A collection of poems to celebrate Half New Year and all things in the middle! The 27 poets and poems include: Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier / The Gathering Mary-Marcia Casoly / Venus on the Half Year Tobi Cogswell / Remembered on the Half Century Daniel Patrick Delaney / In the Middle Barbara Eknoian / Happy Half Year Mark Erickson / where the grass grows Adelle Foley / Half New Year Haiku Jack Foley / Year of the Horse (in two halves) Shreyas Gokhale / A Happier Half Year Deborah Herman / Though a Little Out of ...
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A collection of poems to celebrate Half New Year and all things in the middle! The 27 poets and poems include: Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier / The Gathering Mary-Marcia Casoly / Venus on the Half Year Tobi Cogswell / Remembered on the Half Century Daniel Patrick Delaney / In the Middle Barbara Eknoian / Happy Half Year Mark Erickson / where the grass grows Adelle Foley / Half New Year Haiku Jack Foley / Year of the Horse (in two halves) Shreyas Gokhale / A Happier Half Year Deborah Herman / Though a Little Out of Fashion Veronica Hosking / Rain Drops Clara Hsu / Japanese Garden Mathias Jansson / Vertical Descent Jax NTP / if the value of a cup is the emptiest space inside of it Wm. Todd King / Body Doubles Roz Levine / Behind the Drapes Tamara Madison / Midsummer Adrian Manning / Half Way Jocelyn Mosman / New Day D.A. Pratt / Happy New Half Year! Patrick T. Reardon / Sonnet 18/2 Sheikha A. / Halved Sanity Rachael Stanford / marching towards the light Jacque Stukowski / My "Middle" blue earth Matthew M.C. Tapp / Half New Year's Day Dirk Velvet / celebrate half Christopher P.P. White / Half a Year of Being Half a Man While it's customary to note the passage of one year to the next, people seldom stop to reflect on the day that marks the exact middle of the year-July 2nd-when 182 days have passed and 182 days remain. In 2014, Silver Birch Press decided to celebrate Half New Year with a call for poetry submissions that touched on the theme of half, middle, or center-or erasure poems created from page 72 (for 7/2) in any book. The resulting poems ranged from the humorous to the heartfelt, from silly to serious, and from witty to whimsical-and much more. Half New Year reminds us to consider what has occurred during the year as well give thought to our hopes for the months ahead. As we ponder finished and unfinished business, opportunities taken and those missed, words spoken and those left unsaid, it's reassuring to remember that we still have half a year to move closer to what brings us joy and fulfillment.
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