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Bryant Park Poems
by Gary Beck

Published July 18, 2021







I couldn’t find a dry spot
to sleep at night
and my cardboard bed
got soaked,
so I threw it away.
Maybe if I’m lucky
I’ll find a dry doorway
where no one will bother me,
but I’ve never been lucky.
If it rains for forty days
and forty nights
I’ll probably drown,
but so will everyone else.

-- Homeless III


Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. He has worked as an art dealer , a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include novels, poetry, short story, essay, and one-act play collections. Gary lives in New York City.
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Poemaholic by Azriel Johnson (2nd Edition)

Published January 25, 2021


Hi, I'm Azriel and I'm a poemaholic.
I've been intoxicated now for 15 years.
Some years more word drunk than others,
but always with a pencil close by
and paper to spill words onto...


Azriel Johnson is the founder and director of Writing Knights Press. He enjoys writing poetry, fiction, nonfiction and stage plays. He makes money teaching English in China. He thinks "the best way to avoid writer's block is to write the stuff you don't want to write just as much as the stuff you do want to write. This will keep your mind limber and your pen light."

***This edition contains updated and complete versions of three poems from the original Poemaholic released by the Poet's Haven.***
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*Note* Please don't purchase the staple-bound version on Amazon.
The publisher, The Poet's Haven, is defunct and unable to complete the order.
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