April and National Poetry Month xxoo!

This is the beautiful poster for National Poetry Month 2013...

It has all my favorite things.  Pretty papers and fountain pens.

I'm working on a 12,000 word novella in the moment -- doing the research for that, at any rate called "The Locket" -- it's romantic.  The era of the Romantic poets and so I think this month I'll try to do a romantic and erotic poem each day.  Some of the themes in the book have to do with "The Sublime" and the hunt all the Romantics were on to find it.  Like say, Wordsworth.  I'll more than likely be writing the poems over in WordPress at my blog Valentine Bonnaire if you want to follow along.

In the meantime, that silly poem I wrote last month is up a ERWA...

"a kiss upon the stair" -- you can read that here.http://www.erotica-readers.com/GD/S/Erotic_Poetry.htm

So, I love this picture because it represents many things about the Romantic period in art...

Love as perpetual rose garden of dreams.

Enjoy the poem!

xxoo!

Valentine Bonnaire

Important authors in the Literary genre ...

A new story is up today in the galleries of ERWA.  It's "Surviving Winter" by Bob Buckley.  Why I love it?

#1 Vanilla

#2 It made me smile like mad

#3 It should be read by nineteen year olds and their fathers

#4 It reminded me of Summer of '42, and if you ever saw that film?

It's written by my friend and editor at ERWA, Bob.

xxoo!

Valentine

It's a bit like this picture below.  A guidance story.

Like getting a rose, from a male writer.

Given what the generation who grew up in the web has seen?

Read this and feel refreshed!

What is "Vanilla" Literary Erotica?

There is a term I came across when I began to write Erotica.  "Vanilla" -- many people scoff at that term?  But the reality is that most people are "vanilla."

Anybody who isn't writing about things like whips and chains?

That's "Vanilla."

Is Erotica the same as a Romance Novel?

No!

The Erotica genre spans many types of things.

What I write is the way that heterosexuals make love.  I'm interested in exploring what happens between the characters in my books and all the sex scenes I write are "human."

Is it more taboo to write "Vanilla" sex?

Maybe.

Two of my favorite writers, D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce both wrote erotic novels.  Heterosexual novels.  They are considered classics, and at times they were banned.

These two books would be considered "Vanilla" Erotica. 

You will not find sex toys in my stories.  My stories are only about humans and how they touch each other. 

One of the reasons I'm writing in this genre is because these two writers are part of the canon I admire.

You will find my own short stories archived at The Erotica Readers and Writers Association in the web.
Today there was an article I spied in the Library Journal, which mentions the place I'm published above. 
Most of the literary writers I know?  Want to be archived in libraries next door to Lawrence and Joyce.

xxoo!

Valentine Bonnaire
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