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
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
“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
What Matters by Roxanne Bogart
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
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
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
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