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Hygiene for a Pandemic by Paul Redstone

Posted on May 24, 2020October 1, 2021

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

Posted on May 23, 2020October 1, 2021

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

Posted on May 22, 2020October 1, 2021

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

Posted on May 21, 2020October 1, 2021

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

Posted on May 20, 2020October 1, 2021

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

What day is it By Ruth Lehrer

Posted on May 19, 2020October 1, 2021

Ruth Lehrer is the author of the young adult novel, BEING FISHKILL (Candlewick.) She is a Pushcart nominated poet, with poems scattered through the web and woods. A Strawdog member, Read More

Spring Flowers amid COVID19 By Dixie Brown

Posted on May 18, 2020October 1, 2021

Dixie Brown: I am a writer who lives in Hampshire County. I work as a writing coach at the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass. I love to hike in the Read More

He’s Not Gonna Take It By Chris O’Carroll

Posted on May 17, 2020October 1, 2021

Chris O’Carroll is author of The Joke’s on Me. He has been Light magazine’s featured poet, and his work appears in Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle and The Great Read More

Rightful Rage by Andrea Della Monica

Posted on May 16, 2020October 1, 2021

Andrea Della Monica is a former newspaper journalist and creative non-fiction writer whose work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including Hippocampus and Glimmer Train. She Read More

Funerals from Afar by Sarah B. Sullivan

Posted on May 15, 2020October 1, 2021

Sarah Sullivan, a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and resident of Northampton, MA in Hampshire County, is a poet, physician, teacher, ocean-lover, partner, parent, friend, meditator, searcher. She is Read More

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