All That I’m Allowed is a storybook for grownups about learning to live with children and dogs. In this regard most grown people set out to do what’s best for them, to be good examples, trusted companions to dog and child. But often times the lessons we think we are getting across are interpreted very differently by the receivers. All That I’m Allowed is not only a make-believe romp through these poignant and often funny misinterpretations, but it is also a social commentary on coming to grips with a rapidly changing society and how we attempt to make sense of it all.
All That I'm Allowed by Ellen Harper is available now.
Ellen Harper (with Marguerite Millard)
Ellen Harper is a singer, songwriter, musician, and author. Her memoir, published in 2021 on Chronicle Books Always a Song covers a transformational time in American culture. She received a Ph.D. in Education from the Claremont Graduate University, taught at CSU San Bernardino and abandoned a secure career in academia for the sake of folk music. Ellen has released two albums, currently runs the Folk Music Center in Claremont, California and is a member of the folk trio, Citrus Sisters. Harper has been around dogs—farm dogs, city dwellers, townies and suburbanite dogs her whole life. Harper lives in La Verne with two previously unhoused dog companions, Libby and Izzy.
Marguerite Millard is a musician and employee at the Folk Music Center in Claremont California, a member of Squeakin’ Wheels a folk/country band, and a member of the folk trio Citrus Sisters. Marguerite has drawn and doodled most of her life—designing, logos, t-shirts, flyers and ad copy. She is thrilled to help bring Ellen’s charming dog characters to life in All That I’m Allowed. Millard lives in Claremont with two previously unhoused dog companions, Perla and M’Lou. She is a keen observer of the canine family.
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Euphony: Micro Prose Poems contains works best defined as thoughts, both observational and insightful, expressed in laconic form. The collection delivers the reader through subatomic communiques, electric “jolts of awareness,” about the ever-shifting realm of human emotion and experience––a world both known and exotic. In Euphony over 40 lyrical sketches inspire the reader to thought and inquiry––both familiarly-footed and utterly transcendent––about who we are and why we act as we do.
Euphony by Michael C. Keith is available now.
Keith’s mix of humor and poetry is brilliant.
—Lorette C. Luzajic, author of The Neon Rosary
Keith’s tiny tales, his prose poems, plant thought bombs.
—Peter Cherches, author of Whistler’s Mother’s Son
In a world asleep to both irony and delight, Michael C. Keith offers us this collection of gems, which act like morning bird songs trying to wake us from our slumber.
—Brady Peterson, author of At the Edge of Town
Quirky, wry, ironic, Michael C. Keith’s Euphony delivers unexpected micro-bursts of endorphins at every turn. His nanoscopic revelations, delivered in pointed pings, find hell in the mundane, humor in hell, and wisdom in the tragically absurd. Keith’s finger-snap-sharp pint size prose poems, mini miracles of juxtapose and twist, will sing in your ears and sting like the awakening cracks of a Lilliputian roshi’s stick!
—Marc Zegans, author of Lyon Street and The Snow Dead
Michael C. Keith is the author or coauthor of more than two dozen groundbreaking books on electronic media, which have resulted in numerous awards. Beyond that, he is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Next Better Place from Algonquin Books and over 25 story collections––his latest titles include Quiet Geography from Cervena Barva Press, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle from Scantic Books, Bodies in Recline from Pelekinesis, and All the Noise in the Room from MadHat Press. Keith has been nominated for an IPPY, Pushcart Prize, a PEN/Faulkner Award, among others, and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the International Book Award in the “Fiction Visionary” category. His work has been translated into several languages. He is professor emeritus at Boston College.
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