Steven Harz Music

Excerpt from my poem “Disease”

I do not know if this type of thinking is healthy (I suppose not) but it does make me work harder and be better (while in the back of my head are the voices from the past telling me that I am of no worth or value and what the hell happened to you) so…
The Thursday Throng Interview and Giveaway with Steven Harz, author of Songs You Can’t Dance To.

Many thanks to Linda for hosting my interview! The Hysterectomy Association This week I’d like to introduce you all to Steven Harz who anthology of stories and poetry, Stories You Can’t Dance To, is featured in the review. When I visited his website I found the following quotes at the top of his About Me…
New poem: Tire swing rainbow

New poem: Tire swing rainbow I asked what would bring you back to me and you said a rainbow so I half-filled buckets with soapy water and threw them one by one against a falling summer sky and as the lower branch backyard swing brings you towards and no longer away we come to know…
Poem: Anno Domini

In the beginning I was a void but now you have become the light allowing me to find my missing parts (and car keys) now I want so badly to recite to you our future from memory and I know that if I lean into you and try very hard and lie a little to…
Challenge 5 of “The Iron Writer Challenge” is in the books!

Thanks to everyone who voted in Challenge 5 of “The Iron Writer Challenge” – the pieces (mine included…) are still there if you weren’t able to get over there during the contest: http://theironwriter.com/the-stories/challenge-5-2/
Poem: Dashboard drawing board

I do my best thinking while driving using a dashboard drawing board and rolled down window arm rest with a stolen bank ink pen attached to nothing by two remaining links of chain I write crooked words on the pages of a drug store spiral pocket notebook and just as I would clean up before…
Writer interview with TM Brown, author of “A Life Not My Own”

Today I am happy to be spending time with author TM Brown. We initially connected via social media, and I have gotten to know her over the past few months and have found her to be a wonderful person – gracious, supportive, and a terrific writer. Her novel, “A Life Not My Own” is a…
The Iron Writer Challenge – please vote!!!

Hello Friends – I have a favor to ask of you. This weekend I am participating in “The Iron Writer Challenge” – I know many of you know this but just in case you don’t, it’s a writing contest where four writers are given four disparate elements – for this week’s challenge they are a coconut,…
Love poem: “Hinged velvet box”

Each morning I walk past you enclosed in a glass box with a red painted sign that lets me know in an emergency I’m allowed to break in Each afternoon I will place you in waxed paper and press you between musty leather bound Testaments that teach me your Revelations And each night before bed…
My love poem “Paperweight” appears in ‘The Germ’

The Germ, Volume One, Issue One Including my love poem “Paperweight” Available now – get yours today! http://germ-magazine.com/issues.html — Also, please check out my book, “Songs you can’t dance to” available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
From my love poem “Two senses”

An excerpt from my poem “Two senses” “now that you are gone (have left) your missing voice is the loudest thing that I hear (in my head)” — copyright 2012 Steven Harz — From my book “Songs you can’t dance to” available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Songs-You-Cant-Dance-ebook/dp/B00ATQW5XK
Book reviews: “Songs you can’t dance to”

Here are a few lines form review of my book of love poems and flash fiction: “With ‘Songs you can’t dance to’ Steven Harz begins to explore the key components of the human experience.” “There is comfort in reading ‘Songs You Can’t Dance To’. I challenge anyone to read this gem and not connect to…