The Rooftop Series No. 2 --- Reunion by Larry Levy
The "Reunion" chaplet presents six poems which draw on family and religious heritage, and memories true and invented. The people mentioned in the poems are no longer living (the poet's father as a child is the cover photo), but perhaps the poems allow them to live regardless.
The Rooftop Series No. 3 --- Tiny Churchill by Eric Nisula
Poems which attempt to capture painful or poignant moments in my life. The title of the chaplet, and "Tiny Churchill" is about my deceased father. In our home there was a picture of him as a baby and I thought he looked like a infant version of Winston Churchill. Later I came to appreciate the noble(Churchillian) side of my father's character, in combination with understanding the petty (tiny) problems which plagued him as well. After his death he appeared to me in a dream in which he announced to me "Yea, sure I read everything Tiny Churchill ever wrote----20 books!" or something to that effect. That was the genesis of my poem---and this chaplet.
The Rooftop Series No. 4 --- The Zen of Clown Baby by Gerry LaFemina
Humorously serious prose poems about Clown Baby in his first year of existence.
The Rooftop Series No. 5 --- Peter Pumpkin Head by Daniel Crocker
Peter Pumpkin Head is one crazy mofo. You don't believe me? He has a pumpkin' for a head, fer Christ sakes. Dan Crocker's pretty handsome too.
The Rooftop Series No. 6 --- Words Unspoken by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Words Unspoken contains five poems about the things we cannot, do not, say. Writer-mothers agonize over sons, a wife deals with an aging husband, a woman's voice rasps in unwilling ears, a worker is forced to quit, a walker stands helpless at the death of a small creature.
The Rooftop Series No. 7 --- Red Car Girl by Nathan Graziano
"Red Car Girl" pulls no punches as it levels with the art of lust.
The Rooftop Series No. 8 --- The Heart is Open by Corey Mesler
Poems, earthy and transcendent, which seek "the winged energy of delight."
Send the chaplet number/title and quantity desired with your check or money order payable to the publisher, Adrienne Lewis, at PO Box 5648 Saginaw, Michigan 48603. Questions on orders may be directed to our poetry submissions email account. Cover images of each chaplet appear below.
