May 15, 2020 by .

Pandemic Poetry and Prose Site Opens

Straw Dog Writers Guild launched their website of Pandemic Poetry and Prose today with a poem by Sarah Sullivan, called “Funerals from Afar.” Check it out:

http://www.strawdogwriters.org/blog

May 4, 2020 by .

Emily Dickinson Museum Sponsors Poetry Reading May 7 at 6:30 pm (EST)

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst Massachusetts is sponsoring a poetry reading with some excellent poets. You can view this by going to the Amherst Media Website:

http://161.77.57.225/CablecastPublic

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They are broadcasting Arts Night Out from 5 to 8 pm. View the reading with the Emily Dickinson Museum from 6:30 to 7:30 EST

April 30, 2020 by .

New Book of Poems: Crater & Tower

Duck Lake Books is publishing tomorrow a wonderful new book by Cheryl J. Fish, Crater & Tower.

In 2010, Fish attended the Pulse Gathering of Scientists at Mount St. Helen’s Volcanic National Monument where in 1980 the crater erupted blowing more than 1,000 feetfrom the mountain top.

This accomplished poet and scholar, having witnessed the terrifying events of September 11, 2001 from a few blocks away as a resident and professor at a nearby community college, melded the “smoke and ash at both places, fragments of bone and rock,shock and death” (1) into the poems in Crater & Tower.

CraterTower Cover

Below are links to this book:

https://www.amazon.in/Crater-

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April 22, 2020 by .

Zoom Book Launch

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I went to my first zoom book launch. I think this will be the new trend. There were about 40 participants and I liked it. Has anyone else experienced this?

April 13, 2020 by .

Salt

I grew up on a bay with salt.

I always had a salty taste on my lips

and as soon as I approached home,

I smelled it in the air.

The salt dried out the skin and

you needed extra moisturizer after swimming.

We didn’t have salt in the sugar bowl

but we had rice in the salt shaker

to keep the salt flowing in the humidity.

Anyone else grow up on a bay?

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April 12, 2020 by .

Wisdom from the Handmaid’s Tale

white ceramic teacup with saucer near two books above gray floral textile

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“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.” -The Handmaid’s Tale

April 10, 2020 by .

A Seguidilla Poem

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i posted this Seguidilla, a Spanish seven line syllabic poem with the syllable counts. Someone suggested I post it without the syllable counts, so here it is: