Poetry
THINKING OF TANYA’S BIRTHDAY
THINKING OF TANYA’S BIRTHDAY is an early poem of mine. I wrote it when I was a Ph.D. student in Religion and Literature at The University of Religion. I wrote before I gave myself permission to be an artist. A boy from the suburbs of Detroit, a factory town, can’t be an artist—primarily because it’s not a real job.
I’m an artist, now. I am a published poet. I am a poetry reviewer for AWAKENINGS REVIEW, a literary journal specializing in art relating to mental health.
LINES DRAWN AUTHENTIC: A Realized Man, by Dr Dave Fekete, is mostly a collection of really good poetry—the only thing that commends it to readers. It is good poetry that bespeaks humanity in a way that is not in the literary world.
However, being poetry by a straight male; who doesn’t particularly like sports; prefers art; grew up a short, skinny boy in high school—a curse for a male; who needed to give himself permission to be a poet—growing up in a suburban factory city—this book ends up redefining male role images, accidentally.
It’s about a man both living and discovering how to live an AUTHENTIC life—a life not defined by family, society, gender roles—but defined by reaching deep into self, and being that REALIZED MAN.
“Though it is none of my business, may I yet hope to be an inspiration, dear reader? May I serve as a blueprint, a GPS, if you will—for my fellow REALIZED INDIVIDUALS DRAWN IN LINES OF THEIR OWN AUTHENTICITY? Please—BE YOUR OWN AUTHENTIC SELF, AS YOU, YOURSELF, DEFINE IT! In LINES DRAWN AUTHENTIC, I’ve shown you one way how.”—Dr Dave Fekete
LINES DRAWN AUTHENTIC: A Realized Man is available through Indigo Bookstores, and by contacting the author, directly.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED POETRY
David J. Fekete. “SOMETIMES IT COMES DOWN TO SCALES,” “SCHRUNS AND ALL IT MEANS,” SO SAY THE BUDDHISTS,” “SCALES,” “NOTE AND WORD.” The Awakenings Review. Spring 2025.
David J. Fekete. “I WOULDN’T SAY REGRET,” “DISBURSING CLOUDS,” “TUNNEL EXIT,” “RECOVERY FROM WHAT PEOPLE CALL MENTAL ILLNESS,” “LIKE DANNY RAND’S IRON FIST,” “ON THE ACUPUNCTURE TABLE.” Awakenings Review. Spring 2024.
David J. Fekete. “HORSEHAIR AND CATGUT, INK AND PAPER,” “YOUNG HAL,” “THE LOAN,” “A QUESTION OF BALANCE,” “FESTIVAL.” Poetry in The Awakenings Review. May 2023.
David J. Fekete. “I STILL REMEMBER,” ENNUI,” “THE ALCHEMY OF PHAEDRUS,” “RESURRECTION’S PROMISE.” Poetry in The Awakenings Review. Vol. 7, No. 1. Fall 2017. pp. 67-70.
Inscribed Memories
Price: $15.00 Paperback, 84 pages
Inscribed Memories is a collection of poems that range from metaphysical to emotional–love poems, spiritual poems, reflections, contemplative, and critical/theoretical. The poems are easy to understand, and vary in form: strict rhyming verse, free verse, sonnets, blank verse. Inscribed Memories will make you feel and think. Books may be ordered here.
David Fekete 