Scott Hume is a retired journalist and Straw Dog member living now in Wisconsin following 40 years in Chicago. He holds an M.A. in Literature from the University of Chicago and briefly taught creative writing at Chicago State University before moving to magazine—primarily business-to-business titles—journalism, where he stayed. Each line of his poem is the Read More
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House Arrest in the Time of Covid by Margaret Allard
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 Hilltown CDC, she was immersed in parenting two sons. She writes free verse now. House Arrest in the Time of Covid Stay home. Good. Home. Read More
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 an alternate effect of isolation from oneself, with the offer of what conscious natural selection implies within a diverse and evolving ecosystem. 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. She is the author of Island Naturalist, an award-winning collection of natural history essays, and two chapbooks of poetry. Corona The Chinese horseshoe bat is 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 Expression of My Personal Journey.” Her poems have been published in the anthologies: “We Are Beat,” “Goddess,” “Connecticut Bards Northwest Poetry Review,” and “The Mondo.” 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 and magazines. She lives in Northampton, MA, spends four summer months on Martha’s Vineyard and a month in Santa Fe, NM. LADYBUG, LADYBUG Ladybug, prettiest 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 liberating and focused about a poem. 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 Straw Dogs program committee. His new book of poetry is Who has time for this? www.hammerandhorn.net Then and now Jørgen Stein by Jacob Paludan, 1945 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 Station and is forthcoming in Aljazeera English. To the Unclaimed Bodies in NYC April 2020 Here at the Tree Top Café you can still see 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 stories, poems, novels. Six colleges have given her honorary doctorates. One of her awards set her good coat on fire. Isolate In this isolate, if Read More