Poem in Yellow Mama

My poem, "Pause", is now up in the April, 2012 issue of Yellow Mama, at the link below.  Some great fiction and poetry at this hard-boiled lit journal!  Check 'em out:

http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id820.html

Poem in Red Fez

Here's a link to my poem, "Final Fight", just up today in the April, 2012 issue of Red Fez.  I love these guys--check out all the cool stuff at the link below:

http://www.redfez.net/poetry/1568

Magnolias

Budding in early April,

the bare-branched trees

are candelabras, their tips

flames of white, purple,

mauve, the rare yellow.

We are allowed to gush

over them, the event

of their opening cups,

their yielding into pretty

party gowns, as Étienne,

toiling in his arboretum

for the Empress Josephine,

must have wept with joy

over his hybrids, over

each individual angel.

Tonight, the maiden moon,

intoxicating scent;  I am

thinking of you, how seductive

and perilous the metaphor.

But it is spring, a time

of indulgence, and we are far

from France, under exotic skies,

flowers trumpeting their magic:

I cannot stop looking at them,

thinking of how quickly they fade.

Genuine Poetry

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

~ T. S. Eliot

R.I.P. Adrienne Rich

...and the world loses yet another phenomenal poet.  Adrienne Rich has passed away at the age of 82.  Link below, to the L.A. Times article, and a couple of videos.  The world feels a little sadder, today...

"What Kinds of Times Are These?"

"Diving Into the Wreck"

L.A. Times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html 

Write a Review of The Breakdown Atlas

There are three places my chapbook, The Breakdown Atlas & Other Poems, released by Big Table Publishing Company in 2011, can be reviewed:  Goodreads, Google Books, and Barnes & Noble (links are below).  If you've read my poems, and feel compelled to share your thoughts in any of these places, I would really appreciate it, and love love love you forever and ever!  Unfortunately, I think you may need user accounts for these sites...but if you do leave a review, you have my gratitude in advance.  It's hard to get the word out for a small book published through an indie press.  Cheers, Lauren.

To write a review:

Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13562031-the-breakdown-atlas-other-poems

Google Books:  http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Breakdown_Atlas.html?id=xIpfXwAACAAJ

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-breakdown-atlas-lauren-tivey/1032014148?ean=9780983066620