Free Quotable Book of the Month

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It’s not hard to figure out why the Quotable Poet’s new digital book, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player, went straight into the Top 20 Most Popular Books list on AuthorsDen when it came out last month. At least 3 reasons come to mind right away:

Reason No. 1

The novel was made available to readers free of charge. Except for promotional giveaways, that’s something the QP has never done before. You’ve probably guessed already that there’s a big reason behind it that has a lot to do with new technology. Check out it out: Christmas Gets a Valentine’s Day Weekend Reboot

Check out Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player at number 4 on the AuthosDen list of Most Popular Books.

Reason Number 2

This second reason is because this is a new revised edition of one of his most popular books, Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World. We said it before just about everybody else that Christmas is one of QP Aberjhani’s best works because it combines all the things he’s celebrated for… powerful controversial plot-lines, poetic prose, amazing characters, original images, and musical flow. Thing is, famous quotes from the first edition now belong to the new one as well:

Quote from the novel Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player by Literary Lion and Quotable Poet Aberjhani.

Reason Number 3

The upgraded angle is bumpin’. It wasn’t bad before when people compared it to works by Kahlil Gibran and Philip K. Dick. But the “mythopoeic odyssey” angle seems like a better fit because that’s really what the heroes go through while trying to hold on to love and hold back a ton of suicides. Mix in the New Website with Bonus Stories and you’re giving readers something worth saying a lot of good things about.

Nobody’s said how long this book is gonna be available to read for free. For right now though it’s all about “getting while the getting’s good.”

MS/25

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5 Amazing Quotable Poet Quotes from the Year 2015

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Motivation speakers like to tell us one of the best ways to know where you’re going is to check out where you’ve already been. We’ve seen similar suggestions from the Quotable Poet as well. So since it looks like everybody’s in agreement with that idea our quotes for December are 5 of the best from the year 2015 for hipsters and dipsters to take with them into the year 2016.

As for the QP himself the year 2015 was obviously a BIG ONE since he announced that he was cutting back on column articles and administrative duties at Creative Thinkers International to go big on his current literary projects. That’s not something we can complain about around here because like Adele fans always hot for the next release we’re always pumped for the latest from the QP:

Best Quotable Poet Quotes of the Year 2015

 1.

“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.”
         (Aberjhani, the quote’s on Goodreads but it came from his masterwork on the Paris attacks: For Love of Paris and a More Compassionate World)

2.

“Much of this [the 21st] century’s first decade and a half has been comprised of trends and unforeseen progressions that basically trashed reality as humanity knew it and reconstructed it via the mechanisms of a technology-based revolution.”
           (Aberjhani, from When the Lyrical Muse Sings the Creative Pen Dances)

3.

“From opposite ends of time and space
a dream and a song quietly embrace…like
the sun’s murmuring lips upon the moon’s blue face.”
(Aberjhani, from Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao)

4.

“Leadership has never been an exact science but it has always found itself particularly challenged when tasked with elevating one segment of a society onto a level more politically, socially, and economically equitable with another.”
Aberjhani (from The 2015 Bid for Power and History in Savannah)

5.

“Periods of shifting demographics, along with the often overwhelming giant crashing waves of sudden historical events themselves, often create odd partnerships and dangerously extreme polarization.”
(Aberjhani, from Abbreviated Mind Syndrome Article 3: Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson)

So all we need now are some rock-solid dates on the new releases. But for right now if you’re into the holiday spirit have some good safe times and let’s hope we all get to enjoy a great New Year 2016.

Closing out with a shout out to BSLP for permission granted to use intellectual properties.

MS/25

2 Quote Graphics for the Month of September

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                                                                                          (From AZQuotes)

This month’s quotes are from AZQuotes because they’re in the process of setting up such a cool website that there’s a good chance somebody here is going to sign up on it. Just not possible not to like the profile pages, love the quote selections, and truly dig the feature that lets you make quote graphics. Both quotes you see pictured here come from the poem “Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001.” So enjoy the one up top and the one at the bottom.

Now for the Top 3 QP News Notes: All the changes coming out of the Quotable Poet’s camp this summer have been big ones. These are the top 3 but if you got something hotter let us know:

1) HOT OFF THE PRESS: You can call “Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives” an instant QP classic published in the new edition of Words & Violence. It rocks a bangin’ new essay with a classic poem, fresh hash tags for your social-media-conscious consideration, and some deep new vibes on guerrilla decontextualization.

2) The Red Room author website shut down in July and that means the Quotable Poet Aberjhani’s pages on the site did too. It had some articles, photos and videos piled up over d6 years that nobody else had. These and the works of other writers on the site are now supposed to be on Internet Way Back Machine.

3) So after Red Room went on the auction block the QP set up two new signif writing camps to go along with his base blog and CTI page. One went up on LinkedIn and the other on Wattpad. Some people might say the LinkedIn Blog is not a good fit but the QP said it works.

                                                                          (from AZQuotes)

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July Q&A with the Quotable Poet on Goodreads

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Quotable Poet July 2014 Quote of the Month

“At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.” –– Aberjhani, from Putting Text and Meaning to the Guerrilla Decontextualization Test (courtesy of BrainyQuotes)

Readers on Goodreads will be in the best position to get answers from the Quotable Poet about his writings during the June 30 – July 3 Q&A. But they’re not the only ones who can participate since the QP announced on his FB page that anybody interested can also submit questions for the Q&A through his “Contact the Author” page on the Bright Skylark Literary Productions website:
http://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info/contact-the-author.html

Here at the Quotable Poet we want to ask… What do you consider yourself to be the most when it comes to writing, a poet or a fiction and nonfiction prose writer?

That’s a legit question because when you look at the list of published books on Goodreads and Amazon, they’re almost exactly 50/50, with half of them poetry collections and half of them fiction or creative nonfiction. You can take it even deeper than that when you look at the works themselves and see that his novel and memoir contain both prose and poetry.

Plus the quotes in the new book, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry, come from more than just poetry sources. It’s also legit because different search engines describe him in different ways. Some put “Author” first, some say “Columnist”, some say “Poet”, some say “Historian” and some say “Artist.” So what does the QP say?

We have to give props to the peeps at BrainyQuote and Share Images for this month’s quote art graphic. Not only is the leopard in the background a seriously cool cat for real but the text comes from one of the QP’s uncollected essays, “Putting Text and Meaning to the Guerrilla Decontextualization Test.” How many out there take time to do their own original research and produce original quality excerpts? Not a whole lot. Maybe somebody should ask the QP about that at the Q&A but there’s good chance he won’t have any answers because he spends too much time writing to keep up with quote websites.

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Quotable Poets for National Poetry Month 2014

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“Stars ink your fingers
with a lexicon of flame
blazing rare knowledge.”
–from poem titled Poets of the Angels by Aberjhani
(courtesy of Bright Skylark Lit Prods & Postered Poetics)

National Poetry Month is usually an easy time to write this blog because the Quotable Poet has written a lot of poems about poetry and picking one would have been stress-free. He’s also pumped out enough articles and essays about other quotable poets to fill a book…which he’s probably done already. Take for example this handful from just the past year and just last week:

1. Poets of the Past and Present in the 2014 Spotlight
2. Text and Meaning in T.J. Reddy’s Poems in One-Part Harmony 1
3. Text and Meaning in Robert Frost’s Dedication: For JFK
4. Text and Meaning in Langston Hughes’ The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain Part 1

Around March 28 his Bright Skylark crew posted a new killer graphic on Goodreads to celebrate NaPoMo and we noticed the quote on it came from the poem Angels of the Poets. It’s a poem that already has 3 popular quotes from it… That seems almost average for about half the poems in The River of Winged Dreams. But this one is about the deep side of what some poets trip on when they slide into their creativity mode. So it’s a good fit for National Poetry Month.

Another good popular quote says “Turnabout is fair play.” That means since the Quotable Poet put out so many cool vibes about other authors and poets it seems time to share what a couple have said about him. These popped up on Quotes.net which describes itself as “a huge collection of literary quotations and movie quotes from endless number of famous authors and featured movies, collaboratively assembled by contributing editors.” Um, OK.

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2013 in Review Kicking off the Quotable Poet 2014

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This is cool WordPress, THANK U, and thank you everybody who checked out this site. We shook the blog up some in 2013 with posts on classic creative writers and political thinkers who influenced the Quotable Poet in some way. Now we’re kicking off the New Year 2014 with a previous poem of the month format. The title for January is Miguel upon the Sand Dunes of Ecstasy and Hell .

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people.

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A Quotable Tweetfest Follows Announcement of Zimmerman Decision

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Detail from Martin Luther King Jr. in Hoodie art by Nikkolas Smith.

The Quotable Poet has tackled racism head-on in articles, poems, blogs and books so it wasn’t the biggest surprise in the world earlier this week when he posted Zimmerman Verdict Counters Notion of Post-Racial America in his Examiner column. What was different about the way he handled the aftermath of Zimmerman’s acquittal for the death of Trayvon Martin were the quotes he added to Goodreads and then tweeted and Facebooked all over the place!

For the past couple of months, his thing has been to tweet a quote every other Monday or so with the hashtag #MarvelousMonday. He took a new route this time to address the Zimmerman issue and tweeted four quotes about the case posted on Goodreads. His poetic tweetfest hit at about the same time as Nikkolas Smith’s Martin Luther King Jr. in a hoodie image went viral. There may be more from Quotable Poet by the time this posts but here are 3 of the quotes plus a bonus from MIXED NATION.:

 “Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”    
(Aberjhani, from Illuminated Corners, Collected Essays Vol. 1)

“Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.”
(Aberjhani, from Illuminated Corners, Collected Essays Vol. 1)

“The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.”
(Aberjhani, from Illuminated Corners, Collected Essays Vol. 1)

 

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What’s up with hanging out at Creative Thinkers International

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“At a time in history when so many in the world chose to exhibit the worst of what human beings might become, they at least tried to demonstrate the very best of what human beings might become.”—Aberjhani (from Creative Thinkers International and 21st Century Notions of Community)

It’s hard to refute something, no matter how screaming bad you might want to, when it makes Google News and a good-sized part of the subject is also the author. That’s the way the feelings went down when the Quotable Poet posted “Creative Thinkers International Goes on Offline Hiatus” in his Examiner column last week.

Whaaaat the hell does that mean EXACTLY!?!?! After six years of spotlighting unsung heroes, singers, writers, poets, artists, and miscellaneous geniuses from all over the planet… the website is no more???? At least it looked that way for a few days, but then it came back online.

The original story told us some important things but probably not enough. Maybe the real deal comes out when you read between the lines. The first part of the article announces that the site is going offline but it’s really an introduction to the last blog Aberjhani posted on CTI about the site.

Ask certain insiders and they say managing Creative Thinkers International plus working on important book projects finally overloaded the QP’s creative circuit boards. When you look at his output over the past few years and check out all the boats he still floatin’ right now you have to wonder how he’s managed to pull it all off for this long. The easy answer is that like most famous authors he’s got helpers––people he calls “techno angels”–– but even working with angels must take a lot of adjusting and regrouping.

The main thing for the moment is that it’s looking like CTI might make its sixth anniversary and that’s gotta be a good thing.

MS/25

Impressive Upgrade by Ranker for List of Quotations

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Screenshot of quote about Michael Jackson by Quotable Poet Aberjhani.

The first time I blogged about Ranker’s List of Famous Aberjhani Quotes I didn’t show it a whole lot of love. The reason was because when I clicked on the links to the quotes too many of the pages came up with only half the text of the quotation.  Looks like somebody decided to fix that and now I gotta say the love is flowing. Still some debaters out there over whether or not this list is better than a few others on the net but guess what…

Ranker gets bonus points for the quote widget at the bottom of the page.  It’s one you can post on your own blog if you’re set up for that.  One reason it’s big news is because I’m not seeing the “Quote of the Month” that used to pop up on Bright Skylark Literary Productions and true fact is I’m not seeing that website period. So I’ll let you know what’s up with that when we know what’s up with that.

For right now I’m kind’a glad we started doing the Poem of the Month or else some of us might start throwing up a lot of embarrassment over the impressive new upgrade. So you can click this link to check it.

MS/25

An Angel of Poetry Spreads Its Wings on YouTube

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Still from Angel of Better Days to Come video.

 

Soon as I saw the email announcing the launch for Angel of Better Days to Come on YouTube I just knew it was going to be an authorized kick-butt spoken word production. Since this is the fourth video-poem from the Quotable Poet’s River of Winged Dreams I figured it was due. Turned out instead to be a kick-butt poetry video with ambient music vibes and head-blazing visuals.

So it hit me as an awesome-off-the-hook-good thing but still kind of odd because we know from his DANCING THROUGH THE WORD LABYRINTH CD and different podcasts (not to mention the awards) that he does spoken word. Then why (presuming he’s involved on some level) such a different approach on Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael,  Angel of Peace,  Angel of Christmas Love Shining Bright, and now Angel of Better Days to Come? Here’s my two-part guess…

For One… he’s got a big passion for the written word and the creatively painted canvas. This is the QP expressing that passion and sharing it. And Number Two… with spoken word, we get how the speaker of the words interprets the lines with their emotional emphasis and the whole big bang and that can block your own interpretation. (Yes I did actually hear another poet say that but it fits here so I’m borrowing it). The thing is though that for me it worked. You got the poem stanzas graffitied on the art and the entire poem right there in the notes so you end up hearing your own voice. A weird trick it was but so cool.  You can click right here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIyLxnoCnw

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