By Patricia Lee Lewis The Northampton State Hospital floats in memory and in fact above a small city of people—alive and dead—who, over a span of one hundred years, worked or were incarcerated within its walls. It is a place of nightmare and of dreams, and it is where the characters of The Lost Women Read More
An award-winning poet, Patricia Lee Lewis has led creative writing and yoga retreats for 30 years at Patchwork Farm Retreat in Westhampton MA and the US, and 70 retreats internationally. She moved recently to downtown Northampton MA where she will ride her bicycle again and revise that West Texas novel. (Patricia was an editorial review Read More
Patricia Lee Lewis upon reflection … By Patrica Lee Lewis In the year that opens before us, I will turn 80, and recently in a writing circle of workshop leaders in training, I wrote a piece in the voice of a woman facing the mysteries and gifts of going forward in a well-worn life. Onward Read More
Reflections on the New Year By Patricia Lee Lewis When the new year dawned, I was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, watching the tops of snowy mountains glow pink in the rising sun and listening to Alasdair Fraser play his fiddle on the radio. For this turning of the year, he’d chosen a tune from the Read More
Who Knew an Annual Meeting Could Be So Magical? Guest Blogger: Patricia lee Lewis . What I loved most about the Straw Dog Members party was the way each person walking through the front door of Jacqueline Sheehan’s wonderful home discovered that what seemed, from the outside, to be a tiny, fairytale farmhouse quickly became the Marvelous Expanding House Read More
SDWG Goes to AWP 2013 Boston was filled to the brim with writers last week. The annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2013 Conference (AWP) attracted over 11,000 authors.  Straw Dog Founding Members, Patricia Lee Lewis, Ellen Meeropol, and Jacqueline Sheehan were invited to offer a presentation in which they shared their wisdom about Read More
