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August 19, 2023
Press Release
Houston, Texas – August 21, 2023 – Press Release:
Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new book of poetry, STRANGERS & PILGRIMS, by author Fred LaMotte to be published on October 12, 2023. These poems express our estrangement from the heart, our longing for return, and our pilgrim journey to wholeness. Both humorous and poignant, they explore the liminal space between word and silence, poetry, and guided meditation. Alfred K Lamotte
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/press...
Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new book of poetry, STRANGERS & PILGRIMS, by author Fred LaMotte to be published on October 12, 2023. These poems express our estrangement from the heart, our longing for return, and our pilgrim journey to wholeness. Both humorous and poignant, they explore the liminal space between word and silence, poetry, and guided meditation. Alfred K Lamotte
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/press...
July 7, 2016
BOOK GIVEAWAY
#BookGiveAway – THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN EPISCOPALIAN
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/6dce119...
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/6dce119...
February 2, 2015
The Afterword ~ When Angels Are Born
The Afterword from ~ When Angels Are Born ~ Saint Julian Press
"Poets and writers have long been inspired by the sacred literature of the world’s religions and faiths, with stories of wisdom, transformation, enlightenment, and salvation…"
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/1/pos...
"Poets and writers have long been inspired by the sacred literature of the world’s religions and faiths, with stories of wisdom, transformation, enlightenment, and salvation…"
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/1/pos...
November 21, 2014
Numinous
Numinous by Leila A. Fortier
In the great tradition of Rabiʿa al-Basri, who as an eight century Sufi mystic and poet is regarded as the first female saint of Sufism, setting forth the doctrine of Divine Love, the poems in Numinous seem to arise from the deepest memories of humankind and a communion with the spirit. They are an invocation of that spirit. Perceiving the spiritual quality of these poems authors Melissa Studdard and Diane Frank both observe.
“Leila Fortier is not just a woman. She is the living embodiment of love, and her Numinous is what happens when love exhales: shimmering, luminous poetry and art. Following the ecstatic tradition of the divine, mystic poet, Fortier offers an encompassing interplay of seeming opposites—pages overflow with emptiness, words emanate musical silence, and we are led deeper and deeper into the lucidity of dream. Here is a collection that illustrates, page after page, what we need to remember every day, that one simple truth: All is sacred.”
~ Melissa Studdard, Author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
“Leila Fortier’s Numinous is a sizzler, full of visionary beauty. With elegantly crafted language, her poems are “Quietly burning.” She invites her readers to enter a world lit with passion… “breathing your silent kiss / Where my eternity / Reigns.” Her poems are informed by a timelessness where, “Words have become silence and the spaces have / Become our words” – inviting readers to remember the source of oceans, sun, snow leopards, rain, all living things, and the whisperings of the soul. Leila’s poems remind us to wake up and feel the beauty of the world, “Stars spilled across the / Oil of the night.” Her poems are written in the voice of the Sacred Feminine, sacred as the womb, a prayer, “Where our only /Separation / Is time / Itself.” This is a book to treasure over the years.”
~ Diane Frank, Author of Yoga of the Impossible
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/press...
In the great tradition of Rabiʿa al-Basri, who as an eight century Sufi mystic and poet is regarded as the first female saint of Sufism, setting forth the doctrine of Divine Love, the poems in Numinous seem to arise from the deepest memories of humankind and a communion with the spirit. They are an invocation of that spirit. Perceiving the spiritual quality of these poems authors Melissa Studdard and Diane Frank both observe.
“Leila Fortier is not just a woman. She is the living embodiment of love, and her Numinous is what happens when love exhales: shimmering, luminous poetry and art. Following the ecstatic tradition of the divine, mystic poet, Fortier offers an encompassing interplay of seeming opposites—pages overflow with emptiness, words emanate musical silence, and we are led deeper and deeper into the lucidity of dream. Here is a collection that illustrates, page after page, what we need to remember every day, that one simple truth: All is sacred.”
~ Melissa Studdard, Author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
“Leila Fortier’s Numinous is a sizzler, full of visionary beauty. With elegantly crafted language, her poems are “Quietly burning.” She invites her readers to enter a world lit with passion… “breathing your silent kiss / Where my eternity / Reigns.” Her poems are informed by a timelessness where, “Words have become silence and the spaces have / Become our words” – inviting readers to remember the source of oceans, sun, snow leopards, rain, all living things, and the whisperings of the soul. Leila’s poems remind us to wake up and feel the beauty of the world, “Stars spilled across the / Oil of the night.” Her poems are written in the voice of the Sacred Feminine, sacred as the womb, a prayer, “Where our only /Separation / Is time / Itself.” This is a book to treasure over the years.”
~ Diane Frank, Author of Yoga of the Impossible
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/press...
May 24, 2014
Trane Ascending with John Coltrane
A new recording and poem. Trane Ascending with John Coltrane.
Ron Starbuck
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/trane...
Ron Starbuck
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/trane...
December 2, 2013
September 6, 2013
An evening of poetry with poet and actress (Chocolat) Hélène Cardona and poet John FitzGerald reading from their new poetry collections.
Saint Julian Press - Presents an Evening of Poetry and Music
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.
Saturday Evening - October 5, 2013 from 7- 9 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church
1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004
Saint Julian Press presents an evening of music and poetry with poet and actress (Chocolat) Hélène Cardona and poet John FitzGerald reading from their new poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013) and The Mind (Salmon Poetry, 2011) at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004 on October 5, 2013 from 7-9 PM. A book signing will follow the free reading.
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/press...
http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/9...
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.
Saturday Evening - October 5, 2013 from 7- 9 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church
1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004
Saint Julian Press presents an evening of music and poetry with poet and actress (Chocolat) Hélène Cardona and poet John FitzGerald reading from their new poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013) and The Mind (Salmon Poetry, 2011) at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004 on October 5, 2013 from 7-9 PM. A book signing will follow the free reading.
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/press...
http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/9...
August 10, 2013
June 28, 2013
A Humility of Spirit
Saint Julian Press book review of “Sometimes You Sense the Difference” by Donna Baier Stein. A collection of poems worth reading and knowing. To read this review on the Saint Julian Press website simply go to the URL below.
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/index...
A Humility of Spirit
sometimes you sense the difference – by Donna Baier Stein (Finishing LinePress, 2012)
Poetry Review - by Ron Starbuck
Future poets will be born, they will arise giving birth to a time when poets long dead, are read, remembered, and celebrated. Inspiring new acts of creation, crafting their own work into a new voice, a new language, and old wisdom. When one poet reads the work of another some inner inspiration of the poetic spirit, is always generated, in a calling forth of our creative imagination. An inner listening takes hold, an indwelling happens, a transformation begins to form, and a genesis of new voices originates.
Poetic forms and verses resound within us intimately, as a subtle memory of the spirit. In a single moment known now, or discovered later on, across decades, scores, and even centuries later, remembered, gathered up and embraced, treasured. The voice of the poet lives on, beyond time, not simply within a single moment of history or eternity.
So it is with these poems from poet and writer, Donna Baier Stein, in her newest collection of poetry titled, Sometimes You Sense the Difference. And we do, you know, sense the difference. We do begin to sense something new, a remembrance of the poet’s inner voice and spirit, a universal memory, even if it is only for the first time. We are drawn in by the power of her voice and images. The words you see becoming our own, intimate and immediate.
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/index...
A Humility of Spirit
sometimes you sense the difference – by Donna Baier Stein (Finishing LinePress, 2012)
Poetry Review - by Ron Starbuck
Future poets will be born, they will arise giving birth to a time when poets long dead, are read, remembered, and celebrated. Inspiring new acts of creation, crafting their own work into a new voice, a new language, and old wisdom. When one poet reads the work of another some inner inspiration of the poetic spirit, is always generated, in a calling forth of our creative imagination. An inner listening takes hold, an indwelling happens, a transformation begins to form, and a genesis of new voices originates.
Poetic forms and verses resound within us intimately, as a subtle memory of the spirit. In a single moment known now, or discovered later on, across decades, scores, and even centuries later, remembered, gathered up and embraced, treasured. The voice of the poet lives on, beyond time, not simply within a single moment of history or eternity.
So it is with these poems from poet and writer, Donna Baier Stein, in her newest collection of poetry titled, Sometimes You Sense the Difference. And we do, you know, sense the difference. We do begin to sense something new, a remembrance of the poet’s inner voice and spirit, a universal memory, even if it is only for the first time. We are drawn in by the power of her voice and images. The words you see becoming our own, intimate and immediate.
