About the Author

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 290 journals, 2River, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, San Pedro River Review, The Hamilton Stone Review, The Ilanot Review, The Writing Disorder, Third Wednesday, Tipton Poetry Journal, Yes Poetry, and elsewhere, among others. She resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps. https: //www.facebook.com/Lana-Bella-789916711141831/

Reviews

Lana Bella's poetry celebrates the insights and sheer delight that can be found in everyday experiences. The seemingly ordinary soars above the commonplace in a surprising and sensuous light. Lana Bella is a new and important voice in modern poetry. -Donald Webb, Managing Editor, Bewildering Stories These poems resonate with delicate intuition, stirring the heart of imagination beautifully. Lana Bella has a close relationship with the Muse who feeds her the colors of rainbows and images from the darker recesses of the mind. She harmonizes these delights with grand fervor. What Lana Bella seeks to communicate is the hidden otherness in each incandescent moment, the arching contours of Time as they curve and rest, and what it means to be alive in the modern world. Yet her poetry does not lose its simplicity or its elegance by conveying broad themes. I have to admit that this is a poet of grafted skill, one that seems beyond natural. -Dustin Pickering, founder of Transcendent Zero Press and author of The Daunting Ephemeral Lana Bella's poetry is musical and mystical, holding the flow of water and sand. She writes with the rhythm of an island breeze, tossing images that evoke beauty both in sight and sound and weave for us a tapestry of the intense love that can be life. Her poetry is a journey of love and soul-in her own words "an alphabet of matter and light." With the skill of a master welder, she focuses in on a tiny droplet of space or time and then melds together words to expand the picture into a masterpiece. Longing and loneliness paint the spaces between lines and phrases such that, once you read it, her poetry is "always there." -Julianne Palumbo, Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Mothers Always Write