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The Poetry Box LIVE (Apr 10, 2021)

February 27, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – April Edition

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

 

Enjoy the video from the show:

 

April Featured Poets:

  • Penelope Scambly Schott (Oregon), author of SOPHIA AND MISTER WALTER WHITMAN
  • Sally Naylor (Florida), author of SYNAPSE FLIES INTO STARTLE
  • David Belmont (New York), author of WORLD GONE ZOOM

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

Penelope with Sophia

CoverFront-SophiaWhitman

Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry and author of a novel and several books of poetry, including her 2018 prizewinning chapbook November Quilt and most recently On Dufur Hill about a small wheat-growing town in central Oregon.

Sophia Schott Sweetdog is a four-year-old white goldendoodle, the niece of Lily Schott Sweetdog who co-wrote Lily and Rumi: A Lovestory.

Mister Walter Whitman is a greatly admired nineteenth-century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.

Order Penelope’s book HERE


CoverFront Synapse Flies into Startle

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A three-legged stool, Sally Naylor is poet, therapist & teacher, Sally, studied with Campbell McGrath in the FIU MFA program; she thrived in classes with Maxine Kumin, Gerald Stern, Ilya Kaminsky & Tony Hoagland.  Sally is associate editor of SOFLOPOJO, teaches community workshops for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, writes memoir as well as text and workbooks for neophytes & now offers Zoomshops for emerging poets.

Below is a cento from the manuscript by way of a concise introduction:

Bold, unrepentant, ready: a kind of ginger, myth buster & koan mistress,
rogue, free & holy skeptic, all snake hips & hiss, hyperbole’s own gadfly,
one quirky mechanic tuning the orgasmic     how her hymns buzz.

For more information about her classes visit her website at: www.writer’scatapult.com

Order Sally’s book HERE


Front Cover of World Gone Zoom

David Belmont - unmasked

David Belmont is a mixed media artist and community organizer living in New York City. He writes memoir, short fiction and poetry, as well as instrumental music. His work has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon, Wildflower Muse and FishFood Magazine. He is currently co-music director of the Castillo Theatre. He has been a professional musician for 50 years. His publicly available recorded output since 1999 can be found on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.  <https://davidbelmontwriter.wordpress.com>

Order David’s book HERE


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The Poetry Box LIVE (Mar 13, 2021)

February 9, 2021 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – March Edition

Mar 13, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Enjoy the video from the show:

March Featured Poets:

  • Barbara A. Meier (Colorado), author of SYLVAN GROVE
  • Mark Thalman (Oregon), author of STRONGER THAN THE CURRENT
  • Doreen Stock (California) author of BYE BYE BLACKBIRD

 

ABOUT THE POETS 

photo of Barbara A. Meier

CoverFront-SylvanGrove

Barbara A Meier traded an ocean of wheat for the Pacific Northwest in 1979. She married, had babies, and pretty much gave up on her dreams of acting and writing. Thirty-three years later, she found herself alone, staring at the Pacific Ocean, and writing poems again.  She still wants to try and get back on stage.

Recently she retired from teaching kindergarten and moved to Colorado to spend time with her mom.  She was just in time for the COVID-19 quarantine.

She has two chapbooks published Wildfire LAL 6 (Ghost City Press, Summer 2019) and Getting Through Gold Beach (Writing Knights Press, November 2019). She has been published in The Poeming Pigeon, TD; LR Catching Fire Anthology and The Fourth River.

Order Barbara’s book HERE


CoverFront-StrongerThantheCurrent

photo of Mark Thalman

Mark Thalman is the author of The Peasant Dance (Cherry Grove Collections, 2020) and Catching the Limit (Fairweather Books, 2009). His work has been widely published for four and a half decades.  His poems have appeared in the Paterson Review, The MacGuffin, Pedestal Magazine, and Valparaiso Review.  He is the editor of poetry.us.com. Thalman received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, then taught English and Creative Writing in the public schools for 35 years and is now retired. Thalman lives in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Order Mark’s book HERE


Front Cover of Bye Bye Blackbird, designed by Robert R. Sanders

photo of author Doreen Stock with mother Annetta
“Doreen at Annetta’s Birthday” © Marcelo Holot

Fairfax, Californian poet, literary translator, and memoir practitioner, Doreen Stock, recently launched a chapbook of poems, Tango Man, (Finishing Line Press) in August 2020. Other works include: My Name Is Y, (Norfolk Press, 2019), an anti-nuclear memoir; Three Tales from the Archives of Love, (Norfolk Press, 2018), a work of historical fiction; Talking with Marcelo, (Mine Gallery Editions, 2017), a book-length interview of Argentine Journalist Marcelo Holot; In Place of Me, Poems Selected and with an Introduction by Jack Hirschman, (Mine Gallery Editions, 2015); The Politics of Splendor, (Alcatraz Editions, Santa Cruz, 1984), poems and translations. An interview and reading of Doreen’s poetry can be viewed online at Marin Poet’s Live! She is a founding member of The Marin Poetry Center.

Order Doreen’s book HERE


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The Poetry Box LIVE (New Date: Feb 20, 2021)

December 9, 2020 by The Poetry Box 2 Comments

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The Poetry Box LIVE – February Edition

Feb 13, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

RESCHEDULED DUE TO ICE STORM

Feb 20, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Enjoy the video from February’s show:

February Featured Poets:
• Carolyn Martin (Oregon), author of NOTHING MORE TO LOSE
• C.W. Emerson (California), author of OFF COLDWATER CANYON—3rd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020 (CW will be rescheduled later this summer)
• Deborah Meltvedt (California) author of BUILDING A WOMAN

ABOUT THE POETS 

Author Photo Carolyn Martin
photo credit: Kathy Richard

CoverFront-NothingMoretoLose

From associate professor of English to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin is a lover of gardening and snorkeling, feral cats and backyard birds, writing and photography. After years of producing academic papers and business books, she discovered that poetry is the way her heart and mind interact with the world —in images, rhythms, sounds, and intensities of language. So, she has settled into the joyful challenge of translating experience into as few words as possible.

Martin’s aesthetic is embodied in Jack Kerouac’s comment in Dharma Bums: “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple,” and in Sting’s statement, “All my life I have tried to find the truth and make it beautiful.” Her poems attempt to use simple words to embrace truths wherever she finds them, and to turn them into something approximating the beautiful.

Her poems have appeared in journals throughout North America, Australia, and the UK, and her fifth poetry collection, The Catalog of Small Contentments, will be released by The Poetry Box® in 2021. She is the book review editor for the Oregon Poetry Association and the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation.

Order Carolyn’s book HERE


Book Cover (front) of Off Coldwater Canyon by CW Emerson (The Poetry Box, 2020)

Author Photo of CW Emerson (byNasim Saleh)
Photo Credit: Nasim Saleh

NOTE:  C.W. had to cancel due to a personal emergency. We will reschedule a reading for him this summer.

Poet and psychologist C.W. Emerson, raised in western New York’s Finger Lakes region, now lives and works in Palm Springs, California.  Following a varied, non-traditional career path as musician, celebrity assistant, and fundraising executive for The American Foundation for AIDS Research (Amfar), Emerson received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate Institute in 2007.

C.W. Emerson is the recipient of the C. P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, as well as awards and honors from The Atlanta Review, The Comstock Review, New Letters Press, and others. His work has appeared in journals including Crab Orchard Review, Greensboro Review, december, New Ohio Review, and The New Guard. Off Coldwater Canyon is his first published chapbook.

Order CW’s book HERE


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AuthorPhoto-DeborahMeltvedt
Photo by Richard Schmidt

Deborah Meltvedt is a high school teacher who loves to blend medical science and art in both the classroom and in her own writing. Deborah grew up in the suburbs and fields of the San Joaquin Valley whose landscapes and culture form a backbone to her poetry. As a doctor’s daughter and feminist, she feels strongly about women’s health and reproductive rights and respecting the traditional and non-traditional paths women take in their lives.

Her poems and stories have been published in the American River Literary Review, Susurrus, Under the Gum Tree, Tule Review, The Poeming Pigeon, and the Creative Non-Fiction Anthology What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher.

Deborah lives in Sacramento with her funny and supportive husband, Rick Kushman, and their cat, Anchovy Jack, who in his former life used to be a pirate.

Order Deborah’s book HERE


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The Poetry Box LIVE (Jan 9, 2021)

December 9, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

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The Poetry Box LIVE – January Edition

Jan 9, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Enjoy the video from January’s show:

 

January Featured Poets:
• Marcia B. Loughran (New York), author of MY MOTHER NEVER DIED BEFORE—2nd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020
• Cathy Cain (Oregon), author of A SHAPE OF SKY and BEE DANCE
• Pasquale Trozzolo (Kansas) author of BEFORE THE DISTANCE

ABOUT THE POETS 

Cover(front)MyMotherNeverDiedAuthorPhoto-Marcia B. Loughran

Marcia B. Loughran won Mrs. Mott’s prestigious haiku prize in fifth grade at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and resumed her writing career thirty years later. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2013.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Verdad, Spoon River Poetry Review and elsewhere. Marcia’s first chapbook, Still Life with Weather, won the 2016 WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Prize. She reads her work in various bars, bookstores and black-box theaters in New York City and the Catskills and is a regular at the Irish American Writers and Artists’ Salons. Marcia is a nurse practitioner and lives in Queens, NY.

Order Marcia’s book HERE


Front cover of A Shape of Sky Cathy Cain - author photo, color

Poet and visual artist Cathy Cain is the author of Bee Dance (The Poetry Box, 2019) 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 First Place, Second Place, and Honorable Mentions from the Oregon Poetry Association. Her poetry has appeared in Reed Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, Verseweavers, and VoiceCatcher.

Cain is a two-year Poet’s Studio alumna and a 2014-2015 Atheneum Fellow, both at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. Additionally, she has studied with Portland’s Mountain Writers Series and with visiting poets through Literary Arts.

She holds degrees in literature and visual art from Lewis & Clark College, MAT; Oregon State University, BFA; and University of Washington, BA, Phi Beta Kappa. 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.

Order Cathy’s book HERE


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AuthorPhoto-Pasquale Trozzolo

Pasquale Trozzolo is an entrepreneur and founder of Trozzolo Communications Group, one of the leading advertising and public relations firms in the Midwest. In addition to building his business he also spent time as a race car driver and grad school professor. Now with too much time on his hands, he continues to complicate his life by living out as many retirement clichés as possible. He’s up to the p’s. Before the pandemic Trozzolo only shared his poems with a handful of close friends. Since sheltering-at-home he has begun to share what he calls Virus Poems.

Order Pasquale’s book HERE


Filed Under: past events, Poetry Box LIVE, Readings & Events Tagged With: Cathy Cain, Marcia B. Loughran, Pasquale Trozzolo, Poetry Book Launch, Reading

The Poetry Box LIVE (Dec 2020)

November 20, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – December Edition
Book Launch for The Poeming Pigeon: Pop Culture!

Dec 12, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

 

Enjoy the video from the show:

For December, we  hosted a Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon: Pop Culture!

Featuring 30 poets from across the country share their poems from this fun-filled issue:

  • Gilbert Allen
  • Amelia Annen
  • Joann Renee Boswell
  • Michael B. Carroll
  • Dale Champlin
  • Margaret Chula
  • Jennifer Clark
  • Brittney Corrigan
  • Judy Dykstra-Brown
  • Matthew Farr
  • Linda Ferguson
  • Kate Gallagher
  • Peter M. Gordon
  • Debbie Hall
  • Karen Paul Holmes
  • Kate Horowitz
  • Tricia Knoll
  • Linda Kraus
  • Sherri Hope Levine
  • Sue Fagalde Lick
  • Deborah Meltvedt
  • Karla Linn Merrifield
  • Sharon Lask Munson
  • Clela Reed
  • Penelope Scambly Schott
  • Judith Terzi
  • Lauren Tivey
  • Phyllis Wax
  • J. Stephen Whitney
  • John “Catfish” Wojtowicz 

 

front cover of The Poeming Pigeon: Pop Culture issue
Cover Art by Robert R. Sanders

 

THE POEMING PIGEON

POP CULTURE

From entertainment to fashion to techno-widgets, pop culture can mirror the beliefs and lifestyles of a society at any given time. Not only does the iconography of pop culture influence consumerism, the objects associated with it can also be a welcomed distraction from our oftentimes stressful world. We invite you to relax and enjoy these 72 poems through their wide lens of whimsy, nostalgia, and social commentary.

The Poeming Pigeon: Pop Culture is available to order HERE:

 

 


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The Poetry Box LIVE (Nov 2020)

October 22, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – November Edition

Nov 14, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Enjoy the video from November’s show:

November Featured Poets:
• Doug Stone (Oregon), author of SITTING IN POWELL’S WATCHING BURNSIDE DISSOLVE IN RAIN 
• Tiel Aisha Ansari (Oregon), author of THE DAY OF MY FIRST DRIVING LESSON—1st Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020
• Rebecca Smolen (Oregon),  author of EXCORIATION and WOMANHOOD & OTHER SCARS 

ABOUT THE POETS 

Front Cover of Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain, cover art by Robert R. SandersAuthorPhoto-DougStone

Doug Stone is a fourth generation Oregonian and lives with his wife amid hop yards and vineyards near the Willamette River in Benton County, Oregon.  In past lives he has worked on a county road crew, been a grocery store clerk, a case worker, and an analyst and a consultant on public policy issues to state governments, AARP, and the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice.

He has won the Oregon Poetry Association’s Poet Choice Award.  His poems have been published in numerous journals and in the anthology, A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford.  He has written two collections of poetry, The Season of Distress and Clarity, and The Moon’s Soul Shimmering on the Water.

Order Doug’s book HERE


Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi warrior poet. She works as a data analyst and professional curmudgeon for the Portland Public School District and is President Emerita of the Oregon Poetry Association. She now hosts the Wider Window Poetry show, promoting the work of poets of color on KBOO Community Radio, (https://www.kboo.fm/program/wider-window-poetry)

Her work has been featured by Fault Lines Poetry, Windfall, KBOO, and an Everyman’s Library anthology, among others. Her collections include Knocking from Inside, High-Voltage Lines, Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable, and Dervish Lions (forthcoming from Fernwood Press). She drinks coffee in the morning and tea at night.

Order Tiel’s book HERE


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Author Photo: Rebecca Smolen
cr: Katie Guinn

Rebecca Smolen is a writer based in Portland, Oregon transplanted from New Hampshire in 2014, and is a mom of two adorable little gingers. She grew up on a dead-end road exploring drainage pipes and pond life. She has a strong feminist voice that sometimes gets trapped within society’s confines, but vows to teach her son and daughter that there are no confines.

Smolen has a degree in creative writing and philosophy and works as veterinary technician. She is trained and certified in the Gateless Method and leads writing workshops employing this method, which was scientifically created to avoid provoking the fight or flight reaction generating a safe place to produce raw, new writing that will spotlight the strongest aspects of that material.

Her first chapbook, Womanhood and Other Scars was published by The Poetry Box in 2018. Her poetry and essays can be found most recently in Allegory Ridge, Feminine Collective, Tiny Seed, The Inflectionist Review, Unchaste Anthologies, Hip Mama, Mutha Magazine, VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices & visions, The Poeming Pigeon: Cosmos, and the anti-fascist anthology, Shout.

 

Order Rebecca’s book HERE

 

 


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The Poetry Box LIVE (Oct 2020)

September 14, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

The Poetry Box LIVE – October Edition

Oct 10, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Enjoy the video from October’s show:

October Featured Poets:
• Christopher Bogart, author of BREAKPOINT and THE EATER OF DREAMS (New Jersey)
• Kaja Weeks, author of MOUTH QUILL (Maryland)
• Wendy Colby, reading on behalf of Joan Colby author of THE KINGDOM OF BIRDS (Illinois)

ABOUT THE POETS 

Christopher Bogart, author of 14: Anotolgia del Sonoran CoverFront-TheEaterOfDreams

Christopher Bogart is a retired educator and a working poet and writer with an MA in Creative Writing from Monmouth University. His poetry has been published in Voices Rising from the Grove, Spindrift, WestWard Quarterly, Saggio Poetry Journal, The Howl of Sorrow and others. His chapbook 14: Antología del Sonoran, was awarded 3rd place in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize in 2018. He is presently working on his first novel, tentatively titled The Beast, about the plight of two Honduran teenage migrants who flee poverty and crime of Central America in search of a better life in the United States of America.

Order Christopher’s books:

The Eater of Dreams | Breakpoint | 14: Antologia del Sonoran


CoverFront-MouthQuill Kaja Weeks photo

Kaja Weeks is a poet, essayist and classically trained singer whose writing contemplates music and healing as well as identity through multiple generations. She is the American born daughter of World War Two refugees from Estonia. Moved by the pain and beauty of its history, she also loves the alliterative sounds, mythic lore and world views in that ancient Finno-Ugric culture. Many of these motifs, found in thousands of runic verses and long preserved by oral transmission, come alive in Kaja’s creative work. Nick-named a “little songbird” when she was five, she is a clinic-based music educator in Maryland who engages young children with autism to their earliest communications with playful singing. Kaja’s writing has appeared in The Sugar House Review; Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, Under the Gum Tree, The Potomac Review, and elsewhere.

Order Kaja’s book HERE


CoverFront-The Kingdom of BirdsJoan Colby, photo

Joan Colby, was a masterful poet and avid bird lover, who suddenly learned she had stage-4 lung cancer and passed away in August 2020. Her daughter Wendy Colby will be reading from Joan’s latest book, The Kingdom of Birds, which was released by The Poetry Box in September.  Joan Colby had published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, Spillway and others. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She has published 22 books including Selected Poems which received the 2013 FutureCycle Book Prize and Ribcage which was awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Joan was a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an associate editor of Good Works Review.

Order Joan’s book HERE

 

Joan’s daughter, Wendy Colby, will be reading from the collection to celebrate her mother’s poetry in The Kindgom of Bird, her last book.


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The Poetry Box LIVE (Sept 2020)

August 27, 2020 by The Poetry Box 2 Comments

The Poetry Box LIVE - lineup for Sept 2020 show

The Poetry Box LIVE – September Edition

Sept 12, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific)

Enjoy the video from September’s show:

September Featured Poets:
• Joanne Godley, author of PICKING SCABS FROM THE BODY HISTORY (Virginia)
• Pamela Anderson-Bartholet, author of JUST THE GIRLS: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees (Ohio)
• Marshall Witten, author of MY MIND’S EYE (Vermont)

ABOUT THE POETS 

Joanne Godley Author Photo Front Cover of Picking Scabs from the Body HistoryJoanne Godley, author of Picking Scabs from the Body History (The Poetry Box, 2020) is a practicing physician, poet and writer whose work is informed by social injustices. She is a native of Detroit residing in Alexandria, Virginia. She is convinced she is a descendant of nomads because traveling is one of her great passions (along with art collecting, salsa dancing and cycling). She spent time working in Africa as a Peace Corps medical officer. Godley’s lyric memoir was a finalist for the Kore Press Memoir contest and the Sunshots Press Prose Contest, and it received honorable mentions in the National Woman’s Book Association Contest. She completed an online novel writing certification program through Stanford University. Her first novel was ranked finalist in Kimbilio’s annual novel writing contest. She is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writing Association, the Author’s Guild and the NWBA.

Order Joanne’s book HERE


CoverFrontChap-JustTheGirls Pam Anderson PHotoPamela Anderson-Bartholet, author of Just the Girls (The Poetry Box, 2020) is a poet, lover of blues music, traveler, hiker, and yoga practitioner who grew up in Warren, Ohio, in an area once known as The Steel Valley. Much of her writing focuses on the Holocaust, reflecting stories her father recounted from his service as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne during WWII. Her Holocaust poem “My Brother’s Coat” won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Project Award. Her poetry also has appeared in Whurk, Mason’s Road, Atticus Review, Sky Island Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in English Literature from Kent State University and an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program (NEOMFA), which awarded her a Bisbee (Arizona) Travel and Study Fellowship. She has been a ghostwriter, grants writer, and fundraiser for public radio. When she is not traveling with her husband to far-flung places to snap pictures of windows, doors, and lightbulbs, you can find her in Northeast Ohio; Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley; or Charlotte, North Carolina.

Order Pamela’s book HERE


Marshall & Elaine (cr: Adam Agner)
Marshall & Elaine (cr: Adam Agner)

Front Cover of My Mind's Eye

Marshall Witten is author of My Mind’s Eye (The Poetry Box, 2020). Having practiced law for more than 50 years, has turned on his retirement to writing poetry. The natural world inspires many of his poems, as do politics, philosophy, travel, human relationships, aging, and death. His poems have appeared in The Mountain Troubadour, published by the Poetry Society of Vermont. One of his poems was awarded honorable mention in the 2016 W.B. Yeats Society of NY international competition. In 2016 he published a chapbook, Meditations on Change. As an elected public servant, Marshall served as Bennington County State’s Attorney, and later in the Vermont House of Representatives chaired the Vermont House Appropriations Committee. He was a founding director and later served as chair of the Vermont Community Foundation. He now lives with his wife, a professional artist who has illustrated his three books. They live at the end of a road in rural Vermont, take long walks with their dog; he shovels snow when necessary, and writes because it’s always necessary.

Order Marshall’s book HERE


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