2012
- Mad Swirl, April 9 (Scroll)
- Long Story Short, Poetry Page, April Issue (Scroll)
- Metazen, February 1
- The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, February Issue
- Dew On The Kudzu, February 16
2011
- “Milk for Free” was published in Mad Swirl in September. (scroll down)
- “Delaronde Street” was published in the Poet’s United first anthology, Poetry Pantry: Thoughts That Breathe and can be downloaded free or purchased on Lulu.
- “Disparity” was published in Dew On The Kudzu in January and “Blackberries”, my first creative non-fiction piece, was published in May.
- Four poems were published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, January issue.
2010
- I was interviewed by Tammy Vitale in Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together – November 6
- “August and April” was published in Poets For Living Waters in July
- “Disparity” was published in St. Somewhere – A Literary Journal, June issue.
- “Changeling” was published in MediaVirus Magazine, April issue.
- “Ten O’ Clock” was published in St. Somewhere – A Literary Journal, February issue and was subsequently nominated for a PushCart Prize.
- “Delarond Street” and “Purple, Green, Gold” were published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, January issue.
Hello,
I hope this message finds you well. I have enjoyed reading the blog ever since I stumbled upon it some months ago.
To quickly introduce myself: I live and work in Antigua, Guatemala. Here I am the director of an educational development organization called Nuestros Ahijados. Through schools, clinics, sustainable micro-financing programs, social work, anti-human trafficking efforts, and other programs; we work to “break the chains of poverty through education and formation” for our 12,000 dependents. All of this work will be featured on ABC news 20/20 for Diane Sawyer’s Dec. 17th special on global health.
This spring, my first book of poetry, iPoems for the Dolphins to Click Home About, was released. The book comprises poems written mostly in the last three years, some of which was spent hitchhiking from Southern Chile to Alaska.
Living and volunteering in Central America makes it very difficult to promote a poetry book in the conventional ways of readings, book signings etc. So, what I am doing is simply sending copies of my book to the poetry blogs that I enjoy reading. Hoping that, if you like that book, you would consider writing a review on it, or featuring it in some way on your website.
To this end, I am able to send a PDF version of the book via email, or an physical copy through the mail if you would like one.
It was recently featured on the following blog whose writer provided a very kind review of the book that I think gives a good sense of what the book is about: http://alyssacmartino.com/2010/08/why-ilike-luke-armstrongs-ipoems/
I appreciate the opportunity of your time and consideration of this.
-Luke
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Luke Maguire Armstrong
Director de Programas
Asociación Nuestros Ahijados
Carretera a San Felipe #106, Antigua Guatemala
Tel.: (502) 7832-4670 Fax:(502) 7832-4679
PS, here is a quick bio of my writing credentials.
As a writer my poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been published in scores of magazines including, Outside, Perspective Travel, Foliate Oak, Long Story Short, The Sheltered Poet, Intrepid Travel, and CNN Traveler, among others. My just finished novel, How One Guitar Will Save The World, will soon be looking for an agent. I am a contributing editor for TheExpeditioner.com. This fall our book, The Expeditioner’s Guide to the World will be released. My first book of poetry iPoems for the Dolphins to Click Home About, was published March of this year.
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