Book: Deeper into the Pond - A Celebration of Femininity by Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson

about this book: This little chapbook, part of The Celebration Series by Magdalena Ball (an Aussie) and Carolyn Howard-Johnson (a Californian), features poetry designed to warm the hearts of those who believe in equality for all--men and women alike. The series includes chapbooks for Mothers' Day, Fathers' Day, Christmas, Earth Day, Valentine's, and this one for . . . ahem . . . Women's Day! A perfect little frugal gift to tuck into the backpack of a woman who goes a' marching or to meetings or just signs online petitions like crazy, it is available as an e-book, but is slender enough to slip into an envelope like a greeting card--and about the same price.

"Whatever your age these poems will speak to you of times to look forward to or to remember. These are not poems to be read once. They will stay with you forever."
~ Nancy Famolari, poet

"Narcissus knows her own
reflection well. She forgets
to peer under burkas, in our jails,
in the beds of the abused
deeper, deeper into the pond
beneath where some
still suffocate."
~Excerpt from the theme poem in Deeper into the Pond ©