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Please feel free to browse through this sampling of my writing.  Featured on this website is a variety of selected written works.  Some works have been published previously in my books - Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (with paintings by artist Irene Ruddock) and The Red Drum.  Other poems are in the process of being compiled for future collections.  I am temporarily unavailable for freelance writing projects and commissioned works, due to several, long-term projects requiring my time and attention until 2010.  Check back frequently, as my status may change.  Please feel free to correspond though.  I always love hearing from readers!  See Contact Author page for business e-mail address.

Where's the love? ~ Unsung Love Songs (Coming February 2010)  Book Launch!

Unsung Love Songs BOOK LAUNCH PARTY and Poetry Open Mic Night
Sat., Feb. 6th, 2010 from 7-9pm at The Artavina Gallery, 378 Main St., Waukesha, WI

UNSUNG LOVE SONGS celebrates the quiet, every day moments of love and how the recognition of this deep, abiding calmness can be the heart's biggest flourish of all.  If you are fortunate enough to find true love and keep it, then it is the moments of constancy, humor and co-existing that make up an enduring partnership.  (Available at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Lulu.com and BarnesandNoble.com as of late Feb. 2010.  Bookstores will be able to order this book through Ingram.)

"Sometimes there are no words, just moments.  This is where happiness lives." ~ From the poem "No words" (Unsung Love Songs).

Watch a multi-media film featuring my poem, "Why I Love You," from the book Unsung Love Songs.  This film was created by artist, Jennifer S. Peña, and provides the viewer with a voice recording of my poem, a musical background and images that float across the screen.  Check it out by clicking HERE.

THE RED DRUM (2008).  The Red Drum is available for purchase on-line through Lulu.com and Amazon.com.  Readers may browse through the first few poems and view the front and back cover, featuring a beautiful, stained glass window from a church bell tower in Western Canada.

Buy The Red Drum today at these local, independent bookstores:  Books & Company in Oconomowoc, WI, Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, WI and at Martha Merrell's Bookstore in Waukesha, WI.

The Red Drum

Copyright 2008 by Cristina M. R. Norcross (ISBN-13: 978-0979673313)

Book Description from the Back Cover:


THE RED DRUM is a collection of poetry celebrating the joyfulness of living in the presence of authentic moments, creating a dream-like, poetic form that captures the leaves of thought that fall from the sky. AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY: Cristina M.R. Norcross resides in Wisconsin with her husband and their two sons. She has had over 50 works published in literary magazines in the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Algeria. The author’s latest book is Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (2006). To learn more about the writing of Cristina M. R. Norcross, please visit her website: http://www.firkinfiction.com.

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THE 2ND EDITION OF LAND & SEA:  Please visit any of the retail outlets listed on the publications page or order the book on-line from the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites.