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Plain View Press Author Maria Wells Debuts Poetry Book Images in the Clouds
Austin, Texas, 14 Feb 2022 – After a career in academia, Maria Wells of Austin, Texas presents her poems and art in her first poetry book, Images in the Clouds: reading the sky, published by Plain View Press and hitting bookstores everywhere on February 14, 2022..

With 60 poems and 10 color photos and art, Images in the Clouds carries the reader forward and back in time, to inner and outer worlds. Taken from Wells’ treasure trunk of a life of adventure and world travel, some verses share memories of places and people, while some delight with pure fantasy and imagination.

A Fulbright Scholar and Doctoral graduate from the University of Pisa, Maria Xenia Wells Zevelechi spent her academic career at the University of Texas at Austin. After retiring, she embraced poetry when a friend’s painting inspired her first poem, “Memories in Silver,” written in Paris at a meeting of Poets and Writers. A member of the Austin Poetry Society, she gives readings in Austin, Paris and Greece. With two daughters, five grandchildren and the memory of a loving husband, she lives in Austin, Texas.

Images in the Clouds: reading the sky, ISBN 9781632100948, can be purchased on Amazon.com, or in bulk by contacting the publisher.
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Images in the Clouds: reading the sky With 60 poems and 10 color photos and art, Images in the Clouds: reading the sky by Maria Wells carries the reader forward and back in time, to inner and outer worlds. Taken from the treasure trunk of Wells’ life of adventure and world travel, some verses share memories of places and people, whil....

New Crime Thriller Blink Factor by Steve Barry Combines Science and Mystery
Austin, Texas, 02 Sept, 2021 – Plain View Press announces the new release of Blink Factor, a crime thriller by Steve Barry, to bookstores and Amazon on September 2, 2021.

With two identities, artist David Asher can forever capture what he sees in the blink of an eye. As he tries to solve the mystery of his abusive father, his father hunts him down, and he faces the looming threat of the Manhattan Crime Boss and the wrath of inquisitive FBI and CIA operatives.

Born in Manhattan, Steve Barry studied painting at Boston University, the Boston Museum School and the Art Students League of New York. He left an early career in advertising on Madison Avenue for the Southwest and worked as Creative Director for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper Gaining recognition as a painter, he taught art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before moving to Texas with his wife. Always attracted to the creative process, Blink Factor is his first novel.

Copies of Blink Factor (ISBN: 978-1632100917) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.

Blink Factor: a crime thriller Manhattan,1964: No one suspects David Greenberg is also David Asher, the successful artist who, in the blink of an eye, can forever capture what he sees. Believing his father is Mob connected, he searches for evidence to put him away. But soon, rogue agents of the government discover David's secr...

Plain View Press announces the timely release of The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems by Jack Coulehan, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 1, 2020. The Talking Cure highlights physician Jack Coulehan’s poetic career, exploring the poetry of tenderness and steadiness in medical practice—observing moments, healing gestures, and internal response that reveal the worth of the individual and an ethic of compassion. A virtual book launch reading, hosted by The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, will take place on Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30 PM EDT.

A physician by trade, poet-author Coulehan uses poetry to reflect and express the trials and triumphs of keeping the body well and of facing death. The Talking Cure contains new poems plus selections from six previous books. The poems look beyond the difficulties of physical existence to see the worth and holiness of the individual with directness, passion, and humor. They show an ethic of compassionate solidarity between patient and doctor, person and family, the individual and the community. Copies of The Talking Cure, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-078-8) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-079-5), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.

An Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Jack Coulehan was formerly director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Bursting with Danger and Music (Plain View Press, 2012). A medical educator, his medical writing includes essays on clinical trials, medical ethics, and humanities, and an award-winning textbook, The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice. Information about all his books can be found on Jack Coulehan’s website, jackcoulehan.com.

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