Belleville Park Press, in Paris – A New Opportunity for Writers

Pictured Left : New – Cafe Allonge at the Manifestation.

My first short story set in Paris, and part of my new Paris Shorts series.  Preview at end of post.

Two teenagers on an extended stay in Paris go out for some American coffee, without their family, finally.  What could be more fun?

My second Paris Short, “Eiffel Tower Pose on Family Yoga Day” is now available.  Meet the folk these two kids left behind for a few hours. 🙂

All titles available by subscription or direct purchase.

Please see my Paris page for links to photos, poems, and info on novels and short stories.

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

---

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

Belleville Park Press – New Opportunity for Writers

**

Categories :

This Series – Paris Photos

Related Series – Paris , Paris PhotoPoems , Vermont PhotoPoems

*

Linked to dVersePoets OpenLinkNight # 105, hosted by Brian

This is dVersePoets first post starting their third year.  An amazing accomplishment in its own right, but even more amazing in that they continue to maintain such a high level of acceptance for poets and writers, and even visual artists working with photo poems.

Brian, in the intro to this week’s OpenLinkNight prompt, says,

Happy is not always easy. There is always so much we have to think about that can easily get in the way of just being genuinely happy. For me happiness is a choice & a discipline.

So it’s with even greater pleasure, I introduce a new start-up, below, in a slightly differing format, that I hope enjoys the same success as dVersePoets Pub : Belleville Park Press, Paris.

*

*

Introducing: Belleville Park Press, Paris

This is a small, but very satisfying celebration of sorts.

I’ve had one of my poems published in a  new, small, relatively unknown, one-sheet page size, hard-copy, on real paper, hold-in-your-hand lit mag – straight out of Paris, calling itself, the Belleville Park Press.

The poem they chose to print is below.

It’d first appeared on my site here, early November, last year, when Sheila and I were just beginning our 5 1/2 weeks in Paris.  It was part of a Paris Photo-Poem piece about the little streets just about everywhere in Paris, between, among, and crossing the grand boulevards and avenues I’d thought most of the city was composed of.

I think I first heard about Belleville via a post on FB from Shakespeare and Company.

There’s no fee to submit, and, as far as I can tell, no residency requirement.  It appears to be being offered for sale in more and more locations throughout the world, small bookstores, etc.

Every two weeks, they publish a new “page.”  My piece is on the third issue, called, Page 3.

**

“Osmosis, Infusion, and Just Plain Sharing”

small

streets in paris

overlaid – criss-crossed

grid-like

by haussmann’s grand boulevards

still feed

the avenues and wide expanses

*

shops and wines and flowers

carts art and baguettes

crowd the narrow

cobblestoned

tiny lines

(on the map)

*

veins and arteries

head and heart

in

one city

yes

 2012 felipe adan lerma

***

English Language Places We Liked in Paris

American Library in Paris

WICE

BIA (Breakfast in America)

Blues Bar-B-Q

Shakespeare & Company

Bugsy’s Bar

The Bombardier

And a special gracias to all the French, German, Italian, Swedish, Venezuelan, and Russian folk we met in Paris who knew English and helped us.

*

English Speaking Places in Paris, for Next Time 🙂

The Abbey Bookshop

*

Preview: “Cafe Allonge at the Manifestation”

*

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

*

**

YouTube Videos

List of My Author Pages

---

*** INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

About Me

Home

Related articles

• Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Photos # 11 – Passing by a Paris Manifestation (Protest) (Day 12) (felipeadanlerma.com)
• Welcome to Belleville Park Pages (bellevilleparkpages.wordpress.com)
• 25 Famous Authors’ Poetic Descriptions of Paris (flavorwire.com)
• Paris is Personal – Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma (felipeadanlerma.com)