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
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
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
“If I Could” by Tara Dasso
Tara Dasso is a poet and recent straw dog member who resides in Western Massachusetts. She is co-founder of Write-up Springfield!, a creative writing group that promotes and brings together Read More
THE JOURNEY NOW REQUIRING by Janet E. Aalfs
Janet E. Aalfs, a Hampshire County resident and member of Straw Dog Writers Guild, is founder/director of Lotus Peace Arts (www.heronsbridge.org), a founding member of Valley Women’s Martial Arts, and Read More
Promise, Walking On A Woodland Trail by Rema Boscov
Rema Boscov is an artist, teacher, musician, poet and journalist who has written for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and numerous magazines and newspapers. She has been an artist-in-residence Read More
I Dream of Wind by Lori Desrosiers
Lori Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak and Keeping Planes in the Air, all from Salmon Poetry. Two chapbooks, Inner Sky and typing Read More