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MEM Egg Review Event May 4th 5:30pm EST
MER 23 Launch Event Sunday, May 4th, at 5:30 pm ET.
You are invited to a reading to celebrate the launch of MER 23! The reading is online, free and open to the public but preregistration is required at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/sIzw1sfOT4-sRPXPZ--L0w
Poem “The Grasslands” published in Cider Press Review
I am so very grateful and pleased that Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” It is a poem that is dear to me, as I fell in love with the elephants when my husband and I and two very close friends walked (with guides) through the Serengeti fifteen years ago for six days, sleeping in small tents along the way.
You can read the poem here:
https://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-27-1/in-the-grasslands/
2025 LitFox Award finalist
So grateful to be among the LitFox Award finalists for 2025. Congratulations to Len Lawson, the winner! Len’s poetry collection New Names for Stars was selected by Mary Biddinger as the winner of the Lit Fox Award. New Names for Stars will be published March 1st, 2026.
Poem About Being a Grandmother in Mom Egg Review
MER 23 will launch on April 15th!
Very gratified that my poem “As If It Were My Name,” about what my grandchildren call me, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th.
“Song of Innocence,” published in Seton Hill’s Eye Contact
My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University.
Poem, “In the Morning in the City” published in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review
Beyond delighted & grateful, “In the Morning in the City” https://passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morning-in-the-city-by-elizabeth-j-coleman/ appears in the prizewinning and commended poems of the Love and Loss competition, selected by Sheila E. Murphy, published in a special issue of @passionfruitlit I loved the other poems chosen.
Lit Fox Poetry Series
I’m very grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” in their Spring 2025 poetry series.
Greenpeace: Environmental Victories Around the Globe
I continue to be a strong believer that hope is a strategy, sort of…
Because hope gives us the courage to fight for what we believe in.
Music as Medicine
When a friend sent me this article, I thought of a sacred part of my life, in addition to family, poetry, and visual art: music.
“Windhovers” published in Cider Press Review VOLUME 26.5
I’m honored Cider Press Review has published my poem, “Windhovers” on their beautiful website.
Cider Press Review is a journal of contemporary poetry and poetry small press based in San Diego, CA.
With election season upon us, two poems of civic engagement
In thinking about the Presidential election of a lifetime that’s before us, I was reminded of two poems I wrote four years ago, one about waiting in line to vote early in the 2020 election and one written during the violent insurrection of January 6, 2021.
Lit Hub: On Earth Day, Turning to Poetry for Hope
Looking back on this article written several years ago during the pandemic, https://lithub.com/on-earth-day-turning-to-poetry-for-hope/ I am reminded how much has changed in some ways, and yet so little in others, and how poetry and other arts can touch our hearts and open us up to facing and addressing climate change with courage. This was my thesis for Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, Earth Day, 2019), and it is my thesis to this day.
Interview with Pinhole Poetry
"Content is often unsettling or painful in poems, but form is play, a residue of the fun the poet had while working. Of course, like form and content, pain and fun want to be each other.” That tension is at the heart of the matter of poetry, I think. I mention this quote in the Pinhole Poetry interview.
Rereading the Zen Evening Gatha (While, It’s hard to acknowledge this, hope can give us courage to awaken and act. )
Rereading the Zen evening Gatha, I was reminded of the urgency of waking up to the peril of environmental degradation to life on our beloved planet.
While, It’s hard to acknowledge this, hope can give us courage to awaken and act.
This surprising moment of hope for our democracy and our planet
This moment of unexpected hope for our country and the world is a wonderful time to revisit the possibility of an empowered future for those of us wishing to protect our planet and all its sentient beings.
Elementals Published by Humans & Nature Press
My copy of elementals has arrived, and I am experience the difference between reading about a gorgeous book with brilliant creators online, and holding it in my hand. I have begun my journey through this astonishing land of great, passionate, elemental writing, and already planning all the people I want to give it to, all over our beautiful blue planet. Thank you this bible of the elements, and thank you for letting me be part of it.
I was honored to see “I pledge allegiance” featured in Third Act Upstate New York’s “Poets Corner” in June.
I was honored to see my poem “I pledge allegiance” featured in Third Act Upstate New York’s “Poets Corner” in June. I’m grateful to David Grubin for choosing it.
I am beyond honored to be among the writers in this extraordinary five-volume collection, that offers essays, poetry, and stories illuminating the dynamic relationships among all of life.
This is an extraordinary collection, with two great editors, Nickole Brown and Craig Santos Perez. I am beyond honored to be among all these great poets Center for Humans & Nature.
Honored to be long listed in the @surgingtidemag summer writing contest in 2023. Their 2024 summer writing contest runs July 1-July 31.
I was honored to be long listed in this beautiful poetry journal @surgingtidemag summer writing contest in 2023. Their 2024 summer writing contest runs July 1-July 31.