Paperback and ebook available for Better Cigarettes and Other Poems by Philip Vermaas published by Blue Hour Press

Posted on May 15, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 6 Comments

http://www.etsy.com/listing/151297244/better-cigarettes-and-other-poems-by http://www.lulu.com/shop/philip-vermaas/better-cigarettes-and-other-poems/ebook/product-21022239.html Better Cigarettes and Other Poems by Philip Vermaas is more than a poetry collection. It is a 158 page book of stories in the form of poems that are based on real life experience. Philip was born in South Africa and spent time in Scotland and England. During his travels, he encountered various … Continue reading »

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KOMODO by Heidi Benson

Posted on May 8, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 2 Comments

Longing to step away from the world, we bought a house in a rustic beach town where weatherworn picket fences were buried aslant by migrating sands and where people moved through their days in a brightly-illuminated present. Soon we did, too, and we felt some relief as we became similarly unworried by the past. But … Continue reading »

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The Blue Hour Press Logo

Posted on May 2, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 2 Comments

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings …” -William Shakespeare We’re launching our Blue Hour Press logo for our soon to be released full length poetry books and upcoming Anthologies. The swallow’s northward migration is a symbol of spring as well as a symbol of hope because they are able to return home … Continue reading »

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Blue Hour Updates email list that won’t bother readers, we promise.

Posted on April 19, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • Leave a comment

Hello friends, We’ve created a link to sign up for occasional updates about upcoming contributors. It will also feature updates about books that will be released including updates about Better Cigarettes an upcoming print poetry collection written by Philip Vermaas. If you sign up, we promise we won’t bother you. Too much at least, I … Continue reading »

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Sunrise River Park by Ian A. Wright

Posted on April 17, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 2 Comments

My fingers run across the faded carvings in the wood. How long has it been? I haven’t been keeping track. Moonlight streaks across the water, bending and bowing with the constant, passive ripples. I remember the sound of it well, the water against the seawall. Barely a noise at all, it seems to have only … Continue reading »

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Water, Water by Eric G Muller

Posted on April 5, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 1 Comment

Back in the fall of 1990, I marched my sixteen fourth graders down the hill to the Convalescent Center in Eugene, Oregon, armed with recorders, three music stands and pages of sheet music. Free of the classroom, the girls began to skip and hop happily along the road, while some of the boys punched and … Continue reading »

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The Blue Hour Anthology Now Available

Posted on March 15, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 5 Comments

Here is the link to the etsy site. The Blue Hour Anthology is now available . We have provided free pdf copies to Contributors. The Blue Hour Anthology is 155 pages of poetry, prose, photographs, painting, and sculpture. It features a vast array of styles and subjects, perspectives and life experiences. It boasts some of … Continue reading »

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A Roof Over Her Head by Susan Breeden

Posted on March 14, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 8 Comments

Marcus Jackson is doing quite well for himself. His 1940s-era home was recently updated by a Harvard-educated architect. While it isn’t the largest house on the block, it’s the only one with Egyptian mosaic tile on the master bath ceiling, Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors throughout, and a subzero wine cooler stocked with Chateau Lafite Rothschild … Continue reading »

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A Call for Submissions about Home

Posted on February 25, 2013 by bluehourmagazine • 5 Comments

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.-Paul Theroux We’d like your writing, photography, and art about the concept of home. A place that evokes joy or angst, or both at the same time. Filled with memories that knock on walls and patter on old windows. We’ll start publishing submissions on this theme beginning … Continue reading »

Poetry / Poets / Writers

I shift by Bruce Ruston

Posted on December 5, 2012 by bluehourmagazine • 5 Comments

I light up exhale shift to the left the sun lights up the smoke through two panes like the wing tip of Gabriel is that where my soul resides in between two panes getting into the bath my mind turns to God this is my church … Continue reading »

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