PIECE BY PIECE You say that to analyze me like taking apart a clock is the way you can build trust. I admit I can be taken apart without much effort. Does it work both ways? I remember when I
On Villanelles, Jigsaw Puzzles, and Covid-19
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
New Books
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
New Books and New Editions with Discussion Guides
NEW BOOKS from Blue Cedar Press: order paperbacks from the press and epubs through your favorite bookstore or Barnes and Noble online. Now available: ****************************************************************** AVALANCHE: A Survival Guide, a new collection of powerful and beautiful poems by Edward Harkness. Publication date
Postcard from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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
Something Has Tried to Kill Me…
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
Welcome to Blue Cedar Press
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