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 C.S. SNOW Scotty (C.S. Snow) was born and raised in San Bernardino, California. A self taught Musician, Songwriter, and Poet, and self styled Modern Progressive Artist, Scotty has also for most of his years been an activist in Gay and Lesbian civil rights and Native American causes. He now lives in Lake Elsinore, Ca. Scotty runs the Yahoo! poetry group Loonatic Fringe Poetry. His book "Observations" was published in 1997. He also recently had several poems published in the Kedco anthology; "Millenium Dawn." His forthcoming e-book CD "Moon Tan: Poetry And Prose For Night Owls", in collaboration with fellow writer Gillian Stokes, will be released in 2004 by Kedco Studios Inc. |
If Truth Be Told © C.S. Snow, 17 May '94 |
 RICHARD VALLANCE About Richard Vallance Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 11th., 1945, Richard is a member of AuthorsDen, under his family name, Richard Vallance Janke. A graduate of Wilfred Laurier University (1968) and The University of Western Ontario (MLS), he is fluently bilingual in English and French, and reads Spanish and Italian, ancient Greek and Latin well. He wrote his first poems at the ages of 17 and 18, in 1962-63. For years, Richard wrote mainly in the field of Library and Information Science. At Chicago, in October, 1983, he won the $1,000 Data Courier Award for Excellence in Online Published Papers for an article in Online, Vol. 7, no. 5. Poetry: While he wrote some 200 poems before the age of 47, since then Richard has composed over 1,500 poems. His first published poem was, “Lasts the First Light”, in Arts and Literature Review (Canada, 1972). In 1998, he published his first full book of poetry, A Quilt of Sonnets: Forty Four Familiar Poems, Ottawa: Providence Road Press, © 1998. 56 pp. ISBN 1-896243-07-x. In February, 2001, Richard founded his first poetry discussion group, Describe Adonis, for sonneteers. We have since grown to 10 poetry, art and digital photography groups, which you may find at our discussion forum: la nouvelle Pléiade = The New Pleiades ©. Richard's poetry page is Poesie’s laissez-faire Faire Foire, a clearing-house for poets from nations like Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and the Netherlands. PLFFF features sonnets and contemporary poems, updated quarterly, a links page to sites of other poets, and grants the monthly Prix laissez-faire Faire Foire Award . PLFFF is a member of Phenomenal Men of The Web: Arts & Humanities . Richard is the Editor of 2 Canadian poetry E-Zines. These are advertised monthly at the end of The Vallance Review in Poetry Life and Times. In the Winter of 2003, a third E-Zine, Kawasaki Zen Haiku, will be a showcase for haikuists. Since September, 2001, Richard has been the poetry reviewer for Poetry Life and Times, which features the monthly Vallance Review. He is also regular contributor to the same E-Zine. Richard is also often featured with the U.S. Amerindian E-Zine, Autumn Leaves. CD-ROM Books:1. The New Millennium Dawn Anthology (Kedco Press): 10 of Richard's poems were included in Millennium Dawn: an Anthology of Award Winning Fantasy Stories, Poetry, Novels etc., Kedco Studios Press, Las Vegas, NV, © 2002 ISBN 1-878431-38-2. 2. Richard’s latest CD-ROM book, Canadian Spirit Voices, © 2003, ISBN: 1-878431-44-7, is in its final pre-publication stages, and will be published by Kedco in the Spring of 2003. You may view a summary of the book here: Pre-publication Notice. To contact the author, please e-mail: Richard Vallance (Yahoo) (for inquiries on our poetry discussion groups) – OR – Richard Vallance (Activator Mail) for poetry-related inquiries or submissions to our Canadian E-Zines). |
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Jan Sand in New York
JAN SAND, poet and illustrator from New York, is a regular contributor to Poetry Life & Times and the newsgroup alt.arts.poetry.comments. A great deal of his work is about animals, or science fiction. Recently Jan was published by Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press, on their latest CD ROM e-book, "A Way With Words (Poetry Real and Surreal), which also includes complete books by Dale Houstman, Sara L. Russell and Keith Gabriel Hendricks. Jan's illustrated book on the CD is called "Wild Figments And Odd Conjectures", which is also sold separately, in a limited-edition "single" CD.
To see an illustrated article about Jan's poems, visit the November '98 issue of Poetry Life & Times, and scroll down past the Editor's Letter. He also has his own poetry pages on Charlotte's Web at Artvilla.
That mind should climb On steps of sense, On membranes stirred And stimulants Donated by the energies Colliding with the surfaces Sensitive to subtleties Of light and sound and taste and smell To penetrate brain’s bone shell Is no surprise. With fingertips and ears and eyes We contemplate and fabricate, Inspect, dissect, and integrate The hints and hopes, the tentatives So we can forge preventatives Against the world’s endless assaults On many of our minor faults. This is the basic without frills Wherein we confront godly mills. But sense and innate mental ploys Can be more, can be toys To undermine grim circumstance - Whistle tunes to make fate dance, Grin at Death’s final conquest And pin a rose on his chest. VESTIGES © Jan Sand
So many People, Places, scenes. Things. Points along a plenum More numerous than memory Can recall. Those there placed Abrade by distance. Are finally effaced. They stood like fields of flowers In season’s decline Lost green powers, Browned, dried And blew away in time’s wind. But their hidden roots reside Deep within the soil of my mind To stabilize, cohere What might otherwise, Disappear. OMENS © Jan Sand
In late August There is an odor of menace. Green machineries still function. But leaves here and there Delineate their shapes in brown edge. Flower petals dessicate, drop, disappear To leave behind the pregnant tip Swollen with prophesy for the coming year. Shafts of heat still lance from the Sun But unsteady, unsure of power. The sky enrobes its blue In gray smoking towers. Itinerant short rains Punctuate with a sometime thunderclap Anda gleam of blue light As if a huge and heavy door Blows open momentarily To reveal an angry fate. PHILTERS © Jan Sand
I cannot say what chemistry will turn My mind which weathercocks to subtle salts, To mild intensities of organic acids to burn Fright or hatred into my soul, decantations out of glands That bubble into love or delight that may earn A brilliant summer day from secret thunderstorms. A cup of simple soup or a bite of cold ice cream May deliver messages through passages of blood That taps melody to brain out of a dream. We are creatures commanded by molecules, Small dictators that demand wild and funny lives Or relegate to blind bondage to social tools. Perhaps my next banana or a fat quince Will transform my froggyness into a prince THE GIFT © Jan Sand
The crack an apple makes when bit, The juice it spurts down the chin, The sweet and sour taste of it, The sound that made the world begin. It fractured the serenity, Split the eggshell of the dawn. Opened up calamity As God walked across the lawn. “I told you, damn it, not to touch That fruit you hold within your fist.” “I didn’t think it mattered much,” Adam said, “so why resist? “Because, - because I asked you so.” Adam gave a furtive smile, “That’s silly - I’d known you’d know.” “I know,” said God, “But for a while -“ “For a while I tried forgetting. It’s a lovely way to be. To be impressed when Sun is setting - You know, it sets the mind free.” Adam sat down next to God. Offered Him an apple bite. God looked, and then, with a nod Said, “Not bad. But by tonight- “ “By tonight both you and Eve - You and Eve must be gone. I’m sorry but you both must leave. That’s the way I get things done.” God smiled at Adam, smiled at Eve. “A parting gift.”, he said. He plucked a packet from his sleeve. “Forget me now. Use this instead.” Adam wondered at the gift. He looked at God in question. Saw God’s stare, His eyebrows lift. “Apple seeds - a suggestion.”
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