Publishing Announcements

The Jovialities Entertainment Co., Ltd. has launched a new publishing initiative. In conjunction with Barnes and Noble, using PubIt!, Jovialities has begun publishing scripts for reading on Nook eBook readers or on Nook for PC.

As its first offerings, Jovialities has published 3 plays by poet and playwright, J. R. Simons. You can find the award-winning plays Siblings and Protest along with And "G" Don't Stand for Goofy, Neither at www.barnesandnoble.com under NOOKbooks or by directly linking to the following pages:

And "G" Don't Stand for Goofy, Neither

Protest

Siblings

Watch here for future announcements!

We Rode Poems

I remember

staying up all

night riding poems.

Simile eyes

black as periods on

end-stopped lines.

We saddled them

with conceits

over blankets

of metaphor,

spurred them on,

reveling in each

galloping anapest

and cantering

dactyl.

Your poem

carried you far,

it’s tetrameter

opening up

a fervent gait,

but my poem

lost its footing

on a broken

enjambment and

I had to put

it down.


This was first published in Common Threads, Volume 69, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2009.