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Spring, taxes, and news (Boyle and Aguero)

04/15/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

April 15 is the day to file your taxes in the US.  Every year I vow to be more prepared so I am not looking for documents at the last minute or having to make a run to the accountant. But guess what? I never change and I am always somewhat frantic.

The same with spring. Each year I pray for it, invoke it, ask that I be delivered from winter, and every time it arrives, I am somehow not quite ready for it.  I grumble a bit being awakened from that long winter’s nap.

SISMW contributors you may want to read include Massachusetts poet Kathleen Aguero whose poem “Jewel Box” appears on the Mass Poet site — read it here.

Oregon writer and designer Ryan W. Bradley interviewed T. C. Boyle about his latest book, The Harder They Come,  for Electric Lit—read “Ultimate Truths: a conversation with T. C. Boyle” here.

Check out the guest post today.  It is a poem recently submitted by Bonnie J. Toomey.  If you have something you’d like to share here, please send it to me, weighedword at gmail.com.

Wishing you a big fat refund and something big and juicy to read.

Peace, love, and solace

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Bonnie J. Toomey, Electric Lit, Ellen Wade Beals, Kathleen Aguero, Mass Poetry, Ryan W. Bradley, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, T. C. Boyle, Weighed Words

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