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"That dense moment of unpacking the human cosmos, in the little lines of words, is the premier secular access to the divine."

CALLIE HITCHCOCK​
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â–¶POEM I AM IN CURRENTLY IN LOVE WITH:

 

Park Going to Sleep

Helen Hoyt

1887 – 1972

The shadows under the trees

And in the vines by the boat-house

Grow dark,

And the lamps gleam softly.

 

On the street, far off,

The sound of the cars, rumbling,

Moves drowsily.

The rocks grow dim on the edges of the shore.

 

The boats with tired prows against the landing

Have fallen asleep heavily:

The monuments sleep

And the trees

And the smooth slow-winding empty paths sleep.

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â–¶The End of the Story

Lydia Davis
 

I added this to my TBR because it was her only novel and I wanted something meatier than a short story collection (of which she is a grandmaster). Little did I know how much this "break up" story would hold my hand through tough times. Anyone who has loved and lost will appreciate her unflinching analysis of how love can come and go; and the human heart's resilience in the face of this sad fact.

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â–¶Journey of the Mind

Sai Gaddam
 

From the first "if/then" of a single celled flagelatte, to Einstein; Sai Gaddam presents in detail each evolutionary leap of the mind and the thoughts it is capable of, beginning in a murky puddle and ending who knows where? A historic view of the development of 'thinking' unlike any other!

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â–¶Two Women

Alberto Moravia


Unbelievable quest of a mother and her daughter as they navigate rural wartime Italy. Moravia captures the human will to survive at all costs in flawless prose. Bonus: read it in tandem with Elsa Morante's, History: A Novel. The two of them (husband and wife!) lived through the horrors of WWII together outside of Rome and these novels are the  twin documents of what they witnessed. 

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​I am the proud poetry editor of the Months to Years literary journal, working closely with Renata Louwers to bring high quality work to an underserved community!

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Click here for more details!

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I am the poet in residence at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, teaching and writing poetry as a grateful member of the Institute for Arts in Medicine.

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When the Cow Got Out

 

 

An entire picnic

 

frozen upside down

 

in the black round

 

of her dumb eye.

 

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Featured in

Blue Unicorn
Fall 2023

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ELEGY FOR A COUNTY FAIR GOLDFISH

 

The heat wave brings a change in behavior.

Our shining spearhead of a fish begins

to stay at the bottom with droopy fins

and takes on a grotesque curvature.

 

Though by all accounts fish have no sense

it seems she knows that something is amiss

in the way her gasping makes her list

and drift a bit. She never unbends.

 

Have you known a fish to live for years

that came home as a prize won at the fair?

Whoever thought a fish worth human tears?

Golden light of the kitchen, swimming where

we lived our daily lives. What appears

at first a common thing may become rare.

 

 

Laureate's Choice
2023 Maria Faust
Sonnet Contest
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DAWN

 

Out a kitchen window

I watched night retreat

from the onslaught

of pinkorange glow.

 

There a star impressed

refused to flee

shining more so

for fainting of the rest.

 

Holding my gaze

she lightly joined

10,000 generations'

breaking days.

 

 

Kingston Art Society

Poetic License Exhibition

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