My Dear Readers, Petals of Haiku: An Anthology published by Literary Revelations retains its #1 Amazon Bestselling Place in Haiku and Japanese Poetry. We are still Top New Release in Haiku and Poetry About Nature. We were briefly #1 Top Release in Poetry Anthologies. I am thrilled. Thank you for your likes, your kind comments, and your support. I am very grateful to everyone who have helped us. Sending you love. A few haiku from the book butterflies flutter in the bushes red bougainvilleas synchronised courting dance— the grebes paddle furiously Christina Chin lightning’s brillian ..read more

My lovely contributors & followers, it’s night here. I woke up and found out that Petals of Haiku: An Anthology by Literary Revelations is now a #1 Amazon Bestseller on Japanese & Haiku Poetry. Not only a Top Release but a #1 Amazon Bestseller. I am overwhelmed with joy! Congratulations to all contributors. Special thanks the Hikari @hikari2162554 and Naoki Kimura @cogito_ergo0sum. Special thanks to everyone who supported us. I am overjoyed. Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Share ..read more

My Dear Readers, I was planning to launch Petals of Haiku: An Anthology by Literary Revelations tomorrow May 30. However the book became a New Amazon Top Release before its launch. I am in heaven. Congratulations to all contributors. Thank you to everyone who helped us. Love to everyone. Gabriela. You can check the book out here. Gabriela Marie Milton 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee Publisher, Editor, Award Winning & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Books: Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology (ed.), Literary Revelations, 2023 Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (ed.), Experiments in F ..read more

My dear followers, It is with great pleasure that we bring to you the full cover design of Petals of Haiku: An Anthology, a superb book that Literary Revelations plans to release mid to late May 2024. We are humbled by your submissions. Over 150 poets are included in this anthology and we are profoundly grateful to the award winning Japanese painter Hikari whose art work is phenomenal, as well as to the award winning Japanese photographer Naoki Kimura who provided the background photo. We are also proud of the wonderful and innovative cover design, done by Iuliana Irimia, a young and talented ..read more

Dear Reader, Literary Revelations is thrilled to reveal the cover art of Petals of Haiku: An Anthology. We plan to release the anthology mid to late May. We are absolutely thrilled with the high quality of submissions. We congratulate everyone who received an email of acceptance – over 150 poets did – and we ask those who did not make it not to give up. We are ready to work with them in the future. A Few Words about the Anthology Petals of Haiku is not just an anthology that Literary Revelations is proud to publish. It’s a masterpiece that encapsulates the essence of haiku poetry like never be ..read more

“While photography inherently gives the impression of being “real” or “existing in reality,” the essence of monochrome photography lies in creating scenes that do not actually exist. Through this abstraction, the universal characteristics and emotions of the subject are emphasized, bringing out a deeper sense of reality. If color photography can evoke individual emotions and meanings as realism, monochrome photography can be said to enable a universal empathy not influenced by color. In summary, monochrome photography opens up new visual and emotional dimensions by stripping away color from r ..read more

Mycenae, Greece, My Photo White rock, mountains, #cathartic beauty. I do not know anything. The only thing I know is Jesus’ silence to Pontius Pilate’s question: What is the truth? News about Petals of Haiku a new publication of Literary Revelations coming soon. Please be patient. Thank you! Literary Revelations recently published Echoes Lost in Stars by PS Conway. The book reached Top New Release on Amazon in all categories: poetry about nature, poetry about love, and American Poetry. It’s a splendid poetry collection. Thank you to everyone who helped us. I am humbled by your support. Those ..read more

I’ll return I open my veins in warm waters each time when you like what I write the sound of the sands in the darkness the eyes of the desert are dried the midnight windows are opened I jump like a lynx from a cage dressed in cold winds and in black barefoot I land on the yolk of young times I paid all the bills do not worry I buried my bracelets by the green wall white shirts are lined in the closet this sand tastes like canvas and paint I sharpen my eyes my fingers are stretched from the cosmic tomorrow I enter tonight I’ll return do not worry disheveled, loves cry between us remember the wo ..read more

The miracle of you The moon’s right-hand pours soul into my flesh pigeons’ wings bring scents of lilac blooms the air gets drunk with poetry statuary women of the water flaunt their hair within the loneliness of you my heart rotates five equinoxes on a wooden spindle your eyes pour flesh into my soul my body germinates the sounds of growing leaves I wash my hands into the waters of Guadalquivir in the scented night of those who never sleep I say I love you and in one single breath our wedding is transformed in an enraptured death was it the moon? was it the morning dew? perhaps it was the mira ..read more

St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2024 – the date that marked the launch of Echoes Lost in Stars written by PS Conway and published by Literary Revelations (my small independent press). St. Patrick’s is a day that our Patrick loves. Look at his name: PS Conway – all Irish. We strategized for a while and on the morning of St. Patrick’s Day we launched the book. All authors that I have published became Amazon #1 bestsellers in various categories. Patrick was to become one of them too because he deserved it. 7am, March 17 Patrick and I start the campaign. We are all over the social media: X, FB, IG, b ..read more