{"product_id":"unbroken","title":"Unbroken","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in New York City, \u003cstrong\u003eLynda La Rocca\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and freelance writer who has also worked as a teaching assistant, newspaper copy editor, and municipal and general-assignment reporter for New Jersey’s \u003cem\u003eAsbury Park Press.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLynda’s three previous poetry-chapbook collections include\u003cem\u003e The Stillness Between\u003c\/em\u003e (Pudding House Publications, Ohio, 2009) and \u003cem\u003eSpiral\u003c\/em\u003e (Liquid Light Press, Colorado, 2012). Her individual poems have appeared in numerous state and national poetry-society anthologies along with such publications as \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal, The New York Quarterly, Frogpond\u003c\/em\u003e (Haiku Society of America), and \u003cem\u003eThe Colorado Sun.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLynda was the first-place winner in the poetry category of the 2020 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, a literary-arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, and a “Top-Four” winner in the 2021 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest for her sonnet “Benediction,” the final poem in this collection. Her sonnets “Portents of the Future” and “Unbroken,” also in this collection, won first place and third place, respectively, in the 2018 and 2021 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLynda has taught adult-education poetry, presented poetry workshops at various venues throughout Colorado, and served as a judge in some three-dozen state, national, and international poetry contests. She loves writing, reading, cooking (and eating), learning about wine, hiking, birding, spending lots of time in nature, and performing her poetry solo and, from 2004 to 2023, with the performance-poetry troupe the River City Nomads. Lynda lives in Salida, Colorado, with her writer-photographer husband Steve Voynick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 44 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (March 7, 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50210866987265,"sku":"pnk1787304647526","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/1979\/5201\/files\/unbroken_1.jpg?v=1787304655","url":"https:\/\/www.juniperavenue.shop\/products\/unbroken","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}