Michael Allen Roche is an author from Hampden county. He is an active member of Write-Up Springfield. He shares his life and home with his husband, Earskin Sloan. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies. He also enjoys writing memoirs, essays, and prose. “Perspective” Friday afternoon, on my way to the hospital… Read More
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Report from under the leaves by Deborah Dill
Deborah Dill writes poetry, memoir, non-fiction, and is a public health nurse, urban habitat gardener, and Straw Dog member living in Middlesex County. Her poems have been published in Compass Roads, Peregrine, and anthologies. Her memoir, Believe the Bird: An End of Life Love Story is looking for a publisher. Report from under the leaves Read More
Beneath by Jennifer Delozier
Jennifer Delozier lives in Hampshire County with her husband, Greg, and their organic garden. She is a poet who counts on her fingers to get the right amount of syllables for Haiku. She is a photographer who succumbs to taking photos on her phone instead of her digital camera! Beneath Beneath the mask at the Read More
A Child’s Garden of Virus by Chris O’Carroll
Chris O’Carroll is a Straw Dog member living in Pelham. His grandchildren like some of his poems, but they really love A Child’s Garden of Verses. So he took “My Shadow” as a model for this child’s-eye view of the pandemic. A Child’s Garden of Virus after Robert Louis Stevenson I know a little virus Read More
Face Mask by Martha Cohen
Martha Cohen is a collage artist and recently retired librarian, living in Florence, who just started to write poetry again, after a long hiatus, to cope with a changing world. Though very appreciative of the existence of Straw Dog Writers Guild, she is too timid yet to become a member. Read More
“Sunrise During the Pandemic” by Sarah Ritter
Sarah Ritter is a Straw Dog Writers Guild member from Connecticut. 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 several anthologies published by The National Beat Poetry Foundation and Local Gems Press. “Sunrise During the Pandemic” Though the Read More
Journal: March 21, 2020 by Carla Manene Cooke
Straw Dog Writers Guild member Carla Cooke lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and enjoys the local writing community. Following a weekend writing retreat in 2012, she began facilitating small writing groups in her home. A longtime journal-keeper and compulsive proofreader, she provides line-editing services and “a fresh eye” for other writers. Journal: March 21, 2020 It’s Read More
“Garden Intervention” by Kate Collins
Kate Collins: I am a retired school district administrator who lives in Hampshire County. I live in a cottage in Laurel Park with a small dog who is the love of my life. I was once a high school English teacher, and I was once a journalist. “Garden Intervention” When I moved to my tiny Read More
Pandemic Contact by Janine Roberts
Janine Roberts, Professor emerita, UMass, Amherst, lives on Leverett Pond in Franklin County. She has published a book of poems, The Body Alters (Slate Roof Press); Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy (Norton Press); as well as two books on rituals, numerous personal essays, and some 70 articles. Pandemic Contact Hike summer Read More
The Year of Solitude by Opal N. Gayle
Opal Gayle: I am the recipient of the 2019 St Botolph’s Club Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. I am a member of Valley Society, Gallery of Readers, Straw Dog Writers and Boston Writers of Color. I live in New England where I am a world language teacher. www.Opalogos.com The Year of Solitude I have been thinking a Read More