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Announcing 2023's Wandering Aengus Book Awards
Announcing 2023's Wandering Aengus Book Awards. I’m thrilled and honored to among @WanderingAengus 2023 Book Award finalists, and so happy for the winners.
Thank you to the judges and staff!
“New Year’s Eve”: Winter in a time of climate change…
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.
A turning point in the climate crisis?
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
A Collaboration Between Two Strangers
This resulted in collaboration of words and images between two strangers that became Autumn in a Solitary Time, the Hudson Valley 2020.
Autumn in a Solitary Time, The Hudson Valley 2020, published by Audience Askew
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.
Three Poems—that take place in the Catskill Forest Preserve—in Hobo Camp Review’s Upstate NY issue .
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
Chapbook Collaboration: Autumn in a Solitary Time
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.
Poetry Reading: Why Poetry Matters
Please join poets Patricia Brody, Lucille Lang Day, Alicia Ostriker, and me for an evening of poetry (“Why Poetry Matters”) Tuesday Oct 10th at 7pm--at Word Up Community Bookshop at Amsterdam & 165th St.
It’s often asked if poetry matters. Four women poets will read work that demonstrates why it does. Patricia Brody, Elizabeth J. Coleman, Lucille Lang Day, and Alicia Ostriker will read work that helps light our way forward.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
Congratulations to the Marsh Hawk Press Prize Winners!
I was so happy to be a finalist for the 2023 Marsh Hawk Press Prize. Congratulations to the winners!
2023 Updated Bibliography of Eco Poetry and Eco Literature Anthologies
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Laura-Gray Street, Ruth Nolan, Craig Santos Perez, and I came away energized by the response to our panel at #AWP22 on The Value and Use of Eco Poetry Anthologies in a Time of Environmental Crisis. For a compilation in process of Eco Poetry Anthologies and Eco Literature see the bibliography below.
Pleased to Have Cohosted this Mindfulness for Lawyers Online Course with Cory Muscara
Online Mindfulness Programs customized and self-paced learning modules:
https://www.mindfulawarenesspractices.com/course-pages/mindfulness-for-legal-professionals
Yetzirah Poet Database
Very happy to have been introduced to and now to be listed on @YetzirahPoets https://yetzirahpoets.org/jewish-poets-database/
A wonderful resource, and opportunity I highly recommend. Thank you @jessicalgjacobs
Pinhole Poetry's Interview and Poetry Series
Grateful to be part of Pinhole Poetry's interview and poetry series. If you’d like to see my interview & poem & those of others in the series on our featured poem and craft, visit Pinhole Poetry.
Sonnet “The Errand” on Poems2Go @p2g_magazine
Poem “The Errand” by Elizabeth J. Coleman on Poems2Go.
Poem “On Seeing the Pictures from Deep Space for the First Time” in Pinhole Poetry 2022
Pinhole Poetry is a digital poetry journal that loves the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. We aim to be the pinprick of light for your work.
Poem “Wintercress” in Poetry Miscellany 2022
Poetry Miscellany, first produced in 1970, publishes poems and interviews with poets, including Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners.
Dr. Richard Jackson is retiring from directing Poetry Miscellany. The 2022 issue is his final as editor.
Poem “Stratagem” published in the Baltimore Review
The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a literary journal publishing short stories and poems, with a mission to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area, from across the U.S., and beyond.
P.O.I. / P.O.V. Poetry Reading on Saturday, July 16, 2022 4- 6pm
Join us for a reading at 1053Main Gallery in Fleischmanns, NY on Saturday, July 16, 20224- 6pm.
Inspired by Robin Factor's landscape paintings, we'll be reading poems about internal & external landscapes.
“The Egret” in Red Alder Review Issue No. 4, Peace.
I’m so grateful to Red Alder Review for publishing my poem, “The Egret,” written January 6, 2021, in Issue No. 4, Peace.