          Lunarosity: Poem “Pleading for Sylvia”, March 2004.

§          Mochila Review: Poem “Big Screen Snack,” May, 2004.

§          Long Story Short: Poems “Bon Sai,” Jan. 2004; “Woman’s Day,” March 2004; “Shopping on Robertson,” June 2004; Poem, “Children Today Don’t Have Enough Leisure Time,” Nov. 2004, “Musing Over a New Calendar,” and “New Year,” Jan. 2005.

§          Apollo’s Lyre: Poem “Deciphering Sound.” May, 2004.

§          The Pedestal Magazine: Poem “Olvera Street Tutorial.” April, 2004. Winner Readers' Award

§          The Journal of the Image Warehouse: Poems “The Dangerous Lizard of Gabon,” “Poetry by Damned,” and “Perfectly Flawed.”

§          Re)verb: Poem “Faith in LA,” spring, 2005.

§          Mindprints: Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA., Poem “Bon Sai,” Annual 2005.

§          Edifice Wrecked: Literary Journal, fall 2004, poem “Shelf Life.”

§          Sunspinner Magazine: Poem, “Olvera Street Tutorial,” 2005

§          Mary, Mt. St. Mary's College Journal, Spring 2005.

§          Niederngasse, an international journal "Eavesdropping at the "Writers' Faire," July, 2005, www.neiderngasse.com.

§          Penwomanship, Poem, "Antigua's Hope," Aug. 2005.

§          Barricade, Edited by John Newmark, "Upon Safety, Illusion and a New Way to Think, December, 2005

§          Travelers' Tales, Excerpt "Every Heard of Terezin?" 2006

§          A-pos-tro-phe: Poem "The Lecture: Incomplete and Considerately Abridged,".http://www.a-pos-tro-phe.com/v2n3/thelecture.html

§          Riley Dog: Excerpt from a poem "The Lecture: Incomplete and Considerately Abridged." June, 2006.

§          Subtle Tea, edited by D. Herrle, Poems, "Learning About Sex When All Else Fails" and "Another Day." Aug. 2006.

§          Under the Roc, Poem, "Shelf-Life," 2007.

§          Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal , "Dandelions in Autumn," fall 2007.

Coffee Press Journal, poem, "The Fragile Art of Warfare." Nov. 2007.

Coffee Cramp; Poem "The Fragile Art of Warfare" Nov/Dec 2007 issue.

Pear Noir, poetry journal, "Death by Ferris Wheel." January, 2009.

Carolyn's poem "Endangered Species" won the
Franklin Christoph prize for poetry, 2010.

See some of Carolyn's fun travel/recipe poems.


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I started a new poetry group on the new ning edition of iFOGO village. It needs lots of participation 'cause I can't find the time to lead. Still, poets are casual and may not need leading at all. I hope you'll join and use it any old poetry-related way you'd like. Go to iFOGO Busy Poets Village. You may need to do an iFOGO profile first. That would be good, too. It's for writers of every ilk. (-: Subscribe to iFOGO.

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Endorsements

Unsolicited Endorsement:
"I loved your poem 'deja vu?' in the latest issue of Writer's Advice/Flash section. Breathtakingly beautiful images. I finished reading it, then immediately read it again, to savor it.
~
  Dallas Woodburn, founder of Write On! For LIteracy

 


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"I'm a fan of winning lines rather than overall poems. (TRACINGS) delivers heartfuls!"  
~  David Herrle, Editor of Subtle Tea


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Best Book Award for The Frugal Book Promoter (2004) and The Frugal Editor (2008).

Reader Views Literary Award for The Frugal Editor

New Generation Award for Marketing and Finalist for The Frugal Editor

Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award

Military Writers Award of Excellence for
Tracings, A Chapbook of Poetry.


A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotion wins author Military Writers Society of America's Author of the Month award for March, 2010

Gold Medal Award from Military Writers Society of America, 2010

And more than a dozen other awards for Carolyn's novel, short story collection and poetry. See the awards page on this site.


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