New book: advance copies available ... order now!
While my new book, The black dog and the road, will be available for general distribution on May 1st, 2010, you can now order advance copies from the Dimenuendo Press Web site. Thank you for your support.
You can order copies, get a free preview and find out more about Dimenuendo Press and its sponsor, Cyberwizard Productions, by clicking the link above. I hope you’ll drop by and order a copy.
Also look for my new chapbook titled Near daybreak, with a nod to Frost coming soon from Propaganda Press.
Dogwalking Poems -- a Chapbook from The Dead Mule
21 poems inspired by my black Labrador retriever, Alex.
The Poetry Sessions: a video by
Stacey Cochran
Some of my work from
I knew Bukowski like you knew a rare leaf has been captured on video by Stacey Cochran, host of the TV show
The Writer's Craft. In a unique approach, Stacey has local actors reading my poems, with a musical background. Hope you enjoy it.
E-mail Harry: harryc13@aol.com
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On Writing and Poetry: Harry Calhoun in Conversation
Your business trip ends tonight, a poem written for my wife, was featured in the October, 2008 issue of Word Catalyst Magazine.
Praise for I knew Bukowski like you knew a rare leaf
Your poetry is so real and easy to relate to. I don't know how anyone could read your work and still say "I don't get poetry." -- Shirley Allard, editor, Word Catalyst
A sip or a gulp -- it's all pleasure ... Calhoun's poems are accessible as my best-loved sweater, yet filled with quiet astonishments. -- Hillary Hebert, writer
I really enjoyed your book. I admire the fact that at this stage in your life you can write with a tone that is uplifting much of the time, even jubilant. It made me feel good to read something like that for a change. I know there are a lot of damaging memories mixed in, but the narrator in that work manages to rise above it all. -- Tim Peeler, editor, Third Lung Press
Sometimes we float through somber memories that leave us uneasy, wrestling with soft spoken demons that seem more like old friends than nightmares. Then, in a few lines we find ourselves scratching behind the ear of man’s best friend, at ease with the world. It is this mixture of light and dark, ease and unease, now and then, that keep you moving through Mr. Calhoun’s world. Rusty Arquette, writer