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Wordwrite Has Been Kind
Wordwrite Book Award Competition, sponsored by Knight and Grey Publishing and KarmaKindler.com, awarded my book , Banshees, second place in their Poetry Book Contest.
Check it out at:
https://knightandgreypublishing.com/wordwrite-book-awards/
https://karmakindler.com/the-wordwrite-book-awards.html
I am grateful for the honor.
Red Thread Writers Circles Begin This Week
Julie Rosier, writer extraordinaire and facilitator of writing groups for 10 years in Western Massachusetts, is starting her Red Thread Writing Circles on December 7. Two 10-week writing workshops, one will run on Wednesday evenings in Easthampton and on Thursday evenings in Northampton. Contact Julie at jrosier06@gmail.com for more details.
Gallery of Readers November 20
Jonathan Wright and Dan Levy will read at the Smith College Neilson Browsing Room on Sunday, November 20 at 4 pm. This is a part of the Gallery of Readers Series.
Crosswinds Poetry Journal
Crosswinds has been kind. My poem “The Existence of God” has placed in their finalists for their annual poetry award and publication.
Reading Nov. 10
Get out of your post-election funk with a great poetry reading. Perugia Press, celebrating 20 years of publishing, presents the Collected Poets Series featuring Carol Edelstein and Lisa Allen Ortiz at Mocha Maya’s on Thursday, November 10 at 7 pm in Mocha Maya’s Cafe, Shelburne Falls.
Greenfield Annual Word Festival
The Greenfield Annual Word Festival will run from Tuesday, October 18th to Sunday, October 23rd in Greenfield. I will be reading on Friday at 7 pm the Root Cellar, 10 Fiske Ave. with some wonderful poets including Lori Desrosiers, Anita Gallers, Debbie Tosun Kilday, Colin Haskings, Michael L. Kilday, to name a few. Join us for this word marathon.
Reading at Amherst Art Walk October 6
Join me and four other fabulous poets at the Amherst Arts Night at the Emily Dickinson Museum on Thursday, October 6 at approximately 7 pm
Featured Readers are:
Howie Faerstein
Tommy Twilite Clark
Gerald Yelle
Marian Kent
There will also be Poetry Open Mic at 6 and Art in the Homestead by Rebecca Fricke. It should be a great night.
https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/node/558
Reading June 1 at Forbes Library
There will be a reading of work by poets, novelists, memoir writers, essayists and journalists on Wednesday, June 1 at 7 pm at the Forbes Library. Join us!
Winning Writers Has Been Kind
I was grateful to learn I earned Honorable Mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest:
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2015
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Honorable Mention:
- Donald Adamson, Proper and Enduring, Poetry
- David Hill, After Wounded Knee, Poetry
- Justin Hunt, My Mother, My Father, Poetry
- Laura M. Kaminski, Hush, Poetry
- Ray Keifetz, Night Farming in Bosnia, Poetry
- Maribeth Pittman, Two Women in an Unbalanced Street Scene, Poetry
- Shoshauna Shy, Keepsake, Poetry
- Eileen P. Kennedy, Migration, Traditional Verse
- Allegra Keys, Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Traditional Verse
- Kathleen McClung, Lighter Than Her Lace: A Crown of Borrowed Self-Portraits, Traditional Verse
- Katy McKinney, Worm Bin Sestina, Traditional Verse
- Stuart J. Silverman, Letter to Her Father, Traditional Verse
- Jeff Walt, Serial Killer Sonnet, Traditional Verse
Judge Ellaraine Lockie comments on the winning entries
Traditional poetry forms have had a blockbuster year in the 2015 Contest. The winners’ list includes: two sonnet crowns, two sestinas, a villanelle, a palindrome, a pantoum, an elegy, three ekphrastic poems, and two poems with such distinct and unique construction as to be classified nonce forms. Read our press release announcing the winners.
You can read my winning poem, and the other winners as well at:
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