Birds Like Me--a poetry collection

READER ALERT!
October 2019 publication by
Finishing Line Press, but . . .
orders must reach 75 copies preordered from mid-June through August 15 to make this possible!
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Birds Like Me—photos by Kelly Russo

Birds Like Me
www.finishinglinepress.com/product/birds-like-me-by-joan-drescher-cooper/--A Collection of Poetry

Joan D. Cooper--Novels, Poetry, and Short Stories​
​If nothing else, humanity is an interesting condition.

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selection from "October Assateague"

Dark birds float on flat water,
Hardly recognized as the ocean today.
It is deep blue, rarely breaking, and then
Rolling into a gentle slap just before the sand,
The way the river used to do to the bulkheads
At home, shoving into them playfully.
These dark birds—not the usual brown pelicans,
Hunt alone or comingle with odd seagulls,
The gulls that look prehistoric, gigantic.
They glide over the water and spy the right
Spot to land and then just sit. No diving,
Eating, or scouting except for a place to
Float with the rollers just before
They nudge the shore.

Publications 
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New Novel for 2019-Grave Labyrinth

Cassie's future mother-in-law hates her on sight and then somebody spills blood in the trunk of her car. Twisted between the past and the present in Lewes, Delaware, Cassie delves into mystery and identity during one twenty-four hour visit to the historic seaport.  
PicturePurchase the Lilac Hill novels through Salt Water Media of Berlin, Maryland. Finding Home is available as an ebook from all vendors including Amazon, Nook and Ibooks.
Current Novels
​Available for purchase through Salt Water Media, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon Borrowing Trouble Blog--thoughts on reading, writing and other adventures

Other Projects
  • Foraging Storms--Poetry Chapbook 2018
  • The Collection--Nanowrimo Short Story Collection 2017
  • His White Lie--Nanowrimo 2016 Young Adult Novel
  • Haunting Genevieve's Reach--A Paranormal Romance set on the Delmarva--Nanowrimo 2014
  • The Portia Journal--Finalist in The Next Novelist Competition 2013
  • Confessions in Birdsong--A Baltimore Odyssey
  • Pirates: Love and Artificial Intelligence--A Science Fiction Epic
  • On Bishopville Road--Murder Mystery Paranormal Adventurewritten for Nanowrimo 2013

Baltimore Book Festival--ESWA booth 2014

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​Fun with fellow Salt Water writer Andrew Heller
--author of the Samuel Smythe young adult series.
A collection of lessons, exercises, short stories, poetry and projects for
English 12--Survey of British and World Literature Honors, SAT Test Prep
​and Creative Writing

WCBOE STEP Up Program Enrichment Activities