Spring Marbles

Alas, I live in a northern clime and have no cherry blossoms. But I do have these lovely spring-pink marbles. 

Happy World Marbles Day!

A Fond Farewell to YRLR

Today I bid farewell to Young Ravens Literary Review. Elizabeth and I helmed 21 issues from 2014-2024. The ending is bittersweet, and while no good thing lasts forever, I'll never forget the journey! Thank you all the stelliferous contributors who breathed life into our humble little online journal. May your creative ink and dreams continue to fill the world with wonder.  

 

Review of Tangible Creatures

As an indie author, I'm extremely grateful when someone takes a chance on my work. And also terrified that it won't measure up to their expectations! If my other stories and novels are windows into my soul, then the poems and photos in Tangible Creatures are decades of kaleidoscopic shards that make up my life, like a stained-glass window, both the bright bits and the sharp. This poetry collection is a gift to my mom, who will never read it. But I believe the ink still carries my heart to her . . . if only as an echo. My profoundest thanks, Luisa, for your thoughtful review:

With skillfully crafted insightful poems and color photography, S.E. Page’s Tangible Creatures is a clear-sighted meditation of the earthly and celestial, of joy and grief. Page’s observant eye and perceptive mind turn the quotidian into wonderous: “snow is on fire with moonlight,” “damselflies beat satin-black/the day,” and a mother’s ashes are rescued from “a red/ plastic pot from Marshall’s” and divided using “an 1877 silver spoon.” Tangible Creatures is a big-hearted invitation to “count petals/ together like stars/ and make such gems/of our sorrows.”  

—Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, Author of All Were Limones