DAVID GIANNINI

I’m especially pleased today to welcome this multi-faceted and multi-talented poet to our pages.  David Giannini has published over thirty collections of poetry, most recently AZ II (Adastra Press), a “Featured Book” in the 2009  Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and How Else? (Longhouse Publishers).  His book of prose poems, Span of Thread, will soon be published by Cervena Barva Press, and a long out-of-print prose poem collage, Rim, will be republished shortly by Quale Press.  His poems also appear in many national and international literary magazines  and anthologies. Continue reading March Poetry Monday: David Giannini

Lori Desrosiers

As those of you who scroll through our archives will discover, we have featured many well-known poets as well as emerging poets who are not as well-known but may yet become so. Lori Desrosiers, with her own fine poems and with the many good things she is doing for poetry, is one of the latter group. For all the poetry-lovers and poets in Western Massachusetts she publishes a weekly online Poetry News, without which we would hardly know what is happening in our poetry community. For everyone else – and especially those who still love or are just awakening to the joys of good narrative poetry, which she calls “narrative that sings,” she publishes and edits the journal Naugatuck River Review. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 7, 2011

Click Here to Read: Retired psychoanalyst finds his voice in poetry By Mike Gallagher in the Daily Record on February 1, 2011.

Local poet Stephen Maurer relaxes at his desk while writing in his Ellensburg home, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011.

CLick Here to Read:  2011 Poetry and Psychoanalysis at SFCP on the Hear Hear Website on January 17, 2011.

Martin Espada

Happy New Year to all our readers!

This feature should be of special interest, not only to poetry lovers but also to those of you who will be attending the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York City this month. If you consult the program, you will see that he is giving five different presentations, seminars and workshops as part of the educational component of the meeting.It’s a happy coincidence, because I had already planned to ask him to submit work to Poetry Monday. Continue reading Poetry Monday January: Martin Espada

Click Here to Read: Words a Cell Can’t Hold By Liu Xiaobo in the New York Times on December 8, 2010.

POETRY MONDAY: December 6, 2010

Krista Lukas

I’m pleased to introduce a poet whose work was unknown to me until a group of her poems showed up in our P.O. box. They’re well worth a look – and another.

Krista Lukas’ poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2006, Creative Writer’s Handbook, New Poets of the American West, and a number of literary magazines. She is has received a Nevada Arts Council
fellowship and the Robert Gorell Award for Literary Achievement from
the Sierra Arts Foundation. A manuscript of her poems was a finalist
for the 2009 May Swenson Award. Recently, her poem “Letter to My
Ancestors” was translated into Russian and published in Polutona
magazine. Krista lives with her husband in Nevada, where she serves
as an elementary school gifted and talented specialist. Continue reading December Poetry Monday: Krista Lukas

Mihaela Moscaliuc

I can’t say enough good things about Mihaela Moscialuc and the rich, lyrical, Continue reading November Poetry Monday: Mihaela Moscaliuc

Elizabeth Socolow

Elizabeth Socolow has published two full-length volumes of poetry.  Her first,  a stunning debut, was Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton, awarded the Barnard New Women Poets’ Prize in 1987.  Her second book, Between Silence and Praise, was published Continue reading Poetry Monday: Elizabeth Socolow