Here at the Poetry Pub you will find examples of the poetry of Jeff Reeve. Some of the poems will include illustrations, either photos or art works. In some cases the illustration inspired the poem, and in some the poem inspired the illustration. Creativity has many outlets and inlets.
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In this section of the cracked jar website you will find, surprise, poetry. Most of it will be written by yours truly (Jeff Reeve). Hopefully there will also be links to other poets as well. The button menu above will open one of my poems. Buttons or links after a poem will go to additional topics, poems, or store sites. Of course, there will be a link to purchase my book of poems, they don't serve beer here, and other depressing thoughts. I am currently working on a couple other book ideas, so there is something to look forward to. There will also be links to books by poets that I found inspiring, such as Lawrence Felinghetti.
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Jeff Reeve
A hodgepodge collection of poems that opens with a tribute to one of my favorite poet and ends with reflections on the EF-5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri in May 2011. The poems in between may speak of anything: love, politics, sex, and maybe a dog or a flower or an elevator.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's—as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work.
Charles Bukowski
Poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life..
Charles Bukowski
A selection of the best works of Bukowski’s later years, edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, including the last of his new, never-before-published poems.
Ronda Miller
In this collection of poetry, Miller weaves stories of life, death, and love through her poetry, primarily narrative in form. From glimpses of her childhood home on her grandparents’ farm to images of a woman’s life, her loves, her losses, we learn of life’s stains, of moments that shape and become a part of one woman’s voice.
Al Ortolani
A mix of small town memories and present day realities. They share both humor and sorrow, longing and contentment, often in the irony of a single experience. Many are set in Southeastern Kansas, a geographical region rich in the texture of its free-thinking people. The poems pinch the mundane arm. They bleed with the colors of everyday experience
Allison Blevins
Explores motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it juxtaposes the author's diagnosis of MS with her partner's gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamiliarity, a state of chronic pain, a sense of being caged, the other is escaping pain, emerging into its true self, becoming free.
Come enjoy an evening of poetry downtown, at the Joplin Avenue Coffee Company on the third Monday of February, March, April, and September, October, November. Located at 506 S. Joplin Ave., Joplin, Missouri. Starting at 6:00pm with an invited, published poet reading some of their poetry. Then at about 7:00pm there is an open microphone for anyone with a desire to share a poem or more. Sign up for one of the ten, five minute slots.
I am Jeff Reeve, a professional writer, poet, and photographer. I reside in Joplin, Missouri.