{"id":2,"date":"2017-01-06T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/dir\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:21:51","slug":"boomer-poetry-prose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Voracious Readers Welcome<\/h3><div class=\"textwidget\"><h3>Ah, a visitor!<\/h3>\n<p>With so many places to go, I'm honored you've arrived at a site I established in 2008 to share poems, short stories, essays and selected artwork. Writing has been my passion since 1980. I must have hit the million-word mark.<\/p>\n<h3>Explore My Website<\/h3>\n<p>Check the links to works you can find here and published on Amazon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/a> for this writer's life story.<\/li>\n<li>Open&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=7838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blog <\/strong><\/a>for reflections on life, art and literature:<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Thoughts on the fiction eBook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=7838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Monks of Malibu<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Notes on the eBook serial sci-fi quartet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=7690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Future Schmaltz<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=8200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Books, Books and More Books<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click to take a spin in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Essays: Boom<\/strong>.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Spend time in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Listening Booth<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;to hear recorded poems.<\/li>\n<li>Select the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Poetry Reading Room <\/strong><\/a>to read&nbsp;works spanning decades.<\/li>\n<li>Learn the latest scoop at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=8333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reggie Morrisey Newsletters<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Read an array of quick fiction picks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Short Stories<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/li>\n<li>View sketches and paintings in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sketchy<\/a>,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=7950\">Gallery of Vincent Mancuso Art <\/a><\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gallery of Ed Morrisey Art<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Share your thoughts via options listed on my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?page_id=28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact<\/a><\/strong> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Offsite<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Visit Apple Books, Kobu, Smashwords or Amazon to download my attractively priced eBooks<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Check out reviews of my 2024 fiction <strong><em>Flights of Fancy<\/em> <\/strong>and its 2025 sequel <strong><em>Gossamer Wings<\/em><\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereadingcafe.com\/flights-of-fancy-gossamer-wings-by-reggie-morrisey-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reading Cafe<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">Find the <b><a id=\"OWA1cc4fbcc-130f-21da-d29c-ab2920e24341\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/portobellobookblog.com\/2025\/07\/26\/threetwoone-quickfire-questions-with-reggie-morrisey-author-of-gossamer-wings-reggiemorrisey-bsky-social\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portobello Book Blog #321 Author Interview<\/a><\/b>&nbsp;from \"across the pond\" a quick read about <b><i>Gossamer Wings<\/i><\/b> posted. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Read my author interview <b><i>o<\/i><\/b>n<b>&nbsp;<a id=\"OWA92344d02-b10a-2b02-dbe2-4c27ebd86ca6\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/nightbeatseu.ca\/2025\/02\/18\/behind-the-screens-tuesday-author-interview-137\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nightbeatseu.ca\/2025\/02\/18\/behind-the-screens-tuesday-author-interview-137\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Night Beats Extended Universe<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>about writing <b><i>Flights of&nbsp;Fancy<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;As recommended by book blogger Sarah G. of the <b><a id=\"OWA5ce2a86e-d58f-fe7b-6f9d-5dfe2e1bd255\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/readingnook84.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/09\/author-interview-the-monks-of-malibu-by-reggie-morrisey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Nook<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>says, \"get a cuppa\" and read my November 2022 author interview about writing <b><i>The Monks of Malibu<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Visit for a chat on <b><u><a id=\"OWA2409cd0f-1d7e-4503-59f6-2258bfe8c20b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/22202868.Reggie_Morrisey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Goodreads<\/a><\/u><\/b>&nbsp;or <b><u><a id=\"OWAf2e5878b-a636-e954-b6e8-99822256ea22\" 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Find Vincent Mancuso reproductions at<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/profiles\/1-vincent-mancuso.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fine Art America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Onward,<br \/>\nReggie Morrisey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AllEbookSocialPost.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AllEbookSocialPost-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AllEbookSocialPost-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AllEbookSocialPost-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AllEbookSocialPost-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AllEbookSocialPost.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Two Online Reviews<\/h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ReadingCafe_Instagram_RMM.jpg\" class=\"image wp-image-8565  attachment-NaNxNaN size-NaNxNaN\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%; 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&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Copy-of-Gossamer-Wings-eCover2024B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Copy-of-Gossamer-Wings-eCover2024B-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Copy-of-Gossamer-Wings-eCover2024B-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Copy-of-Gossamer-Wings-eCover2024B.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Sage Anthony is a mystery writer, achingly pigeonholed into a genre that bores her. Murder in medieval convents and abbeys is her stock and trade, but she cannot write gore anymore. After growing up in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley minus a biological father, taunted by a homicide-detective stepfather and wary of Stepfather#2, Sage\u2019s mind is rife with suspicion. Blunt trauma to her head makes her thirty-something life tortured, even though she lives in a loft apartment on the New Paltz, New York estate of an old billionaire who is obsessed with her\u2013\u2013but then, so was his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Her Irish-born mother is similarly guarded in her affairs, critical of Sage\u2019s choices, and she fumes as a 21st century American patriot. Alas, her daughter is not tuned into incendiary politics. Sage's life proves the maxim, \u201cWhat you think about expands.\u201d Luck follows as Sage strikes it rich and does as she fancies at her own New Paltz estate and in France. France is where the <strong><em>Flights of Fancy<\/em> <\/strong>takes you more than once, the last trip capped by a February 2020 stopover in Milan for Fashion Week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gossamer Wings<\/em><\/strong> takes place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown when Sage is stuck in luxurious isolation on her Hudson River Valley estate. She is determined (if afraid) to solve the mystery of her biological family. Her mother still infuriates Sage. Her staff suffers the wealthy woman's moods and bright ideas as they live out their own dramas. The future looms more than beckons as she wonders if the only being she can trust is her beagle.<\/p>\n<h3>Order Your eBook<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Visit Apple Books, Kobu, Smashwords or Amazon to download my attractively priced eBooks<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-2-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, a visitor! With so many places to go, I&#8217;m honored you&#8217;ve arrived at a site I established in 2008 to share poems, short stories, essays and selected artwork. Writing has been my passion since 1980. I must have hit the million-word mark. 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