Written Tales Chapbook

Poem included in Human Experience issue

Dear Dispatches from the Heartland Readers:

I want to take a moment to thank you again for subscribing to my column and for your support of my poetry and essays. Your encouragement and feedback has been very meaningful to me as I’ve embarked on this literary experiment with Iowa Capital Dispatch. I am pleased to let you know several of my poems will be appearing in a few literary journals in the near future. One is featured in the recently released Written Tales Chapbook, and a few others will appear on their site. You can purchase this Chapbook on your favorite online platform or on Amazon.

Here is the email that went out from Written Tales with the announcement of the Chapbook:

It’s here, Written Tales Chapbook VIII. If you are interested in a paperback copy, you can obtain one at Amazon.

Written Tales Chapbook VIII is a collection all about the human experience. It’s filled with poems and stories that connect with your soul.  No matter your reading taste, you’ll find a tale or poem to brighten your day. The writers in this volume encompass the globe and share their visions of life.

We hope you enjoy our “The Human Experience” collection as much as we did preparing it for your reading pleasure.

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The authors in this edition include:

Final Draft by Jacob R. Moses ~ Hospice by Joseph A. Farina ~ Grand Pontiff of Rehashed Apple Theorems by Scott Thomas Outlar ~ As One byDibyasree Nandy ~ The Journey by Rhea Agrawal ~ Polka-dots by L. Keith  ~ Out In The Cold by Denise McCabe ~ Forgive Me, Too byLindaAnn LoSchiavo ~ So Much More by Bob Bussey ~ Baby Came Home 2/ Valentines by Natalia Serrano-Chavez ~ Unheard Elegy by Jess Gregory~ Rescue by Moe Phillips ~ Iwa's Way by Anthony Martello ~ Glimpse of Poverty by Nicky Foster ~ My Body Remembers You by S.R. Nickoloff Warren ~ Post-Apocalyptic Market Day by Kenneth E. Baker ~ Triptych: Eye Sentence You, A Song in A minor by E. Eugene Jones Baldwin ~ 1 Corinthians 13:11 by Doug Hawley ~ Fruit Basket by Marco Etheridge~ The Body is a Weapon by Suzanna C. de Baca ~ Each Kiss, a Grain of Sand by J. Iner Souster ~ Inflection Point: Artificial Intelligence byGurupreet K. Khalsa ~ Meira and the Iron Stove by Alan Bern ~ In the End, the World Will Break My Heart by Lesley Rogers Hobbs ~ Safe Zone byJone Rush MacCulloch ~ Courage is… by JMD summers ~ Emotionally Bound by Cynthia Barchers ~ You've Been In The Making by Jasmine Szympruch

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