Solace in a Book

Early October Updates–Bottiglieri, Beals and Boyle

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Jan Bottiglieri ("Why You Knit" and "Oliver") has a new poem, "A Way of Happening, A Mouth"  in the latest issue of Atticus Review, the weekly online journal whose tagline is "six degrees left of literature."  I can pretty much guarantee you will think of this poem next time you see a butterfly. I have a short-short ("By the time") in the latest issue of Eclectic Flash, which is available on the web or in print. Eclectic Flash describes itself as “dedicated to the best … [Read more...]

Beside the City of Angels: A Long Beach Poetry Festival

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A highlight of  the recent trip to Long Beach was meeting Donna Hilbert ("Flowers" and"In Quintana Roo"). She teaches weekly poetry workshops and has for years (with many loyal students).  When Joan Corwin and I were in Long Beach, we also learned about the latest project Donna and others in the vibrant Long Beach poetry community have been working on: Beside the City of Angels: A Long Beach Poetry Festival, which will be a daylong event Saturday, October 14.  It will be held … [Read more...]

Howard Zinn

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"And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” Howard Zinn   This Slice of Solace came to me through FB posts of Thomas G. Fiffer and Stacy Kamala Waltman --thanks!   … [Read more...]

Untitled by Doug Stener

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  Doug Stener is a Janesville, WI, photographer and design consultant.  Maybe this image will help us remember September.  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 for letting us continue to use his great photos on this site.   … [Read more...]