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
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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
May Comes Tomorrow by Melenie Freedom Flynn
Melenie Freedom Flynn’s essay “Message From Your Inmate” recently won the annual nonfiction contest at Vela Magazine. A recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and Djerassi Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, she lives Read More
Metamorphosis – What Changing Seasons Mean for Our Changing World by Maya Laur
Maya Laur is a rising first-year at Brown University, from Wendell, Massachusetts. She is proud to have grown up in Western MA – a place that’s shaped her passion for Read More
New Skin by Joan Kalus
Joan Kalus: I am a retired psychotherapist living in Western Mass and Florida who started writing poems at a memorial for a partner seven years ago. Poetry has become my Read More
SHELTER by Carolyn Benson
Carolyn Benson, a member of Straw Dog, lives at Lathrop Community in Easthampton. Moving to Western Massachusetts over 20 years ago, she discovered Pat Schneider and the AWA method, traveled Read More