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Almost Bloomsday Forbes Writing Room

Wednesday morning from 9:30- 12:30, writers of every description — novelists, poets, memoir writers, essayists, journalists and more gather for companionable writing time. The Writing Room has been open for seven years.

Bloomsday is a commemoration of the life of the Irish writer, James Joyce.  It’s celebrated on June 16, the day on which  Ulysses is set.  I will facilitate the Writing Room on Wednesday June 14.  Since Bloomsday is just two days following,  I will provide you with prompts based on James Joyce quotes.

I look forward to writing with you.books

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Poetry Reading Saturday May 20

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Reading and Book Party

Journey into Space. Ina Anderson

 

Saturday, May 20, 2017, 3 p.m.

120 Pulpit Hill Road, North Amherst

(Pioneer Valley Cohousing Common House)

 

From her origins in England through a life well lived in Vermont, poet Ina Anderson will transport her audience through universal experiences of childhood, love and loss in a reading from her new collection Journey into Space. Maine poet laureate Baron Wormser has written of Journey into Space, “Ina Anderson’s poems show us scenes from a fully lived and deeply appreciated life. The poems hail from that legendary land called The Past, each poem brimming with convincing details and nuances of feeling. Her British origins feel at once far away and familiar, for the terrain her poems traverse is thoroughly human—the stuff of tales told by the eternal hearth.”

 

The reading is free and open to the public.

Please join us!!

The Pioneer Valley Cohousing Writing Group and

Quabbin Writers’ Salon

 

 

More information available at: antrimhousebooks.com/anderson-ina.html

contact: Kathryn Holzman, kbholzman@gmail.com

 

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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.

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Reading at Amherst Art Walk October 6
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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

 

 

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Winning Writers Has Been Kind

IMG_0725I 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:

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:

https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/contest-archives/tom-howard-margaret-reid-poetry-contest-2015

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Help Massachusetts get a Poet Laureate

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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.