B. L. Bruce's newest collection of poetry, "Blue California Sky," is now available for pre-order from award-winning, women-owned press Finishing Line Press.
In a recent interview with Brummet Media, poet Bri Bruce (writing under the name B. L. Bruce) talks her inspiration, process, and challenges. See the full interview here: https://consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com/2022/05/poet-interview.html Bri Bruce is aย Pushcart Prizeย nominee and award-winning California poet. For those of you who are not familiar with that,ย Pushcart Prizeย is an American-based honorary literary award organization.ย With [...]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW with B. L. Bruce Last month, I sat down virtually with Blogespresso for an author interview to discuss my latest book Measures, my writing process, and what feeds my creativity. Can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you. My name is Bri Bruce (writing under the name B. [...]
Measures B.L. Bruce Publisher:ย Black Swift Pressย Pages:ย 134ย ISBN:ย 9781735707402Reviewed:ย March, 2021 BUY THE BOOK ON AMAZON Excerpt from BlueInk Review [B.L. Bruce's] newest poetry collection, Measures, by turns elicits tenderness and melancholy, hopefulness and heartbreakโwhich is to say, the gamut of the human condition.Measuresย includes 58, mostly free verse poems with occasional haiku. Imagery from the natural world is often [...]
The poems ofย Measuresย embrace lyrical tendencies as they move through the seasons of a troubled relationship. Both absence and presence haunt the pages of b. l. bruceโs poetry collection, Measures. A one time lover and longed for friend adventures to the water, leaving their companion alone on the shore. Wrinkles appear as if grooved overnight, and the [...]
In February of 2014, my debut collection of poetry, The Weight of Snow, was published. Now, seven years later, my latest collection, Measures, is here. Now available on Amazon in print and eBook format. In Measures, B. L. Bruceโs third collection of poetry, the author deftly explores grief, loss, the visual measures of time, and [...]
I was struck by the magnitude of the silence. The air seemed charged with stillness. Even now, after nightfall, a deafening silence has descended. The woods turned black as pitch. I once feared the dark, and perhaps that fear hasn't quite left me. Excerpt from 28 Days of Solitude