Free Books!!! August 29, 2020

 

EVENT: AUGUST 29, 2020 8 till noon

29 Palms Farmer's Market
73484 Twentynine Palms Hwy, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277

NEA Big Read Morongo Basin

📣📣📣 FREEBIE ALERT! Come visit our #BigRead pop-up table this Saturday at the @29palmsfarmersmarket from 8a-12p for your free #BigRead book bundle and wheat grass planting seeds compliments of Thomas Farms and the @29palmsfarmersmarket. 

Book bundles include: 

📚 Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (our 2020 book selection)

📚 Cholla Needles 45 - The Science Issue

📚 Waking Life, poems by local author Cynthia Anderson

📚 Star Gazing, poems by Miriam Sagan

📒Your very own Cholla Needles notebook 

👏👏👏 to Cholla Needles and the local community for making donations of Cynthia's book and notebooks possible. 

#art #nature #science #community #literature #NEABigRead #BigReadMorongoBasin 

New Book! Simon Perchik - The Reflection in a Glass Eye Poems (2020)

 

The 184 poems in this collection would never have been written except for the 184 photographs assembled by The International Center of Photography for its Reflections in a Glass Eye published by Bullfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company (1999) to guide me. - Simon Perchik

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Bio: Simon Perchik, an attorney, was born 1923 in Paterson, NJ and educated at New York Univer-sity (BA English, LLB Law). His poems have appeared in various literary journals including Cholla Needles, Partisan Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The New Yorker.

Click to here to purchase this 200 page collection! ($10)

New Book! Poems (1920) by Charles Reznikoff

Poems was published 100 years ago by Samuel Roth of the New York Poetry Book Shop in 1920. The back cover included the information that their book series was “privately printed by V. Di Caprio at 19 Christopher St.” Each volume in the series sold for $1.

Poems includes the two small books Charles Reznikoff printed himself for his friends when he was 24 years old: Rhythms (1918) and Rhythms II (1919). Later editions of his poetry included these same poems further edited to included additional lines and different titles.

This volume includes the poem “Epidemic” (page 14), which for Reznikoff occurred in 1918 and today’s readers are experiencing in 2020.

Charles Reznikoff continued to compose poetry throughout his life. The powerful and influential collections Holocaust (1975) and Testimony Parts 1 & 2 (1978 & 1979) were published by Black Sparrow Press and remain in print today.

Click here to purchase your copy on-line! ($4)

New Book! Pat Anthony - Between Two Cities On A Greyhound Bus

 

Dystopia

I know when I walk by a book titled
Mood Disorders but it’s really Komodo
Dragons that things are slipping

downhill again the icy draw receiving
pieces of sweater, boot scrapings
where I try to anchor along the slope

slide back (the irony of moving back
when moving forward) but that’s
how it is and I am sleepless again

telling numbers on the phone/clock
like a child learning by rote the digits
that mark the course of a day

but it’s night that foils all the white
pills shaped into proscribed remedies
but wait, surely by now cats

will stop by the window and tell
me it’s time to get up and I will
put out pans of food for them

as they talk to me in their own
way and I will answer them as we
share secrets together.


BIO:
Pat Anthony writes from the rural Midwest, getting inspiration from the rugged furrows of plowed ground and those on the faces of the men and women working the land. She draws from experience and observation, responding to the poetry she finds everywhere.

You do not write poetry. 
You are a poet.
You.
Are.
Poem.

- Pat Anthony

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Cholla Needles Joins the "Zoom" Party!

Cholla Needles Presents Featured Poets Live On-Line

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1/2 hour a week! All Free, All Fun! 

Celebrate the continued publication 

of Cholla Needles during these "sheltered times"

Mark your calendar for 

every Sunday online at 3PM 

till Covid retires!

1st week: Open Reading Aug 2 3-3:30

2nd week: Cynthia Anderson Aug 9 3-3:30

3rd week: John Brantingham Aug 16 3-3:30

4th week: Miriam Sagan Aug 23 3-3:30

5th week: Peter Jastermsky Aug 30 3-3:30

6th week: John Sierpinski Sept 6 3-3:30

7th week: Romaine Washington Sept 13 3-3:30

8th week: Allyson Jeffredo Sept 20 3-3:30

9th week: Francene Kaplan Sept 27 3-3:30

10th week: Mark Evans Oct 4 3-3:30

11th week: Cindy Rinne Oct 11 3-3:30

12th week: David Chorlton Oct 18 3-3:30

13th week: Enid Osborn Oct 25 3-3:30

14th week: Lisa Mednick Powell  Nov 1 3-3:30

15th week: George Howell Nov 8 3-3:30

16th week: Kendall Johnson Nov 15 3-3:30

17th week: Noreen Lawlor Nov 22 3-3:30

18th week: Ginny Short Nov 29 3-3:30

19th week: Kurt Schauppner Dec 6 3-3:30

20th week: Steve Braff Dec 13 3-3:30

21st week: Lauren Henley and Zara Kand Dec 20 3-3:30

22nd week: Susan Rukeyser Dec 27 3-3:30

23rd week: Caryn Davidson Jan 3, 2021 3-3:30

24th week: Mike Vail Jan 10 3-3:30

25th week: Jean-Paul L. Garnier Jan 17 3-3:30

26th week: Tobi & Jeff Alfier Jan 24 3-3:30

27th week: Ruth Nolan Jan 31 3-3:30

28th week: Heather Morgan Feb 7 3-3:30

29th week: Dave Benson Feb 14 3-3:30

30th week: Kelsey Bryan-Zwick Feb 21 3-3:30

31st week:  Ernest Alois Feb 28 3-3:30

32nd week: Group Reading March 7 3-3:30 

33d week: Greg Wyss March 14 3:00-3:30

34th week: Renee Gurley March 21 3-3:30

35th week: Group Reading March 28 3-3:30

36th week: Group Reading April 4 3-3:30

37th week: Group Reading April 11 3-3:30

38th week: Group Reading April 18 3-3:30

39th week: Gabriel Hart April 25 3-3:30

40th week: Alan Catlin May 2 3-3:30

41st week: Simon Perchik May 9 3-3:30

42nd week: Issue 53 Reading May 16 3-3:30

More To Come!!

  "In time of crisis, we summon up our strength.

  Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all our need, our need for each other and our need for our selves. We call up, with all the strength of summoning we have, our fullness. And then we turn, for it is a turning that we have prepared; and act. The time of the turning may be very long. It may hardly exist." Muriel Rukeyser, The Life Of Poetry (1949)

New Book! Star Gazing by Miriam Sagan

Frankly I’m getting

a little worn out

comparing things all day

and then

in my dreams. 

- Miriam Sagan

Miriam Sagan is a U.S. poet, as well as an essayist, memoirist and teacher. She is the author of over twenty-five books, and lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books.

A graduate of Harvard with an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, Miriam was one of the editors of the Boston area-based Aspect Magazine with Ed Hogan. In 1980 Ed shut Aspect down and he, Miriam and others founded Zephyr Press. In 1982 Miriam moved from the Boston area to first San Francisco and then Santa Fe, where Miriam has made her home since 1984.

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August Issue Released - Cholla Needles 44!

Cover art by Zara Kand

Poetry, stories, art, and photography by:

L. I. Henley
Zara Kand
Kaylee Harper
Ellie Kobaly
Erika Saunders
R. Gurley
Dave Maresh
Edward L. Canavan
Kelsey Bryan-Swick
Dave Benson
Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga
Michael G. Vail

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