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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

“Too Beautiful” by Phyllis Lawrence

Posted on June 27, 2020June 23, 2021

Phyllis Lawrence, living in Wendell: I participate in a weekly writing group in Wendell. In the light of this strange and terrifying pandemic time, I find the beauty of the natural world not Read More

ALPHABET BOOK FOR 2020 by D. Dina Friedman

Posted on June 26, 2020June 23, 2021

D. Dina Friedman received two Pushcart Prize nominations and has published in many literary journals. She is the author of one chapbook of poetry, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Read More

Voices from Afield Smith College Renga #1

Posted on June 25, 2020June 23, 2021

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Maggie Olszewski ’23, Sean Joyce-Farley ’20, Allex Dawn ’21, Bill Hagen, Arda Collins, Matt Donovan, Ellen Doré Watson, Clare O’Gara ’22, Jen Blackburn, Read More

The View from the Register of the Leverett Village Co-op by Karen L Traub

Posted on June 24, 2020June 23, 2021

Karen L Traub lives in the woods of Shutesbury and is a new member of Straw Dog Writers Guild. A student in the Newport MFA, Karen’s first published essay appeared Read More

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