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I work as an English Instructor and developmental educator at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, North Carolina.
WRITERS ON THE STORM, a book of stories and essays from Robert Canipe, Carter Monroe, and Tim Peeler.  Available from the regular internet outlets and at authorhouse.. Carter Monroe's highly recommended first novel JOURNEY is also available from these same sources. *WOTS is now available in paperback, hardback and as an ebook. 
tpeeler@cvcc.edu
The THIRD LUNG REVIEW is a small press poetry magazine that I have published since 1986.  Issues are available for $3 from 1665 Crafton Road, Hickory, NC 28602.  Please make checks payable to Tim Peeler..  You may click on the magazine name to view sample poems from past issues.  For more. Yet more. The rights to these poems belong to those who created them.
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Poets featured on TLR pages: Charles Bukowski,  Carter Monroe, Sam Silva, Harry Brody, Gary Mitchem, Leo Connellan, Tim Earley, and Alan Catlin.
TLR 31  TLR 32 TLR 35
TLR 36  still growing
After Watching Tom Waits on the Daily Show

I could tell you I'm a ticking bomb,
a pacing shepherd, or a man whose
harmonica hides his lonliness.

It would not change the rumble
of the Chevrolets on the highway,
or the silent flicker of the TV.

A man, his hat, some nervous chat;
this is our chicken soup,
a vague effort to bear the day.

We invent the inscrutable cross,
so there is something to carry,
a clean place to go, a time.
NEW
NOW AVAILABLE--
RARE AND LIMITED
EDITIONS
CHAPBOOKS FROM
THIRD LUNG PRESS
Blood River: Selected Poems 1983-2005
150 pages

Now available from Rank Stranger Press
313 Smith Chapel Road
Mount Olive, NC 28365
$14 plus $2 s & h. Checks payable to Charles Whitley. If you want to know my work, this is the one to get.

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Links to Artists and Writers
New Releases: 
The New Lost Blues--Collected Poems
Carter Monroe-
Thunder Sandwich Press

Boondoggle  
Main Street Rag Press
Tim Earley
New poetry--from James
Heller Levinson
Toxicity
Recent poems/blog
Available Now:
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TLR--Special Issue 37 e-chapbook by Sam Silva
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