Ardentia Verba

Ardentia Verba (Glowing Language) 1967

  J. Mark Press Publishes Anthologies by
Today’s Poets. Edited by esteemed Hallmark
poet Barbara Fischer Binstock. You really
need to read these poetry books. You’ll enjoy
genuine beautiful nuggets of 4 to 24 lines of
expression, truly paintings made with words
shared from the heart that live on with you.
You’ll Come away with a refreshed outlook on human dreams, and emotions.
If at first a poem may sound simplistic or enigmatic, as you read it again
you’ll uncover its intrinsic value.

This book contains approximately 150 poems 4 to 24 lines. This is
a book of poignant expressions that you can get lost in and read
time and again. For example these magical lines (of so many)
From:

“Haunted Place” 
I walked to the bank of the Silver Creek
As the sun descended in clouds of flame,
I traced your face in the mass of clouds,
And the falls thundered out your name
by Estelle Davis Taylor

And these magical lines From:

 “Dappled Shadows” 
When they ask of you,
what shall I say?
Only that I remember you
standing by the gate
Quiet dappled shadows
falling gently across your face,
An autumn leaf
lying in your hair
by Donald Brady

I am confident that the poetry selections published by J. Mark Press
represent the best poems of our era in America by the best poets.
You’ll find yourself re-reading these anthologies many times over.

Our editors considered thousands of entries to select the poems
included here. After several years of publishing many amazing
contributions of poetry in Penman Magazine, it became apparent
that anthologies were needed, dedicated only to poetry. I tried to
quote exciting lines of expression that every reader will enjoy.
To do so was nearly impossible.

These early anthologies 1966 to 1972 were painstakingly
handmade using primitive stencil tools and an electric mimeograph
machine. Sometimes plugged ink holes on the drum escaped our
weary eyes and and some bald spots were printed. But we weren’t
going to let a modest budget stop us. We did whatever we could to
keep on publishing. (Barbara Fischer invented a method to mimeograph
replicated color similar to silk screen).

Professionally printed and bound anthologies were only a dream
back then, causing us to “take a break” in 1977. But in 1999 the
dream became a reality! High speed laser printing and the computer
made “real anthologies” a well-earned reward, a professional book.
J. Mark Press published and copyrighted poetry anthologies from
1966 to 2003 (“some years I took time-out”)