No, it’s not the Nobel, but Carolyn Howard-Johnson wanted to create an award for books of excellence. “Here & Abroad” is my chapbook of short stories. “Holiday” was previously published in Caveat lector, and “Paris Blues Redux” won Best Fiction from the Chaffin Journal. Here’s a link to Carolyn’s winning 2011 list: http://www.myshelf.com/backtoliterature/column.htm You can [...]
“A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities” San Francisco Bay Press, Virginia/San Francisco: 2009
In her second full-length poetry collection, Joan Gelfand explores the poignancy of living in a world that is war-torn and environmentally damaged. With a nod to the humorous paradox of modern life, Gelfand writes from the vantage point of a mother, an artist, and a Zen meditator. “A Dreamer’s Guide…” looks beyond the surface of our lives at the connections that make live worth living, and the sensual details that color it. Read More
Seeking Center: A Collection of Poems by Joan Gelfand, Two Bridges Press, Richmond CA: 2006
In Seeking Center, Joan Gelfand joins the reader in a free-wheeling discussion, beyond the poems themselves, regarding what is poetry today, here at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Read More