Connie Post features July 3rd

7/3/2017 Connie Post  hosted by Jan
(Need a prompt? "Cold Mountain" -- you don't have to use those words.)

Connie Post served as Poet Laureate of Livermore, California  (2005 to 2009). Her work has appeared dozens of journals, including  Calyx, Comstock Review,Cold Mountain Review  Slipstream,Spillway Spoon River Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. She has written seven books of poetry.   Her first full length Book “Floodwater” (Glass Lyre Press 2014) won the Lyrebird Award.  Her other awards include the Caesura Award and the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Award.

Johanna Ely features 6/26 (Monday), 7pm

6/26/2017 Johanna Ely hosted by  hosted by J. D. 
(Need a prompt? "The Lower" -- you don't have to use those words.)

Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including, 

After the Storm

Sunlight,

wind,

children’s voices

in the alley.

Everything outside is

sharp and clear again,

a new lens with which to

look through and view

the silent green mountain

as close as my hand.

All the swollen grey clouds

blown off the surface of sky,

the wind’s breath really

a giant sigh of relief

to see blue again,

the promise that nothing

lasts forever-

not the rain,

not sorrow.

Johanna Ely

Jeanne Lupton features June 19th 2017

6/19/2017 Jeanne Lupton hosted by Bruce

(Need a prompt? Write Tanka)