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Laura Rodley, Donna Hilbert and a call for submissions here

01/28/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

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...]

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

01/21/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

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...]

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Tick tock

01/01/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Tick tock © Ellen Wade Beals, 2012 Happy New Year! … [Read more...]

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Keep going!

12/25/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

My Christmas wish for you is that you find your path in life. Reprinted below is a poem by Robert Frost and it seems to go with Doug Stener's photo and my wish for you.   The Road Not Taken   Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;   Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps … [Read more...]

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Trees in winter by Doug Stener

12/21/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Doug Stener is a Janesville, WI, photographer and design consultant.   If you’d like to see more of his work, you can contact him by email: placesandthings1213 at yahoo.com.  We are so grateful to Doug  (and Mary Mosca) for providing these great photos.   … [Read more...]

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