Beans for Hugh and Linda, poetry

First Edition: Coffee Bean Shop (USA), 2003. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2022. Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Coffee Break, Authors, CHALLENGER international, Artslink (South Africa), SchoolNet Africa (South Africa), The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa, Fullosia Press (USA), Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream (USA), Pink Cadillac (USA), Poetree (USA), Omnific (USA), Poetry Magazine (USA), Poetic Realm (USA), Improvijazzation Nation (USA), Up Dare? (USA), and MOON Magazine (USA). An excerpt The Thinker A toothless old man
Drinks cold coffee
Alone.
He scratches his scalp-
Dandruff floats in his coffee,
Like snow-flecks. He wonders- But soon only his coffee
Matters. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).