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CASCADIA 2020 Deadline Extended to January 31st
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- Posted: December 22, 2019
Laura LeHew: Is It Hot In Here Or Is it Just Me?: Women Over Forty Write on Aging
I am excited and honored and pleased as punch to have 3 poems in this anthology —
Is It Hot In Here Or Is it Just Me?: Women Over Forty Write on Aging Paperback – December 15, 2019
by Janette Schafer (Author), Wendy Scott (Author), Holly Spencer (Author), Nina Padolf (Editor)
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LATEST BOOK REVIEW (EXCERPT)
Chasing Down the Storm – by Charles R. Castle, Jr. reviewed by Joy McDowell
Improbable Press, 2019,
110 pages $20ISBN 9781088457542
Available at – www.amazon.com
Fluidity is the word that
came to mind as I read Charles Castle’s latest collection of poems. Divided
into seven sections, Chasing Down the Storm does indeed chase a panorama
of personal pathos and characters that utilize a bridge between nature and the
human struggle to comprehend life.The author’s images enhance
the combined fabric of those two elements. In “She Comes Like Candles,” his
lines demonstrate this relaxed connection:My lover
comes like candles
on the snows
of Christmas Eves.
The reader moves inside
the poet’s head in “Under ... Read all of this item.
MOST RECENT POET’S SPOTLIGHT
2019 Fall Contest Winner: 1st Place, Poet’s Choice
December 22, 2019
Poet bio
Danielle Stricklin has been writing poetry since the fifth grade,
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when her teacher praised her use of metaphor in a creative writing assignment
describing the word “greed.” She studied poetry, literature, and gender
politics at the University of Montana and currently lives in Eugene, Oregon,
writing, running, and caring for her family and three cats.