Nina Alvarez, Editor
Nina Alvarez is the editor of The Anthology of Transcendent Poetry, Early American Gothic, and The Best of Follow Your Bliss. Alvarez’s poetry, short fiction, reviews, and hybrid work have been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Prick of the Spindle, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Velocipede, Danse Macabre, Grasslimb Journal, Contemporary Rhyme, and other journals. Her play “The Life of Leo Wool” was produced in 2013 by the Greater Rochester Repertory Committee, and in 2014 her short play “Type Writer” was accepted into GeVa’s Two Pages/Two Voices Festival. Nina Alvarez is the founding publisher of Cosmographia Books, Canvas Literary Journal, and the creator of Dream Your Book author services.
“Within every human being there is a treasury. And this treasury is the transcendent. It’s a field, an eternal field, of pure, unbounded consciousness, and it, being eternal, has always and forever been there. Underlying the whole field of relativity, deep within each one of us, never had a beginning, it’s there now and it will be there forever.”
Featuring works by poets from the U.S., UK, Canada, Turkey, and Singapore, these selections paint a dynamic portrait of contemporary transcendent thought and feeling. In this collection you will find notes from the transcendent treasuries of sixty-three poets spanning six decades in age. Cosmographia Books Publisher Nina Alvarez has pulled from the most significant and compelling poems submitted to the 2017-2018 Cosmographia call for transcendent poetry. Eighty-four poems are presented in seven sections of twelve poems each—Searching, Introspection, Secrets, Time, Mysteries of Nature, Awakening in Nature, Spirit—each marked by an illustration.
CONTRIBUTORS
Mary Alter
Gabriela Alvarado
Craig Barker
John Barrale
James Blackmon
Susan P. Blevins
Lynne Burnett
Bob Canuel
Tara Carnes
John Carter
Charles Coté
Suzannah Dalzell
Nick Dante
Steve Elder
Hannah Fleming
Ana Fores Tamayo
Elizabeth Fox
Meg Freer
Annette Gagliardi
Arnie Gerstein
Suzanne Gili Post
Anna Gionet
Ari Gold
Nancy Gustafson
Judyth Hill
Olivia Kingery
Alex S. Klein
David Lawton
Charles Leggett
Michael H. Levin
Joshua Lipson
W.J. Lofton
Marianne Lyon
Randy Mazie
Celina McManus
Lisa Mecham
Robert Miller
Caroline Misner
Kyle Mola
Charlene Moskal
Josephine Napiore
C.M. O’Brien
Lucía Orellana Damacela
Julia Peachum
Carrie Magness Radna
stephanie roberts
Noah Rodriguez
Grey Rosado
Stephen Seabridge
Tyler Shafer
Aiyah Sibay
Leonora Simonovis
Nathan Steinman
Melanie Swetz
Larry Thacker
Dianalee Velie
Cynthia Ventresca
Ben Weise
O. Alan Weltzien
Sharon Whitehill
Elizabeth Winkler
Haley Wooning
Fariq Yusoff