Chuck Gibson

ALL THE COLORS START TO FADE is a collection of writings from the first decade of Ra Press' operations. Chapbooks and short stories with Adirondack themes, seven writers work has now been transferred from a regional audience to the world... A magical anthology

Let the play's poetical language wash over you in this tale of longing and belonging in a setting beyond time. Two men out walking approach a cemetery in Mineville, a mysterious and half-abandoned town in upstate NY. There they encounter several restless female souls, not content to stay quiet in their graves. Life meets death and accommodations must be made for their pasts . . .and futures. Poet Chuck Gibson worked 35 years in the Adirondack Mountains, six train hours north (and a world away) from NYC. He has written six books of poetry. This is his first play.

Schroon River Anthology is a meditation on history, on time, on memory and on loss. Featuring Charles Watts, Chuck Gibson, Cathy S. McDowell and Mary L. Randall

Many of these sonnets (1-3) were written to a friend who, like me, is an Adirondacker in exile and likes to wax nostalgic about that upstate NY region. To share a sonnet is an experience that can sometimes outstrip speech. Some sonnets here reflect long ago experiences back East (30, 33) and others celebrate my new life here in Eugene, Oregon and the nearby Cascade foothills (21-23), other states (17, 18), or the Pacific Ocean (28, 29). Other sonnets were written to my wonderful wife (15, 16, 24-27) and one sonnet (14) came from a dream. Each sonnet is a workout, like a visit to mental gym, a stairmaster for the mind. Most of all, each sonnet is for you, the reader. In a world of infinitely complex forms, I hope you enjoy a return to the simplicity of the sonnet. Chuck Gibson