I just learned that March 19 is Taxonomy Day (thanks to artist Lauren Levato Coyne). My Internet connection has been wonky lately, suffering fits and starts. So I didn't want to do a post with lots of links because it would take forever to write and post. But since I have a poem with the subtitle "Taxonomy," I'll post that instead. In 2003, it was awarded second place in The Twenty-Fifth Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Awards, sponsored by the Evanston Public Library. … [Read more...]
Upcoming May readings: Weaving the Threads, Barry Silesky
Last night I went to the very moving launch of Weaving the Threads at Evanston Library. The room was filled to capacity and the audience was captivated by the memoirs read from this anthology. Editor Enid Baron talked about how the book came to be and emphasized that everyone has a story and should tell it. There is another reading for the book this Sunday at Women and Children First Book Store in Andersonville. At the reading I ran into Sharon Solwitz who told me that … [Read more...]