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Why not?

04/11/2019 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Why not?

Why not write Because the baby is crying, the bath water runs, lettuce waits to be washed, your toddler yells for you to wipe. Or an old vet phones, please won’t you help? or it's the Good News shelter needing you to scrape the dishes and throw away the trash. There's a bottle, scotch that’ll make your teeth grow hair like weeds sprouted in the garden. Maybe you’re just too polluted or not buzzed enough; all you can think of are butterflies and that’s so … [Read more...]

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Poetry reading: April 10, Evanston Art Center

03/27/2018 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Poetry reading: April 10, Evanston Art Center

I’m happy to tell you that I will be reading two weeks from today in celebration of Poetry Month. It’s been a while! I will be reading with Jorge Sanchez on Tuesday, April 10, at seven p.m. at the Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston, 60201. The reading is put on by SalonSeries in partnership with the Evanston Art Center. All gallery spaces are handicapped accessible. There is a parking lot adjacent to the Center and street parking on Central (and a … [Read more...]

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Prompts and ponies

04/10/2017 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Prompts and ponies

Hey there -- it's Poetry Month!  Are you looking for inspiration?  Consider these sites that will help if you have writer's block. Karen Craigo's Better View of the Moon has been featuring prompts all month; when it is not Poetry Month, Karen writes about other topics of interest to writers. Marty McConnell's Fierce Voice, which features specific prompts throughout the year.  Sign up for the mailing list and inspiration will be sent right to your mailbox. If you are … [Read more...]

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News on SISMW contributors and friends & calls for submissions

04/05/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

News on SISMW contributors and friends & calls for submissions

Hello. Hope your Spring has sprung. Here in Chicago we have not quite gotten to warm weather yet. And the news seems to be that other areas of the country have also experienced a return to winter. I guess we should expect April to be harsh for as T. S. Eliot told us: "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain." BTW, Happy Poetry Month. Cuban-American author Margarita Engle has an … [Read more...]

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T. C. Boyle and a poem

04/30/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

T. C. Boyle and a poem

Howdy-do friends.  May tomorrow! May tomorrow bring you happiness. Solace in So Many Words has many fine contributors but not many have made the best-seller list yet, that is, except for T. C. Boyle. His  latest book The Harder They Come is  #3 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List. (BTW, it makes a great Mother’s Day present.) The Los Angeles Times gives out Book Prizes during its Festival of Books and on April 18,  T. Coraghessan Boyle took home the  Robert Kirsch … [Read more...]

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