January 2008 Poem of the Month Honoree: L.M. ROSS

For All Minor Poets:

I have walked
Beside minor poets
Under indigo night
Skies... My brethren and I
Have walked
And talked alongside
Open Hearts
Open souls
And eloquent throats
Full of words,
Our mortal coils thick with
Woe and sometimes even
Bliss. Yes
I've walked
With minor poets
As we treaded
Beneath a canopy of
Jealous stars, static
Inside their
Silver sockets
And struck utterly
Wordless
At the earth
We build
With our
Tongues.

LM Ross is a New York writer and a poet of immense musicality. His work, which has appeared in over 270 magazines, journals and anthologies echoes the best of lyric writers, and yet contains brutal slashes of honesty.

His novels include the haunting, "Manhood... The Longest Moan," a story of youthful ambition, maturing success and heartbreaking disappointment, and Ross' latest work "The Moanin After" is the sequel, and a deep, wistful, brave and harrowing account of a handful of New York denizens seeking to find their wings after the winds of flight have been taken away by absence, disease and death. But more than pure story, his novels sing with a poetic music inherent in the writing. His work is is like a jazz movement and a Blues suite mingling with memory, life and tension as Ross' uniquely poetic voice sings throughout the narrative.

Contact Info:
L.M. Ross
www.myspace.com/manhoodthenovel
lin.jazzbro1@gmail.com