Dear Writers,
The gift-giving season is here, and with that, comes a bit of stress in contemplating what to buy that special someone, or that distant relative, long lines at super stores and gift shops, wrapping gifts once you get home, and then waiting to mail packages at the post office or mail store. Avoid all the [...]
Gary Rose, artist, and Monika Rose, poet, had a reception on Friday, October 14, from 2-7 PM, for an art show, ekphrasis workshop, and poetry reading/signing at the open house reception at Mountain Ranch Community Center in the darling community of Mountain Ranch! Art show and reception occurred 2:00 P.M. through 7 PM – [...]
A few of us die-hard poets and nature lovers trekked up to Parsons Meadow Lodge festivities, arising early, packing the car, and meeting at 6 AM for the drive up the mountain. We arrived just in time for some of Camille Dungy’s workshop exercises by the Tuolumne River, with the rushing sound [...]
Moonstruck with Manzanita at Ironstone Vineyards was lovely August 13!
Manzanita Writers Press editors want to thank everyone for their great poetry and prose read at Ironstone yesterday for the Moonstruck with Manzanita literary festival. Also, we’d like to thank the public and lovers of literature for coming up and enjoying the event. We had [...]
Welcome to the web site of Monika Rose, Poet, Author, Editor
Contact Monika at mrosemanza@jps.net
Founding editor: Manzanita Writers Press
New Poetry collection released : River by the Glass
Here are what other poets and writers say about River by the Glass:
Pattiann [...]
INTRODUCTION
I first published Monika Rose’s poetry in the Mindprint Review, a literary journal of regional and international writing and art published back in the late 1980s. And even then, I was taken with her whimsical wit and metaphysical humor in poems such as “Carp” and “Eye.” Today, she has evolved these skills into the [...]
Bull Pine in the Window from River by the Glass, A Collection of Poems by Monika Rose
Bull Pine in the Window Nothing dangerous will occur here inside the kitchen, listening tightly for sudden snaps in a passive pastoral An open crown of a looming grey [...]
Here are what other poets and writers say about River by the Glass:
Pattiann Rogers, poet, says:
The poems in River By the Glass are rich with the details of the earth moving moment by moment from death to life, from life to death. Monika Rose understands the union of these transformations and records [...]
River by the Glass is ready to ship! Monika Rose wants you to sip and dip in! It’s your glass and you can cry if you want to. But you won’t cry ~ most of the poems will make you see aspects of life once again, from your own buried memories. Bring up those [...]
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Author Comment:
River by the Glass is an eclectic 212-page collection of poems that explores life and the living of it. River by the Glass is a collection of poems spanning two decades. The poems, says publisher of River by the Glass, Ron Pickup of GlenHill Publications, contain a whimsical wit and metaphysical humor ~ [...]