Turn-of-the-century Poetry - ePub file

 I have finally created a book of my poems.

A hard copy will be available within a few weeks, but in the mean time, people who enjoy e-readers can find my collection here:  Finding Strength - A collection of turn-of-the-century poems.

The link is at Open Library.  I uploaded the downloadable ePub file which works for any e-reader apps on phones, kindles, kobos, pc's etc.  Open Library automatically offers other version, all derived from the original file I uploaded.  Some of them are pretty clunky.  Use the e-pub.  Hard copy will be out before March 1.

Who I Am

Nestling and rejigging is a documented mental health tool.  My poems sit safely in the database but also there are a few big binders in hard copy.  This week I found a craft envelope with no label and spilled out a collection of 45 poems, one per page, that had been submitted to a literary critic and on the front poem was scrawled in black ink - "nancy - these are great poems  enuff to be publishable (undecipherable word), signature, exclamation point".  That was in 2009.  Today I went through the set,  one by one and agree.  I didn't get bored going through them, but then reading your own poems is like mirror gawking and reliving.  I don't spend a lot of time back there - the poems are what save me from reliving my choices over and over.  I am a forward living person.  That said, here is one that rather punctuates that thought.  It isn't the greatest of the batch - but not the oddest either.  Working title of the collection is "Finding Strength in Poetry", because after reading these 45, I feel super empowered!  Enjoy this one.  I will post a few more as I move through this .pdf to vanity press process.  I have a feeling it will be interactive multi-media, because I like that stuff too.  Today is a good day.