To Whom It May Concern

By: Joe McKeon

Available now at Red Moon Press -> To Whom It May Concern

In To Whom It May Concern, Joe McKeon brings the haiku form to bear on social issues in a format that both informs and engages. This work exemplifies the role poetry, particularly short forms such as haiku, tanka, and senryu, and more specifically, the voice of the poet, has to play in the future of this planet and the wellbeing of its inhabitants. I’ve had my copy for many months now and it is yet to make it onto the bookshelf. It keeps moving with me from room to room as I digest its contents on deeper and deeper levels. Every page, another eye-opener.

Richard Grahn
Founder, The Abstractaphy Initiative

Walking Widdershins: An Ode to Joy

By Jenny Ward Angyal and Autumn Noelle Hall

Walking Widdershins is comprised of 108 sets of collaborative tanka, a genre of Japanese short-form poetry more ancient than haiku. Historically, tanka were often exchanged between two poets as a kind of poetic conversation. The tanka conversations in this volume were written over the course of a single year and reflect the poets’ rootedness in the places where they live, their love for the natural world, and their concern for the havoc the human species is wreaking upon it. In his ‘Afterword,’ David C. Rice, tanka poet & editor, asks “If the root problem of our planetary crisis is that we see ourselves as separate from the natural world, not just another part of it, couldn’t two poets writing together offer poems that would help connect us with the natural world in ways an individual poet could not accomplish?” Four original, full-color mandala illustrations allow readers to visually enter and interact with the poetry.

Available now on Amazon: Walking Widdershins: An Ode to Joy

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