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“If I Could” by Tara Dasso

Posted on July 7, 2020June 23, 2021

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

Posted on July 6, 2020June 23, 2021

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

Posted on July 5, 2020June 23, 2021

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

Posted on July 4, 2020June 23, 2021

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

What Matters by Roxanne Bogart

Posted on July 3, 2020June 23, 2021

Roxanne E. Bogart is a wildlife biologist and writer, whose poems have appeared in The Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Silkworm, and Poetry Quarterly. She is a member of the Read More

The Verb To Be by Amy Gordon

Posted on July 2, 2020June 23, 2021

Amy Gordon’s first chapbook, Deep Fahrenheit, was published 2019 (Prolific Press) and her poems have appeared in the Aurorean, The Massachusetts Review, Writeangles, and other journals. She is the author Read More

Standing at the Edge by Kai Carol Jud

Posted on July 1, 2020June 23, 2021

Kai Carol Jud, a therapist and retreat leader, lives in Wendell, MA, Franklin County in a little blue house in the woods. She is working on her book called The Read More

Lament, April 2020 by Carol Rinehart

Posted on June 30, 2020June 23, 2021

Carol Rinehart enjoys an active retirement in Florence after a decade coordinating hospice volunteer services in Hampshire County.  An ordained interfaith minister, she supports groups and individuals through her STAMINA Read More

Your mother has expired by Anita Gallers

Posted on June 29, 2020June 23, 2021

Straw Dog Writers Guild and Florence Poets Society member Anita Gallers lives and writes in Northampton, Mass (Hampshire County).  Her mother died on April 17, 2020, during the height of Read More

“What Was Important” by JoAnn Cibelli

Posted on June 28, 2020June 23, 2021

JoAnn Cibelli is a retired high school teacher who lives in Hampden County. Besides writing JoAnn loves gardening, hiking, but most of all dogs. She lives in Chicopee with her Read More

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