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On Villanelles, Jigsaw Puzzles, and Covid-19

May 27, 2021 by Admin

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by Denise Low Jigsaw puzzles occupied my husband and me as we outlasted the Covid-19 lockdown. The tidy, closed borders of the puzzle had a recursive quality that reminded me of poetry forms. “Recursive” is a term I learned from the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas…

New Books

November 2, 2019 by Laura Tillem

Laura Tillem

Blue Cedar Press has a new book by Roy Beckemeyer, honored last month with the Nelson Poetry Award and named by the Kansas Authors Club as its outstanding poet. Watch for it later this month. Roy’s poems are lush in language, play humorously with the sounds of words and consider…

Postcard from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

June 25, 2018 by Laura Tillem

Laura Tillem

If you are thinking of coming for a day or two, don’t bother, unless you want to just “see the sights,” like the beautiful blue-green Neretva River, Stari Most (the famous 16th century footbridge), the beauty of numerous mosques and the Franciscan church on the boulevard that was the front…

Something Has Tried to Kill Me…

August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 by Admin

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The first book of poems I ever actually bought was the Modern Library edition of the Collected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. During the same wild spending spree I also bought, The Interpretation of Dreams, by Freud. Within the same general time frame I went to the local (Oceanside, California)…

Welcome to Blue Cedar Press

June 2, 2016August 2, 2016 by Admin

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We welcome you to Blue Cedar Press (BCP) and hope you enjoy following us as we grow (little by little) into a quality small press presenting excellent and courageous literature from the depths of human imagination and experience. We are well aware of the cynicism and bravado coming from many…