About Paul Turner

I've been writing poems since the mid-1990s, starting with three-liners. I headed the Newton Free Library Poetry Workshop (MA), and have twice been a featured poet in the Agapé Poetry Series in Boston.

In 2005, I was accepted as a member of Poets & Writers, a national non-profit organization whose mission is to "foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the U.S. literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public." (reference: http://www.pw.org/about/mission.html)

In 2006, I was accepted as a writer member in The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

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On-air interview

To listen to an interview with Paul Turner, visit Global Talk Radio: A Story To Tell and search for the October 3rd 2005 program.

Published poetry

"Granuloma" spokenwar.com (November 2007)
"Mount Judah Cemetery" Bastard Quarterly (Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2005)
"Fallow Days"

Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Vol. 2, 2004)

"I sing because" Parnassus Literary Journal (Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2003)
"If I yaw my way" Parnassus Literary Journal (Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2003)
"In triumph she beams"

Parnassus Literary Journal (Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2003)

"She waits on the day" Parnassus Literary Journal (Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2003)
"Isaac Solomon Builder" Bastard Quarterly (Winter 1998)

Poems by category

Sensuous poems

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Children's | Fad | Family | Five-Seven-Fives | 9/11

Other Poems | Relationships | Travel

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Children's poems

Read Baby's First Beach Day | Listen to Baby's First Beach Day
Read Coming Up | Listen to Coming Up
Read Dracaena in Prime | Listen to Dracaena in Prime
Read Halloween sites | Listen to Halloween sites
Read My lap dog | Listen to My lap dog
Read Pu-Tai Tells | Listen to Pu-Tai Tells
Read Redheaded pox | Listen to Redheaded pox

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Fad poems

Read Accretions and Augmentations | Listen to Accretions and Augmentations
Read Bocelli Lore | Listen to Bocelli Lore
Read Roger's Balls
Read Instances at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Read Lambchop Disciples | Listen to Lambchop Disciples
Read Self Publishing | Listen to Self Publishing
Read SUNY Albany Valley, 1980 | Listen to SUNY Albany Valley, 1980
Read True Crime | Listen to True Crime
Read We Are vessels | Listen to We Are Vessels

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Family poems

Read Alleys of my youth | Listen to Alleys of my youth
Read Chronic Ills | Listen to Chronic Ills
Read Dealt Relations, Family Reunion | Listen to Dealt Relations
Read ECT of late
Read His Presence | Listen to His Presence
Read Last males, two first cousins
Read Love counts | Listen to Love counts
Read Memorial Day Birthday—Ozone Park, Queens | Listen to Memorial Day, Ozone Park, Queens
Read Mount Judah Cemetery (published by Bastard Quarterly) | Listen to Mount Judah Cemetery
Read On Mom's 83rd | Listen to On Mom's 83rd

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Five-seven-fives

Read Go Mets | Listen to Go Mets
Read In triumph she beams | Listen to In triumph she beams
Read She waits on the day | Listen to She waits on the day
Read Stern Morning Cup

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9/11 poems and other sacrifices

Read After all | Listen to After all
Read An autumn death | Listen to An autumn death
Read Compartments | Listen to Compartments
Read Granuloma

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Other poems

Read A Pie Is Not a Screen
Read Audition for a dramatic profession | Listen to Audition for a dramatic profession
Read Birthday redux
Read Bully, continue | Listen to Bully, continue
Read Christmas Somewhere, Yes
Read Fallow Days | Listen to Fallow Days
Read Grace
Read Home on the Run
Read I sing because (published by Parnassus Literary Journal) | Listen to I sing because
Read Itinerant Tenor Woes | Listen to Itinerant Tenor Woes
Read Joy on The Charles | Listen to Joy on The Charles
Read Lover You Then | Listen to Lover You Then
Read Magister Doctor
Read My donna | Listen to My donna
Read New Year Entry, Peabody, Massachusetts | Listen to New Year Entry, Peabody Massachusetts
Read Of MM
Read Our So-Called Office
Read Over again
Read Profiterole
Read Rochelle Bard
Read The Brights of Matisse | Listen to The Brights of Matisse
Read The Luffing Sail
Read The Unsung Slip | Listen to The Unsung Slip
Read Tock

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Relationship poems

Read An Altogether Journey | Listen to An Altogether Journey
Read Beside me
Read Bounding
Read Breakfast Cozy
Read Chocolate and kisses
Read Closure | Listen to Closure

Read Cobbled run

Read Come and go with him | Listen to Come and go with him

Read Come take me in style | Listen to Come take me in style
Read Dappled Light
Read Debit Dude
Read Each Other
Read Fall on Beach | Listen to Fall on Beach
Read Graduation bed
Read Home Above | Listen to Home Above
Read Imaginary Trysts | Listen to Imaginary Trysts
Read Loosely-coupled independent dame | Listen to Loosely-coupled independent dame
Read Mutual Interest
Read One Last Such
Read Overnight with you
Read Resume love | Listen to Resume love
Read Ruby Days | Listen to Ruby Days
Read Schnorrer's lament | Listen to Schnorrer's lament
Read September pursuits | Listen to September Pursuits
Read Single Thread | Listen to Single Thread
Read Sip from the same melody
Read Stake out | Listen to Stake out
Read Sunday cover
Read Vows | Listen to Vows
Read Walk Together | Listen to Walk Together
Read Your image | Listen to Your image
Read Yucatan Birthday

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Travel poems

Read Blue Commute | Listen to Blue Commute
Read Day's journey in Liberty NY | Listen to Day's Journey in Liberty NY
Read It's like a beer commercial
Read Key Lime | Listen to Key Lime
Read Lago at noon | Listen to Lago at noon
Read Menu gazing | Listen to Menu gazing
Read Oaxacan caresses
Read Toast of Day

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