Book is a collection of poetry by the members of Just Poets, a Rochester area literary group. Thirty four poets, both amateurs and professionals have contributed to the anthology.
In French, le mot juste means "the perfect or best word." As poets each of us struggles to finad those best words to create that literary gentre, which Samuel Taylor Coleride definited as "poetry" -- "
the best words in their best order."
The literary group known as Just Poets was founded June 12, 2004 with a mission to celebrate poets and poetry by encouraging and supporting area poets at all levels of ability to improve their work and fine their individual poetic voices through workshops, publications, readings and networking.
The following book is a result of our first year of working together as a community of poets.
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.