Jamila Gore is a spoken word artist, performer, poet and writer living in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has facilitated and hosted Poetry Slams and performed poetry throughout the pioneer valley since Read More
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Clichés by Rosemary Oliver
Rose Oliver is a retired Registered Nurse who lives in Berkshire County. She is a frequent participant in Berkshire County’s spoken poetry project: WordXWord. Her works have appeared in online Read More
This Year by Matthew Andrews
Matthew Andrews is a resident of Hampshire County, MA. He is a musician, writer, father, devotee, and co-owner (with his wife Corinne Andrews) of Yoga Center Amherst. He leads pilgrimages Read More
P A N D E M I C 2020 by Ellen Dibble
Ellen Dibble: I write mostly for children. I haven’t figured out a way to approach the many, many publishers, but write what I call skeletons of picture books, and skeletons Read More
Covid World by Sharon Harmon
Sharon A. Harmon, Straw Dog member, freelance writer and poet, writes for The Uniquely Quabbin Magazine and has two poetry chapbooks. She just had a story accepted for Chicken Soup, Read More
Mourning song by Libby Maxey
Libby Maxey, a Franklin County resident and Straw Dog member, works for Amherst College and Literary Mama. Her poems have appeared in Emrys, Stoneboat and elsewhere, and her first poetry Read More
APRIL 2020 by Lanette Sweeney
Lanette Sweeney, now a full-time writer and MFA student at Western New England University, thanks to her wife’s support, has survived lifetimes as a mother, reporter, editor, fund-raiser, and teacher Read More
First Anniversary by Sharon Tracey
Sharon Tracey’s poems have appeared in The Worcester Review, Mom Egg Review, Tule Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collections include Chroma (forthcoming from Shanti Arts) and Read More
THE LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS SUGGESTS SOME OF US MIGHT HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY by Fred Pelka
Fred Pelka is the author of What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement and other books on the history of disability and disability rights. His Read More
Forecast by Christine Labich
Christine Labich is a visual artist and poet living in Hampshire County. Her work is the practice of finding spirit-sustaining meaning and magic in ordinary human life and the natural Read More