Solace in a Book

Lots to read & do: Bass, Desilets, Kerlikowske, Fermoy International Poetry Fest, Dennis O’Driscoll, and ARDOR

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Contributors to Solace in So Many Words have been busy as usual.  Ellen Bass who has four poems in our book ("And What If I Spoke of Despar," "Don't Expect Applause,""Jack Gottlieb's in Love," and "The Thing Is") has poems in the latest issues of The Sun and The New Yorker.  "At the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, California" which appears on page 33 the February issue of The Sun, features a "deep decolletage exposed enough for open-heart surgery."  In The New Yorker, Ellen's … [Read more...]

Laura Rodley, Donna Hilbert and a call for submissions here

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Laura Rodley's chapbook Rappelling Blue Light, a Massachusetts Book Award nominee, won honorable mention for the New England Poetry Society Jean Pedrick Award. Her second chapbook Your Left Front Wheel is Coming Loose was also nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award and an L.L.Winship/Penn New England Award.  Both these chapbook were published by Finishing Line Press. Past co-curator of Collected Poets Series and editor of As You Write It: A Franklin County Anthology, … [Read more...]

News of Solace writers & friends: Powers, Somlo, McConnell

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Arthur Powers has a new book, The Book of Jotham, out on Kindle.  The Book of Jotham won the  2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction for the Novella and is published by Tuscany Press, which is "seeking and making known stories with human frailties, beauty, grace, love, redemption, hope, courage and the presence of God."   The 61-page book is about Jotham who is a mentally challenged man-child and apostle of Jesus Christ. Arthur also has a book of short stories due out from a … [Read more...]

Indulgences

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Happy 2013! Over the holidays, I indulged myself (and found some solace) so I thought I'd share. My favorite present--homemade caramels-- came to me Saturday, December 22. I have received them for some years now, and they never disappoint.   I have four left and I am guarding them. We got snow here Christmas and then a couple days later.  I was inspired to take some photographs.  Snow-covered trees are so pretty.  And, I tried to get artistic. After … [Read more...]