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SUBMIT YOUR POEMS FOR WINTER ISSUE

Posted by Salvatore Buttaci at 02:12 PM on October 23, 2009

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THE POEM FACTORY

Invites you to submit poems

for

The Winter Issue

GUIDELINES

Submit in a regular e-mail 1-3 unpublished poems,

each one a maximum of 24 lines per poem

Include a title with each poem

In the subject line of your e-mail

type SUBMISSION followed by your name

Include a very brief bio no longer than three lines

Deadline: December 10, 2009

e-mail to sambpoet@yahoo.com

Do not send poems in an attachment

Allow one month for consideration

I am looking forward to reading your submissions.

Salvatore Buttaci, Editor of The Poem Factory

Find Time Today to Be Happy

Posted by Salvatore Buttaci at 06:31 AM on September 19, 2006

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     It is so easy to examine the day and find only those things that will overwhelm us. Consider each new day one more gift from God and promise yourself you will try hard to fill it with pleasant moments.

     Time is an express train and despite the myriad stops on its way to the last station, it moves at breakneck speed, obvious to us only when we squint our eyes to see a black spot of it gone into the far-off distance. We know this is true because we can all remember when we were carefree children, easily provoked to laughter and inclined to believe the world held secrets unlocked by magic. What happened? Where did all those happy years go?

     Let's try to bring them back. Let's start today by pretending our dreams are still as fresh as when we were young. Let us promise ourselves we'll laugh today and everyday, every chance we get. Smiles should brighten our faces, and even when our sorrows and worries and pains seem to insist we frown and complain, let's say no to the blues. Let's live today as if our living made a tremendous difference in the grand scheme of things, which we need to believe it does!

A NEW BOOK OF LOVE POEMS

Posted by Salvatore Buttaci at 04:54 PM on September 17, 2006

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I know what you're thinking: another book of love poems! They were my thoughts too; for so many years I refused to compile a book of love poems for fear of rejection. The public has had it up to here with poets who have this driving need to advertise their love to the world at large. So what made me change my mind?

In 1998 I wrote a book of love poems called Promising the Moon, which sold out that same year. I enjoyed writing that collection and then promoting it via newspaper stories, cable TV interviews, and countless poetry readings where I was either the featured poet or the poet who read in the open reading at the end. People enjoyed hearing the few sample poems I read and lined up to order a copy.

This year I decided to try my luck again with A Dusting of Star Fall: Love Poems. [published by Cyber-Wit Publications in India; $15.00 plus handling and shipping]

What makes this book my favorite of all the nine books I've written is the delightful fact that all of the over 100 poems in this collection were written for, to, and about my loving wife Sharon. For ten years I had been writing her love poems on various occasions like birthdays, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter, and our October 26 Anniversary. Finally I asked her one day if she would not mind if I took the best of those hundreds of poems and include them in a book. She said she'd be honored if I did.

Folks who have ordered a copy of A Dusting of Star Fall... tell me it's the first book of love poems they enjoy reading over and over again. Does that make me happy? You bet it does!

If you'd like to order a copy of your own, send a check for $15.00 plus $3.00 for handling and shipping, made out to Sal Buttaci, and addressed to

Sal Buttaci

709 Straley Avenue, Apt. 4

Princeton, WV 24740

Yes, it's another book of love poems, but I think it's one you'll love.