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
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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
Waiting by Amy Laprade
A Straw Dog member from Franklin County, Amy Laprade is a writing coach and author of “So Nice To Finally Meet You…,” “Behind the Magic 8 Ball,” and “Silence Is Read More
Kazhuo Ohno Dancing Through my Quarantine by Maddy Leue
Maddy Leue is a poet from Franklin County (Ashfield) and is a member of the Cloud Saddle Writers. She is a single parent, a graduate student of public policy, an Read More
VIRUS by Eileen Gloster
Eileen Gloster teaches second grade in her hometown of North Adams, Massachusetts. She is a former owner of Papyri Books, where she hosted readings and open mics. Her poetry has Read More
Is This the New Normal? by Peggy Winnett
Peggy Winnett lives in retirement in Leeds, Ma (Hampshire Co.). She has been delighted to find herself in an active writing community, as it stimulates her own late stirrings in Read More
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH by Walter E. Kielbowicz
Walter Kielbowicz: I am from Hatfield, MA. and am a graduate of Smith Academy. I was introduced to poetry in my freshman year by a challenge from our teacher. I Read More
Shaken Faith by Kristin Rivers
Kristin Rivers is a published short story/fiction writer, blogger and book reviewer from Chicopee who loves cats, music, travel and nature photography. She graduated from Smith College in 2016 and Read More
World War Corona Gardening by Nancy Saporta Sternbach
Nancy Saporta Sternbach lives in Northampton, is a Straw Dog member, and is a recently retired member of Smith College’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her current projects include a Read More