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Wow. I won another award today for "Eleven Sundry Flowers," love poems I wrote for my wife in college, when we were just dating. So cool! The 2022 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal winner. 🥈

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I'm happy to report that my new poetry chapbook, Eleven Sundry Flowers, illustrated by Keith Draws, is the 2022 Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards Silver Award Winner and a 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

I wrote these love poems (sonnets) 19 years ago for my wife when we were just dating. Back then, the poems were selected by UCLA for its WORDs poetry exhibit and helped me win the school's Poet Laureate Award Nomination.

The reviews have been very positive from Goodreads readers and from the critics. Here's a few excerpts from recent reviews:

"Eleven Sundry Flowers by Frank Mundo is a profound piece of work that expresses intensely personal thoughts of love and yet is universal. It's such a fresh and positive presentation of love that it leaves me blown away! I highly recommend this extraordinary book." --Bruce Arrington for Readers' Favorite

"Eleven Sundry Flowers by Frank Mundo is a collection of eleven beautiful love poems to his longtime best friend, and now wife, Nancy. The poems are packed with eloquent and expressive metaphors, descriptive imagery, and powerful verses. Poetry lovers, especially those who like nature and love poems, will enjoy this work." -- Theresa Kadair for San Francisco Book Review

"From poems about true love...to works that make you feel enlightened and encouraged by life in general, [Frank Mundo] hit upon a spectrum of words and phrases that you'll find sticking in your memory and making you feel strength, warmth, and yes, beauty. This striking combination, and the drawings adding to the experience ten-fold, I have to say that all readers out there who wish to follow this author's "courtship" of his wife and delve into all this beauty, should get this one for their shelves as soon as possible!" - Amy Lignor for Reader Views

With so much hate and sadness in the world today, try some love poems today. If you like art, Eleven Sundry Flowers (Antrim House Books 2021) is beautifully illustrated by Keith Draws on every single page.

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Yay! New 4-star review for my #poetry book, Eleven Sundry Flowers.

I wrote these #lovepoems 18 years ago for my wife when we were just dating. The poems were selected by UCLA's Powell Library for its WORDs Poetry exhibit.

Save $3.25 off the book today with this #amazon link --> https://amzn.to/3lyil7P

"Eleven Sundry Flowers by Frank Mundo is a collection of eleven beautiful love poems to his long-time best friend, and now wife, Nancy. The poems are packed with eloquent and expressive metaphors, descriptive imagery, and powerful verses. Poetry lovers, especially those who like nature and love poems, would enjoy this work." --San Francisco Book Review



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Surprise!

My new poetry chapbook, 11 SUNDRY FLOWERS, illustrated by the amazing Keith Draws, will be released later this summer by Antrim House books.

But you don't have to wait until then!

Signed copies are now available for pre-order. Send $20 (shipping included). US orders only.

Venmo @Frank-Mundo-1

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Make sure to send your address 😜

I was on the Carving a New Path podcast with Andrea Hylen of Heal My Voice. This was Episode 7: Poetry and Parenthood. We talked about the journey my wife and I took from trying to conceive a child to what led us to foster and then adopt two kids — and the poetry this journey inspired and which were later published in my book, “Touched by an Anglo” (Kattywompus Press).

Check it out. The podcast is now available on YouTube here —> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwXK5A...

My book #Different is a #FREE download on #kindle right now. Grab a copy today. This is an illustrated #fantasy novel for adults and YA. Not for children 😇 I hope this helps keep you entertained while we stay safe at home.

Amazon U.S. —> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Amazon U.K. —> https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00H...

For the first time ever, my novel-in-verse, The Brubury Tales (Illustrated Edition) is available for download on Kindle for $3.99 or for free on Kindle Unlimited.

What’s it about?
An ambitious homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Brubury Tales (Illustrated Edition) takes Chaucer's story and frame to Los Angeles just after the riots in 1992, where seven security guards on the graveyard shift swap tales in an impromptu storytelling competition for Christmas vacation time.

Written entirely in rhyming verse, the tales themselves are poetic updates of classic stories by Dostoevsky, Dickens, Boccaccio, O Henry, Poe, Twain, Gilman, Crane, Saki, Anderson, Bierce, and even Khayyam's Rubaiyat.

Along with 11 original illustrations by Keith Draws, the book also contains a special foreword by California literary legend, Carolyn See, book reviewer for The Washington Post and bestselling author of Handyman and There Will Never Be Another You.

Check it out here —> https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Mundo/e/...

Or you could see some reviews on Goodreads or Amazon.

Great news! My poem “Not One Before Another” (written for my brother) was published today in The new issue of The Lowestoft Chronicle.

Thanks to Nicholas Litchfield for choosing my poem for issue 39, which includes work from Tom Bont, Suzanne Brøgger (translated by Michael Goldman), Christie B. Cochrell, Rob Dinsmoor, Tim Frank, Rick Joy, Robert Garner McBrearty, R. F. Mechelke, James B. Nicola, Ian C. Smith, and Steven Ray Smith.

Please check it out if you have a minute!

Issue 39 —> http://lowestoftchronicle.com/

My poem —>
http://lowestoftchronicle.com/issues/...

I'm super excited to report that my poem, "Excuse Me," was published today at Beautiful Losers Magazine. A friend of mine said my poems were getting a little intense lately, and that it was time to bring back the humor. So, check out my humorous take on making excuses.

Excuse Me --> http://belomag.com/excuse-me-by-frank...

I'm so grateful to Beautiful Losers Magazine and Richard Gibney for publishing the piece. This is my second poem placed there. The first was "The Upsell Artist," another funny poem that addresses how often men think about sex. 

The Upsell Artists --> http://belomag.com/the-upsell-artist-...

I haven't posted a lot since my first chapbook Touched by an Anglo was published, but I've been working on a lot of new poems, so be on the lookout for more posts from me this year!

Touched by an Anglo (Kattywompus Press) --> https://kattywompuspress.com/shop/boo...

Keep reading and keep writing. 

My other books --> https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Mundo/e/...

I was excited and grateful to learn that my book, Gary, the Four-Eyed Fairy and Other Stories, was reviewed today by the Random Book Review Web blog. Check out an excerpt below:

"Hi everyone! This week I’m reviewing Gary, the Four-Eyed Fairy and Other Stories by Frank Mundo, which I kindly received from the author and Booktasters. This collection of short stories revolve around a particular character, J.T Glass who works as a security guard at various establishments. The stories are snippets of his life, from his childhood and relationships with his family, to his escapades at work.

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection. Mundo really captures Glass’ voice, who is our narrator for the majority of the stories, and it never falters. It is very dry, occasionally black humour laced with moments of reflection. As a result, Glass comes across as a very well-fleshed out character. He is relatable even in the most bizarre of scenarios, and you cannot help but laugh at some of the predicaments he finds himself in..."

Read the whole review at

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