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The Best In Poetry 1970
You need not be a poet or poetry enthusiast
to enjoy this amazing book. Times may change,
but human dreams, aspirations, and emotions never
change. This is poetry from the heart shared in words.
In every one of our anthologies, you’ll find lines that
you’ll treasure, save and share. While at first a poem
may sound simplistic or enigmatic, if you read it
again you’ll uncover its special merit and realize why
we selected it. We archived these books at great
effort and cost to preserve them for you. Think of
your purchase as a donation and a vote to keep this
site available to the world!
For example these magical lines (one of so many!):
The Beautiful Snow by Adeline Mazerolas
“It came like angel footsteps
In the quiet of the night”
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. Our editors considered
thousands of entries to select the poems included here. After several years of
publishing many astounding 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, and 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 1998 the dream became a reality!
High speed laser printing and the computer made “real anthologies” a well-
earned reward, a professional hardcover book, Notable American Poets, and
The Helping Hand. J. Mark Press published and copyrighted poetry anthologies
from 1966 to 2003 with a “time-out” to attend to life.