Tag: poetry
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Fathers.
With any luck, I hope to have my computer issues resolved within a few days. Also, presales of my chapbook are supposed to begin at the end of this week, so stay tuned for the big announcement! * The NPR program “On Point” featured “The Making of Sonnets” in its second hour today. Read during…
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Poetry & Money: Addendum.
There are a few other journals I subscribe to that I forgot to mention, I don’t know why. It all seems like an abundance of riches now, doesn’t it? Parnassus: Poetry in Review. This comes out about once a year, and I can never keep track of whether or not I need to renew. I…
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Collected Poets Series: The MA Poet Laureate Ed.
Tomorrow, June 4th at 7:30 p.m., the Collected Poets Series features the poetry of Massachusetts’ current Poet Laureates, Lesléa Newman of Northampton and Gertrude Halstead of Worcester, at Mocha Maya’s, 47 Bridge St., Shelburne Falls, MA. Eve Rifkah will be reading Ms. Halstead’s work in absentia . Lesléa Newman is the author of 57 books…
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CPS & Maxine Kumin: A Report.
Last year, when we had Galway Kinnell for a CPS reading, we had to turn people away at the door. This year for Maxine Kumin, we thought ahead, and instead of having the reading at Mocha Maya’s, they co-sponsored the event with us and we hosted it at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center, which has seating…
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Collected Poets Series, Extra Ed.
This Sunday, May 24th, at 7:30 p.m., the former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prizewinner Maxine Kumin, and award winning poet Sydney Lea will read from their work at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center, 53 Main Street, Shelburne Falls, MA. This extraordinary event is sponsored by the Collected Poets Series and Mocha Maya’s.…
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The Lure of Poetry Journals.
Financial necessity has taken a ginormous bite out of my book budget, but one of the best ways to keep up, and still support the poetry community, is through subscriptions. They’re inexpensive, and give me yet another reason to love my mail carrier. For less than your monthly phone bill you can subscribe to at…
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Pain~I do not think it means what you think it means.
I was idly flipping through the latest issue of Parents when I came upon this: For decades, doctors believed that babies didn’t feel pain, based on flawed studies showing that sleeping infants didn’t respond to light pinpricks. In fact, until the 1980s, many newborns who had heart surgery received no pain medication — they were…
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Further adventures with eczema.
I took Aidan, now nearly 4 1/2 months old, to the dermatologist today, and he was duly impressed by the baby’s poor scaly state. It’s really awful. He’s not sleeping more than 2 hours together, he’s so uncomfortable. And he looks dreadful. Except for those brightly serious blue eyes of his — when you look…
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Collected Poets Series, May Ed.
The Collected Poets Series is throwing a Post-Poetry Month Bash! On Thursday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m., award-winning poets Dorianne Laux from Raleigh, NC, Genie Zeiger from Shelburne Falls, MA, and Kerry O’Keefe from Northampton, MA, plus special guest, Joseph Millar from Oregon, will read from their work at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House in Shelburne…
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NaPoWriMo Recap.
Even though I spent many April nights (after a good first week of finishing drafts by 3pm) falling asleep with a pencil in my hand, these last few days of not writing have felt strange. The brass tacks: poems written: 30. THIRTY! I’m totally thrilled. how many written that are keepers: 26. I may actually…
Marie Gauthier 