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International Children’s Book Day

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on April 2, 2018 Respond

Celebrating International Children’s Book Day by Alex Paramo

Reading is the most important form of mental exercise that enable children to form the building blocks they will need to live a fruitful and enjoyable life. Help us celebrate this important day as the world focus attention on the importance of developing a love of reading in your children! Community Publishing has several books to choose from including:

  • Bella The Caterpillar: The New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards Bilingual Children’s Book of the Year 2017!! From the imagination of a 7 year old comes Bella The Caterpillar! Written by Marisol Paramo, Illustrated by Henna Artist Acey May with Music Production by Christian Orellana, this bilingual, multimedia book is critically acclaimed featuring the youngest winner of the New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards in any category! Find your copy here!
  • Princess Marisol & The Portal: The sequel to Princess Marisol & The Moon Thieves, this bilingual multimedia children’s book was also performed by FUSION Theatre. Find your copy here!
  • Samuel’s Story: A multimedia children’s story written by Albuquerque’s Inaugural Poet Laureate and current Deputy Director for Cultural Service for the City of Albuquerque, Hakim Bellamy, Illustrated by Melvin Mayes and music production by Roscoe Floyd (DJ Flo Fader). Find your copy here!
  • Princess Marisol & The Moon Thieves: A bilingual multimedia children’s story written by Alex Paramo, Illustrated by Audrey McNamara this book was adapted to for the stage and performed around New Mexico by FUSION Theatre Company (2015)! This book was a finalist for the New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards 2015. Find your copy here!

International Children’s Book Day (ICBD)

“ICBD is a yearly event sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), an international non-profit organization. Founded in 1967, the day is observed on or around Hans Christian Andersen‘s birthday, April 2. Activities include writing competitions, announcements of book awards and events with authors of children’s literature.

Each year a different National Section of IBBY has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. It decides upon a theme and invites a prominent author from the host country to write a message to the children of the world and a well-known illustrator to design a poster. These materials are used in different ways to promote books and reading. Many IBBY Sections promote ICBD through the media and organize activities in schools and public libraries. Often ICBD is linked to celebrations around children’s books and other special events that may include encounters with authors and illustrators, writing competitions or announcements of book awards.” – Wikipedia Article

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Alex Paramo Summer SolsticeAlex Paramo is a native New Yorker of Colombian descent. He is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. He currently resides in Albuquerque, NM. Read More about him here.

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Poetry: #TLDR

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on December 10, 2015 Respond

#TLDR by Hakim Bellamy

In a random sample
of 100 suicide notes
researchers have not found
the word “suicide.”

In a more simple sample
of people who have sampled
suicide, and lived to tell about it
researchers found
and lost
the word “suicide.”

In an inconvenient sample
of friends who let friends drunk text
it was discovered
that 81% of them disapproved of e-mails
that were too long.

Screw spelling,
give me a hammer
to my head.
Fingernails instead of foreplay.

Cut to the chase.
In fact, cut the chase.
Cut to the cortège and motorcade.

In the age of unread fine prints
and even finer princesses
Where one’s literacy is no longer big enough
and neither is anything else.

Where time is short
and e-mails are no longer novel…

Where this poem
should have been done by now.

Where a serious conversation
consists of,
at least two people
sitting next to one another
looking
each other
in the phone.

Wouldn’t you rather be a letter
than just a l.e.t.t.e.r.?

Wouldn’t you rather be a song
than a scream?

Would you rather be a pie
than a piece a….

Our circle of conversation
has become the finish line
of a transaction,

We used to be whole.
There use to be a person
on the other side of that phone.

There used to be a person,
on the other side of that note.

And if you read this far
you’d know
there used to be some one.
on the other side
of this poem.

I like to believe that
my poems, are a string
of receipts.
Documenting
my time spent
on this planet.

Part paper trail
of my net worth,
part net
between me and the cement
as I ponder out the window
of everything I’ve built
myself to be.

In a natural selection
of random people
dying alone…

75% percent of suicides
are unaccompanied
by a note.

Unassisted.
So long.
Solo.

And I tried to borrow her pen
to write this,
so she wouldn’t write that.

But she did anyways…
In hopes
that we wouldn’t be
too busy.

In hopes
that we wouldn’t be
too fast.

In hopes
that it wouldn’t be
received…

as a life too long
did not

read.

(c) August 13th, 2015 Hakim Bellamy

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Hakim Bellamy

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Community Publishing will be publishing Hakim Bellamy’s Samuel’s Story, a multimedia children’s story featuring the music of DJ Flo Fader and the illustrations of Melvin Mayes.

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