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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Friends in Writing Endeavours,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been away the past 2 days with hospital and doctor visits for Bob and me. I finally got to check my e-mail this evening and found this wonderful news.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What a great day this has been – when I visited my eye specialist, he told me he was ordering a number of my chapbooks to give as gifts. He commented, “I want to support you and I want to be the first to kick-off your Pre-Orders for the new book!” Not only did I leave his office with a great report from my scans today, that everything is holding and I am not losing more sight at this time – but, then, the affirmation he gave me on my newest publication was a little boost that everyone needs from time to time. I think I floated out of that office – I don’t remember my feet touching the ground. Some days are like this. Some are not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And, here is the big surprise I got this evening:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>For immediate Release: from Lynda McKinney Lambert<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>September 20, 2019:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>TODAY: <i><span style='color:red'>first snow</span></i> is Book of the Day on Finishing Line Press.</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p align=right style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><img width=252 height=252 style='width:2.625in;height:2.625in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D56FEC.0AD73A60"></span></b><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>first snow - </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>featured on Finishing Line Press social media sites.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>FLP is running a paid advertisement this week on social media for my new chapbook!</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red'>-<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red'>About the Author:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Lynda McKinney Lambert</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>, is a retired college professor of fine arts and humanities. Retirement from teaching opened the door for her to write full-time. She explores the themes of landscape, mythology, pilgrimage, fine arts and literature in her writing.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit;font-stretch: inherit'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>She loves walking through a meadow of wild flowers; gazing at a star-strewn sky; spending solitary winter days with her husband, Bob, their 2 rescued cats and 2 rescued dogs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>-</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit;font-stretch: inherit'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red'>ADVANCE PRAISE FOR first snow by Lynda McKinney Lambert <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>My grandmother knew the name of every bird by note and call who ever sang to the sun in the fields by her Wisconsin country home, and she knew the names of the trees by bark and needle and leaf in the woods. In these days of urban desolation and digital isolation, it is harder and harder to keep hold of the once-common natural knowledge. Here in <strong><span style='font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Lynda Lambert</span></strong>’s poetry the vitality of the seasons is still felt, seen and heard. Lambert notices the colors and sounds that surround us, those sights and odes that barely register through our buds and pads and windshields, and she names them for us and she remembers them for us. In these poems, Lambert calls her readers to celebrate the blue spruce in the morning fog, to “stand in darkness / urging Blood Moon-arise<strong><span style='font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>”</span></strong> and to be alive in the old ways. “It feels like we have been here,” she says of one icy morning, “for a thousand years.” In these pages, we have.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>–Russell Streur</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>, editor <i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Plum Tree Tavern</span></i>, author <i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Fault Zones</span></i>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'>-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.6pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>RESERVE YOUR COPY OF THIS LIMITED EDITION TODAY, PREORDER SHIPS JANUARY 3, 2020</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='line-height:12.85pt'><span style='color:#454545'><a href="https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/first-snow-by-lynda-mckinney-lambert/">https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/first-snow-by-lynda-mckinney-lambert/</a> </span><span style='font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>#poetry, #book #booklovers #readers #flp #poetrylovers #chapbook</span><span style='color:#454545'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><br>-<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.85pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>4 Sample Poems from <span style='color:red'> <i>first snow…<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal>By Lynda McKinney Lambert<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>-<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>first snow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>we watch <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>for the first<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>snowfall <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>wait for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>silent passage <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>along the banks of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>ancient creeks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>dull morning light <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>conceals <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>gold-plated Gingko leaves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>beneath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>new-fallen snow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-<br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>from “Dream Sequence” # 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>In my dream (#4)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I climb upwards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>on the ladder I stumbled upon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>in the woods one afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Earth disappears<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>the ladder is unstable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>“Keep it straight up,” I whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>“Keep your body centered. Stay poised.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-<br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Silver Cloud Dancers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Silver clouds swirl & spin in circles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Inflated silence above her golden head. She<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Levitates above the floor, reaches for <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Variable visions of mesmerizing cloud-pillows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Eternally drifting in uncertain lifecycles <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Round & square. Touch the floating orbs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Cloud dancer stretches her slender hands <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Longevity is unpredictable, uncertain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Out-of-the-box survival fluctuates <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Undulates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Determined by chemistry & chaos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Dance your memories in silver clouds <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Air and pure helium lift in rhythm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>No one can calculate your journeys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Choreography of individual flights<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Every Friday morning new clouds arrive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Repeat the process of new expectations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Some silver clouds last for a week. Some don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-<br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>My Daughter Cut the Roses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>My daughter looked <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>at the bouquet of fresh roses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>noticed two of them were drooping.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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