Tuesday, November 19, 2024

These Are Not My Words (I Just Wrote Them) by Donovan Hufnagle - Book Tour and Giveaway

 


THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS (I JUST WROTE THEM)

Donovan Hufnagle

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GENRE:  Poetry

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Echoing Chuck Palahniuk’s statement. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known,” this collection explores identity. These poems drift down rivers of old, using histories private and public and visit people that I love and loathe. Through heroes and villains, music and cartoons, literature and comics, science and wonder, and shadow and light, each poem canals the various channels of self and invention. As in the poem, “Credentials,” “I am a collage of memories and unicorn stickers…[by] those that have witnessed and been witnessed.”

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Excerpt

[Big Tony] or Those Girls

Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.
Ask them, darn near any one of them, where’d they work.
They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell.

“Oh, I'm the switchboard operator,” they’d say. “I dwell
 in the office.” Ashamed, see. Fibbed like clockwork. 
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.

Say, they'd even ring their boyfriends the sound of that bell.
All those dumb dames putting on an act, shoveling that murk. 
They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell.

When the girls come out, Big Tony wisecracked about the swell 
switchboard operators. They put their foot in it, so they just smirked.
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.

He hung around with his gang; they were in on it as well.
When the girls come out, they talked real loud like fireworks.
They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell.

Tony laid it on thick! How he laid it on well!
He pretending he didn't know the girls was lurking.
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.
Why they didn't want anybody to know, they wouldn’t tell.

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Author


Donovan Hufnagle is a husband, a father of three, and a professor of English and Humanities. He moved from Southern California to Prescott, Arizona to Fort Worth, Texas. He has five poetry collections: These Are Not My Words (I Just Wrote Them), Raw Flesh Flash: The Incomplete, Unfinished Documenting Of, The Sunshine Special, Shoebox, and 30 Days of 19. Other recent writings have appeared in Tempered Runes Press, Solum Literary Press, Poetry Box, Beyond Words, Wingless Dreamer, Subprimal Poetry Art, Americana Popular Culture Magazine, Shufpoetry, Kitty Litter Press, Carbon Culture, Amarillo Bay, Borderlands, Tattoo Highway, The New York Quarterly, Rougarou, and others.



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Giveaway

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Monday, August 19, 2024

Long and Short Reviews 17th Anniversary

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Contest runs from August 19-23, 2024.

Monday, August 12, 2024

Dishing Love Daily by Susanne Clark - Book Blast and Giveaway


This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotion. The author will award a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
Dishing Love Daily and Other Secret Ingredients (trademarked in Canada and the US) is more than a cookbook. Chef Suzy shares her collection of cherished recipes that focus on healthy, fresh, easy-to-find ingredients, appealing to both the novice and experienced cook. She will also guide you to and through a revolutionary, adaptable approach to bringing mindfulness and positivity into the kitchen. It's a timely, relevant and original concept in food craft that weaves our energetic imprint into a meal and into the hearts of those who sit at our table. It's a powerful, creative concept in awareness that will transform the everyday endeavour of nourishing our bodies into a life-changing act of nourishing our souls. Come on, let's get dishing!


Read an Excerpt

Choice

At the heart of this cookbook and my life, is one word: choice. It’s also at the heart of yours. This one word has all the power, purpose and potential to create an intention for nourishment and positivity. Ask yourself: What do I bring to the table? What is my purpose? What am I going to cook today? Who am I cooking for? How can I make a difference? Why is this important? Be curious, joyful and open to the inspiration and answers that are on their way. And remember, sweet, beautiful reader, you are an alchemist . . . in your kitchen and beyond. Trust me when I tell you that there is a tangible shift which can be tasted and felt as you learn to trust your power of intention. Honour time, your choices, and their consequences. You are the question and the answer, to what’s cooking in your kitchen and who sits at your table. I’m offering you a new foundation in food-craft that weaves your energetic imprint into the meal and the hearts of those who sit at your table. Come on, let’s dish some love.

Chef Suzy xo

About the Author:
Susanne Clark, a.k.a. Chef Suzy, earned her Red Seal in Culinary Arts in 2009 at SAIT in Calgary, Canada, apprenticing at Hotel Arts under the talented supervision of Duncan Ly and Karine Moulin. Upon graduation, Chef Suzy established Magnifique Cuisine, a successful catering business in the Calgary area. She also worked full time as the in-house executive chef for one of Canada's original Dragons' Den entrepreneurs, W. Brett Wilson, cooking for his Home Office team and a global circle of business and community leaders, artists and celebrities.

Suzy's first and continuing career as a mother of four empowered and vibrant daughters formed her vision of food as an expression of love and a foundation for healing and sustaining our most important relationships. Suzy loves to travel and seeks out every opportunity to enjoy culinary experiences around the world. She has been married to the love of her life, Richard, for 36 years.


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