Margaret Allard, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, has thrived in the Hampshire County Hilltowns for more than forty years. While teaching many grade levels and supporting micro businesses at Read More
Posts by Straw Dog Writers Guild
Contagion by Patricia D. Pin
An alumna of VCFA’s MFA program and a Berkshire resident, Patricia D. Pin explores pandemic and viral language used in media covering COVID-19 as “the enemy”. Her poem, “Contagion” considers Read More
Corona by Kathie Fiveash
Katherine Fiveash is a naturalist, teacher, homesteader, and writer. She divides her year between Florence, Massachusetts (Hampshire County), and Isle au Haut, Maine, a remote, unbridged island in Penobscot Bay. Read More
Social Contact by Sarah Ritter
Photo credit – Helena Lopez Sarah Ritter is a Straw Dog Writers Guild member from CT. In 2019, she published her first poetry collection: “Inspirations, Transformations and Revelations: A Poetic Read More
LADYBUG, LADYBUG by Brooks Robards
Brooks Robards writes poetry, nonfiction and fiction. Her 15 books include the poetry collections “Fishing the Desert” (2015) and “On Island” (2014). She writes movie reviews and profiles for newspapers Read More
Hygiene for a Pandemic by Paul Redstone
Paul Redstone: Hampshire County Resident. I enjoy the writing of poetry as my effort to get my mind around some of my varied life experiences and emotions. There is something Read More
Then and now by Michael Favala Goldman
Michael Favala Goldman is a widely-published translator of Danish literature and a jazz clarinetist. He leads poetry workshops at the Northampton Center for the Arts and is a member of Read More
To the Unclaimed Bodies in NYC by Joyce Hayden
Straw Dog Writers member, Joyce Hayden, with Franklin County connections, recently completed her memoir The Out of Body Girl. Her work has been published in Maximum Middle Age, The Manifest Read More
Isolate by Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is the author of over 387 published books including ten books of adult poetry. She has won multiple awards for individual poetry, prose, children’s books and science fiction/fantasy Read More
Virus By V. Jane Schneeloch
V. Jane Schneeloch is a resident of Hampden County and a member of Straw Dogs. Her poetry collections include: Turning Over Leaves (Antrim House Books, 2015) and Climbing to the Read More