Nancy Smith: I live in Ashfield with my husband. Together we raised three wonderful children who have flown our coop. I began writing seriously with Genie Zeiger in 2007. In 2009 I was trained to be an AWA workshop leader and now run my own writing groups. I am a Straw Dog Member. Boiling Over Read More
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Tumbling Down by Laura Wetzler
Laura Wetzler is a touring singer-songwriter-guitarist who also writes poetry, essays, theater monologues, and reviews. She has released 5 CDs (laurawetzler.com & iTunes) and her work has been published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Jewish Currents Magazine, and SingOut! Laura is a Straw Dog member and lives up in the hills in Cummington, Ma. Tumbling Read More
The plague by Rebecca Reid
Rebecca Reid is a member of Straw Dog, a farmer and writer living in Leverett on a cooperative farm. She has never submitted anything for publication, except a poem when she was 8 that was rejected by The New Yorker, but the time has come. The plague Among the ways to see this time, I like Read More
Diaspora by Frederick E Steinway
Frederick E Steinway is a resident of the north-central Massachusetts bioregion. Diaspora is offered here as a unifying concept to explain or envision effects in the biosphere of ongoing geophysical transformation. Seeds, spores, particles…as things alive in their activity. Diaspora Rising of mist as at dawn beside the sea. Fertile milk of dust and light Read More
2020 Hindsight by Epi Bodhi
Epi Bodhi, Amherst, MA, Straw Dog Member, has been writing poetry since she was young. In the third grade, she was accused of plagiarism for her poem snowflake. Her love for writing, particularly memoir poetry, has been reawakened since joining the Writer’s Group that meets regularly at Pioneer Valley Cohousing. 2020 Hindsight What if hindsight Read More
What Lies Beneath by Christopher Queen
Christopher Queen lives in Franklin County and writes with Ruth Flohr’s creative writing group in Wendell. He has taught world religions, served as a university dean of students, and publishes on Buddhist social ethics. He wears his mask in public. What Lies Beneath Some look deeply into eyes To scan the silted depth Where the Read More
Botch Job by Saul Huggins
Saul Huggins: Mid-fifties, spent most of the past twenty years self-employed and because of that happy fact have been able to travel around a fair bit, sometimes to other countries. Not so much at present! No real experience regarding writing, certainly nothing published. Wrote a couple of poems to pass the time. Botch Job Exposing our leaders Read More
Crown of the Rosary – Easter 2020 by Suzanne Rancourt
Suzanne S. Rancourt, Abenaki/Huron descent, is a multi-modal artist with degrees in psychology and creative writing. Her book, Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press / 2nd print at NU Press, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. Her 2nd, murmurs at the gate, 2019, Unsolicited Press. She is a Veteran. www.expressive-arts.com Crown Read More
Encounter by Lynn Olson
Lynn Olson: I moved to the Valley from Wisconsin, where I was happily retired. After an old college friend found me online, we bought an 1894 farmhouse and adopted a dog. Home. I am home. I write with the Main St. Writers, and look forward to discovering more of the writing life here. Encounter “Where Read More
Corona, you have laid me bare by Morning Star Chenven
Morning Star Chenven is a writer/musician/ choral director/mother/ grandmother. She is passionate about reversing climate change, singing in the duo “Moonlight and Morning Star,” leading The Wendell Community Chorus. She lives in Franklin County with her husband Moonlight Davis, beside the beautiful Millers River. Corona, you have laid me bare Corona, you have laid me Read More