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Please feel free to browse. Featured on this website is a variety of selected written works, event listings, poetry reading dates and information about how to find my books. Some works have been published previously in my books - Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (with paintings by artist Irene Ruddock / 2007), The Red Drum (2008), and Unsung Love Songs (2010). Other poems are in the process of being compiled for future collections. I always love hearing from readers! See Contact Author page for business e-mail address.
Go to the NEWS page of this site for information about the PAAC sponsored project, One Vision: A Fusion of Art and Poetry in Lake Country (or visit the PAAC website)
Unsung Love Songs (2010)
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. Bookstores may order this book directly through the major distributor, 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.
Listen to a LIVE recording of my performance poem "Waiting to Swim" on the Houndbite website by clicking HERE
Listen Up & Tune In to The SpeakEasy Cafe Open Mic Poetry Show - "Sound of Ink"
If you love to write/hear poetry, check out The SpeakEasy Cafe's "Sound of Ink" Open Mic Poetry night on Blog Talk Radio every Thursday Night at 6pm Central Time / 7pm Eastern Time:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/speakeasycafe
I am a regular guest on the show, so tune in!
Wisconsin author Cristina M. R.
Norcross writes about the sacred, every day moments that bring us joy, while
reflecting on what makes the soul search for philosophical answers to modern
living. Inspired by the beauty of
landscapes, nature, visual art, music, parenthood, faith and the creative
process itself, Ms. Norcross sheds light on why we need to strive for more out
of life than just the external or temporal. Beneath the stunning cover of a black backdrop and an
exquisite, stained glass window, are poems with questions for every searching
soul.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.
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.
Copyright 2008 by Cristina M. R. Norcross (ISBN-13: 978-0979673313)
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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.
Buy Land & Sea today at:
LAND & SEA is now available in my NEW home town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin at BOOKS & COMPANY! Feel free to ask for it by title and author. If they run out, ask them to order more!
RiverRun Bookstore (currently SOLD OUT) Portsmouth, NH, The Water Street Bookstore Exeter, NH, Gibson's Bookstore Concord, NH, Jabberwocky Newburyport, MA, The Book Rack (no longer available) Newburyport, MA, and BORDERS (Concord, NH).
Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9796733-0-6
Printed by Spectragraphic, Inc.
Copyright 2006, 2007 Paintings by Irene Ruddock
Copyright 2006, 2007 Poems by Cristina M. R. Norcross
Book Cover Design by Alyssa Irish of Irish Designs