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
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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
Waiting by Amy Laprade
A Straw Dog member from Franklin County, Amy Laprade is a writing coach and author of “So Nice To Finally Meet You…,” “Behind the Magic 8 Ball,” and “Silence Is Premeditated: A Collection.” Her poem “Deafening” will be forthcoming in The 64: Best Poets Of The Year, Black Mountain Press. Waiting everything that ever mattered Read More
Kazhuo Ohno Dancing Through my Quarantine by Maddy Leue
Maddy Leue is a poet from Franklin County (Ashfield) and is a member of the Cloud Saddle Writers. She is a single parent, a graduate student of public policy, an artist, a caregiver, a wanderer of woods, a tea-drinker, a tinkerer, a meddler. (Kazhuo Ohno, who is referenced in the title of this poem, was Read More
VIRUS by Eileen Gloster
Eileen Gloster teaches second grade in her hometown of North Adams, Massachusetts. She is a former owner of Papyri Books, where she hosted readings and open mics. Her poetry has been published in local journals. Grateful for this opportunity and incentive, she recently joined Straw Dog Writers Guild. VIRUS 1. Safe, alone, I kneel in Read More
Is This the New Normal? by Peggy Winnett
Peggy Winnett lives in retirement in Leeds, Ma (Hampshire Co.). She has been delighted to find herself in an active writing community, as it stimulates her own late stirrings in that direction. Is This the New Normal? I seem to have disappeared I can’t find myself anywhere I’ve looked in all the usual places But Read More
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH by Walter E. Kielbowicz
Walter Kielbowicz: I am from Hatfield, MA. and am a graduate of Smith Academy. I was introduced to poetry in my freshman year by a challenge from our teacher. I have had poems published before but I am working to put together a book of my own soon. Read More
Shaken Faith by Kristin Rivers
Kristin Rivers is a published short story/fiction writer, blogger and book reviewer from Chicopee who loves cats, music, travel and nature photography. She graduated from Smith College in 2016 and recently contributed to The Poetry Center’s renga project examining life in the time of COVID-19. Shaken Faith Everywhere I turn, worship falls silent around me. Read More
World War Corona Gardening by Nancy Saporta Sternbach
Nancy Saporta Sternbach lives in Northampton, is a Straw Dog member, and is a recently retired member of Smith College’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her current projects include a Sephardic cookbook, Sefarad, and a memoir of growing up in New York, Bellydancing in the Bronx. She loves to travel, cook, and garden. World War Read More