Corinne Demas is the author of thirty-five books, including five novels, two short story collections, numerous books for children, a poetry chapbook (The Donkeys Postpone Gratification), and a book for kids about the pandemic. She’s a Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review and a Straw Dog Writers Guild member. www.corinnedemas.com Bach on Zoom I First, Read More
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Ode to tying my shoelaces by Lindsay Rockwell
Lindsay Rockwell’s love of poetry is born from her curiosity of unifying themes of nature, science and theology, as well as her mother’s literary passion. Lindsay is a medical oncologist with the Mass General Cancer Center in Northampton, MA. Lindsay currently lives in Northampton with her wife and three furry children, Blaze, Opal and Huck. Read More
Solace by Lois Joy
Lois Joy lives in Hampshire County where she teaches Iyengar Yoga (on Zoom now!), writes, and works for economic justice for the non-profit Jobs for the Future. Her work appears at Parinama: A Journal of Transformation. She loves valley summers for the swimming in lakes and rivers, long forest walks, and birdsong. Solace …how will Read More
OUTSIDE by Don Fisher
Don Fisher lives and writes in Chicopee and has been writing for over 30 years. His collection of poems On the Edge of Grace is soon to be published by Human Error Press. He is surviving the lockdown by cooking, drinking red wine, reading poetry and listening to punk rock, hip-hop, and old-school country. OUTSIDE Read More
Random Thoughts While Hiking Mt Tom in the Time of the Virus by Dana Salisbury
Dana Salisbury lives in Easthampton, MA, in Hampshire County. She spent 20 years as a visual artist and became a choreographer for the next 20 years. Now she still dances and often writes. Random Thoughts While Hiking Mt Tom in the Time of the Virus 3-27-20 For Janine Tuft of furry scat on the trail, Read More
Sudden Rain by Laura Rodley
Franklin County’s Laura Rodley, Pushcart Prize winner, quintuple Pushcart Prize and Best of Net nominee. Former co-curator Collected Poets Series, Rodley teaches As You Write It class, published As You Write It, A Franklin County Anthologies. Recent books Turn Left at Normal / Big Table Publishing and Prolific Press’s Counter Point. Sudden Rain There is Read More
“Stall” by Meg Fisher
Meg Fisher: I am a retired early-childhood teacher living in Franklin County in the Mount Toby foothills with my younger son. This poem came into being in a weekly writing group, 6-9 of us currently Zooming with our leader, poet and author Christian McEwen. Read More
Changes by Anna Bozena Bowen
Anna Bozena Bowen: As a poet, author of the awards winning novel HATTIE, and a retired nurse, my writing focuses on the multidimensional aspects of our human and spiritual lives. I live in Hampshire County, enjoy cooking, food and wine, and love travelling to Napa and Maui. annabozenabowen.com Changes Some mornings I don’t recognize my Read More
The Dailies by James Cervantes
James Cervantes, poet and editor, is definitely a straw dog when in residence on Hog Mountain. At other times, he is an expat living in San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato, MX), though the pandemic has temporarily driven him, his wife, two dogs, and a cat to shelter in Arizona. The Dailies White masks, red and Read More
HOW VIRULENT by Jane McPhetres Johnson
Jane McPhetres Johnson commuted from Wyoming to complete Goddard’s MFA, later created Humanities programs, and now is picking up where she left off when motherhood interrupted post-MFA plans. An Amherst resident and Straw Dog member, she has published poems in journals, anthologies, and e-mags, including “What Rough Beast” and “Not My President.” HOW VIRULENT the Read More