Happy Birthday, Rene Schwiesow

 

 

Happy Birthday, Rene Schwiesow

 

Happy Birthday, Rene Schwiesow

 

 

Happy Birthday, Rene Schwiesow

 

Happy Birthday, Rene Schwiesow

 

Happy Birthday Rene Schwiesow

Poetry: The Art of Words This Sunday

Patricia Gomes and Sean Theall this Sunday. Hosted by Jack Scully and Rene Schwiesow.

Happy Birthday Rene Schwiesow

POETRY:The Art of Words Returns Next Weekend

From PTAOW co-host Jack Scully.

Dear Friend,

After our summer hiatus, POETRY:The Art of Words will once again be presenting our regular monthly poetry program at the Plymouth Public Library on Sunday September 9 beginning at 1PM. [we will enter with the public at 12:30PM]. Our feature poets for the month will be local poet and mystery author Judith Campbell and David Di Sarro an associate professor of English and administrator at Endicott College. After we hear the poetry of our features we will break for some talk and refreshments, our Open-Mic will close our formal program. Hope to see you on September 9.

Jack

Happy Belated Birthday Rene Schwiesow

Stone's Throw #6 is Out

The last issue of Stone's Throw is out today. It's only been a month since the last one, but I wanted to have a sixth issue to close out the year. I thank everyone who contributed work throughout this past year. It's been fantastic publishing all of you.

“I Keep on Going, Guess I’ll Never Know Why” is the title/theme for Stone's Throw #6. You can download it here.

Big kudos to Adric Giles for going through with my idea for the cover. It's definitely a great follow-up to the #TrumpDump cover to Stone's Throw #4.

I have a poem to kick things off. Then you can get to the work by Elizabeth Hanson, Deta Galloway, Zachary Bos, Abagail Petersen, Liza Zayas, Melissa Silva, Laurel Lambert, Rene Schwiesow and Ron Goba.

If this is your first time hearing about Stone's Throw, I recommend clicking this page to download the rest.

South Shore Poetry & Music Update June 2017

Information courtesy of Rich Berg.

Scenes from Motherhood and The Muse

The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is done for another year. All that's left are the memories. I wasn't able to record the event, but thankfully Toni Bee, one of the panelists for last Sunday's "Motherhood and The Muse," wrote a paper on the event for one of her college classes.

I am humbled by her recap and asked if I could post it on my website. I also included photos and videos of Toni, DiDi Delgado and Rene Schwiesow reading at the panel. You can enjoy the highlights by clicking here.

Thank You, Ladies

Thanks so much to Toni Bee, Rene Schwiesow and DiDi Delgado for doing such a great job at yesterday's panel at this weekends Massachusetts Poetry Festival, "Motherhood and The Muse."

I couldn't get much audio or video of the panel, but I did get photos and video of people reading. The videos I'll see if I can post later. Here are some photos now.

No photo of DiDi reading, but at least there's one of her enjoying a post-reading victory drink.

See Me at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival Tomorrow Morning

Tomorrow morning at 11:30 is the Motherhood and The Muse panel at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival starring Toni Bee, DiDi Delgado, Jeannie Nunes and Rene Schwiesow. I hope you'll be able to make it. Tomorrow morning at 11:30 is the Motherhood and The Muse panel with Toni Bee, DiDi Delgado, Jeannie Nunes and Rene Schwiesow. I hope you'll be able to make it.

Happy Birthday, Rene Schwiesow

I hope I get another opportunity to record you.

Poetry in Plymouth on Saturday May 6, 2017

Information courtesy of Jack Scully, who hosts the event with Rene Schwiesow.

POETRY: THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES

Boston National Poetry Month Highlights, Part Three

cutest couple: John Galloway and Carol Weston.

2016 Highlight; My Poem in Ibbestson Street 40

My contributor's copy of Ibbetson Street 40 has arrived. One of my favorite poems I've written over the last five years was included in this issue. Thank you so much to Rene Schwiesow and the rest of the Ibbeston clan.

2016 was the year I resolved to appear in more print works than I have in recent years. Referring to my recent reaction to seeing The Sickness in print, I realize how much I missed print. I will always have one foot int he online world, but I still like having my work in not-so-easy-to-access books.

Maybe it's part of my old world programing, but I still find it thrilling to actually have my words in my hands, in the form of an object that was created by people who cared enough about my words to include it in the pages of what is becoming an increasingly expensive object. It's an honor each time.

In a perfect future, I would become a good enough writer to produce entire books of words not free to access and ignore by Facebook friends or twits on Twitter.

In a perfect future, the online world of lies takes a backseat to carefully written and printed worldviews.

But this copy of Ibbetson Street will do for now, thank you very much.

Ibbetson Street #40 Has Hit the Stands

Ibbetson Street #40 is packed with poets. Many of which I either know or have appeared alongside before. People like Timothy Gager, Teisha Dawn Twomey, and Marge Piercy. Then there's the photo by Jennifer Mathews. I'm excited to have one of my earliest pantoums (also one of my favorites) appear here. Thanks to editors Doug Holder, Harris Gardner and Rene Schwiesow for accepting my work. You can order a copy of this issue over at Lulu.