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My third book of poems, A Tree and Gone (Future Cycle Press), is now out in Kindle and print format on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3qDrRqN) as well as right here. To order from my webpage, just  click on  the “Shop” button above. Proceeds from all books purchased through the website will be donated to a local food pantry.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Thanks to Carole Baldock and Orbis International Literary Journal, not only for the Pushcart nomination for "Fudge Shop" but also for publishing my sonnet "Circle Esso," which appeared in my second book, Eternal Life. It's an homage to auto mechanics and car guys,gals everywhere. If you want, you can read it on my blog, under "Circle Esso."             

 

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A Tree and Gone (Poems)

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Eternal Life 

(Poems)

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A Communion of Saints 

(Poems)

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COMMENTARY

About A Communion of Saints:

 

"As the editor of two journals primarily dedicated to formal and metrical poetry, it is unusual for me to read a set of poems and feel that I am in the presence of that rare bird, a poet who not only understands the proper mechanics of meter and form , but who can use them to produce great poetry. Terry Culleton is such a poet. . . . Culleton gives free rein to his lively imagination and mischievous sense of humor, but although the poems are often wildly funny, they usually serve to elucidate some nugget of philosophy or spiritual angst, and many resonate with an almost unearthly beauty. . . . I am sure we will be seeing much more of his work in both local and national venues."

                                                                    -- Anna Evans, editor of Barefoot Muse and The Raintown Review and author of The                                                                              Unacknowledges Legislator and Under Dark Waters: The Sinking of The Titanic 

"For years I have applauded Terry Culleton’s hilarious accounts of fictitious saints he has brought into existence through his abundant imagination.  But despite his glibness in telling about "St. Apneus the Sleeper" who, on finding God “inaccessible to prayer,” vowed to “sleep his life away," or about St. Anorexius who subsists on his miserly diet (“a dot of cottage cheese, a molecule of milk, a nice afterthought of Cantonese Duck or Thousand-Year-Old Egg”), his seriousness of purpose is never in doubt. Reading Culleton’s poems I am struck by the awe and reverence he extends to his solitary seekers in their quest for the divine.  Their self-doubt and self-deprivation—their willingness to give their lives up to something greater than themselves—resonates during these secular times of texting and instant messages, when religious devotion seems quaint and peculiar and out of fashion." 

                                                                   -- Joe Chelius, author  of Crossing State Lines and The Art of Acquiescence.

 

About A Tree and Gone (forthcoming from Future Cycle Press):

 

"[Culleton's]poems are rife with motion, often of waves and of winds, but also of a bird dropping that lands on a leaf of chickweed or of a dog that we see “pitch and zag / in wafts and skirls of blindingly bright snow.” That motility might seem at odds with such a traditional form as the sonnet, but there’s a blessed rage for order here, and the artifice is often pressured by the changes that these poems document. [T]he skillful control is reminiscent of Richard Wilbur."

                                                                   -- Temple Cone, author of GuzzleThe Broken Meadow, and No Loneliness.

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BIO

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Terence Culleton lives in Bucks County PA, just outside Philadelphia, where he's taught writing and literature for forty years. Mr. Culleton is the author of two published books of verse, A Communion of Saints (2011) and Eternal Life (2015), both published by Anaphora Literary Press. His third collection, A Tree and Gone, is due out in 2021 from Future Cycle Press.

Mr. Culleton publishes in diverse magazines and reviews, and reads widely throughout the Philadelphia region, as well as in northeastern PA and New York. His work has been featured on radio and cable TV shows in Pennsylvania and New York. and on

NPR, and he has won a number of prizes and awards both for his poetry and his teaching. 

 

His work has also been set to music and recorded by Vermont composer Don Jamison for his book and CD Far Heaven, as well as by Darryl Harper and Onus for their CD Stories in Real Time. 

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