""For all its brilliance on a micro scale, it's easy to lose sight of the anthology's vastness...It weighs in at a hefty 240 pages, and features no fewer than 62 different contributors...One outcome is that I'll be following many of the names this anthology has brought to my attention, their work blazing a silver trail that I urge you to explore with as much curiosity as I will be."" RORY O'SULLIVAN, Sabotage Reviews, sabotagereviews.com

The Silver Birch Press" Silver Anthology" is a collection of poetry, essays, short stories, novel excerpts, and stage play scenes from 62 accomplished...

Poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, essays, and memoirs that revolve around the many and varied connotations of the word "green" -- nature, luck, money, envy, young love, new life, the environment, food, trees, seasons, water, eden, and much more -- from over 70 authors in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Europe, and Africa.

Contributors include: Barbara Alfaro / Jena Ardell / L. Frank Baum / William Blake / Al Basile / Jane Buel Bradley / John Brantingham / Jessica Brown / Rachel Carey / Chris Davidson / Colleen Delegan / Philip K. Dick / Barbara Eknoian / Dan Fante / Merrill...

Cover art by Guy Budziak, www.filmnoirwoodcuts.com

Edited by Melanie Villines

Contributing Editors: Jenni B. Baker, Catfish McDaris, james w. moore, Gerald So

A collection of poems based on the writings of a range of noir authors, including James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Walter Mosley, Robert B. Parker, and Cornell Woolrich.

Poets include: Jeffrey C. Alfier / Beth Ayer / Jenni B. Baker / David Barker / Kathy Burkett / Candace Butler / Freda Butler / Kim Cooper / Subhankar Das / Andrea Dickens / Barbara Eknoian /...