Ivan D. Tarver's Blog (2)

Attention Poetic Hustlers,



On November 4, 2008, President Barack Obama was elected to represent you to the world. Now is the time to express how this exceptional election and presidency has affected you. Poetic Hustles In the Era of Hope and Change is an anthology intended to showcase poetry that expresses our power and dedication to hope and change. It is a contribution to the age of Obama—not just the man, the movement.

Poetic Hustles is a rhyme and reason poetic fight to… Continue

One of my reviews:



The landscapes Ivan Tarver speaks of can be desolate and unforgiving-cold and monochromatic. Here we are introduced to the heart of a man who possesses the poet's essential quality: finding a heartbeat when there seemingly is none. So even those withered and muted lives he depicts get an earnest and sensitive rendering-Tarver's own kind of blue. Indeed, "through all those weeds, beauty appears and makes everything around it, appear the same."





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