Work by Bunny Perlman, Nicki Nichols, Bill Vartnaw, Gil Helmick, Gordon Carrega, Mary Magagna, suzanne benton bria, Marty Goldstein, Tom Sharp, and famous poets. Readings by Clifford Schwartz. https://sharpgiving.com/index.html Publisher https://sharpgiving.com/sharpgiving/images/birdhouse_logo.png https://sharpgiving.com/index.html en Copyright 2009, 2026 Tom Sharp webmaster@liztomsharp.com (Tom Sharp) Sat, 23 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT Sat, 23 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT New poems (2026). (ISBN: 979-8248019069) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/JustSoHappens/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/JustSoHappens/index.html#JustSoHappens Sat, 23 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT New poems (2025). These poems are a journey into the whereabouts of all there is. The guiding compass is all touch and go, nowhere being the same as everywhere in my calendar which is always hanging dangerously close to the fire in the fireplace, the fire that isn’t burning, and still the danger is felt in the very waiting because I don’t need fire and I am afraid I’ll retreat into the usual expectations. (ISBN: 979-8312092073) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/Whereabouts/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/Whereabouts/index.html#Whereabouts Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT New poems (2025) by Gordon Carrega (ISBN: 979-8298718035) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/LaterForYou/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/LaterForYou/index.html#LaterForYou Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT New poems (2023). "The you in the title refers to the you that I become when the me that I am vanishes in an illuminated daze of my own making, leaving me overwhelmed by the brilliance of no intention from which the language emerges, having its very own agenda, homeward bound and not knowing where that is." — Gordon Carrega (ISBN: 979-8395479921) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/LaterForYou/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/LaterForYou/index.html#LaterForYou Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT New poems (2025). Each piece in this book is a journey of discovery, not only for the poet, but for the readers who take it in. Each journey, like its posed alternatives and contradictions, is like zen. (ISBN: 979-8877768307) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/OutofHereandNow/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Carrega/OutofHereandNow/index.html#OutofHereandNow Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT A casual friend, in an effort at making conversation over a glass of wine, asked me, "When do you write?" I was, as they say, completely taken aback. Poems (2021). (ISBN: 979-8879426298) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/WhenDoYouWrite/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/WhenDoYouWrite/index.html#WhenDoYouWrite Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT Blind Study: Used in testing the effect of a new pharmaceutical product. The study is done in such a way that the patients or subjects do not know whether they are actually receiving the drug being tested or a placebo. Poems (2021). (ISBN: 979-8478435523) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/BlindStudy/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/BlindStudy/index.html#BlindStudy Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT Reading Bunny Pearlman’s Hiding Out is a lot like taking a long walk with the poet. A walk over four decades and through various locales. Some recognizable and familiar, ordinary and plain, others exotic, compelling and strange. It is her intelligence and seriousness that raises the poems above a travelogue or journal, we get to see her absorb what she experiences as love, as nature, as the passage of time, without adornment and self-explanation. As is so often true her honesty doesn’t bring happiness. Half the time she uses the poem as a microscope examining, and half the time it’s a telescope. Love and tumult put to the side, family seems to survive best. In one poem she seems most at peace at the end of the day sitting on the stoop with her older brother arguing science. And at the end of the book she writes “Will I live long enough/to re-negotiate the secrets/of childhood.” It is a question only someone who has stayed mindful, and is still brave, can pose. — Keith Althaus (ISBN: 979-8-9933477-1-4) Bunny Pearlman Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Pearlman/HidingOut/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Pearlman/HidingOut/index.html#HidingOut Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT Sonam's Surprise takes readers on a captivating journey filled with suspense, warmth, and cultural richness. Set against the backdrop of the majestic Himalayas, the narrative unfolds as Sonam, a young and curious Sherpa boy, who loves to draw pictures, prepares for an unexpected and mysterious mission to meet the king of Nepal. (ISBN: 979-8-9933477-9-0, 979-8-9933477-8-3, 979-8-9933477-7-6) Nikki Nichols Young reader https://sharpgiving.com/Nichols/SonamsSurprise/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Nichols/SonamsSurprise/index.html#SonamsSurprise Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT They've kept their true identities secret. You couldn't pick them out of a crowd. You might have heard of some, but you're not sure whether you've ever met them. Their names have been changed here to protect the innocent. (ISBN: 979-8789123256) Tom Sharp Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Identities/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Identities/index.html#Identities Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT The cities and towns named here, from around Britain, Europe, and northern Africa, are real; the persons entirely imagined. Human beings are inherently interesting, no matter what they do or where they live. It should be possible for any of us to imagine living in another's place. (ISBN: 979-8788036199) Tom Sharp Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Fantasy/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Fantasy/index.html#Fantasy Sat, 26 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT The towns described here, at least one from each state of the United States, are real; the persons entirely imagined. Human beings are inherently interesting, no matter what they do or where they live. (ISBN: 979-8756723519) Tom Sharp Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Smalltown/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Smalltown/index.html#Smalltown Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT Symbol are signs. Both have meanings. The meaning of a natural sign is related to what caused it. The meaning of a conventional sign is assigned by human beings and our cultures. This book muses over natural and human-made signs, from petroglyphs to punctuation marks. (ISBN: 979-8790918766) Tom Sharp Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Signs/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Signs/index.html#Signs Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT I believe that many cultural fantasies were planted and nurtured with humorous intentions. (ISBN: 979-8683553593) Tom Sharp Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Beliefs/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Beliefs/index.html#Beliefs Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT You can believe anything you like, provided that you’re able to believe without strong evidence and without insisting on consistency with scientific truths. Indeed, faith or belief is necessary for many of us who are not well trained in scientific principles and must trust in the good intentions of others, for example, that the truck in the opposite lane was designed by good engineers and driven by a person who is happy, sane, and well rested.

]]> One Hundred and One Famous Poems, with a prose supplement: An Anthology, Library of Congress card number 60-9006, originally published in 1920. ed. Roy Jay Cook, readings by Clifford Schwartz Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/101famouspoems/reverse.html https://sharpgiving.com/101famouspoems/reverse.html#101famouspoems_originals Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT One hundred and one poems based on the famous anthology. Tom Sharp, readings by Clifford Schwartz Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/101famouspoems/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/101famouspoems/index.html#101famouspoems Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT Poems inspired by the work of H.D. and Robert Graves. Bill Vartnaw Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/TheNileToTheMilkyWay/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/TheNileToTheMilkyWay/index.html#TheNileToTheMilkyWay Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT Blind Study: Used in testing the effect of a new pharmaceutical product. The study is done in such a way that the patients or subjects do not know whether they are actually receiving the drug being tested or a placebo. (ISBN: 979-8478435523) Gordon Carrega Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/BlindStudy/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/BlindStudy/index.html#BlindStudy Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT A book of short prose and free verse poems written in magic realism, where people's bodies are fused with natural and cosmic environments. The voice is mostly playful, but the reader may find him/herself caught off guard occasionally by its gravity and seriousness. Mary Magagna Prose Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/SeeingWhatsNotThere/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/SeeingWhatsNotThere/index.html#SeeingWhatsNotThere Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT Wassily Kandinsky said that artists must reach into their own souls for inner truths, and so lead others to higher spiritual levels. He didn't say that artists had to become famous, or even to earn their living from art. (ISBN: 979-8788607160) Tom Sharp Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/Artists/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/Artists/index.html#Artists Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT Poems and artistic statements by suzanne benton bria, Leonard Cirino, Marty Goldstein, Mary Magagna, and Tom Sharp. Photos by Gregg Fautley. suzanne benton bria, Leonard Cirino, Marty Goldstein, Mary Magagna, Tom Sharp, Gregg Fautley Poetry https://sharpgiving.com/FiveofUs/index.html https://sharpgiving.com/FiveofUs/index.html#FiveofUs Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT