Catherine Keating
► Catherine Keating's Origami micro-chapbook, Retiring To Florida, is available below.
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Detour signs ahead. • Catherine Keating © 2010
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► Catherine Keating's Origami micro-chapbook, Retiring To Florida, is available below.
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Detour signs ahead. • Catherine Keating © 2010
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Chris Waters has authored four books of poetry; the latest being GHOST LIGHTHOUSE, NEW AND SELECTED HATTERAS POEMS from March Street Press. He's circulating two others, KING PHILIP'S TALKING HEAD, AMERINDIAN POEMS and BESTIARY OF ALFONSO THE WISE, his renderings of the 26 animal-themed songs written in Galician (close to Portuguese) by the 13th-century Spanish King. At URI (emeritus prof of French) he taught and researched in black francophone literature and in Paul Claudel.
Born in North Carolina he splits his time between Hatteras and Rhode Island.
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Sketch of the poet is by John Kotula and can be further viewed here.
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{mooblock=I. Sou'wester}
Beachcombing south under a seamless shroud,
on the right grassy dunes, blue-grey sea on the left, I saw racing toward me-- black against white sky--a red-eyed rain cloud. Shoes swamped already, ancient clothes no good wet or dry, I resumed scouring the shore: scallop shells, ghostcrab holes, fish lures. More apt for a sign, though, would be the right wood. So engaged, there was a sudden sprinkle lasting no time at all. I looked straight up. Overhead, white only, no black. The sea had drawn the darkness to it. There was ample water there, I joked. No storm in a teacup, even, I added, no menaces for me.
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Chris Waters © 2010
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Shulla Sannella is a poet and writer living and working in northern Rhode Island and Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island where she majored in English and Journalism. Published locally in The Newport Review and Crone’s Nest Magazine she has also been published in the international poetry magazine, Bogg, and is the author of two chapbooks, Beach Poems and Desire.
► Shulla's book is available for printing. See below and click on the title.
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The Cool Blue Bruise
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The Power Of The Door Closing
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Love Story
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Saturation Point
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Pavlov
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Julie Hassett has been published in the Comstock Review, Philadelphia Poets, the Newport Review, Blueline, Naugatuck River Review and the DuPage Review. She won second prize in the Ocean State Poetry Contest and was included in the 2012 Poets Loft Anthology.
Her chapbook, Silent Passages, is part of the Premier Poets Series.
She practices as a social worker in North Kingstown, RI, often using therapeutic writing in her work.
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{mooblock=View from the Gazebo}
Weariness drifts over the brindled lawn
around purple tips of crocuses clusters of bulbs hidden in a crust of soil. She wonders when she will travel beyond the stone wall that encloses her garden and what she will find there. Bright tails flick the skin of water. Circles fan outward bend the reflection of a weeping cedar that ripples, green-gold and fragile calming soon to a deeper stillness.
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Julie Hassett © 2012
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{mooblock=Blessed Be}
for snow and no Sunday service, flakes
falling on my fourteen year old’s tongue all the stubborn, cutting words thawing in her mouth as she begs me to come, she’ll make the perfect snow angel, just needs someone to pull her up so the shape will be crisp in the Christmas light, the yard soon full of her flailing limbs, all grin and chuckle. Ten years melt from her with eyes that gleam brighter than Venus in the night sky rising.
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Julie Hassett © 2010
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{mooblock=Keeping Time}
April, May, June, July, I turn
the pages, August, he is gone, camera, cap, photos, packed beneath his college bunk far beyond my sight, dirty sock sweaty shirt boy smell fades, September, October, the room is neat, a new coat of paint, his artwork framed on the wall, I flip the weeks back to March, paints, canvass, ink, slingshot strewn across his spread in a pile
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Julie Hassett © 2010
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Helen Burke was an extraordinary writer and performer of poetry for over 45 years. Born in Doncaster in 1953, she began writing poetry in 1969. She holds an M.A. in Literature.
She had a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival and was a regular reader at Literature Festivals and events in the U.K.; her work has appeared in numerous poetry magazines and anthologies. In 2014 she was invited to judge the Keats/Shelley contest for young people held in Rome.
Helen has also had short stories published, written for and performed on radio; she has also worked as a visual artist. Honors for her poetry include the Manchester, Devon and Dorset, Norwich, Suffolk, Torbay, and Leslie Richardson (Yorkshire) Prizes as well as having twice won the Ilkley Literature Poetry Reading Prize. Ian McMillan has said of her work – “This is a poet with verve, wit and humanity.”
Matt Wedlock grew for a while in southern MA and RI. Maneuvered through High School. Graduated (don't ask me how) from Bridgewater State College.
Co-founder of the Word of Mouth Coalition (something like poets who recycle work with fire). Reading poetry with friends who create the memories, stories and lessons I am learning.
The blog he runs is everypaupersnickers.blogspot.com
► Matt's Origami micro-chapbook and selected poem are available below.
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To George Dutra |
{mooblock=face the dawn}
sober is an angry word
drunk is a four letter scrabble answer
worth points several,
when you talk, like a seductive robot
I flinch, a rabbit at carrot stalk
whispering secrets
my teeth like marble to acid
beer to pinky Zelda heart cheek
talking, and we are awake on anti-
depressants
anti-anxiety pills melting chalky sweet
on left half of upper tongue
details motionless against insufflated
gravity
less full,
more for the taking
Matt Wedlock © 2010
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Lisa Silverberg Starr, founder of the Block Island Poetry Project, divides her time among a variety of interests, her family, and her passion for poetry.
The Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 2008-2013, a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island fellowship for poetry, a former college instructor, waitress, freelance writer and publicist, Lisa has published three full-length collections of poetry: Days of Dogs and Driftwood (1993), This Place Here (2001), and Mad with Yellow (2009). Her individual works appear in journals and publications around the country. With her two children, Orrin and Millie (both high school students), Lisa owns and operates the Hygeia House, along with the love of a dog, Brother, and a cat, Jules.
The Block Island Poetry Project provides a way for her to combine her seemingly disparate vocations as poet and innkeeper with her love for the land and devotion to building community.
► Lisa's origami micro-chapbook and selected poem are below.
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Not only are permanent goodbyes the worse,
but it is also one of the most horrible things
about life in general.
Excerpt from a student’s essay, written,
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May I just say that I love you, Lauren Lonucci
and that somehow your paper made me weep? You will find the words, eventually, you will learn to live with grief. Surely, your diction will improve. But your heart — your heart is home already. My young friend, you got this sentence wrong about eight different ways, but that bit about permanent good-byes — A+, A+, A+. •
Lisa Starr © 2010
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In 2007, Heather was appointed Assistant Creative Director of the Rhode Island Writers’ Circle, where she volunteered until 2010. In 2007, Sullivan served as a panel judge for Barnes and Noble’s State-wide Maya Angelou High School Poetry Contest.
Heather holds an M.A. in English and won First Place in Writers’ Digest’s 1999 Competition in memoir / personal essay category. Sullivan’s work has appeared in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature; Balancing the Tides: A Newport Journal; The Writers’ Circle’s 2008 & 2010 Anthologies; Newport Round Table’s Walls and Bridges Anthology; The Providence Journal; Newport Life Magazine; The Newport Daily News and She Shines Magazine. Her essay Compassion aired on Rhode Island’s National Public Radio’s This I Believe series, and she has recorded her poetry for Insight Radio for the visually impaired.
2014 Update: Heather's first chapbook, These Onyx Hours, is published by Finishing Line Press.