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Linda Strever

“My Life in Cars” Launch – Nov 2

October 22, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

Linda Strever Book Launch for My Life In Cars

 

FRIDAY, Nov 2 @ 7 pm

at

ENCORE CHOCOLATE & TEAS
116 5th Ave SE
Downtown Olympia, Washington

Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry.

Linda’s Book will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.


Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Linda Strever, Poetry Book Launch, Reading

Taking Pre-Release Orders for “My Life in Cars”

August 24, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Front Cover of My Life in Cars by Linda Strever

My Life in Cars

by Linda Strever

Tentative Release Date: Oct 15, 2018

Through a myriad of experiences with cars, these poems explore the events, relationships and evolution of a woman’s life.

 

For complete details and ordering information click here.

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Books, Coming Soon Tagged With: Chapbooks, Linda Strever, New Book Release

The Language of Birds by Linda Strever

December 1, 2015 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

“The Language of Birds” by Linda Strever, published in Poeming Pigeons: Poems about Birds, released April, 2015 by The Poetry Box.

The Language of Birds

~ for Lois

More than once I’ve asked for a sign.

I’ve asked mute air and sky how to find
you after you pass from this life.

Today a mourning dove crashes into
the window, sits stunned on the deck —
her soft body, her whispers of color —
and I get it now, watching her recover,
watching her sweet head, her shining eye.

She lifts to the feeder, coos, and another
dove flies in, struts and bobs on orange feet.
They feed together quietly, dip into
the birdbath undisturbed, as if to offer
ease on this day, the last one before

you’ll begin your leaving. Tomorrow
you plan to stop exactly what the doves do
now — eating and drinking — so you can slip
the rest of the way out. Yes, you’ll come
to me in birds, and I realize I’ve known it

since last summer, just after you were
diagnosed. Startled by a thud, I went outside
to find the blown-glass garden ball lying
on the deck, whole, an opalescent mirror
for the sun. Two ravens circled low over

my head, and I had to smile at the brightness
they’d tried to steal. Yesterday in the woods
I laid my palm against a cedar tree. Two
band-tails burst from its branches, and I
glimpsed the white curve of their rising.

Filed Under: Pushcart Poems Tagged With: Linda Strever

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