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The Poetry Box LIVE (May 13, 2023)

March 25, 2023 by The Poetry Box

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

 

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

 

 

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

 

 

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The Poetry Box LIVE (Mar 11, 2023 )

February 15, 2023 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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

 

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

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

 

 

Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Emily Newberry, Genevieve Lardizabal, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Teddy Norris

The Poetry Box LIVE (Feb 11, 2023 )

January 17, 2023 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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

 

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

 

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

 

 

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The Poetry Box LIVE – The Poeming Pigeon Launch, Part 2 (Dec 10)

November 22, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – Special December Edition!

Book Launch Celebration The Poeming Pigeon – Part 2

Saturday, Dec 10, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

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

Featured Poets:

Amelia Diaz Ettinger • Emmett Wheatfall • Leanne Grabel • Anne Richardson • Rebecca Smolen • Eileen McGurn • Jone Rush MacCulloch • Sue Fagalde Lick • M.F. McAuliffe • Dale Champlin • Ann Farley • Carter McKenzie

And Featuring the Art of:

Kay M. Levine • Dale Champlin • Leanne Grabel • Paula Maloney • Jennifer Lommers • Carolyn Martin • Dawn Sanford • Terry Cox-Joseph • Kathleen Caprario • Liz Nakazawa • Cynthia Yatchman • Jeannie E. Roberts

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

 

Front Cover of The Poeming Pigeon, Issue #12

The Poeming Pigeon – Issue #12

A Journal of Poetry & Art

Our new, re-designed issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #12) is 180 pages and includes poetry and artwork on a variety of topics by 92 poets/artists from around the globe.

Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art “Bear and Peacock” by artist Jennifer Lommers of Corvalis, Oregon.

Available to order HERE:

Contributing Artists:

Kathleen Caprario • Dale Champlin • Terry Cox-Joseph • Leanne Grabel • Nitza M. Hernández López • Kay M. Levine • Jennifer Lommers • Paula J. Maloney • Janet Manalo • Carolyn Martin • Bruce McClain • David Memmott • Liz Nakazawa • Jennifer Pratt-Walter • Jeannie E. Roberts • Dawn Sanford • Barbara Hageman Sarvis • Judith Skillman • Romana Tarlamis • Brigit Truex • Louise Wynn • Cynthia Yatchman

Contributing Poets:

Pamela Ahlen • Hugh Anderson • Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet • Lana Hechtman Ayers • KB Ballentine • Sam Barbee • Rachel Barton • Christopher Bogart • Joann Renee Boswell • Katy Brown • Suzanne Bruce • Paul Bufis • Dale Champlin • Margaret Chula • Brittney Corrigan • Susan Coultrap-McQuin • Amelia Díaz Ettinger • Susan Donnelly • Johanna Ely • Ann Farley • Beatriz F. Fernandez • Eric Forsbergh • Bill Frayer • Nathan Fryback • Leanne Grabel • Melanie Green • Cleo Griffith • Quinton Hallett • Mark Hammerschick • Suzy Harris • Nancy Haskett • David James • Marilyn Johnston • Terry Cox-Joseph • Dan Kaufman • Candice Kelsey • Tricia Knoll • Bethany Lee • Sue Fagalde Lick • Ronald Okuaki Lieber • Annie Lighthart • Cynthia Linville • Jone Rush MacCulloch • M. F. McAuliffe • Eileen McGurn • Carter McKenzie • David Memmott • Karla Linn Merrifield • Angie Minkin • Juan Pablo Mobili • Heidi Morrell • Sandra Salinas Newton • Nancy Nowak • Francis Opila • Jennifer Pratt-Walter • M. Ann Reed • Anne Richardson • Joseph J. Ridgway • M.S. Rooney • John Rowe • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Judith Skillman • Rebecca Smolen • Connie Soper • Trina Sotira • Matthew J. Spireng • Doug Stone • Romana Tarlamis • Mark Thalman • Allison Thorpe • Brigit Truex • Jean Varda • Julene Tripp Weaver • Kaja Weeks • Emmett Wheatfall • Marshall Witten • Claire Zoghb

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, The Poeming Pigeon

The Poetry Box LIVE – The Poeming Pigeon Celebration- Part 1 (Nov 12)

October 15, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – November Edition!

Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon

Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

Featured Poets:

Pamela Ahlen • John Rowe •   Allison Thorpe • Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Candice Kelsey • Trina Sotira • Susan Coultrap-McQuin • Suzanne Bruce • Marilyn Johnston • Romana Tarlamis • Hugh Anderson • Margaret Chula • Bill Frayer • Lana Hechtman Ayers • Christopher Bogart •  Karla Linn Merrifield • Brigit Truex • Julene Tripp Weaver • Cleo Griffith • Quinton Hallett • Marshall Witten

Featuring the Art of:

Jennifer Lommers • Louise Wynn • Bruce McClain • Paula Maloney • Janet Manala • Romana Tarlamis • David Memmott • Carolyn Martin • Dawn Sanford • Nitza M. Hernandez-Lopez • Barbara Hageman Sarvis

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

People have often asked us why we call our book launches a celebration.
When you see the last 10 minutes of the show, you’ll see why.

 

Front Cover of The Poeming Pigeon, Issue #12

The Poeming Pigeon – Issue #12

A Journal of Poetry & Art

Our new, re-designed issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #12) is 180 pages and includes poetry and artwork on a variety of topics by 92 poets/artists from around the globe.

Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art “Bear and Peacock” by artist Jennifer Lommers of Corvalis, Oregon.

Available to order HERE:

Contributing Artists:

Kathleen Caprario • Dale Champlin • Terry Cox-Joseph • Leanne Grabel • Nitza M. Hernández López • Kay M. Levine • Jennifer Lommers • Paula J. Maloney • Janet Manalo • Carolyn Martin • Bruce McClain • David Memmott • Liz Nakazawa • Jennifer Pratt-Walter • Jeannie E. Roberts • Dawn Sanford • Barbara Hageman Sarvis • Judith Skillman • Romana Tarlamis • Brigit Truex • Louise Wynn • Cynthia Yatchman

Contributing Poets:

Pamela Ahlen • Hugh Anderson • Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet • Lana Hechtman Ayers • KB Ballentine • Sam Barbee • Rachel Barton • Christopher Bogart • Joann Renee Boswell • Katy Brown • Suzanne Bruce • Paul Bufis • Dale Champlin • Margaret Chula • Brittney Corrigan • Susan Coultrap-McQuin • Amelia Díaz Ettinger • Susan Donnelly • Johanna Ely • Ann Farley • Beatriz F. Fernandez • Eric Forsbergh • Bill Frayer • Nathan Fryback • Leanne Grabel • Melanie Green • Cleo Griffith • Quinton Hallett • Mark Hammerschick • Suzy Harris • Nancy Haskett • David James • Marilyn Johnston • Terry Cox-Joseph • Dan Kaufman • Candice Kelsey • Tricia Knoll • Bethany Lee • Sue Fagalde Lick • Ronald Okuaki Lieber • Annie Lighthart • Cynthia Linville • Jone Rush MacCulloch • M. F. McAuliffe • Eileen McGurn • Carter McKenzie • David Memmott • Karla Linn Merrifield • Angie Minkin • Juan Pablo Mobili • Heidi Morrell • Sandra Salinas Newton • Nancy Nowak • Francis Opila • Jennifer Pratt-Walter • M. Ann Reed • Anne Richardson • Joseph J. Ridgway • M.S. Rooney • John Rowe • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Judith Skillman • Rebecca Smolen • Connie Soper • Trina Sotira • Matthew J. Spireng • Doug Stone • Romana Tarlamis • Mark Thalman • Allison Thorpe • Brigit Truex • Jean Varda • Julene Tripp Weaver • Kaja Weeks • Emmett Wheatfall • Marshall Witten • Claire Zoghb

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, The Poeming Pigeon

The Poetry Box LIVE (Oct 8, 2022)

August 24, 2022 by The Poetry Box 1 Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – October Edition!

Saturday, Oct 8, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 3:00 Pm (Alaskan) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

  • Lauri Cruver Cherian (Washington/Texas), author of POEMS OF THE POINT
  • Peter Kaufmann (Alaska), author of THE ROUND WHISPER OF NO MOON
  • Leanne Grabel (Oregon), author of MY HUSBAND’S EYEBROWS

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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author photo of Lauri Cherian in the garden
cr: Kari Cruver Medina

Lauri Cruver Cherian is a Washington State native raised in Gig Harbor on a beautiful piece of beachfront property. She awoke each morning to the cry of the seagulls and the view of the bay in her front yard, which was glorious in rain or shine. Her childhood memories are rich with singing around the bonfire, boat trips with her dad, fishing and clam digging, paddle boarding in Wollochet Bay, and watching for sea lions and orcas that would often swim past her house.

Lauri has lived on the South Texas Coast for three decades. She holds a Master’s degree in Language Acquisition Education from the University of Houston and a Bachelor’s degree in Bilingual Education from Washington State University. Lauri has taught English as a Second Language for children and adults for twenty-five years and is a teacher trainer, consultant, and a workshop leader in adult ESL. She is the recipient of several teacher of the year awards including District Bilingual Teacher of the Year in Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston. (You can visit her website at https://lessonswithlauri.com for more information.)

Besides returning to the beach when she gets the chance, Lauri enjoys acting in community theater, singing, and playing the piano, traveling, and writing short stories and poetry. Her poem “Courage” dedicated to healthcare workers during the pandemic, won honorable mention in the Texas Mental Health Creative Arts Contest in 2021. Lauri and her husband have three adventuresome adult children.

You can order Lauri’s new book HERE

 


front book cover of The Round Whisper of No Moon, designed by Robert R. Sanders

photo of Peter Kaufmann standing in a field

In 1973 Peter Kaufmann left California with his girlfriend to go to Alaska for the summer. Fifty years later they are still there. In Alaska he has worn the hats of a biologist, builder, salmon fisherman and improv teacher and performer. In 1997, in need of change, he volunteered to teach in Viet Nam for one year. That year grew into 20 years. Spending summers in Alaska and three seasons living and working in Asia, he helped communities voice their stories through drama, film, radio, television, and museum exhibitions. He was blessed to work with widely varied populations, including people living with HIV/Aids, sex workers, disabled youth, government officials, museum and television professionals and Buddhist monks. Peter’s poetry draws from both wild Alaska and urban Asia.  His poems have placed in a statewide contest in Alaska, appeared in Cirque magazine, and twice been chosen for National Poetry Month. Peter’s work has been used to introduce non-profit meetings and scored with original music.

You can order Peter’s new book HERE

 


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Leanne Grabel is a writer, illustrator, and performer in love with mixing genres. Her first collaboration was with a bongo player and sax player in the mid-70s and her most recent collaborations were with filmmaker Penny Allen and dancer/choreographer Gregg Bielemeier. She has written & produced numerous multi-media shows, including “The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression” and “Anger: The Musical.” Grabel’s graphic novel, Brontosaurus Illustrated, recently serialized in The Opiate, was published by The Opiate Books in 2022. Grabel is the 2020 recipient of the Bread & Roses Award for contributions to women’s literature in the Pacific Northwest. She and her husband started and ran Cafe Lena, a poetry hub and restaurant, throughout the 90s. Grabel is a retired special education teacher, the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of two nubbins, Ophelia and Elliot.

You can order Leanne’s new book HERE

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Lauri Cruver Cherian, Leanne Grabel, Peter Kaufmann, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading

The Poetry Box LIVE (Sept 10, 2022)

August 24, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – September Edition!

Saturday, Sept 10, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

  • Michael Waterson (California), author of COSMOLOGY OF HEAVEN & HELL
  • P.M. Draper (Florida), author of AFTER PYRE
  • David Gonzalez (New York), author of SOUNDINGS

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

ABOUT THE POETS 

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Michael Waterson tells himself he looks good on paper. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA in the sulfurous glow of Blake’s Satanic mills, Waterson got gob-smacked by language at an early age, rapt by the wizardry of Shakespeare, the Celtic spells of Yeats. Growing up Roman Catholic in a place characterized as “hell with the lid off” colored his life in ways he’s still discovering after seven decades. As a young man he headed off to a party in California and never left. Now a retired journalist, his career includes stints as a factory worker, wildland firefighter, San Francisco taxi driver and wine educator.

He earned a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Mills College. His poetry has won awards and appeared in numerous online and print journals. He currently resides in Napa, California where he is Poet Laureate Emeritus. He is a seannachie (storyteller) and singer/songwriter with a local traditional Irish music band, Kith & Kin, and has had several one act plays produced around the country.

You can order Michael’s new book HERE

 


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P.M. Draper is a baby-boomer who retired during the pandemic. Her previous book of verse, The Tao of Hibiscus was published in 2020. She won 2nd place in the Covid competition for her poem “A Time Like This” which appears here in After Pyre. She’s been a closet-poet for years, coming out in 2018 when she joined a local writers’ group. She lives in Vero Beach, Fl with her husband and Boston Terrier, Oreo.

You can order Patricia’s new book HERE

 


Front book cover of SOUNDINGS

cr: Carl Cox

David Gonzalez is a storyteller, playwright, and performer whose poetry has been featured at Lincoln Center’s Out-of-Doors Festival, Bill Moyers’s documentary Fooling with Words, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and at universities and performing arts centers across the country. Oh Hudson, a long-form piece, was commissioned by the Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center to commemorate the Quadricentennial of Hudson’s exploration. City of Dreams, a spoken-word/Latin jazz project, commissioned by The University of Maryland and La MaMa, has toured throughout the U.S. David wrote the opera libretto for Rise for Freedom, as well as numerous plays, including The Man of the House (commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts); Mariel, an Afro-Cuban musical (commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Boy Who Could Sing Pictures, and many more. Mr. Gonzalez has toured widely throughout the U.S. and abroad. He received his doctorate in Music Therapy from New York University and has garnered numerous awards and commissions. He is a Joseph Campbell Foundation Fellow, has extensive experience supporting communities through the arts, and is a proud recipient of the International Performing Arts for Youth “Lifetime Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence.”

You can order David’s new book HERE

 


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: After Pyre, Cosmology of Heaven & Hell, David Gonzalez, Michael Waterson, P.M. Draper, Poetry Box LIVE, Reading, Soundings

The Poetry Box LIVE (Aug 13, 2022)

July 17, 2022 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – August Edition!

Aug 13, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Featured Poets:

  • Cathy Cain (Oregon), author of THE WEIGHT OF CLOUDS
  • Annette Gagliardi (Minnesota), author of A SHORT SUPPLY OF VIABILITY
  • Rachel Barton (Oregon), author of THIS IS THE LIGHTNESS

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

 

If button not working on your browser, you can click on the link below:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89080450851

Meeting ID:  890 8045 0851

ABOUT THE POETS 

Front cover of The Weight of Clouds

Cathy Cain - author photo, color

Poet and artist Cathy Cain is the author of A Shape of Sky (2021) and Bee Dance (2019), both from The Poetry Box; and Empty Space Places You (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her honors include the Kay Snow Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry; the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry; and a First Place from the Oregon Poetry Association poetry contest. Cain’s poetry has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon, Reed Magazine, Verseweavers, VoiceCatcher, and in  /pãn| dé | mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems.

Cain taught in the public schools for over thirty years. She is the lucky wife of a sweet man, and the mother of two fine sons. She lives with her husband near Portland, Oregon.

You can order Cathy’s new book HERE

 


Front book cover of A Short Supply of Viability (old man on bench looking into the distance)

Annette Gagliardi is a Minnesota writer, author most recently of Proper Poems for Ladies…and a few naughty ones, too! She is a contributor and co-editor of Upon Waking. 58 Voices Speaking Out from the Shadow of Abuse, 2019.  Annette has poetry published in Motherwell, Wisconsin Review, American Diversity Report, Origami Poems Project, Amethyst Review, Door IS A Jar, Trouble Among the Stars, Poetry Quarterly, Sylvia Magazine, and many other online and in-print magazines.  Find more of her work at https://annette-gagliardi.com.

You can order Annette’s book HERE

 


front cover of This Is the Lightness (dogwood branch)

Photo of Rachel Barton

Rachel Barton grew up in the woods of northern Indiana which has greatly influenced her poetry and provided her a sense of connection to the planet. She comes from a large family which has informed her sense of community. She was able to study literature and creative writing as an undergraduate (WVU), the visual arts as a graduate student (WVU and The VAC in Anchorage), and, much later, teaching for a master’s degree (WOU). She entered the Oregon Writing Project in 2009 and co-facilitated the OWP’s poetry intensive the following summer. She used this model of “writing within a community of writers” in the classroom, the community college, at regional conferences, and in private classes. Currently, she edits her own Willawaw Journal, an online journal for poetry and art. She also serves as associate editor for Calyx and Cloudbank magazines.

Barton’s poetry has been published in the Main Street Rag, Whale Road Review, Moon City Review, VoiceCatcher, Mom Egg Review, CIRQUE, Oregon English Journal, and in many other journals. She has published short stories in BeZine, Blue Cubicle Press, Kindred Journal, and Clackamas Literary Review. More at RachelBartonWriter.com

You can order Rachel’s new book HERE

 


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