Don Fisher lives and writes in Chicopee and has been writing for over 30 years. His collection of poems On the Edge of Grace is soon to be published by Read More
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
Random Thoughts While Hiking Mt Tom in the Time of the Virus by Dana Salisbury
Dana Salisbury lives in Easthampton, MA, in Hampshire County. She spent 20 years as a visual artist and became a choreographer for the next 20 years. Now she still dances Read More
Sudden Rain by Laura Rodley
Franklin County’s Laura Rodley, Pushcart Prize winner, quintuple Pushcart Prize and Best of Net nominee. Former co-curator Collected Poets Series, Rodley teaches As You Write It class, published As You Read More
“Stall” by Meg Fisher
Meg Fisher: I am a retired early-childhood teacher living in Franklin County in the Mount Toby foothills with my younger son. This poem came into being in a weekly writing Read More
Changes by Anna Bozena Bowen
Anna Bozena Bowen: As a poet, author of the awards winning novel HATTIE, and a retired nurse, my writing focuses on the multidimensional aspects of our human and spiritual lives. Read More
The Dailies by James Cervantes
James Cervantes, poet and editor, is definitely a straw dog when in residence on Hog Mountain. At other times, he is an expat living in San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato, Read More
HOW VIRULENT by Jane McPhetres Johnson
Jane McPhetres Johnson commuted from Wyoming to complete Goddard’s MFA, later created Humanities programs, and now is picking up where she left off when motherhood interrupted post-MFA plans. An Amherst Read More
COVID-19 Conundrums (5/12/2020) by Herbert T. Abelson
Herbert T. Abelson is a retired academic physician living in Hampshire County, Granby, MA where he serves on the Board of Health, gardens, writes prose and poetry for which he Read More
Woods in the time by Janet MacFadyen
Shutesbury resident and Straw Dog member Janet MacFadyen is author of two poetry collections and three chapbooks. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Scientific American, CALYX, Q/A Poetry, The Read More
“It’s Not About Me” by Alexis Johnson
Alexis Johnson is co-founder and former Executive Director of International Language Institute in Northampton, a non-profit school that teaches English, world languages and teacher training. She has a B.S. in Read More