John Yamrus

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 …

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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 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 …

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