Welcome to the 2024 Thanksgiving menu-poem

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

Dear BlazeVOX [books] Readers,

Welcome to the annual Thanksgiving Menu-Poem for 2024! This year, we invite you to partake in a unique celebration that blends the art of poetry with the warmth of a shared meal—an homage to our cherished literary community. Since its inception in 2002, this project has served not just as a menu, but as a gathering of voices, each contributing to a rich tapestry of poetic expression in honor of the holiday.

As a trained chef, I draw from my culinary passions to craft this Menu-Poem, creating a feast of words that transcends the boundaries of traditional dining. Each dish symbolizes a different facet of our poetry community, celebrating the connections we foster through our shared love for words. It is a reflection of the many friendships formed over the years, a way to bridge distances and bring us all a bit closer together.

This year's Menu-Poem continues to explore the spirit of Thanksgiving, celebrating poets and poetry alike. We invite you to savor the metaphors and savor the verses as you would a well-prepared meal—each line, a flavor, each stanza, a course, all designed to nourish the soul.

Thank you for joining us in this creative feast. May it inspire you as we share this moment in our literary tradition.

 

Enjoy the celebration!

Warmly,
Geoffrey Gatza

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Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

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