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Cynthia Gallaher

The Poetry Box LIVE (July 10, 2021)

May 27, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – July Edition

July 10, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

 

Enjoy a Video from the Show:

July Featured Poets:

  • Mary C. Florio (Florida) – author of THE FOG
  • Cynthia Gallaher (Illinois) – author of EPICUREAN ECSTASY
  • Meg Lindsay (Massachusetts) – author of NOTES FROM A CAREGIVER

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

Book Cover Epicurean Ecstasy by Cynthia GallaherCynthia Gallaher-Author, Epicurean Ecstasy

Cynthia Gallaher is author of three other full poetry collections: Earth Elegance, Swimmer’s Prayer and Night Ribbons, and three poetry chapbooks: Drenched: Poems About Liquids; Omnivore Odes: Poems About Food, Herbs and Spices; and Private, On Purpose. She also published the nonfiction memoir and reference Frugal Poets’ Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren’t a Poet, which won a National Indie Excellence Award.

Gallaher appears on Chicago Public Library’s list of “Top Ten Requested Chicago Poets,” and was named one of “100 Women Making a Difference” by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine for her writing and ecological work. She has also received numerous grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council.

Committed to the organic and sustainable foods movement, and a proponent of clean drinking water, Gallaher is a former officer on the board of directors of Illinois Consumers for Safe Food (a local affiliate of The Center for Science in the Public Interest) and has also served as a volunteer for Lake Michigan Federation’s (now the Alliance for the Great Lakes) Shorekeepers initiative and the Green Team of the Chicago Park District. She is also a certified yoga instructor and aromatherapist.

Order Cynthia’s book HERE


Front Cover of Notes from a Caregiver

A semi-finalist in two “Discovery”/The Nation Contests and a finalist in an Inkwell competition, Meg Lindsay has had poems published in Tricycle, Pivot, Salamander, Alimentum, Connecticut River Review, etc. and earned an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.

Because she is also an established painter showing for decades in galleries and museums, her chapbook about the emotions and difficulties of painting, A Painter’s Night Journal, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016.  Writers love to write about paintings, but most writers confine themselves to the subject matter of a painting, not the process, since after all most do not paint.

In her second chapbook, Notes from a Caregiver, the subject of her writing dramatically changed direction when her husband, an athlete never ill before, collapsed with cancer in his bones, multiple myeloma, that same year. She gained direct knowledge of what it means to be a caregiver, a different and extraordinarily difficult learning process from anything she had ever known before.

<www.meglindsayartist.com>

Order Meg’s book HERE


Mary C. Florio, author of The Fog, has been writing poetry for over 20 years. Early successes include second place in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition. In 2017, she was featured in Nasty Woman Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. She has collaborated on two books with award-winning book artist Miriam Schaer: Cinderella, Ever After and The Posture Queen, and most recently was a finalist in the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival’s ekphrastic poetry contest.

Order Mary’s book HERE


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“Epicurean Ecstasy” Review on RHINO

July 9, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

Book Cover Epicurean Ecstasy by Cynthia Gallaher

Books are available in our Bookstore.

Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs & Spices by Cynthia Gallaher
The Poetry Box, 2018. 96 pages.
Reviewed by Gail Goepfert for RHINO


Gallaher’s book, Epicurean Ecstasy, is a poetic smorgasbord about food, drink, herbs & spice. From the first flip of a page, the varied tones and reaches of these poems are plattered in the table of contents with titles such as, “Brown Rice Life Coaches,” “Peppermint Hello,” “Cool Beans,” “Leaf It To Raspberry,” and “Sleeping with Valerian.”

There is lush wordplay throughout the book, and a generous portion of alliteration as in the poem, “Doesn’t a Cut Apple Look Like a Pair of Lungs”—“pippin, piñata, pomona / pomme, a poem.” Playful use of simile is seen in, “Found Champagne Poem in an Unclaimed Wisconsin Corner” that opens the book:

yes I found this poem
like we found this special bottle
marked down in the corner bin
of the dusty liquor store.

We’re invited to taste-test a bit of sci-fi in “Massachusetts Cranberries:”

…are they gathered like scarlet colonies
of miniature planet Mars vanquished to earth,
set loose from ancient-armored spaceship barrels.

Read complete review HERE.

 

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“Epicurean Ecstasy” Readings in March & April

February 6, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

Cynthia Gallaher-Author, Epicurean Ecstasy Book Cover Epicurean Ecstasy by Cynthia Gallaher

 

Wed, March 20, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring
Cynthia Gallaher, Susanna Lang
& Jennifer Steele
Oak Park Public Library
834 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60301
708-383-8200

Saturday, March 23, 2019
at 1:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
& Jamie Wendt
Normal Public Library
206 W. College Ave.
Normal, IL 61761
(309) 452-1757

Saturday, March 23, 2019
at 6:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
& Jacob Saenz
Highland Park Poetry
Coffee Speaks
610 Central Avenue
Highland Park, IL

Sunday, March 31, 2019
at 12:30 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
& Wilda Morris
Brewed Awakening
19 W Quincy St
Westmont, IL 60559
(630) 852-2233

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
at 6:30 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
Independence Branch Library
Chicago Public Library
4024 N Elston Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
(312) 744-0900

Friday, April 19, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher and five other Chicago poets
The Book Cellar
4736-38 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago IL 60625
(773)293-2665

Saturday, April 20, 2019
at 3:00 pm
“Women’s Voices” Reading
Austin-Irving Branch, Chicago Public Library
6100 W. Irving Park Rd,
Chicago, IL 60634
(312) 744-6222.

Saturday, April 27, 2019
at 5:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher, Marty McConnell & Carlos Cumpian
City Lit Books
2523 N. Kedzie
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 235-2523.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.


Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Cynthia Gallaher, Epicurean Ecstasy, Poetry Book Launch, Reading

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