Congratulations to d. ellis phelps and her Moon Shadow Sanctuary Press, which won two prizes for its anthology purifying wind.
The book earned first place in the editorial category and at the state level in the National Federation of Press Women's contest.
I'm so honored that my lyric essay "No Place Like It" is a part of this collection!
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Thank you to Dale Champlin and the Oregon Poetry Association for including my poem "Pandemic Mary" in their new anthology, /pān/dé/mïk/ 2020.
The book includes poems by some of my favorite local writers, including Dale Champlin, Suzy Harris, Sherri Levine, Carolyn Martin, Collette Tennant, Emmett Wheatfall and many others!
I'm especially thrilled that the amazing Susan Donnelly has two poems in this collection. We met in one of my classes about three years ago, and I continue to be in awe of her image-rich writing. Congratulations to all the poets...not only on their publication, but for continuing to grapple with this crisis through their writing.
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What a joy to share this delicately probing poem and drawing by my dear friend Linda Ann Fraser.
The Sketch
Who
is this person
who
collects books and
loves
black cats?
Where
do I find her?
Is
it in her white hair,
the
glasses she wears?
Just
where does this woman
reside?
It
takes all these pieces
and
more to make her
complete.
How
should she be labeled?
She
can’t be.
She is still becoming, pieces
are still missing like blank
holes
in a jigsaw puzzle.
Some
pieces will never
be
found.
She
doesn’t need them
to
be whole.
She
is becoming
something
else, something magic.
