Category: Poetry by J.A. Carter-Winward

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New Release – Spring 2020

J.A. Carter-Winward

COMING SPRING 2020 unnamed it's a feeling, and it's unnamed. some have tried the terms distant or cold. some have labeled it aloof or detached. but those words are all states of being. the process is what has no name. knowing someone is slipping away—but not physically, not yet. you feel it: pure feeling, pure… Continue reading New Release – Spring 2020

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New Release – “Pain & Renewal: A Poetry Anthology,” Vita Brevis Press

J.A. Carter-Winward

Pleased to announce the release of the new anthology out of Vita Brevis Press, courtesy of editor, Brian Geiger. The anthology, "Pain & Renewal," explores just that: the cycle, circle, that goes 'round and 'round, all our lives. I appreciate Brian's insight. He didn't try to even the score with "this many" for poetry about… Continue reading New Release – “Pain & Renewal: A Poetry Anthology,” Vita Brevis Press

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so, if you want to be a writer… a poem for the Millennium

J.A. Carter-Winward

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_is_a_Virus / Image by JACW© so, if you want to be a writer…                                a poem for the Millennium --after Charles Bukowski if you need to see your words in a box on a lit screen don’t do it. if… Continue reading so, if you want to be a writer… a poem for the Millennium

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solstice

J.A. Carter-Winward

  solstice it is the longest of nights and there is comfort in this blanket of black. it reminds me that we were all once beholden to it. and so i honor this darkness. when i paint i start with a black canvas. when i write i start with a black page. i bring in… Continue reading solstice

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New Year Must-Do’s Redux

J.A. Carter-Winward

It's that time of year again. The "I WILL read ______ this year." For some, it's Moby Dick. Others, War and Peace, or Ulysses. For many late-Boomers and Gen-Xers, the generation's most talked-about literary wonder was--and remains--David Foster Wallace's epic novel, Infinite Jest. I read it back in 2016. Then I read it again in… Continue reading New Year Must-Do’s Redux