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John Yamrus: Two Poems
*** Purchase SELECTED POEMS: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT by John Yamrus Photo credit: Mish
John Yamrus
John Yamrus: Five Poems
my dogs bark at the neighbors, bark at the UPS man, bark at cars and kids on bicycles. they bark at the tv, the radio and the stereo. they bark at the vacuum, the dust mop and the broom. they bark at anyone who enters the house uninvited. and when they’re not barking, they’re sitting …
Review of Selected Poems by John Yamrus
When I was asked to review John Yamrus’ Selected Poems, I allowed myself to remember when I started writing poetry on January 1, 2009. I recall the date exactly because it was a particularly bad day for my mother, who was dying of ALS. To manage my grief, I did something I had done never …
John Yamrus: excerpt from Five Dogs
one day we heard about this intelligence test for dogs…you put a cloth or a blanket or some other kind of a covering over your dog and the faster he or she got out from under it, the smarter he or she was. well, one day we took a throw from off the couch and …
John Yamrus and Nuestros Amigos Peludos (our furred friends): an Appreciation by Mark Statman
About ten or so years ago I was teaching an introduction to writing poetry course. One of the requirements was that students had to present the work of a living poet not on the syllabus who had published at least two books or the equivalent and that this poet should be someone they really thought …
Book Review: Phoebe and Ito are dogs by John Yamrus / Illustrated by Mish
Phoebe and Ito are dogs (Epic Rites Press 2019), carved out of the ABCs wonderfully by veteran writer John Yamrus and illustrated sweetly and energetically by the compassionate artist Mish, is an important, eye opening tale as well as a cautionary one. And although the brother and sister dogs do many dog-things like play with sticks and chase rabbits, there’s a very significant message in this children’s book about the magical …
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John Yamrus: Excerpt from RMA
my father had a way of walking that maybe was what first made me think of him and Sugar Ray in the same sentence…like a fighter. my father didn’t walk or amble or shamble…he kinda glided, which was probably very attractive to the ladies when he was young or maybe even not so young, as it …
John Yamrus and His Noir Memoir RMA
John Yamrus is the author of 25 books of poetry, two novels, a children’s book, and two memoirs, the highly acclaimed MemoryLane and the just-published RMA. I caught up with him recently through the miracle of technology. Here are the juicy bits of our conversation: Eileen Murphy (EM): You wrote your first memoir, Memory Lane, last year, recalling your …
John Yamrus: "when i die" & Four More Poems
when i die,
do
me
a
favor
and
do
not
write
R.I.P.
on
the
rear
window
of
your
car.