Birds Like Me--a poetry collection

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

Novel Project for 2019 NaNoWriMo-
Grave Labyrinth

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

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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Grave Labyrinth synopsis:  Cassie's Halloween weekend in Lewes, Delaware should warn her off: her future mother-in-law hates her on sight, her fiancée is being stalked, and then blood leaks out of the trunk of her car. Twisted between sins of the past and the present, Cassie delves into mystery 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
  • Pirates: Love and Artificial Intelligence--Editing 2019-2020
  • Craft Poetry Chapbook--2019-2020
    • ​"Craft-Boat" published by Local Gems January 2020​
  • 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
  • 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