Jamila Gore is a spoken word artist, performer, poet and writer living in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has facilitated and hosted Poetry Slams and performed poetry throughout the pioneer valley since 2008. She won the Organizer Prize for the Movement Voter Project’s 2018 poetry contest and was the interlude act at TedX Women Easthampton. Everest We Read More
Pandemic Poetry & Prose Project
Clichés by Rosemary Oliver
Rose Oliver is a retired Registered Nurse who lives in Berkshire County. She is a frequent participant in Berkshire County’s spoken poetry project: WordXWord. Her works have appeared in online and print journals. Clichés by Rosemary Oliver Clichés Nothing lasts forever. Read More
This Year by Matthew Andrews
Matthew Andrews is a resident of Hampshire County, MA. He is a musician, writer, father, devotee, and co-owner (with his wife Corinne Andrews) of Yoga Center Amherst. He leads pilgrimages to sacred sites in India, teaches yoga philosophy, and serves as President of the Board of Directors for Auroville International, USA. This Year When I Read More
P A N D E M I C 2020 by Ellen Dibble
Ellen Dibble: I write mostly for children. I haven’t figured out a way to approach the many, many publishers, but write what I call skeletons of picture books, and skeletons of tiny skits for classes to find words for, by Zoom or otherwise. P A N D E M I C 2020 The lens Read More
Covid World by Sharon Harmon
Sharon A. Harmon, Straw Dog member, freelance writer and poet, writes for The Uniquely Quabbin Magazine and has two poetry chapbooks. She just had a story accepted for Chicken Soup, “Christmas is in the Air.” Sharon teaches workshops on poetry and writing for magazines and is currently working on two children’s picture books. Covid World Read More
Mourning song by Libby Maxey
Libby Maxey, a Franklin County resident and Straw Dog member, works for Amherst College and Literary Mama. Her poems have appeared in Emrys, Stoneboat and elsewhere, and her first poetry collection, Kairos, won Finishing Line Press’s 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Her nonliterary activities used to include singing. Mourning song Before, we planned new Read More
APRIL 2020 by Lanette Sweeney
Lanette Sweeney, now a full-time writer and MFA student at Western New England University, thanks to her wife’s support, has survived lifetimes as a mother, reporter, editor, fund-raiser, and teacher of English and Women’s Studies. Her writing has appeared in multiple literary journals and anthologies. APRIL 2020 I miss seeing human faces not split by Read More
First Anniversary by Sharon Tracey
Sharon Tracey’s poems have appeared in The Worcester Review, Mom Egg Review, Tule Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collections include Chroma (forthcoming from Shanti Arts) and What I Remember Most Is Everything (All Caps Publishing, 2017). She is a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild. First Anniversary —April 15, 2020 Not Read More
THE LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS SUGGESTS SOME OF US MIGHT HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY by Fred Pelka
Fred Pelka is the author of What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement and other books on the history of disability and disability rights. His first book of poetry, A Different Blaze, was published by Hedgerow Books in 2014. He was a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow. THE LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS Read More
Forecast by Christine Labich
Christine Labich is a visual artist and poet living in Hampshire County. Her work is the practice of finding spirit-sustaining meaning and magic in ordinary human life and the natural world. She brings a deep appreciation for and desire to illuminate the complexities of being human to all her activities. Forecast How to be on Read More