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09/08/2026

Anyone who has watched American television after midnight knows the scene: a smiling couple strolls through a park while a calm voice lists side effects fast enough to qualify as percussion. Queen …

09/08/2026

09/08/2026

A Poem by John Findura
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….. This poem is from the book The Only Map You’ll Need by John Findura (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at Photo: Colin Usher John Findura is the author of the poetry collection …

09/08/2026

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Paula Goldman’s Late Flowering takes us on a journey from every day life with her husband of 60 years, a notable achievement, to Degas’ bathers in the locker room at a community center. Also included are her exploits as a child in Atlantic City, NJ where she grew up in a small apartment above her father’s meat market for the first five years of her life, continuing to return through high school . The Atlantic City boardwalk and beach and ocean form a great part of her life as does poems including her husband met on a blind date. Late Flowering is about growing up at a later age in life. Goldman’s involvement in the arts influences these poems a great deal, writing about Paul Klee’s works, Edgar Degas’s, Henry Moore’s, Johannes Vermeer’s, and others. Combining her life with these works is a well established part of her journey through life.

Paula Goldman‘s book, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Press Poetry award, an honorable mention for the Independent Booksellers’ Award. Her work has appeared in theravensperch, Passager, Visions International, Rattle, Across the Margin, Oyez Review, Slant, Briar Cliff Review, Calyx, Passager, Ekphrasis, Prairie Schooner, Manhattanville Review, Cream City Review, Comstock Review, Harvard Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poet Miscellany, Hawaii Pacific Review, Cæsura, and other magazines.

09/08/2026

A Poem by Paula Goldman
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….. This poem is from the chapbook Late Flowering by Paula Goldman (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at Paula Goldman‘s book, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Press Poetry award,&nb…

09/04/2026

Margaret Bleichman and Nathan McClain will be the featured readers at Rozzie Reads Poetry & Open Mic, Sept. 17, 2026, at 7 pm at Roslindale House, 120 Poplar Street, Roslindale, MA. Bleichman will read from their just published debut chapbook, upon waking.

09/04/2026

Congratulations to Anna Ojascastro Guzon and Finishing Line Press! A Moth Collection by Anna Ojascastro Guzon
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WINNER: A-List Editors’ Choice Awards 2026: Arts, Culture & Entertainment in Poetry (St. Louis Magazine) https://www.stlmag.com/a-list/arts-culture-entertainment-2026/

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09/04/2026

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The Distances Between is a collection of 24 poems written during a period of examination and introspection— a season of reckoning with what endures and what fades. These pieces explore how history and inheritance, faith and doubt, intimacy and estrangement echo through the rooms we inhabit and the rituals we repeat.The collection moves from the domestic and immediate — fractured households, remembered gestures, fragile truces — toward a broader meditation on community and loss. In early pieces such as A Fragile Impasse and Procession, the private intersects with the ceremonial; small familial dramas unfold within the larger choreography of belief and belonging. From there, the poems widen their gaze — toward mortality, labor, and the uneasy inheritance of history — yet always return to the intimate human pulse beneath it all.Written in a style that prizes restraint over excess, these poems aim to reveal the weight of feeling through precision rather than flourish. Each piece, in its way, measures the distance between what is said and what is felt — between the living and the dead, the personal and the public, the sacred and the profane. Together, they navigate what remains unspoken: the distances between what we remember, what we love, and what we become.

George Vose’s work explores the distances between memory and myth, the domestic and the historical, the sacred and the ordinary. His style emanates from a New England sensibility—measured, austere, and haunted by inheritance—where restraint and compression become their own forms of revelation and expression. George resides in Kingston, MA with his wife and daughter. He enjoys golfing and curating a humble but burgeoning vintage watch collection.

09/04/2026

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One Last Word Program: This book was made possible, in part, by donations to the FLP’s ONE LAST WORD Program. ONE LAST WORD helps to bring the last works of gifted poets to the world. We are honored to be publishing RT’s last work.
This lyrical collection is the product of a writer’s unquiet mind as he navigates the gradations of love and its beauty with an earned cynicism. The memory of each relationship is distilled to its essence, sometimes regarded frankly, sometimes softened, depending on the hand that’s judged necessary to understand it. In each piece, the poet searches for a home while not quite feeling worthy of it, painting scenes with a play of light, shadow, texture, and music, combined into layers of shaped perceptions. There is something of the stage in each evolving scene, something of the singer and the song.

The late R. T. Castleberry’s work has appeared in Comstock Review, Green Mountains Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, The Alembic, Pacific Review, RiverSedge and Caveat Lector, among many other journals. His poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was a co-founder of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe, co-editor/publisher of the poetry magazine Curbside Review, and an assistant editor for Lily Poetry Review and Ardent. His work has been featured in the anthologies Travois-An Anthology of Texas Poetry, TimeSlice and The Weight of Addition, among others. His chapbook, Arriving at the Riverside, was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2010. RT Castleberry