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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. Please 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.
Check out the Poetry Open Mic Night coming up on July 25th, 2009 at Whelan's Coffee House in Oconomowoc, WI! See full details on the POETRY READINGS page of this site!
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!
My new poetry book THE RED DRUM is now available (as of November 2008). I have a separate web page through the publisher. 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.
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.
Stop by again for more ordering details, press release information, as well as future dates for poetry readings!
Happy Reading!
Cristina M. R. Norcross
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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).
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