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AND TWO! If it's March it is time for March Madness and an anthology of three novels set in women's basketball's favorite month. Mark Fogarty's exciting and funny work is on display in the trilogy: "ALL THAT'S BEST OF TRUE AND RIGHT, " "ALL THAT'S BEST OF BLACK AND WHITE, " "and "ALL THAT"S BEST OF STAND AND FIGHT." In the first novel, Nick Johnson thinks it's a demotion to be named to be coaching a Division III college WBB team, but finds out...

Poetry Man, hero of ALL THAT'S BEST OF DAY AND NIGHT and ALL THAT'S BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT, becomes the temporary coach of the Monroe Metrics and promptly pledges to win ten games in a row with a losing team. At the same time his wife, the permanent coach of the Metrics, is about to give birth to their first child. The two events converge to show the Poetry Man what's important in "this thing of ours, " as the women's basketball niche jokingl...

Now there's a second edition of Went to See the Gypsy! Are you a Baby Boomer that still rocks? Or a fan of rock's golden era of any age? Do you remember the first vinyl record you bought? Do you still play your favorite songs two or three times in a row? Then you will enjoy Went To See the Gypsy! The title is from a Dylan song about Elvis, and it evokes the journey I've been on since the Beatles took America by storm in 1964. My friends and I ...

The sixth installment of the "All That's Best" novels about women's basketball finds Nick Johnson asked to take over a failing girls WBB team as his wife, Dee, prepares to take her Monroe Metrics to Spokane for the ACAA tournament. On Nick's team, the Liberty, you will meet his rebellious daughter Bit, Candy, who has to overcome her hardscrabble life to get on the path to a college athletic scholarship, Weather, whose mother W.A. Nick has also...

It is three years after the events of ALL THAT's BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT. The University of Monroe Metrics are again a mediocre club. This year, though, the Beast, the Northeast regional championship, is being held at Monroe. They face the embarrassment of being blown out of their own arena. What's more, a valuable artifact has been stolen! The Monroe AD hires Reporter Guy, narrator of the earlier book, to find the crown jewel. And as a cover,...

ALL THAT'S BEST OF TRUE AND LIGHT Nick Johnson is in a familiar situation. He's been asked to be the temporary coach of a University of Monroe Metrics team. Only this time, it is the Golden Metrics, one of the school's Division III teams. Nick must adjust to life in the minor leagues of collegiate WBB, but he finds an extraordinary spirit and cast of characters in these unforgettable Golden Metrics. In addition to the new team there are app...

Will it be a cakewalk to the world championship for the US national women's basketball team? It should be, since they are called The Franchise, the best team in WBB history. But it turns out not to be smooth for these star hoopsters. Nick Johnson has taken on the job of being their poetry coach, but decides to ground them in some American history instead. The women start thinking about who it is they are actually representing as a team, and ev...

If it's March, it's March Madness! And One! collects three of Mark Fogarty's exciting, funny women's basketball novels: "ALL THAT'S BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT, " "ALL THAT'S BEST OF DAY AND NIGHT, " and "ALL THAT'S BEST OF WINTER LIGHT." See the University of Monroe Metrics vie for a national title, solve the mystery of who has stolen their trophy, and try the Ice Cream Strategy when more conventional strategies fail. The end of winter isn't quit...

A POET A WEEK! The year 2020 is going to be remembered for several things, not least of them how we found beauty, meaning and puzzlement and recorded them here, in our lucky 13th Red Wheelbarrow anthology! Feature poet Zorida Mohammed joins more than 50 other poets pushing The Red Wheelbarrow in the direction of sanity, With 52 poets published here, our prescription for an antidote to a crazy year is to read a poet a week.Mohammed's poetry loo...

The life of Jaco Pastorius, the master of the bass guitar, was brilliant and turbulent. But it is possible to see, using the title of one of his most famous compositions, a continuum to his life that is mirrored by the continuum of these poems, which celebrate the maestro's musical genius while puzzling and sorrowing over the maladies that led to his early decline and death. And now, 25 years after his death, the up and down rollercoaster has ...

SUN NETS, Mark Fogarty's new book of poetry from White Chickens Press, contains about two dozen short poems, some rhymed, some not, all evocative, all catching light to illuminate things and situations. His fourth poetry book follows closely the themes of the first three: truth versus lies, the dark matter of the universe, the webs of a basketball cover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Clutter family of Kansas, the doomed and talented Minnie Riperton...

It's March Madness, and the University of Monroe Metrics are heading for an early end to a good but not great season. Then they are inspired by a mentor who shows them how to see the poetry inside and outside of them. The Metrics use this new energy to begin a march toward the national championship game and a date with their greatest potential. Mark Fogarty's sweet, funny short novel will introduce you to a team of worldclass athletes: Pip Pip...

Rock and roll poetry! PHANTOM ENGINEER is the creative reaction to fifty years of listening to music, playing music, recording music. The natural joyousness of rock is big in these pages, plus the sadness of remembering those who died young. Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Lisa Lopes, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake and Nicky Hopkins are all remembered for talent (or genius) that bloomed young and died young. Meanwhile, t...

The beautiful world of women's basketball is the stage of THE TALL WOMEN'S DANCE. Inside its pages you will meet such gifted athletes as Elena Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, Becky Hammon, Jude Schimmel, Cappie Pondexter, Candice Wiggins and many more. And what better way to describe poetry in motion than by poetry? The women's game is fire and ice!