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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Many thanks to poet Jane Hirshfield & @DAVIDWICKPOETRY for the gorgeous showcase & many poetry treasures https://poetsforscience.org

@ucsusa @coppercanyonprs

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

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.

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.

I was so happy to be a finalist for the 2023 Marsh Hawk Press Prize. Congratulations to the winners!

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. 

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

Poem “The Errand” by Elizabeth J. Coleman on Poems2Go.

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.

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.

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.

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.