Kathy S Kaleidoscope Of Poetry

Kathy's Kaleidoscope of Poetry is Kathy L. Martin's first collection of poetry. This collection reflects her growth as a poet. The poetry in Kathy's Kaleidoscope of Poetry awakes emotions and paints pictures of what emerges in the mind of the author. It conveys thoughts, dreams and images of life, and feelings of rare passion that are beyond understanding. From the emotional poem "A Summer Without a Rose" to the poem "My Childhood," you follow a poet from childish beginnings to a lasting approach that captures life itself. There is no form nor any special techniques. Each poem is written only with emotion. From dark to light, from hot to cold or from life to absolute fantasy-each poem is a path to the mind. Come and grow with this poetic journey and enjoy where the evolution takes you.

About the Author Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer and marketing professional living in New York City. She is the author of "Because All Is Not Lost" from Modern History Press and the co-author of "Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi" (Cyberwit 2010). Her work has appeared in six countries across three continents. Sweta has held recent artist residencies and workshops in Portugal, Ireland, and several within USA. She is a graduate of Columbia University. "In this innovative series, Sweta Srivastava Vikram re-appropriates color. Cultures and mythologies collide along the way, and the result is a chapbook that feels like a quest. In the end, the colors are a map to identity. The child's pink tonsils or the bride's red sari are not symbols, but rather mile markers. Like Vikram's poems, they lead toward understanding" --Erica Wright, Senior Poetry Editor, "Guernica" About the Chapbook The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups. Learn more at www.SwetaVikram.com From the World Voices Series at Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

When can you tell a book of poems is really working? For me, it's when the poems provide revolutions on themes--like the tiniest clink of a kaleidoscope. Look at how Adam Zhou recognizes what stays with us, how "the landscape will remain sullen / still dressed in a sullen light" and yet the people are always leaving and returning, wounded or memory or truly breathing, even in stillness. Zhou's lyrics are a personal history unfolding before us. In a world where poems can shatter us in the best way, In Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope reminds us that "there's something new if your heart hasn't stopped"--that we must dissect whatever comes up and hold it to light. --Carly Joy Miller In Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope is an arrangement of burning flowers. Adam Zhou has mastered the narrative of displacement. A world where people and objects are cloaked in words with multiple meanings. A house where "locks prefer not to accept keys." Through these poems a young speaker reconciles collisions of language, culture, and family. With great attention to craft, Zhou finds his voice in a fractured world. --"I'll collect the jagged pieces. Put them in a plastic bag." --Robert Carr Adam Zhou, a Chinese national, was born and raised in the Philippines. He won the Kathy Carlson and Emily Stauffer Award from Apogee, and was one of ten Asian American high school writers included in Hyphen magazine's Youth Poetry Folio for National Poetry Month in 2019. He is the founding editor of The McKinley Review, a literary journal based in the international community of the Philippines and focusing on the natural environment. When this collection is launched, Zhou will be a high school senior at the International School Manila.

Kathy Tatay paints with strokes of color and nature's imagery to deal with pain and struggle in Kaleidoscope Heart. A deep work with many reflections it is a collection you'll want to keep within reach on a coffee table or nightstand to revisit as its thoughts and musings will remain timeless. Despite pain, hope still seems to glisten even in the dark nights of the writer's soul. A yin and yang of despair and joy - much like life - her words carry promise of redemption and renewal that sometimes seem small as a dewdrop or fleeting as a wisp of wind but loom large on our cosmic canvases. Here a few of the moments'Beginnings' promises: 'I trust at this moment that the answer will always be within reach and every day will bring new hope that will be eternally mine to keep.''Abstracts of Life' provides comfort from seemingly unconnected memories of youth in summertime while 'Wetness of Pleasure' further confirms a stark but inviting duality - 'Drawing the blinds to the cold I catch a peek outside of purple pansies in the snow.'A five-star read! Gary Starta, Author of Earth Cat Zero

A pithy volume of lyrical verse from seasoned poet Mark R. Conte, Kathy's Songs is a book you will want to carry with you to dip into again and again. The Yellow dreams that fall Like leaves too ripe to cling Gather in little piles About our roots And burn with the wind. Mark Randolph Conte has published fiction, poetry, articles, interviews and Guest Columns in 67 publications including Yankee, Crazy Horse, Potomac Review, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Daily News, Tallahassee Democrat, New York Arts Journal, Northwest Florida Daily News, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry International, Poet, Devil's Millhopper, Apalachee Quarterly, Snake Nation, Poem, and others. He was Director of the Florida State University Poet Series, and was appointed Master Poet for the Poet in the Schools program by the Florida Arts Council and Assistant Director of the Center for Participant Education. He is a member of the Authors' Guild & Academy of American Poets. He won honorable mention in the PEN American awards in short fiction in 1979, first prize in poetry in the Barbwire Theater awards and the Packard Poetry Award.

Within the context of recent, and ongoing, plural pandemics such as COVID-19 up/ending lives, social and racial chaos and catastrophe, political pressures, and economic convulsions, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises offers a journey through a collection of scholarly reflective creative pieces--stories of lived curricula. Like a kaleidoscope filled with loose pieces of simple colored glass and objects transforming into an infinite variety of beautiful forms and patterns with the slightest turn, the collection of pieces in this book reflect images of the sky that nurtures life; sun that illuminates understanding; earth that shifts and grounds us; fire that is primal, intending to spark and extend curricular and pedagogical conversations and understandings. This book provides a lens through which to observe and experience how plural pandemics shifted the lived curricula--the colored glass and objects in the lives of others--to surface, contextualize, confront, and curate challenges, as well as celebrate the courageous and elevate and empower marginalized groups to relate, learn, and heal through stories of lived curricula. This beautiful collection brings readers to an awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the lived curricula unlike they have ever experienced before.