Notes on Contributors Judging a Book by Its Blurb Last year, several friends asked if I would write a blurb for their forthcoming books. Nothing delights me more than knowing a friend has succeeded in getting a book of poems published.  I enjoy sitting down and rereading poems I am often familiar with, have often [...]

Notes on Contributors VISUAL INVERSE Pairing Poetry and Art Opening Reception and Poetry Reading Saturday February 4, 2012 @1PM Plymouth Center for the Arts 11 North St Plymouth, MA The original poems of Mike Amado, Louisa Clerici, Regie Gibson, Elizabeth Hanson, Chuck Harper, Lawrence Kessenich, Irene Koronas, Thomas Libby, Gloria Mindock, Tomas O’Leary, Miriam O’Neal, [...]

Notes on Contributors POETRY: THE ART OF WORDS/MIKE AMADO MEMORIAL SERIES The Plymouth Center for the Arts 11 North St, Plymouth, February 12, 2012 Poetry Features Charles Coe is the winner of an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and now serves as grants program officer at the council. His work has [...]

Notes on Contributors Football Ah, January.  Wind chill and dark nights, black ice and white outs, arctic air masses and snow days, ice melt and road salt.  What a season for evocative language– and as if all these aren’t poetry enough, consider this, gem of all January gems for those of us who love football: [...]