Poetry
I am honored to have two poems in the beautiful new issue of descant, “Sitting Next to You at the Hospital on East 68th Street, I Read about the History of our Galaxy" (which they’ve nominated for a Pushcart Prize!) and “On a porch in the Catskills during the Pandemic’s second spring.” @descanttcu @descantTCU
Here I read the last poem, The Gathering of Seeds, in the photography/poetry collaboration with Michael J. Palmer, Autumn in a Solitary Time (Audience Askew Chapbooks, 2023) on the podcast Planet Poet. @sharonisraelcucinotta
Here’s Michael J. Palmer discussing his process of photographing the plants in situ on special paper for our photography/poetry collaboration, Autumn in a Solitary Time (Audience Askew Chapbooks, 2023) with Sharon Israel, poet, on her podcast Planet Poet Words In Space.
Pleased to share my reading of the first poem in Autumn in a Solitary Time, The Hudson Valley, 2020 (Audience Askew Chapbooks 2020), a collaboration with Michael J. Palmer, played on Planet Poet, Sharon Israel’s poetry podcast.
Above is a clip from “Pizza Day” (f.k.a “Joy Had No Use for E”), which I had the pleasure of reading at @wordupbooks on October 23. Poets Patricia Brody, Lucille Lang Day, and Alicia Ostriker also read poems inspired by the theme “Why Poetry Matters” in this challenging time. (October 2023 at Word Up Community Bookshop at Amsterdam & 165th St.)
Published semiannually, American Religion offers a forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas. As the journal explores the boundaries of both “America” and “religion,” and ways in which the two intersect.
This poem about winter in a time of climate change touches on the devastating fact that more frequent and severe natural disasters can and will cause entire communities to be displaced, leading, among many disturbing outcomes, to the loss of languages and cultures. And the poem alludes to the idea of not appropriating the languages of other cultures.
2023 was the hottest year on record by a significant margin. With Cop 28, is the world finally ready to make desperately needed changes?
“Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/climate/cop28-climate-agreement.html
In the fall of 2020, when most of us were home-bound, isolated and fearful, photographer Michael Craig Palmer took pictures of the glorious fall shades of trees and leaves in a few of the parks, public gardens and preserves in and around the Hudson Valley. Later he asked poet Elizabeth J. Coleman to find words for his photographs. This resulted in a collaboration of words and images between two strangers that became Autumn in a Solitary Time, the Hudson Valley 2020. This book is a celebration of the astonishing and enduring beauty of nature, as well as a celebration of connection in a solitary time.
Honored to have three poems in Hobo Camp Review’s Upstate New York issue, “Rambling in a Time of Plague,” “Epiphany by a Small Cascade,” and “The Japanese Maple.” Each of the poems takes place in or around our wood cabin in the Catskill Forest Preserve, a beautiful and wild place. https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2023/09/elizabeth-j-coleman.html