Author - Poet - Writer
The Back Bay Collection Seaboard Poems will resonate with readers who feel a kinship to the sea, the search for renewal, and the human and environmental passions that encompass life.
About The Book
Sailing and the Eastern Seabord are the inspiration for shared emotional connections and conveying a sense of place in this debut collection of poems with themes of love and romance, unrequited love and nostalgia, father and daughter relationships, motherhood and friendships, a celebration of heroes, spirituality and God.
Twentieth and twenty-first century black and white photographs of coastal New England and iconic New York Harbor scenes included.
Reader comments
"I'm so moved. The poems convey a palpable sense of place. A great collection about memory, family and time. It would also make a great gift for those who spend time along the northeast coast. I cannot recommend it highly enough." Rob G.C.
"I am blown away; throughly moved, mesmerized, riveted wanting to revisit. Loved second looks. Every poem speaks to me. Imaginative, picturesque phrasing, structure and wisdom. Reminds me of E.E. Cummings." Susan M.L.
I've read the Back Bay Collection through once and gone back to take a second dip. It's wonderful. Among my favorites are Legacy and The Find. The word images are very evocative; the accompanying pictures are great accompaniments." Elizabeth R.
"The book is a treasure. You take us into another world where we might be reluctant to go. It's helped me. The intricately defined quality of your poems, one is drawn into, are miniature gems capturing the magic of moments in time." Lylee K.
"The collection is a brave abstraction of words and emotions that connect directly with the soul of the reader. The simplicity and importance of the black and white images infuse a sense of space and time." Zenna B.
"It's a gift." Dorothy P.
"You rock." Katrina G.
About the author
Howell Rogers writes poetry and creative non-fiction, short fiction and spoken word.
A native New Englander growing up on coastal Connecticut and summer vactioning on Massachusetts Buzzards Bay, the seascape, sailing and the ethos of the Eastern Seaboard are the inspiration for much of her writing.
She lived in a charming university town in New Jersey for twenty-eight years having a perfectly wonderful life where she raised her three children, was a hockey mom, also a parent to cats and dogs, a nineteenth century Greek Revival house restorer, a garden enthusiast and volunteered in community fundraising. She created print and radio advertising and engaged in space planning and design as a behind the scenes co-owner of a retail building supply business for twenty years. With that ending of a privileged life, quite suddenly and most surprisingly she found herself enamored and driven with the muse of creative writing. After her children were successfully launched she returned to college for a liberal arts education.
She was awarded the Alice Abel National Litterary Award from American Mother's Literary Competition for "Family Matters," a dog, cat and single mother essay that is included in a memoir of collected essays and narrative poems on parenthood and politics. She was a finalist in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom short Fiction contest for "Lucky Duck" a Northern Gothic tale; and a semi-finalist in the Royal Palm Literary Contest for her Flash Fiction, "Management Dilema."
Currently, she lives in Florida and is at work on a children's book.