Category: poetry
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Back to Shool
College Professor Ben Goluboff, one of two poets behind Group Portrait, shared with me that he had a new poem published in the McNeese Review called “Native Lands.” Read that here. This Wednesday, I resume teaching at Northampton Community College in their publishing electives. My course, Pathways to Publication, discusses how to get your work published and how to build…
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Poetry for the environment
Kathryn Dohrmann, author of the Stark Ravine Mad poetry chapbook reports that she had a successful workshop with a local Eco-Ambassadors group in Illinois, sponsored by the Lake Forest Lands Association: The workshop was based on Mskoze/Red She Is. “We talked about some indigenous history, and then they did some creative writing about…
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This Weekend at the Mall
The summer season of celebration for #50Books5years enters its next phase as we approach our poetry reading and book signing event at the Made in the Neighborhood Store at the Palmer Park Mall, Easton, Pa., on July 11. This event will have a variety of authors on hand, including myself, Thurston Gill, Darrell Parry, Nancy…
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July 11 Celebration at Palmer Mall
The summer season of celebration for #50Books5years enters its next phase as we approach our poetry reading and book signing event at the Made in the Neighborhood Store at the Palmer Park Mall, Easton, Pa., on July 11. This event will have a variety of authors on hand, including myself, Thurston Gill, Darrell Parry, Nancy…
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Archive of Adolescence closes
The final volume of McKenna Graf’s Archive of Adolescence series, What’s Left?, officially releases June 13. McKenna graduated from Lafayette College last week and has enrolled in a master’s program at Harvard University. She came to me as a college sophomore and, in a meeting in downtown Easton’s Three Birds Coffee, pitched the idea of a four-book series that covered her…
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Operation Hug at Newtown Bookshop Saturday
From Madeline Marriott about the launch of Operation Hug three weeks ago: Since its official launch at the end of May, everything about Operation Hug has been both incredibly rewarding and just so much fun. I had the privilege of reading to a first-grade class taught by one of my lifelong best friends, and…
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Meeting Abigail Michelini
I met with the new supervisor of NCC’s creative writing program, Abigail Michelini. She revealed that she is initiating a campaign to make the certificate into a full-fledged associate’s degree. This is exciting news. She is also a published poet. She has a chapbook with Lehigh Valley publisher, Thirty West. She is…
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Less Permanent Black Out
Black Out Poetry has made a couple appearances in my life recently, once in R. Diskin Black’s workshop with the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group in late April and once while reading Urvi Thakker’s honors thesis. (Urvi is a senior at Lafayette College, where McKenna Graf is also a member of the Class of 2026. Congrats to…