This Enduring Gift
A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry
76 Poets Who Found Common Ground in One Small Prairie Town
Compiled and selected with introductions by Freddy Niagara Fonseca and a foreword by Donovan. Endorsed by two US Poets Laureate. Paperback and Hardcover versions with 300 poems, 16 chapters and 796 pages. Publisher: 1st World Publishing. Links to TEG‘s Website and Facebook.
Pictured below, Freddy invites Roger Pelizzari to read his poem, The Beginning of Real Time, during the book launch at Revelations Cafe and Bookstore in Fairfield, Iowa, September 24, 2010.
The room was filled with poets and guests that night. I’m sitting in the front row, and was also invited to read a poem. Since we were running out of time, I read the short tanka. Here are my poems, selected from the ones submitted, published in This Enduring Gift: Five Haiku, the tanka, Cold Wet Night, and Poetry—The Art of the Voice, which was later selected as the POEM OF THE DAY: Poetry – The Art of the Voice, by Ken Chawkin.
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December 5, 2014 at 11:43 pm |
[…] I was so inspired by that radio program I encapsulated the theme into a poem, Poetry—The Art of The Voice, which Freddy Fonseca published in a collection called This Enduring Gift—A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry. […]
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August 30, 2018 at 7:29 pm |
[…] in This Enduring Gift – A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry, 2010. See my other published poems in that […]
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August 30, 2018 at 7:44 pm |
[…] MacLeod. Freddy also included the tanka, Cold Wet Night, and Poetry—The Art of the Voice, for This Enduring Gift. See other haiku and tanka posted on The Uncarved […]
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January 9, 2021 at 7:34 pm |
[…] Dryland Fish; Cold Wet Night, a tanka; and Poetry—The Art of the Voice, a poem; were published in This Enduring Gift—A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry. The University of Iowa’s “Iowa Writes” program also published Five Haiku on The Daily […]
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