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Solace in So Many Words — new review and TV too

08/16/2016 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

There’s some news about Solace in So Many Words. First, we got a new review on Goodreads. To celebrate its fifth year Weighed Words hosted a giveaway of Solace In So Many Words and sent five copies away to readers across the country. I always hope that such a giveaway will generate a little buzz and this time it did. A reader named Erin Hill received a copy, and in her review of Solace in So Many Words she writes: “I really enjoyed this collection. It's varied in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, appreciation, book review, Contributors, Ellen Wade Beals, GlenviewTV, Goodreads, GVTV, Off the Shelf, Photography, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, thanks, Weighed Words, Yvonne Wolf

August days: My grandmother was a poet

08/12/2016 By Ellen Beals 7 Comments

I haven’t been posting a lot but I have been thinking about life events and the end of life. I got a little crabby the other day. Is it the weather? Midsummer blues? Aging? Just impatience and frustration on my part? That’s what has been on my mind lately. One of my siblings is moving and came across these printed cards. They are poems written by my grandmother Bertha L. Wade. She lived to be well into her nineties. Almost all her children (including my father) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ancestor's poetry, Bertha L. Wade, Death, dramatic poetry, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, Ellen Wade Beals, end of life, old poetry, Photography, Poetry, poetry about death, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Weighed Words

Glimpse of solace: Who wore it best?

08/03/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: A Glimpse of Solace Tagged With: August in the garden, Beauty, Ellen Wade Beals, fashion, Flowers, Glimpse of Solace, nature, Photography, Poetry, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, summer flowers, Weighed Words, Who wore it best?

Glimpse of solace: Looking down

07/28/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Today I came out of the library to find there was a cloudburst; one gray cloud in a blue sky sprinkled down. Am I crazy to notice this pattern of the raindrops on pavement? I don't know, but I thought it was kind of cool. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Glimpse of Solace Tagged With: Anthology, cloudburst, Contributors, Ellen Wade Beals, Glimpse of Solace, Photography, Solace in So Many Words, Sprinkle print, Weighed Words

Guest post: Laura Rodley “Luna”

07/18/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Luna Sure sign of summer, the pale translucence of the luna’s green wings, the green of emerging blades of grass, or new rose leaves. How such delicacy battles her way through thunderstorms, clouds, the dust of a dry summer, how her path is unerring; she returns every time, not herself, but a replica, someone born from her eggs. In April, too early for lunas, one appeared anyway, flapping at the back porch window Let me in. Walking outside, I bathed in her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: Anthology, Contributors, Country Folks, Ellen Wade Beals, Finishing Line Press, free-lance reporter, Laura Rodley, Laura Rodley poet, Photography, Poetry, Rappelling Blue Light, Resurrection, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, The New Verse News, Weighed Words, Your Left Wheel is Coming Loose

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