Did you know that Massachusetts is one of only five states without an official poet laureate? The home of Bishop, Bradstreet, Dickinson, Cummings, Kunitz, Longfellow, Frost, Olson, Sexton, Plath, Lowell… And no poet laureate? Ouch!
A bill to remedy the situation has already passed the state house. Contact the senate Ways and Means Committee to ask that the bill is brought up for a vote, and that we have a Massachusetts state poet laureate.
The London Book Festival Awarded Banshees an Honorable Mention among Poetry Books for 2016. I am grateful for the acknowledgment of my work.
–Hart Crane
In my country there is a mountain.
In my country there is a river.
Come with me.
Night rises up the mountain.
The faint longing down in the river.
Come with me.
–Pablo Neruda
For all those who have asked me about where I go in the winter, I am showing pictures of Colon, Costa Rica. I live about a half mile above Colon and usually go into the Centro for cafe con leche or errands sometime during the day. It is a writer’s paradise for which I am very grateful.
“No es cierto que la gente deja de perseguir sueños porque crecen viejos, envejecen porque dejan de perseguir sueños”.
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
I just learned from the New England Book Festival that my book, Banshees, was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Poetry Category for best books of 2015. I guess I’m a local writer, which helps. I am grateful for the acknowledgement.
Eileen P. Kennedy Author 