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The Poetry Box LIVE – The Poeming Pigeon (Oct 14)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – October Edition!

Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon #13

Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

[3pm Alaskan; 5pm Mountain; 6pm Central; 7pm Eastern]

Featured Readers:

Andrea Hollander • Dale Champlin • Jennifer Clark • Susan Donnelly •  Linda Ferguson • Sylvia Freeman • Gabby Gilliam • Peter M. Gordon • Leslie Hodge • Tricia Knoll • Abigail Licad • Judith H. Montgomery • Vivienne Popperl • Joel Savishinsky • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Doug Stone • Colette Tennant • Ingrid Wendt • Melody Wilson

Featuring the Art of:

Beverly Ash Gilbert • Carella Keil • Dale Champlin • Elaine Franz Witten • Estelle Meadoff • Jan Baross • Jeanne Julian • Jone Rush MacCulloch • Judith Skillman • Linda Briskin • Pattie Palmer-Baker • Robert R. Sanders • Romana Tarlamis

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

 

front cover of The Poeming Pigeon, issue #13, designed by Robert R. Sanders featuring cover art by Beverly Ash Gilbert

The Poeming Pigeon – Issue #13

A Journal of Poetry & Art

More details about the book (and ordering) HERE:

The “Superstition” issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #13) is 162 pages, featuring poetry by Ellen Bass, James Crews, Andrea Hollander, and Paulann Petersen and includes poetry and artwork by 76 poets/artists from around the globe.

Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art “Prowling After Midnight” by artist Beverly Ash Gilbert of Gig Harbor, Washington.

 

 

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (Sept 9, 2023)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – September Edition!

Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

[3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)]

 

Featured Poets:

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About the Featured Poets

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Grace Richards worked as a technical writer in the early computer industry, as an assistant in the TV and film industry in Los Angeles, and later taught ESL at the college level in Southern California and at the University of Oregon. During the last few most dramatic years, she has found her poetic voice. Her work has been published in Willawaw, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Herstry blog, and in the anthologies Poems on Poems and Poets and Conestoga Zen. Her first chapbook, Mid-Century Modern and Other Poems, was published in September 2019. She enjoys being part of the creative community in Eugene, Oregon, awestruck by the surrounding beauty of the trees, the ever-shifting clouds amid bright blue sky, and gentle April showers at times turning to snowfall.

You can order Grace’s new chapbook HERE

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Susan Woods Morse has a Masters degree in Literacy Education. She taught ELA at the middle school level for many years before retiring in 2016. Born in California, she transplanted to the backwoods of Maine for thirty years, before finally moving to the Willamette Valley in Oregon to be closer to her family. There, Susan served on the board of the Oregon Poetry Association and had her first chapbook, In the Hush, published by Finishing Line Press in 2019.

 

Her work has appeared in various journals such as Cream City Review, The Mom Egg,  Sixfold, Cirque, Willawaw Journal, Aji Magazine, VoiceCatcher, Verseweavers, Wood Cat Review, and The Poeming Pigeon. Her poem,”Of Plates and Poets, A Somewhat Ars Poetica” was an NFSPS 1st place winner of the New York Poetry Forum Award in 2021. Susan is a member of the Mid Valley Poetry Society and often reads her work during Salem Poetry Project and Head for the Hills events. She enjoys gardening, camping, and just “being out there” in nature.

 

You can order Susan’s new book HERE

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Claudia Saleeby Savage‘s writing explores diaspora and dichotomy and has been featured in print, on stage, and in galleries throughout the country. She’s a poet, essayist, and author of Bruising Continents, The Last One Eaten, and the collaboration The Hour of Anjali. Her work lives on the page, but more often with her performance duo Thick In The Throat Honey (2019 semi-finalists for a Creative Capital award on the Syrian refugee crisis). She’s received support from PJCE, RACC, The Black Earth Institute, Jentel, Ucross, the Global Education Center, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her poetics are influenced by rabid reading, dancing, Alice Coltrane, and long walks in drippy forests. She works in the field of renewable energy and lives with her husband and daughter in Portland.

You can order Claudia’s new book HERE

 

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (May 13, 2023)

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The Poetry Box LIVE – May Edition!

Saturday, May 13, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

[3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)]

 

Featured Poets:

  • Susan Johnson (Washington) – author of The Call Home
  • Lana Hechtman Ayers (Oregon) – author of When All Else Fails
  • Joel Savishinsky (Washington) – author of Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts

 

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About the Featured Poets

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Susan Johnson writes in the mountain town of Roslyn, Washington, where she has lived with her husband and their children for over forty years. She hikes daily with family and friends on trails along the Cle Elum River Valley. As a spokeswoman for a Roslyn citizens’ group, she worked with others to promote sustainable forestry and to protect wildlife habitat. Susan taught in the local schools and university and held leadership roles in state and national writing initiatives. She was named the 2009 Washington State Teacher of the Year.

Susan is grateful to be active in a vibrant poetry community. Her work has appeared in Cirque Journal: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Earth’s Daughters, Poetic Shelters, Poets Unite! LiTFUSE @10 Anthology, Raven Chronicles, Rise Up Review, The Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, WA129+, Washington Poetic Routes, Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, and Yakima Coffeehouse Poets.

You can order Susan’s new chapbook HERE

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Lana Hechtman Ayers, originally from New York, settled in the Pacific Northwest after a decade in New England. She is managing editor of three poetry presses: Concrete Wolf Poetry Series, MoonPath Press, and World Enough Writers. She facilitates generative writing workshops in the Amherst Method, runs a poetry book club, helps other poets assemble manuscripts, and teaches at writer’s conferences.

Lana holds MFAs in Poetry and Writing Popular Fiction and is a Hedgebrook residency alumna. A Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and National Book Award nominee, she won honors in the Discovery / Nation Award and in the Rita Dove Poetry Prize.

Author of nine previous collections of poems, she also published a romantic time travel adventure novel, Time Flash: Another Me, and is writing a sequel. A murder mystery may also be in the works.

In addition to thriving in the book-loving culture, Lana enjoys the Oregon Coast’s bountiful rain and copious coffee shops. She lives with her marvelous husband and several sweet black & white fur babies. A time travel enthusiast, she enjoys cryptograms, and watches entirely too much Home & Garden television. Her favorite color is the swirl of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night.

You can order Lana’s new book HERE

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When Joel Savishinsky published the first poem from this collection at age 40, he was a young anthropologist and gerontologist who never thought he’d grow old. Four decades later, now a grandfather and family elder, he smiles at his earlier lack of imagination. For half a century, his research and teaching have taken him to live with elders in Arctic Canada, the Caribbean, a working-class borough in North London, South Indian villages, and American retirement communities and geriatric facilities, places where he has come to love the grit, humor, passion, outrage, and honest perplexity of older people.

He is the author of The Ends of Time: Life and Work in a Nursing Home and Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America, both of which won the Gerontological Society of America’s Richard Kalish Award (book-of-the-year prize). Since retiring, he has been transforming his experiences with the aging into poetry, short fiction and essays. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his work has appeared in American Writers Review, Blood and Thunder, Cirque, The Examined Life Journal, The New York Times, The Poeming Pigeon, Soul-Lit, and Windfall. He and his wife Susan live in Seattle, doing community and political work, while also helping to raise five grandchildren. A recovering academic and unrepentant activist, this is his first collection of poetry.

You can order Joel’s new chapbook HERE

 

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (Mar 11, 2023 )

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The Poetry Box LIVE – March Edition!

Saturday, March 11, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

[3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)]

 

Featured Poets:

  • Emily Newberry (of Portland, Oregon) – author of Signs
  • Genevieve Lardizabal (of Seattle, Washington) – author of A Starved Heart
  • Teddy Norris (of St. Charles, Missouri) – author of In Transit

 

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About the Featured Poets

 

Emily Pittman Newberry is a writer, speaker and thought partner living in Portland, Oregon. She was born in the Midwest during WWII and grew up on the east coast during the rebellion against oppression. After chopping wood for the family fireplaces as a teenager, she went to the March on Washington in 1963.

Since coming out as a transgender woman, Emily has delighted in this experiment we call life. In addition to writing and speaking she is an amateur radio operator. Her tag line is “I help other people shine.” She is fascinated by the way we dance with vulnerability as our lives intersect, and how the rich diversity of life and the many paths we take somehow seem to lead us all home.

Her poetry book, Butterfly A Rose, chapbook, Nature Speaking, Naturally, and most recently her memoir, Turning Inside Out were published by OneSpirit Press. Her poem “Signs” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014 by Kind of a Hurricane Press. In 2016, the artist Shu-Ju Wang invited her to write poetry for the artist’s book Water.

For more information, visit Emily’s websites: butterflyarose.com and sacredgyre.com, where she hosts a podcast inviting the listener into a conversation about how to stay connected to your deepest values as you work for change.

You can order Emily’s new chapbook HERE

Genevieve Lardizabal is an 18-year-old poet from Seattle, Washington. During her second stay in an eating disorder treatment center, she was put onto room-based care because of her resistance to recovery and her refusal to eat. Room-based care is where one must stay in their room from eight a.m. to ten p.m., and is only allowed out for meals, a one-hour therapy session and one hour of visiting with family. She was isolated and alone. No other patients were allowed to speak to her, and she wasn’t allowed outside for five months. So many thoughts swirled in her head and without any output she felt trapped, so she began to write. By the end of that year, she was published in Z publishing house’s Washington’s Best Emerging Young Poets of 2019, and spent the next three years writing her book A Starved Heart. A Starved Heart dives deep into her disorders and experiences that lead her to recovery after four years of treatment centers and hospital stays.  She dreams of becoming a therapist for eating disorders and running a narrative therapy group at a treatment center, teaching kids how to write through their pain, whether that’s through poetry, storytelling, song writing, or journaling.

Instagram: @gene.vievepoetry

You can order Genevieve’s new book HERE

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Teddy Norris is a poet and retired professor of English who holds an MLA from Washington University in St. Louis. She taught composition, poetry, and creative writing for two decades and edited a community college literary journal for five years. For eight years she served as a regional judge for Poetry Out Loud’s national high school poetry recitation competition. Her work has been recognized in local poetry contests, including the St. Louis Poetry Center, the Wednesday Club of St. Louis, the Springfield Writers Guild, and the Missouri Writers Exchange. In 2019 she was invited to read her poetry at the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Series as part of the annual Spoleto arts festival in Charleston, SC.

Her poems have appeared in Adanna, Broad River Review, Flying South, Kakalak, Little Patuxent Review, Switchgrass Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Pillars of Salt was published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press. She lives in St. Charles, Missouri, with her very supportive husband and their two cats. The latter lack the attention span for anything longer than haiku and categorically refuse to appear in a cat video.

More information about the poet at www.teddynorris.com.

You can order Teddy’s new chapbook HERE

 

 

The Poetry Box LIVE (Feb 11, 2023 )

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The Poetry Box LIVE – February Edition!

Celebrating Our Three Winners
of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022

Saturday, Feb 11, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

[3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)]

 

Featured Poets:

  • Rosalie Sanara Petrouske (of Michigan) – author of Tracking the Fox
  • Michael S. Glaser (of North Carolina) – author of Elemental Things
  • Suzy Harris (of Oregon) – author of Listening in the Dark

 

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About the Featured Poets

 

First Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022

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author photoRosalie Sanara Petrouske is also the author of What We Keep (Finishing Line Press, 2016), A Postcard from my Mother (Finishing Line Press, 2004), and The Geisha Box (March Street Press, 1996).  Petrouske’s poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals:  Passages North, Red Rock Review, Rhino, The MacGuffin, Southern Poetry Review, Third Wednesday, Sky Island Journal, Blueline, and Lunch Ticket, among others. Her poetry was also included in several anthologies, the most recent, 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017 from MSU Press and Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now from Northern Michigan University Press.

Her poem “Eating Corn Soup Under the Strawberry Moon” was one of six finalists in the 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize from Cultural Daily. In 2021, she was one of five finalists for the distinction of U.P. Poet Laureate (of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan).  Images of the natural world are prominent throughout her work as she stays true to the teachings of her Ojibwe father, who taught her how to provide careful stewardship and to always honor her surrounding environment, whether a woodland or urban landscape.

You can order Rosalie’s prizewinning chapbook HERE

Second Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022

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Michael S. Glaser is a professor Emeritus at St. Mary’s College where he served for 50 years. A Poet Laureate of Maryland (2004-2009), Glaser has received awards for his poetry, his teaching, and his service to poetry and the poetic tradition in Maryland. A former Board member of the Maryland Humanities, and the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, he served as a Maryland State Arts Council Poet-in-the-Schools for nearly 25 years and now co-leads retreats which embrace the reading and writing of poetry as a means of self-reflection and personal growth.

Glaser has published several collections of his own poetry, edited three anthologies and co-edited The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA 2012).   He writes book reviews for The Friends Journal and is the proud father of five children and ten grandchildren. He now lives in Hillsborough, NC with his wife, the educator and Courage and Renewal facilitator, Kathleen W. Glaser.

You can order Michael’s prizewinning chapbook HERE

Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022

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Suzy Harris lives in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Clackamas Literary Review, Switchgrass Review, The Poeming Pigeon, and Williwaw, among other journals and anthologies. She has been an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner and recently served as poetry editor of Timberline Review. Suzy is a retired attorney who is learning to hear again with two cochlear implants. Born and raised in Indiana, she is grateful to call the Pacific Northwest home.

You can order Suzy’s prizewinning chapbook HERE

 

 

Two Poets at Annie Bloom’s Books – Jan 9

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Annie Bloom’s to host
Leanne Grabel & Elaine Nussbaum

Mon, January 9, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Annie Bloom’s Bookstore
7834 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97219
503-246-0053

 

About the Poets:

Poet  & Artist Leanne Grabel is the author of My Husband’s Eyebrows, which is a fun full-color illustrated chapbook celebrating her long marriage—the good, the bad, and most definitely the humorous side of a life shared. Leanne is a writer, illustrator, and performer in love with mixing genres and collaborating with other artists. She has written & produced numerous multi-media shows, including “The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression” and “Anger: The Musical.” Her graphic novel, Brontosaurus Illustrated, was published earlier this year by The Opiate Books. Leanne is the 2020 recipient of the Bread & Roses Award for contributions to women’s literature in the Pacific Northwest.

Elaine Nussbaum is the author of Blood Moon, which explores the first 18 months of the pandemic, social issues, and a tribute to Marvin Bell. She lives in Scappoose, Oregon with her partner, David, plus three cats, five hens and a rooster named Echinacea. When she is not working as a substitute teacher at a juvenile detention facility, infusing poetry into the curriculum, she is writing in her cabin. Elaine holds an MFA from Pacific University and a Certificate in Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Boulder University. Her work has appeared in Bombay Gin, The Sun, Silk Road, Thimbleberry, Persimmon Tree, and elsewhere. Previous collections include Poems in the Key of D Flat and Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.

Camas Library features
Shawn Aveningo-Sanders – Jan 4

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Wed Jan 4, 2023⁠
6:15 – 7:45 PM⁠
• signups for open mic at 6:15⁠
• program begins at 6:30⁠
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Camas Public Library (meeting room)⁠
625 NE 4th Avenue⁠
Camas, WA⁠
360-834-4692⁠
Host: Elmo Shade / elmo@elmoshade.com⁠
Sponsor: Ellen Miles (360) 834-4692 / library@cityofcamas.us⁠

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About the Featured Poet:⁠

Shawn Aveningo-Sanders is the author of What She Was Wearing, an inspirational book of poetry/prose which reveals her #metoo secret—from survival to empowerment. Shawn’s work has appeared worldwide in over 160 literary journals and anthologies, including Calyx, Amsterdam⁠ Quarterly, American Journal of Poetry, Timberline Review, VoiceCatcher, and Poets Reading the News, to name a few. She’s a Pushcart nominee, Best of the Net nominee, co-founder of The Poetry Box press, as well as managing editor for The Poeming Pigeon. Shawn is a proud mother of three and shares the creative life with her husband, Robert.⁠
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Open Mic Reader Guidelines:⁠

• Family Friendly Space / Please abstain from sexually explicit / inappropriate language⁠
• One page / One poem / Additional rounds depending on total # of readers⁠
• All ages are welcome / Youth poets encouraged⁠