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
Pandemic
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
Virus By V. Jane Schneeloch
V. Jane Schneeloch is a resident of Hampden County and a member of Straw Dogs. Her poetry collections include: Turning Over Leaves (Antrim House Books, 2015) and Climbing to the Moon (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her plays, In Hiding and The Test, were produced at the Drama Studio in Springfield. Read More
What day is it By Ruth Lehrer
Ruth Lehrer is the author of the young adult novel, BEING FISHKILL (Candlewick.) She is a Pushcart nominated poet, with poems scattered through the web and woods. A Strawdog member, she lives in the Hampshire country hilltowns. Her website is ruthlehrer.com. What day is it is the word of the day We say it over Read More
Spring Flowers amid COVID19 By Dixie Brown
Dixie Brown: I am a writer who lives in Hampshire County. I work as a writing coach at the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass. I love to hike in the Holyoke Range and I enjoy singing, playing my flute and gardening. The daffodils are doing fine in this time of the coronavirus. Week after week Read More
He’s Not Gonna Take It By Chris O’Carroll
Chris O’Carroll is author of The Joke’s on Me. He has been Light magazine’s featured poet, and his work appears in Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, among other collections. He is a Straw Dog Writers Guild member and lives in Pelham. He’s Not Gonna Take It Read More