

THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES
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MEOWKU
THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES
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MEOWKU
Roxanne Hoffman and Jack Cooper of Poets Wear Prada are happy to announce that Patricia Carragon‘s MEOWKU is available on Amazon.
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Patricia Carragon, author of Urban Haiku and More, returns with more Haiku, this time inspired by her favorite muse, our sphinx-like companion, the CAT.
Come to the Brooklyn Book FestivalSunday, September 22
10 a.m. â 6 p.m.
Meet Patricia Carragon, the author of âMeowku,â who will be signing your copy at the Poets Wear Prada, table # 627 at the end of the park closest to Borough Hall at the corner of Joralemon and Adams Streets.Â
Brooklyn Book FestivalSunday, September 22
10 a.m. â 6 p.m.
Come get your copy of “Meowku,” along with Ms. Carragon’s “The Cupcake Chronicles,”plus check out new releases from Robert Gibbons, Iris N. Schwartz,Bob Heman, and George Held.
Trains: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall R to Court Street R, F to Jay Street A, C to High Street
andÂ
Facebook event:Â Â
Give the Gift of Poetry and Cupcakes for the HolidaysÂ
Books from Patricia Carragon and Brownstone Poets
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Thank you Roxanne Hoffman for nominating “Saturday Night After Midnight, August 5, 2023” from “The Cupcake Chronicles” for the 2018 Pushcart Prize for Fiction!
About Patricia Carragon:
Patricia Carragon is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online. She hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets reading series and open mic and is Editor in Chief of its annual anthology. Her poems and stories have appeared in over one hundred publications, most recently Autonomedia, The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry, Bear Creek Haiku, Clockwise Cat, Diaphanous, First Literary Review-East, Panoply, poeticdiversity, Sensations, Sensitive Skin and The Yellow Chair Review, among other literary journals and anthologies. She is the author of three collections of poetry, âJourney to the Center of My Mindâ (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005), âUrban Haiku and Moreâ (Fierce Grace Press, 2010), and âInnocenceâ (Finishing Line Press, 2017). âThe Cupcake Chroniclesâ is her first book of fiction.
âIt is a testament to her vivacious spirit that Patricia Carragon would think to personify cupcakes as a device to chronicle quotidian activities and as a mode to assuage the anxieties of her daily jaunts. Tasty diary entries mingle humor and contemplative musings in a way that not only tantalizes the tongue but stimulates all of the sensory receptors, as her imagery erupts from the page to entice oneâs very soul.â â Alison Ross, publisher and editor of âClockwise Catâ
â Peter V. Dugan, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2016- 2018
The Cupcake Chronicles is an imaginative fable that explores what would happen if your afternoon treat were to suddenly come to life.
â Francine Witte, author of Not All Fires Burn The Same
The fine playfulness of this book is worth three times the cover cost. Own it and get such sweetness, calorie free.
â Susan H. Maurer, author of Josephine Butler: A Collection of Poetry
What begins as a normal work day changes for Carragon when she sees âcupcakes â the size of hobbits â parading the hallsâ of her office. From that point on, humanoid confections take over her life â and  â ours in this allegorical tale depicting the underlining madness of our ordinary lives.
â Linda Lerner, author of Yes, the Ducks Were Realâ
Carragon writes with humor, deft language, and an energy that sweeps us into buttercream icing. . . Pay close attention to the wisdom her cupcakes impart: âWe are here to look delicious and to please the sweet tooth of the human raceâ ; âHumans are better off as desserts.â
â Maria Lisella, Queens Poet Laureate 2015 â 2018
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Distinguished by subtle story-telling and a deft use of words and metaphor, the poems in Patricia Carragonâs new collection, Innocence, speak to the heart and soul. Vivid backdrops include a Parisian cafĂ©, the circus, a windswept city day, Coney Island, and a bar full of bird-like characters. Color and nature star in many of the poignant poems that draw on elusive love and the setback of time. The poemsâ heroine rarely frets, but accepts conflict and missed connections with grace. Readers will delight in Patricia Carragonâs poems brimming with irony, imagination, and ordinary life gone amok.
âAmy Barone, author and poet of Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press)
With a palette full of confessional colors, and the urgency of Lady Macbeth wailing âOut, damned spot,â Patricia Carragon speaks truth to childhood in a voice that is at once shocking and resonant. While the title of her book is Innocence, these lines are anything but benign. There is, however, a vital remnant of a happy fairytale that survives in Carragonâs poems: the M-A-G-I-C she sprinkles into each and every one of them, reminding us to hold fast to those treasures that give us permission to live happily ever after.
âCindy Hochman, Editor-in-chief, First Literary Review-East
Patricia Carragon writes with acute sensibility, grace, and pith. She juggles scenes from her life and makes visible what the âwind has erasedâ. Made to feel unworthy and outcast as a child, her self-expression was admonished, and she was forced to keep within the lines. This is a beautiful book of poems about the power of imagination and a resilient spirit that has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of innocence to gift us all with her creative magic.
ââKaren Neuberg, Author, âMyself Taking Stageâ (Finishing Line Press) and âDetailed Stillâ (Poets Wear Prada)
This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the borough of Kings.
Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this yearâs fifty-two reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible.
We would also like to honor this yearâs guest poet, Evie Ivy, and pay tribute to our fellow poets, Cynthia Toronto and Michael Walsh, who passed away this past year.
This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the Borough of Kings.
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Reviews:
Distinguished by subtle story-telling and a deft use of words and metaphor, the poems in Patricia Carragonâs new collection, Innocence, speak to the heart and soul. Vivid backdrops include a Parisian cafĂ©, the circus, a windswept city day, Coney Island, and a bar full of bird-like characters. Color and nature star in many of the poignant poems that draw on elusive love and the setback of time. The poemsâ heroine rarely frets, but accepts conflict and missed connections with grace. Readers will delight in Patricia Carragonâs poems brimming with irony, imagination, and ordinary life gone amok.
âAmy Barone Author and poet of “Kamikaze Dance”(Finishing Line Press)
With a palette full of confessional colors, and the urgency of Lady Macbeth wailing âOut, damned spot,â Patricia Carragon speaks truth to childhood in a voice that is at once shocking and resonant. While the title of her book is Innocence, these lines are anything but benign. There is, however, a vital remnant of a happy fairytale that survives in Carragonâs poems: the M-A-G-I-C she sprinkles into each and every one of them, reminding us to hold fast to those treasures that give us permission to live happily ever after.
âCindy Hochman Editor-in-chief, First Literary Review-East
Patricia Carragon writes with acute sensibility, grace, and pith. She juggles scenes from her life and makes visible what the âwind has erasedâ. Made to feel unworthy and outcast as a child, her self-expression was admonished, and she was forced to keep within the lines. This is a beautiful book of poems about the power of imagination and a resilient spirit that has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of innocence to gift us all with her creative magic.
ââKaren Neuberg  Author, “Myself Taking Stage” (Finishing Line Press) and “Detailed Still” (Poets Wear Prada)
Review of Innocence by Alison Ross inÂ
The Zen of Innocence in Thugwise Cat, June 2017
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/fullscreen/58632185/thugwise-cat/120
Ms. Carragon’s Bio:
Patricia Carragonâs recent publications include The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, Bear Creek Haiku, Clockwise Cat, First Literary Review-East, Panoply, poeticdiversity, Sensations, Sensitive Skin, The Yellow Chair Review, among others. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005) and Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). The Cupcake Chronicles is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada. Patricia hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor in chief of its annual anthology. Patricia is an active member of Brevitas, a group fiercely dedicated to short poems, as well as the PEN Womenâs Literary Workshop and Tamarind. She is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online.
For Immediate Release:
Finishing Line Press Announces the Publication of
INNOCENCE by Patricia Carragon
Georgetown, KY â April 7, 2017 â Finishing Line Press is pleased to announce the publication of Innocence, a new collection of twenty-five poems by Patricia Carragon. Innocence is about how reality burns the âcookie-cutterâ expectations of childhood and the âsuccess storiesâ of adulthood. In several poems, reality is the extension of unescapable nightmaresâthe ones that hit you in the gut. But reality is also the source for inspiration, humor, hope, dignity, and joy. Ms. Carragonâs words understand the complexities of struggleâwords that many of her readers could relate to.
Patricia Carragon has the resilience to overcome obstaclesâa fighter who bounces back before the ten count. Amy Barone, author of “Kamikaze Dance”(Finishing Line Press), says, âThe poemsâ heroine rarely frets, but accepts conflict and missed connections with grace. Readers will delight in Patricia Carragonâs poems brimming with irony, imagination, and ordinary life gone amok.â Cindy Hochman, Editor-in-chief of First Literary Review-East, sums it up: âThere is, however, a vital remnant of a happy fairytale that survives in Carragonâs poems: the M-A-G-I-C she sprinkles into each and every one of them, reminding us to hold fast to those treasures that give us permission to live happily ever after.â And lastly, Karen Neuberg, author of “Myself Taking Stage” (Finishing Line Press) and “Detailed Still”(Poets Wear Prada), says, âThis is a beautiful book of poems about the power of imagination and a resilient spirit that has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of innocence to gift us all with her creative magic.â
Brooklyn writer Patricia Carragon loves cupcakes, chocolate, cats, and haiku. As a child, sheâd write and illustrate a make-believe newspaper. However, she wasnât encouraged to write until the early ’90s when she wrote witty pitches for her Brunch ân Fun social activities at St. Bartholomewâs Church. One friend encouraged her to explore her literary muse. Another friend said that her eulogy for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had poetic resonance.
Ms. Carragon is an avid writer of short stories, prose, and poetry. Her first book of poems is Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005), followed by Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). The Cupcake Chronicles is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada. Her publication credits include Allbook Books, The Avocet, BigCityLit, Bear Creek Haiku, Boog City, CLWN WR, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Drunk Monkeys, Home Planet News, Inertia, Lips, Levure littĂ©raire, Long Island Quarterly, Mad Hattersâ Review, Maintenant, The Mom Egg, Panoply, poeticdiversity, Tribe Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, Word Salad, Yellow Chair Review, and others. She is a member of brevitas, a group fiercely dedicated to short poems, and is a member of Pen Women’s Literary Workshop and Tamarind. She is one of the Executive Editors for Home Planet News Online.
Ms. Carragon hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. Since August 2005, Brownstone Poets still continues to be a safe haven for the written and spoken word. It is an open mic reading held usually on first Saturdays with two or three guest readers.
INNOCENCE can be ordered online at www.finishinglinepress.com or www.amazon.com
$14.99 retail, 44 pages, Finishing Line Press (March 3, 2017)
ISBN-10:Â 1635341523, ISBN-13:Â 978-163534152, First Edition
About Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press (www.finishinglinepress.com) is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA, which has provided an optimal outlet for poets since 1993.
CONTACTS:
Christen Kincaid, Senior Editor
Finishing Line Press
Phone: 859-514-8966
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Patricia Carragon
pcarragon@gmail.com
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