tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10374822672695745352024-02-15T23:35:12.637-05:00(A)stray: One Poet's ConversationM.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.comBlogger610125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-41509436644152579492023-04-26T09:46:00.007-04:002023-04-26T18:27:36.995-04:00Goodbye to Our Well Loved Friend, M.J. Iuppa<br>Mary Jo (MJ) Iuppa passed peacefully after a five-year battle with ovarian cancer. She died at home with family by her side.<br>
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MJ was born in Rochester, NY to Dr. Louis A. and Josephine Iuppa. The youngest of five children, she had two older sisters, Andrea and Karen, and two older brothers, Bruce and Robert.
Growing up in the Rochester area, she lived on Knollwood Drive and Edgemere Drive as a child. MJ attended Sacred Heart Academy until it closed in 1968. She then transferred to Our Lady of Mercy.<br>
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She attended St. Bonaventure University and completed her BA in English Literature, Journalism and Media Studies at SUNY Empire State College in 1976.<br>
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In pursuit of her art and teaching career, she obtained her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from SUNY Brockport in 2000.<br>
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She followed her mentors, Judith Kitchen and Stan Rubin, and enrolled in Pacific Lutheran University to obtain her finishing degree, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 2006.<br>
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<b>WORK</b><br>
MJ managed her father’s and brother’s OB/Gyn medical office from 1972 to 1998.<br>
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MJ started teaching at St. John Fisher College in 1999 and continued there for 24.5 years. MJ was the Writer-In-Residence at St. John Fisher from 1999 thru 2015.<br>
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In 2002, she was hired as an adjunct at SUNY Brockport where she taught Poetry, World Literature, Composition and more.<br>
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In 2004, MJ was made Director of the Visual and Performing Art Minor Program, a title she held for 24 years. At Fisher, she taught Poetry, Play Writing, Film, Composition. She created an entirely original class, Encounter With the Arts, which took students to professional arts organizations such as MAG, the George Eastman House, Artisan Works, GEVA, Blackfriars and the JCC. This class brought West African Dance to Fisher and included performance by students from the Eastman School of Music. For most students, it was their first experience with the professional Arts.<br>
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<b>TEACHING ARTIST</b>
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During her long teaching career, she also taught thousands of school children both in the City School District through Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. and throughout Monroe County- and the surrounding counties- through BOCES 2, Young Audiences, Genesee Valley BOCES and Newark-Finger Lakes BOCES. Of all her teaching experiences, she loved working with and inspiring the youngest students - 1st, 2nd & 3rd grades.<br>
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Almost every summer, MJ would also teach at Writers & Books in their Summer Write program. She taught poetry, creative writing, memoir and more. She especially enjoyed her collaboration with the Genesee COOP (Genesee Center for the Arts and Education) in which her students would write in the morning and make paper or pottery in the afternoon.<br>
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<b>ART</b><br>
Ever since she was a child, MJ wrote poetry. In the early 1980’s, she was an original member of Writers & Books when the organization operated out of a bus. During this time, the opportunity to share her work with others and learn the value of feedback helped cement her desire and confidence to continue writing.<br>
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In the early years, she might have only one acceptance in eight months; in the later years, she would have eight acceptances every month! MJ had over 1200 works published. Most were poetry but also essays, 100 Word Stories, mini-fictions, prose poems, non-fiction, etc.<br>
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MJ also had five books of poetry published by Foothills Press and one forthcoming book of 100 Word Stories. Her most recent book, <i>The Weight of Air</i> engages with her sense of mortality. In 2021, she wrote a novella, Middle Falls. She wanted to try a longer form, and it is a beautiful story set in our Finger Lakes region. It is awaiting publication.<br>
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MJ was also a visual artist, a watercolor painter. She loved to paint simple scenes- perhaps a single flower or a quiet lagoon. She made some of these into mailing cards. She also made simple abstract sculptures using found stones and sea glass. These were often gifts.<br>
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Mary Jo also knitted beautiful long warm scarves that she would give to anybody she thought needed one. These are treasured by the recipients for their beauty and comfort.<br>
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<b>HOME</b><br>
As if work, teaching and art weren’t enough, MJ was devoted to her family, an avid gardener and a fabulous cook. She lived on a small farm in Hamlin, NY, close to Lake Ontario, surrounded by apple trees and farmers’ fields. This landscape often inspired her poetry. It also inspired her to plant and grow incredible vegetable gardens with her husband, Peter. Much like her life’s work, MJ freely shared the fruits of her labor with her family and friends through incredible meals, overflow produce & eggs, and jarred preserves and sauces. She especially liked the names of heirloom tomatoes and chickens – Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Amish Paste, Maran and Rhode Island Red – all had a story to tell.<br>
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MJ was predeceased by her parents, Dr. Louis A. and Josephine Iuppa, her brother, J. Bruce Iuppa, MD, and her sister, Karen Iuppa. She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Peter Tonery, her children Nick Tonery (Katie Richey-Tonery), Meghan Tonery and George Marron (Caitlin), her sister, Andrea Jepson and her brother, Robert Iuppa (Sue). MJ is also survived by her grandchildren, Brian, Jack, Brigid and George Marron and Nick & Katie’s baby as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins - all of whom she loved dearly.<br>
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We are organizing a fund through SUNY Brockport in M.J.'s memory, the <b>"M.J. Iuppa Poetry Prize"</b>. It will reward young writers with a cash prize for their poetry to help continue MJ's teaching legacy.<br>
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<i>Address the envelope to</i>:<br>
Meghan Tonery<br>
6558 4th Section Rd.<br>
STE. 120<br>
Brockport, NY 14420<br>
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<i>Write check out to:</i><br>
<b>Recipient line: M.J. Iuppa <br>
Subject line: Poetry Prize</b><br>
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PLEASE NOTE: This humble abbreviation of MJ’s accomplishments does not do her justice! Please read her CV revised in 2021 below.
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M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-69330599210238042982022-07-23T09:00:00.856-04:002023-04-26T17:43:01.793-04:00M.J. Iuppa's Amazing CV (Curriculum Vitae) Revised 6/21<b>M. J. Iuppa
937 Moscow Road
Hamlin, New York 14464
585-964-7215
mjiuppa@rochester.rr.com</b><br>
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<b>EDUCATION:</b>
MFA, Creative Writing, 2006
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma Washington
Within Reach, a collection of poetry<br>
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MA Creative Writing, 2000
State University of New York, College at Brockport, Brockport, New York
Night Traveler and Other Work, poetry, creative nonfiction, play wrighting<br>
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BA in English Literature, Journalism and Media Studies, 1976
State University of New York, Empire State College GVLC, Rochester, New York<br>
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<b>ACADEMIC POSITIONS:</b><br>
Writer-in-Residence, English Department, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1999 to 2015.<br>
Creative Writing Lecturer, English Department, St John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 2015-present.<br>
Director of the Arts Minor, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, Spring, 2004 to present.<br>
Adjunct Instructor, English Department, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1997-1999.<br>
Adjunct Instructor, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, New York, 2002-present.<br>
Poetry Adviser for The New York State Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), four year term (Fall 2007-2012).<br>
NYS Fair Poetry Judge, Adult and Youth Categories, 2015, 2016<br>
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<b>RESIDENCIES</b> and Profession Development Workshops:<br>
Writer-in-Residences in Elementary and Secondary Schools for the following agencies:<br>
Memorial Art Gallery, 2002 to present.<br>
Young Audience, 1997 to 2010.<br>
Writers & Books, 1986 to present.<br>
Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. and the Rochester City School District, 1993 to present.<br>
Genesee Valley BOCES, 1994 to present.<br>
Newark-Finger Lakes BOCES, 1993 to present.<br>
BOCES 2, 1999 to present.<br>
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Summer Scholars held at SUNY Geneseo, grades 9-12, sponsored by Genesee Valley BOCES, 1994 to 2003.<br>
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Wriiers & Books, Adult Creative Writing Courses, 1986-present.<br>
Writers & Books, SummerWrite, creative writing camp for children, 1990 to present.<br>
Writers & Books, One day information seminars on the “nuts & bolts” of publishing, 1990 to present.<br>
Danforth Recreational Center, “Wordcrafters” Senior Citizens, on-going Creative Writing Workshop, 1994-1997.<br>
One Day Poetry Workshops at St. Bonaventure University, 1994 and 1996.<br>
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<b>AWARDS & HONORS:</b><br>
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Writing In Rochester Award, A Teacher of Writing for Adults Who Has Impacted The Creation
And Appreciation Of Literature In Rochester, Writers & Books, 1996.<br>
Writing in Rochester Award for an individual making a significant contribution to Writers & Books, 2004<br>
Big Pencil Award for an individual who has made lifelong contributions to Rochester’s literary community, Writers & Books, 2015.<br>
NYS Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, 2017<br>
Student nominated Teaching Excellence Award, St. John Fisher College, 2017<br>
Student nominated Teaching Excellence Award, The College at Brockport, 2018 and 2019.<br>
Part-Time Faculty Award For Teaching Excellence, St. John Fisher College, 1999-2000.<br>
Father Dorsey Award, St. John Fisher College, 2000-2001 and 2002-2003.<br>
Monroe County Legislature, Certificate of Recognition, April, 2003.<br>
St. John Fisher College. Student Government Association, Outstanding Adviser, HM, Spring 2014.<br>
St. John Fisher College, Student Government Association, Outstanding Adviser, Spring 2008.<br>
St. John Fisher College, Student Government Association, Outstanding Adviser, Spring 2007.<br>
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<b>Readings and Workshops:</b><br>
Reading at Before Your Quiet Eyes Bookstore in promotion of just released 3rd full length poetry collection, Small Worlds Floating (Cherry Grove Collections, 2016) September 2016<br>
Valley Manor Book Club, facilitator for Wonder Garden by M Acampora, May2016 and Huckleberry Finn by M. Twain June 2016.<br>
GO ART! Poetry reading, Albion Hoag Library, June 2016<br>
PD RCSD, Grief and Loss Workshop, May 2016<br>
Reading celebrating, Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney (Norton, 2015), and the life of writer and teacher, Judith Kitchen, November, 2015 Women in Music Festival, Eastman School of Music, 10th Anniversary, March, 2014<br>
PD Poetry Workshop Kendall Elementary School, March 2014<br>
PD RCSD, Grief and Loss Workshop, May 2014<br>
PD Consortium Workshop at BOCES 2 on Personal Narrative, May, 2014<br>
Reading Genesee Reading Series, Writers & Books, September 2014<br>
Magic Words, Magic Rain, children’s poetry program, Fringe, September, 2014<br>
PD Consortium Workshop at BOCES 2 on Personal Narrative, September, 2014<br>
Reading at Valley Manor, October, 2014<br>
Reading and Workshop at Villa Maria College, April, 2013<br>
Reading Genesee Reading Series, Writers & Books, Launch of Between Worlds chapbook May 2013.<br>
Reading at Barnes & Noble, Just Poets, June 2013<br>
Reading and Workshop at Albion Library, June 2013<br>
Reading Visual Studies Bookfair, September, 2013.<br>
Reading, A Different Path Art Gallery, September, 2013<br>
Reading in Fringe Festival, Writers and Books, Chain Gang Project, September, 2013.<br>
Wonder Workshop, Just Poets Retreat, Gell Center, October, 2013.<br>
Reading and Workshop, SUNY Brockport, Writers Forum, February 2012<br>
Reading, St. John Fisher College, with Poet John Roche, February 2012<br>
Reading, Hallwalls, Buffalo New York, Gray Hair Poetry Series, March 2012<br>
Reading and Class Presentation, SUNY Potsdam, April 2012.<br>
Reading and Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop, Olean New York, Public Library, May 2012.<br>
Reading, The Cazenovia Counterpoint Summer Festival. July 2012.<br>
Reading, The Shoe Factory Art Co op "Crow Show" August 2012.<br>
Reading. Writers & Books/JGK Gallery Poetry & Art Collaboration, September 2012 <br>
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Workshop at Olean LibraryMay,2012<br>
Reading and Workshop at SUNY Potsdam, April, 2012<br>
Reading at NeMLA confernence, March, 2012<br>
Reading at SUNY Brockport, Writers Forum February, 2012<br>
Reading and Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Altoona, March,2011<br>
Reading and Workshop, Monroe Community College, April, 2011<br>
Reading at The Little Theatre, September 2011<br>
Reading and Workshop, Albion Library, September, 2011<br>
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Reading at Books ETC in Macedon NY, July 2010<br>
Reading at Writers & Books, Genesee Reading Series, November 2010<br>
Reading and Workshop at Wells College, November 2010<br>
Reading and Workshop at R.I. T. December 2010<br>
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Better Day Buddies program, poetry workshops, working with children in Outpatient Cancer treatment, sponsored by Strong Memorial Hospital and Young Audiences, beginning 2008 to Summer 2009.<br>
Winter Wheat Festival of Writing at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
November 12-14, 2009 presented a writing workshop on Postcards, Paragraphs, Prose Poems and Brief Lyrical Non-Fiction.<br>
Winter Wheat Festival of Writing, at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
November 13-16, 2008 presented a writing workshop on persona poetry.<br>
Winter Wheat Festival of Writing, at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
November 8-10, 2007 presented a writing workshop on the lyric essay. <br>
RCSD, professional development, collegiate learning circle at School 39. A series of writing workshops, once a month from November 2007-January 2008.<br>
Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., professional development, School 42 and Leary Elementary, Rush Henrietta, NY, Winter- Spring 2008. School 33 and 42, Spring 2011.<br>
BOCES 2, professional development, strategies to read and teach poetry, elementary and middle schools, 2008.<br>
BOCES 2, professional development, strategies to read and teach poetry, Gates-Chili, elementary and middle school faculty; Kendall elementary school, 2007.<br>
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<b>Publications in 2019</b><br>
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<b>Poems</b><br>
“(Un)resolved” The Pangolin Review, January, 2019<br>
“May Life Be Kind While It Lasts” Blue Heron Review February, 2019<br>
“For a Glimpse of the Sea” Amethyst Review (UK), January 11th, 2019<br>
“Fighting Death” Amethyst Review (UK), February 18th, 2019 <br>
“With and Without” Amethyst Review (UK), March 23rd, 2019<br>
“Nothing” Blueline 40th Anniversary Edition, Spring, 2019<br>
“The End in Sight,” “these woods” (couplet) and “slow moving fog” (haiku)
The Bamboo Hut, February 2019.<br>
“The Lopsided Ticking of Dali’s Clocks” The Ekphrastic Review, January, 2019<br>
“What Can I Spare?” Subterranean Blue Poetry, upcoming issue in 2019-2020<br>
“The Kiss” Quill and Parchment, February, 2019<br>
“One Breath— ” Clementine Unbound March, 2019<br>
“Look Up, Slowly” (Haibun) Plum Tree Tavern, February, 2019<br>
“Soap: Snow” Third Wednesday, June, 2019<br>
“Once, Removed” Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine, 2019<br>
“Waiting on the Edge of the Invisible” and “Distance between Stars” Red Eft Review, March 2019<br>
“Thinking of A Cure for Cancer after Looking at Thousands of Eyeless Fish Wash Up on a New Zealand Beach” Otoliths (Australia), March, 2019<br>
“Given a Life to Spend” Amethyst Review (UK), March, 2019<br>
“Purple Finch at the Garden Feeder” Amethyst Review (UK), April, 2019<br>
“Garden’s End” The Lake (UK), April, 2019<br>
“End of Winter” Eunoia Review (Singapore) April, 2019<br>
“Paperwhites” Poppy Road Review, April 2019<br>
“The Many Weathers in Everyday Skies” Front Porch Review, July, 2019<br>
“Echo” 8 Poems, 2019<br>
“Crossing Borders” and “On This Side of the Horizon” Burning House Press, 2019 <br>
“Aperture” Eunoia Review, July 2019<br>
“Seeing the Sunrise” Red Eft Review, July 2019<br>
“Strandhill Beach in May” The Blue Nib (Ireland) December, 2019<br>
“How It Is” Amethyst Review, August, 2019<br>
“No Small Thing” (prose poem) The Eunoia Review (Singapore), October, 2019<br>
“Morning, Listening to that Faint Thunder” Nine Muses Poetry (UK), January, 2020<br>
“Transparencies” One Sentence Poems, November, 2019<br>
“In Flight” and “The Precision of the Second Hand” Amethyst Review (UK) Nov/Dec, 2019<br>
“Everyday Gestures” and Something Run Through My Blood” Red Eft Review, December, 2019<br>
“Sleepwalking in the Season of Wind” Black Poppy Review, December, 2019<br>
“Far flung net, “Old sled guards the entrance,” “Sleigh bells hang” (Haiku) The Bamboo Hut, December, 2019<br>
“What Will Be Left, in Leaving” Freshwater Literary Journal, 2020<br>
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<b>Fiction</b><br>
“Over (cast)” A Story in 100 Words, January, 2019<br>
“Snow” A Story in 100 Words, January, 2019<br>
“(Re)do” Grey Sparrow Journal, February, 2019<br>
“The Hold-up” A Story in 100 Words, February, 2019.<br>
“She Looked on the Bright Side” A Story in 100 Words, July, 2019<br>
“She Can’t Settle Down” Milk Candy Review, November/December, 2019<br>
“5 Dollar Milkshake” Synaresis Arts and Poetry, (Canada) December 2019<br>
“We All Have Many Choices” and “Impatiens,”Otoliths, (Australia)2019<br>
“She Says,” Lost Balloon, 2019<br>
“(Re)cycling” City. River. Tree. Spring 2020.<br>
“On A Foot Bridge Too Narrow” Black Poppy Review, December, 2019<br>
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<b>CNF Essays</b><br>
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“The Orchard” Nature Writing, February, 2019<br>
“Hair(cut)” Eunoia Review (Singapore), March, 2019<br>
“Mirage” Otoliths (Australia) March, 2019<br>
“Particulars” and “Stonewalls” Otoliths (Australia) July, 2019<br>
“Lost Balloon” Eunoia Review, August 2019<br>
“Care (Cure)” Snapdragon, A Journal of Art and Healing, 2019<br>
“No One Knows I’m Here” Eunoia Review, January, 2020<br>
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<b>Nominations, Awards</b><br>
“Cry, Baby” Lost Balloon nominated for the Best Microfiction Anthology, 2019<br>
“Cry, Baby” Lost Balloon nominated for Best of the Net 2019<br>
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<b>Anthologies</b><br>
“The Orchard” essay in Land and Territory Anthology, November, 2019<br>
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<b>Chapbook</b><br>
Finitude, a micro-chapbook, Origami Poems Project, February, 2019<br>
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<b>Publications in 2018</b>:<br>
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“Soft Green & Petal White” Tar River Poetry, Fall, 2018<br>
“It Won’t be Long,” “One Shot,” Coming Home Late,” and “This Brief Spell” Eunoia Review, January, 2018.<br>
“How Do You Imagine Yourself” Clementine Unbound, February, 2018<br>
“Along the Way” and “Human, Somehow” Foxglove Journal, January 2018<br>
“Cast Adrift” Red Eft Review, January 2018<br>
"Parable of the Cricket" and "Deep Cold of Winter" Quail Bell Magazine, January 2018<br>
“Everything Turns Away” Plum Tree Tavern, February 2018<br>
“Space” Ink in Thirds, May/June issue, 2018<br>
“Staying in a Cabin in the Woods in Bristol, NY” Blueline May/June 2018<br>
“What I haven’t Said” Night Garden Journal February, 2018<br>
“Where I Live” Little River, March 2018<br>
“winter’s foggy gloom” (haiku) Three Line Poetry, Issue 48, March, 2018<br>
“No Promises to Keep” Eunoia Review, April 2018<br>
“you sleep” (haiku) Haikuniverse, March, 2018<br>
“Standing in the Woods” Plum Tree Tavern, March 2018<br>
“Staring Straight at Me” The Ekphrastic Review, March 2018<br>
“Spring Riddle” and “Icarus Girl” The Lake (UK) June 2018<br>
Triolet,“Things Are Not Always What They Seem” Poetry Leaves, Waterford Library (Michigan) poetry project, May 2018<br>
“Nothing Wakes Me” Red Eft Review, May 2018<br>
“Poet’s Garden” The Front Porch Review, July, 2018<br>
“May Life Be Kind White It Lasts” Blue Heron Review February, 2019<br>
“To Destination” One Sentence Poems, Right Hand Pointing, July, 2018<br>
“Nevertheless,” “Summer Sequel,” and “That Shade of Purple” Wild Word, Deep Summer issue, August, 2018.<br>
“A Curve in the Road” The Amethyst Review (UK), September 2018.<br>
Haiku: “fields at sunset” Haikuinverse, August 2018<br>
“En Plein Air” Plum Tree Tavern, 2018<br>
“Disturbing You” and “Arriving by Tomorrow” Third Wednesday, September, 2918<br>
“I Saw You Crying in the Church,” “Beyond Peripheries,” “Perspective,” and “Keeping Watch”
Mediterranean Poetry, August, 2018.<br>
“The One Ray of the Lowering Sun” and “The Cool Light of a Late Summer Morning” Poppy Road Review, August 2018<br>
“In Other Words” Eunoia Review, October 2018<br>
“Harvest” Clementine Unbound, October, 2018<br>
“Sun(flowers)” Red Eft Review, October, 2018<br>
“Finitude,” “In a Silent Way,” and “Plain and Simple” Amethyst Review, October-November, 2018<br>
“Otherwise” Front Porch Review, November 2018<br>
“Perennial” Nature Writing, November 2018<br>
“We Walked Along the Lake” The Orchards Poetry Journal, December, 2018.<br>
“At the Edge of Sight” Plum Tree Tavern, November, 2018<br>
“In This Hour” The Tiger Moth Review, December, 2018<br>
“(Un)resolved” The Pangolin Review, January, 2019<br>
“Tensions” The Eunoia Review, December, 2018<br>
“End of the Season” Night Garden Journal, December, 2018<br>
“For a Glimpse of the Sea” Amethyst Review, January 11th, 2019<br>
“Fighting Death” Amethyst Review, February 18th, 2019 <br>
“With and Without” Amethyst Review, March 23rd, 2019<br>
“Nothing” Blueline 40th Anniversary Edition, Spring 2019<br>
“Every Hour Hurts in Fall” and “Hungry for Sweeter Fare,” Burning House Press, December, 2018<br>
“Free to Go” and “The Weight of Dried Beans,” Red Eft Review, December 2018.<br>
“The Metaphysics of Crossword Puzzles,” The Eunoia Review, January, 2019.<br>
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<b>Fiction</b><br>
“Without a Trace” Jellyfish Review, January, 2018<br>
“Use(less),” “Pantomime,” and “Arrangement in Black and White, with Red Lights,” Otoliths, January, 2018.<br>
“Take Out,” “Heaven,” and “Unseen Eye,” Postcard Poems and Prose, January, 2018.<br>
“Unfathomable” Eunoia Review, January, 2018<br>
“Bananas” Eunoia Review, February, 2018<br>
“Cry, Baby” Lost Balloon, March 2018<br>
“Part Seen, Part Imagined,” “Handling It,” and Enough is Enough,” Otoliths, March, 2018<br>
“Faith, Healer,” “Lost Baggage” and “The Sun and the Tomato” Eunoia Review, May, 2018<br>
“Fairy Tale” Night Garden Journal, May 2018<br>
“Hurry” Eunoia Review, June, 2018.<br>
“Muse (They/Them)” Grey Sparrow Journal, July 2018<br>
“Wish (Want),” “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner” and “Tea Party” Otoliths, July, 2018<br>
“Good Luck” and “Interrogation” Eunoia Review, August, 2018.<br>
“Another Time” Dime Show Review, September, 2018<br>
“Silent Movie,” “If, Only,” and “Summer Night ” Otoliths, November, 2018<br>
Fast Food. Bean Burritos. Jet Propulsion. Six Word Story, November, 2018<br>
“Real Talk’ and “Beyond the Self” Synaeresis Arts & Poetry, Issue 5, December, 2018.<br>
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<b>Creative Nonfiction</b><br>
“Foreheads, Pressing” Otoliths, January, 2018.<br>
“Season of Ceremony” Nature Writing, June, 2018<br>
“X Marked the Spot” Ovunque Siamo, September, 2018<br>
“Postcards” Ovunque Siamo, November, 2018<br>
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<b>Anthologies:</b><br>
"Gray Sea, Gray Ship, Floating " The Fear of Us All, Cherry House Press, 2018<br>
“Between Worlds” Feminine Rising anthology, Cynren Press, 2018<br>
“Coffee (break)” World Enough Writers, Coffee Poems Anthology, Fall/Winter, 2018.<br>
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<b>Nominations, Awards</b><br>
“Cry, Baby” Lost Balloon nominated for the Best Microfiction Anthology, 2019<br>
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<b>Reviews</b><br>
“Returning, Home” poetry review, Alicia Hoffman’s Railroad Phoenix (Kelsay Books, 2017), The Lake (UK), April, 2018. <br>
“ ‘Small Worlds’ Reckoning” poetry poetry review, J.R. Solonche’s In Short Order (Kelsay Books, 2018) The Lake (UK) August, 2018 <br>
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<b>Publications in 2017</b><br>
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<b>Poetry:</b><br>
“The Family Called Apple” The Ekphrastic Review: writing and art on art and writing, January, 2017.<br>
“After the Night Rain” Grey Sparrow Journal, January, 2017<br>
“No Need to Wonder” Third Wednesday. A Literary and Art Journal, 2017<br>
“Ontario” Silver Birch Press, ME, AT 17 Poetry & Prose Series. February, 2017<br>
“The Art of Empty” Freshwater Literary Journal, May, 2017<br>
“Next Time” and “Doesn’t Everything Mean Something” Eunoia Review, April, 2017<br>
"On her wet cheek' Quatrain.Fish, March 2017<br>
“Rock and Keep,” “Counting by Twos” and “Apple and Oranges” Quill and Parchment, May 2017<br>
“Spring Approaches” Poppy Road Review, April 2017<br>
“Moth Orchid” Blue Heron Review, July 2017<br>
“One Mind” Front Porch Review, July 2017<br>
“Weathering” Red Eft Review, May 2017<br>
“Espresso” Right Hand Pointing, May 2017<br>
“The Gloom of April” and “A Sky Full of Shadowy Beasts” Eunoia Review, May 2017<br>
“under leaf’s shade” (Haiku) Haiku Presence (UK), June, 2017<br>
“magnolia” (Haiku) Haikuniverse, May 2017<br>
“Rough-Hewn Stones, a Wall at the Top of the Field,” Clementine Unbound, June 2017<br>
“Old Orchard” Nature Writing, June, 2017<br>
“Real Places” Plum Tree Tavern, June, 2017<br>
“The Girl I Was” The Ekphrastic Review, June 2017<br>
“Amaryllis” and “Hardship and Rest” The Literary Nest, July, 2017<br>
“Good Faith” Muddy River Poetry Review, September, 2017<br>
“Out(side)” Plum Tree Tavern, July, 2017<br>
"A Pot-Bound Begonia and Three Pears" South Florida Poetry Journal, August, 2017<br>
“Hats, hanging” Eunoia Review, September 2017<br>
“Let’s Blame It On Mother” Red Eft Review, September 2017<br>
“Afternoon Fugue” Poppy Road Review, August, 2017<br>
‘Myth-making” Foxglove Journal, September, 2017<br>
“Tango Nuevo” The Sandy River Review, September, 2017<br>
“Hawthorn Tree” Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada) October, 2017<br>
“Soft Green & Petal White” Tar River Poetry, Spring, 2018<br>
“Tucked inside . . .a snail sleeps” Haikuniverse, September, 2017<br>
“What Will You Have?” Right Hand Pointing, November, 2017<br>
“A Break in the Weather” Eunoia Review, October, 2017<br>
“Restless,” “Between Curiosity and nakedness,” and “ Turquoise . . .” Third Wednesday, December 2017<br>
“Geode” Nature Writing, October, 2017<br>
“How to Find One’s True Voice” and “Reflection on the Opposite” Black Poppy Review, November, 2017<br>
“It Won’t be Long,” “One Shot,” Coming Home Late,” and “This Brief Spell” Eunoia Review, January, 2018.<br>
“How Do You Imagine Yourself” Clementine Unbound, February, 2018<br>
“Along the Way” and “Human, Somehow” Foxglove Journal, January 2018<br>
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<b>Fiction:</b><br>
“Stealing, Freely” and “Burgers and Pies” The Jellyfish Review, May, 2017<br>
“Report If There Is Something Wrong,” “Sidekick” and “Hey, Let’s Have A Drink” The Eunoia Review, February, 2017<br>
“Getting Serious” and “Singular Verb Matches Singular Subject” Otoliths, February, 2017.<br>
“An Essential Still Life,” So, Sew,” “Unblinking,” and “Far from Perfect” Scarlet Leaf Review, March, 2017.<br>
“Look, Away” Dime Show Review, March 2017<br>
“Charade” Synaeresis Arts +Poetry, (Canada) April, 2017<br>
“The Catch,” “A Facial Mask Can Set You Free from Misery,” and “Playoff” Otoliths, June 2017.<br>
"Foxgloves" and "A Perfect Day" VIA: Voices In Italian Americana, Fall 2017<br>
“Without a Trace” Jellyfish Review, January, 2018<br>
“Bad Luck” Grey Sparrow Journal, August, 2017<br>
“She Was a Good Listener” Corvus Review, Fall, 2017<br>
“Transparencies” Sandy River Review, October, 2017<br>
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<b>CNF Essays:</b><br>
“Open Suitcase” Writing in A Woman’s Voice, May, 2017<br>
“Season of Ceremony” Eunoia Review, June, 2017<br>
“Rush/Rash” Nature Writing, July, 2017<br>
“Uncle” Bad Pony Review, November, 2017<br>
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<b>Chapbooks:</b><br>
Origami Poetry Project accepted “Everyday, Relief” micro-chapbook February, 2017<br>
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<b>Anthologies:</b><br>
Mother’s Anthology, edited by Sueann Wells, “Lesson,” an essay. May 2017.<br>
“Reflection behind Reflection” Le Mot Juste, May 2017<br>
“Next Time” Poets Speak Anthology, Volume 5: Walls edited by John Roche, May 2017<br>
“Secondhand,” included in NOTHING SHORT OF: SELECTED TALES FROM 100 WORD STORY, Outpost19 Books, Spring 2018.<br>
“Think of an Egg” Lyric essay, Compassion Anthology edited by Laurette Folk, Jennifer Martelli, Jennifer Jean, and Jill Slaymaker, Fall 2017<br>
“Face to Face” and “Where I Live” in the anthology, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose, Bright Hill Press, December , 2017, edited by Bertha Rogers.<br>
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<b>Publications In 2016 </b><br>
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<b>Poems:</b>
“It Hardly Seems Worth It” Postcard Poems & Prose, 2016<br>
“Reprieve” Eunoia Review, March, 2016<br>
“Without Force” and “Just the Same” The Notebook, 2016<br>
“Something, which is” Poetry Pacific, November, 2016<br>
“Another, New Year” One Sentence Journal, February, 2016<br>
“Night of the Full Moon” Jellyfish Whispers, 2016<br>
“One Apple Among Many” Dead Snakes, February, 2016<br>
“How Do You Stop Her?” Dead Snakes, February, 2016<br>
“Roots and All” Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, March, 2016<br>
“unzipped duffle bag” senryu, haikuniverse, February, 2016<br>
“Harmony and Beauty” Whiskey and Armchairs, 2016<br>
“He Didn’t Intend To Get Close,” “Off-Kilter,” “A Modest Proposal” Scarlet Leaf Review, 2016<br>
“Downwind” and “With(out)” The Literary Nest, 2016<br>
“Were We Sad in the Beginning?”“Take this Walking Stick “Black Elephant, 2016<br>
“Everyday Eccentrics” and “Warning Signs” Eunoia Review, May 2016<br>
“Tailspin” Poppy Road Review, March, 2016<br>
“Looking into the Distance” South Florida Poetry Journal, 2016<br>
“Bewildered” Plum Tree Tavern, April, 2016<br>
“To Know and Yet Not” and “Instant of Impact” dead snakes, April 2016<br>
“Spring Survey” Front Porch Review, July, 2016<br>
“The Root Cellar” Poppy Road Review, May, 2016<br>
“A Stone’s Throw” and “East River Ferry” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2016<br>
“The Safe Distance of a Window” Poetry Quarterly, Summer, 2016<br>
“Glancing Out the Window” One Sentence, Summer 2016<br>
“No Place Special” Plum Tree Tavern, Summer, 2016<br>
“air, faintly” haiku in haikuniverse, July 2016<br>
“Looking the Other Way” Lines +Stars, Summer, 2016<br>
“Song” Algebra of Owls, (UK) 2016<br>
“Looking into the Distance” Avocet, Fall 2016<br>
“Carousing” Plum Tavern Review, October 2016<br>
“(In) visible,” Algebra of Owls, (UK) 2016<br>
“Everyday” Front Porch Review, 2016<br>
“More Than I Know,” “Just So You Know You’re There,” and “This Little Thing” in Eunoia Review, November 2016<br>
“Someone or Another” Black Poppy Review, December 2016<br>
Creative Nonfiction (lyric, memoir, topic)<br>
“e-Motion” Otoliths, February, 2016<br>
“Have a Stick on Me” Punchnel’s, 2016<br>
“The Truth be Told” Eunoia Review, April, 2016<br>
“Seeds” Poppy Road Review, February, 2016<br>
“Vigil” Inkstain Press, April 2016<br>
“Alphabet” Los Angeles Review of Books, Summer, 2016<br>
“Open Suitcase” Eunoia Review, July, 2016<br>
“Garlic Redux” Eunoia Review, September, 2016<br>
“One Potato, Two Potato: The Scarlet Leaf Review” Canada, October 2016<br>
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<b>Anthologies:</b><br>
“This Thirst” Secrets & Dreams Anthology, Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2016<br>
“Collage” Le Mot Juste, 2016.<br>
“Kindness,”a finalist in Origami Poems Project poetry contest, and included in Best of Kindness, 2016<br>
“Sea Nettle” Tranquility Anthology, Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2016<br>
“Look there”cinquain Birdsong Anthology, Foothills Press, 2016<br>
“Witness & Fast Food” Fast Food Anthology, Main Street Rag, forthcoming in 2017<br>
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<b>Fiction</b><br>
“Were We Sad in the Beginning?” Black Elephant, 2016<br>
“Trail Mix,” Postcard Shorts, July 2016<br>
“Whether or Not” Inside the Bell Jar, (UK) Fall 2016<br>
“Passing Lane” 100 Word Story, February 2017<br>
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Fourth Full-length Poetry Collection This Thirst accepted by Aldrich Press.<br>
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<b>Publications in 2015:</b><br>
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<b>Poems:</b><br>
“Why We Didn’t Have More Time Together” and “Resistance” Poetry Pacific, May 2015<br>
“And, or it is &, then” Right Hand Pointing, March 2015<br>
“(It Doesn’t Matter What Happened)” H_NGM_N, April 2015<br>
“Hard to Forget . . .” Eunoia Review, April 2015<br>
“What Words Would Do?” and “Not Spring But Nearly Spring,” The Corvus Review, March 2015<br>
“Before Darkness Comes” Silver Birch Press, Where I Live, Poetry and Photography Series, February 2015<br>
“Gray Sea, Gray Ship, Floating” Clementine Poetry Journal, April 2015.<br>
“Let This Be Enough” Tar River Poetry, Fall 2015<br>
“Delta” Elohi Gadugi Journal, March 2015<br>
“What Held Her Back? ” (prose poem) Postcard Poems & Prose Linen Magazine, March 2015<br>
“Forethought” Festival Writer, April 2015<br>
“Witness & Fast Foods” and “Where I Stand” (haibun) In-Flight Literary Magazine, April 2015.<br>
“Promise of Spring” and “Dark Wind” River Poets Journal, April 2015<br>
“We Stopped at Onondaga Lake before Coming Home,” Eunoia Review, July 2015<br>
“Wishful Thinking,” “Sundial,” “Wheel of Fortune,” and “Last Day of Lent” Miller’s Pond, April 2015<br>
“The Berries and the Tree,” “Short Circuit to Spring” (1st place, contest winner), and ”Waiting for Commencement” The Literary Nest, April, 2015<br>
“Standing on Top of a Skyscraper . . .” and “So It Comes to This” Poppy Road Review, April 2015<br>
“On The Day I Was Born” Allegro Poetry Magazine (UK) May 2015<br>
“With(out)” and “Last Intention” When Women Waken, Being Anthology, Fall, 2015<br>
“Anther Spring’s Twilight” When Women Waken, Wildlife Anthology, Summer, 2015.<br>
“What You left Behind” and “So Many Layers of Gray” dead snakes, May 2015.<br>
“Origami” and “Dark Wind” Poetry Northern Ireland, February 2016.<br>
Haiku “scent of wool. . .” Akitus Quarterly, Fall 2015<br>
“Morning’s Litany” Jellyfish Whispers, July 2015<br>
“I Am Happy To Be Standing Here” Front Porch Review, July 2015<br>
“Capsized” Front Porch Review, October 2015<br>
Haiku “blank note page” cattails, Fall 2015<br>
“Cornerstone Café” Poetry Quarterly, August 2015<br>
“Rain” Plum Tree Tavern July 2015<br>
“For A Split Second” Clementine Poetry Journal, October 2015.<br>
“Finches” cinquain, “ Stones” cinquain and “ Ragged sleep” englyn,
Plum Tree Tavern, August 2015<br>
“Par Avion” Plum Tree Tavern, September 2015<br>
“The Watercolorist’s Reflection” Avocet, October, 2015<br>
“Another Selfie” Eunoia Review, November 2015<br>
“Nothing Can Be Done” Bouganvillea Road Review, September, 2015<br>
“Nothing Ever Dies” Grey Sparrow Press, October, 2015<br>
“End of Summer” in Plum Tavern Review, October, 2015<br><br>
“Not Nearly Near Enough to Save”and “How Much Did Brahms Know About Pulling Strings?”
in Fredericksburg Literary Review, November 2015.<br>
“Seeing Mountains” Re/Verse, November 2015.<br>
“Capsided” Plum Tavern Review, November, 2015.<br>
“The Uncertainty of Winter” Plum Tavern Review December, 2015.<br>
“Moonlight’s silent film” haiku on haikuniverse December 2015.<br>
“Gracenotes” Blue Heron Review Summer (July) 2016.“Strange Looks” Pound of Flash, December 2015.<br>
“It Hardly Seems Worth It” Postcard Poems & Prose, 2016<br>
“Reprieve” Eunoia Review, March, 2016<br>
“Without Force” and “Just the Same” The Notebook, 2016<br>
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<b>Fiction:</b><br>
“Secondhand” 100 Word Story, 2015<br>
“Thin Walls” Back Poppy Review, January 2015<br>
“A Headache Killed Her” Black Poppy Review, March 2015<br>
“January Morning” Nanoism April 2015.<br>
“The Weight of the World,” Black Poppy Review, April 2015<br>
“Defining Even” Microstory A Week, November 2015<br>
“Fog” Black Poppy Review, June 2015<br>
“What She Wouldn’t Dream Of” and “A Kiss Good Bye” THAT Literary Review, March 2016<br>
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<b>CNF essays:</b><br>
“Deliverance” Eunoia Review, May 2015<br>
“13 Beans” Turtle Island Quarterly, 2015.<br>
“Acceptance or Rejection?” Eunoia Review, August 2015<br>
“Blueberries” Eunoia Review, October 2015<br>
“It Happened Again” Eunoia Review, December 2015.<br>
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<b>Anthologies:</b><br>
“Well Hidden” The Poetry Box: Poeming Pigeons Anthology, April 2015<br>
“Kill Time”Le Mot Juste, 2015<br>
“The Way Home” and “Lift Bridge” Four Seasons Anthology, August 2015 <br>
“Between Worlds” Memoirs of the Feminine Divine: Voices of Power and Invisibility, 2016<br>
“Apple or Orange” The Poetry Box: Food themed issue: Poeming Pigeons Anthology, 2015<br>
“The Gift” Spectrum 2: The Gift anthology, December 2015<br>
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<b>Micro Chapbook:</b><br>
Small Gestures Origami Poems Project, January 2015<br>
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3rd Full Length Poetry Collection:
Small Worlds Floating accepted by Cherry Grove Editions, with release date of August, 2016<br>
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<b> Publications in 2014</b><br>
“The Company I Keep” and “A Winning Hand” The Lake (UK) 1/2014<br>
“Millennium to Millennium” The Monterey Poetry Review March 2014.<br>
“On A Log” Writers Rising Up 2014 Calendar, Published 1/2014.<br>
“Snowmelt” reprint in Avocet Weekly, January,2014.<br>
“Off the Sill” Phantom Kangaroo, January 2014.<br>
“Early Winter Sermon” Poetry Pacific, November 2014.<br>
“Seeing Mountains” and “ in kitchen’s warmth” Blue Heron, 2014<br>
“Gravity” Le Mot Juste, 2014<br>
“Good Will” Freshwater 2014<br>
“Good Will” reprint in Eunoia Review 2014<br>
“Frayed Dreams” The Kentucky Review, 2014<br>
“Ontario Chronicle, 1970,” “Deep Cold of Winter” “Parable of the Cricket”<br>
and “Proverb” The Poetry Storehouse, April 2014.<br>
“Trees in January” Postcard Poems and Prose, April 2014.<br>
“Still Dreaming” Canto, March, 2014.<br>
“Mixed Blessing” Poetry Quarterly, 2014.<br>
“Still Life” One Sentence Poems, March, 2014.<br>
“And We’ll Get There” and “Transparencies” Front Porch Review, 2014<br>
Englyn form Three line Poetry, 2014.<br>
“And So On” and “Who Knows the Answer” Poppy Road Review, March 2014.<br>
“990,000 Decisions in a Steeley Pause” Right Hand Pointing, Issue 75, 2014.<br>
Haiku (2) Haiku 50, 2014.<br>
“Not Yet,” First Literary Review East, March 2014.<br>
“Weathering” and “Tonight We Suspend Our Disbelief” Tar River Poetry, April 2014.<br>
“One Star” River Poets Journal, April, 2014.<br>
“Dear _________” and “A Brief Spell” The Lake (UK) 5/2014<br>
“Well Hidden” Re/Verse 4/21/2014<br>
“Some Things Left Largely Ignored” and “Mid-Sentence” Full of Crow, 4/2014<br>
At Arm’s Length” Pyrokinection 5/9/2014<br>
“Hereafter” Jellyfish Whispers 5/3/2014<br>
“Millennium to Millennium” and “And So On” Oddball Magazine, 5/2014<br>
“The Geography of Sound” Flint Hills Review, Fall, 2014<br>
“The Gravity of Rain” and “Struck by This Heat” Avocet, Summer 2014 (print)<br>
“past midnight’s hour” and “baffling silence” (haiku) Poetry Haiku (UK) Summer 2014.<br>
“Bird, Fish” Canto, July 2014<br>
“Small Gestures” Kind of a Hurricane: Jellyfish Whispers, 8/2014<br>
“Revelation, Maybe” Kind of a Hurricane: Pyrokinection, 8/2014<br>
“Our Fortune Found in Ashes” Grey Borders, 9/2014.<br>
“The Way This Happens” (prose poem) Postcard Poems & Prose, 10/2014<br>
“ This Thirst” and “Memory of Captivity” Flutter Journal, October and December 2014.<br>
“Before Darkness Comes” Poppy Road Review, October, 2014<br>
“Still Life” One Sentence Poems, October 2014<br>
“Seeing Mountains” Avocet, (reprint) December 2014.<br>
“Sailing Off in a Paper Boat,” “Sunrise. . . “ and “Snowdrops” Ealain, December 2014<br>
“This Family Called Apple” Re/Verse (reprint) December, 2014.<br>
Belongings” Digging to the Roots Poetry Anthology Calendar, 2015<br>
“Forethought” and “Salvation” Poppy Road Review, December, 2014<br>
“Boy with Bird, 1964” and “Just This” Blue Heron Review, February 2015 and July 2015<br>
Reviews: Karla Linn Merrifield’s Lithic Scatter, in Avocet Weekly (January) and Avocet, Fall 2014.<br>
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<b>Anthologies:</b><br>
“Once Again” and “Before Seeing My Mother . . .” Mother is a Verb, Red Paint Hill, 2014.<br>
“Bereft” The Notebook: A Progressive Journal for Women and Girls with Rural and Small Town Roots, 2014.<br>
“Household,“ “Temptation in Standard Time,” and “ Concurrence” were selected to be part of the 2013 Best of Anthology, Storm Cycle. Kind of A Hurricane, 2014.<br>
“Millennium to Millennium” and “Seeing Mountains” Voices Israel Anthology, 2014.<br>
“A Winning Hand” Lummox 3, Fall 2014.<br>
“On a Summer Evening . . . “ accepted in Snow Jewel Anthology(Grey Sparrow Press), December2014.
:Clotheslines” Brief Encounters (Norton), 2015<br>
“Deep Cold of Winter” Mother Nature’s Trail Anthology to benefit Wolf Creek Habitat, 2014<br>
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<b>Lyric Essays:</b><br>
“Chocolate Box” Canto, March 2014.<br>
“Clotheslines” Eunoia Review, August 2014.<br>
“Surrender” Tiny-lIghts: Flash-in-the-Pan, June 2014.<br>
“Worn Shoes” Turtle Island Quarterly, June 2014<br>
“Season of Ceremony” Wild Quarterly, June 2014<br>
“Pin-points” Andrea Reads America, August, 2014<br>
“Summer at Arm’s Length” Eunoia Review, October, 2014.<br>
“Thrift” Camroc Press Review, forthcoming in 2015.<br>
“Summer Thunderstorms” Poppy Road Review, September, 2014<br>
“Blind Date, 1970” Punchnel’s, 2014.<br>
“Open Suitcase” Wild: A Quarterly, October, 2014<br>
“Neither, Nor” Eunoia Review, February 2015.<br>
“Think of An Egg” Sugared Water, forthcoming 2015.<br>
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<b>Fiction:</b> <br>
“Grand Ville d”Idle” Grey Sparrow Journal, Summer 2014 (Web and Print).<br>
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<b>Micro Chapbook </b><br>
Small Gestures Origami Poems Project, forthcoming in 2015<br>
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<b>Publications in 2013</b><br>
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<b>Poems published:</b> “Perennial” Blueline, “Studying the Sky” Heron Tree, “Early Departure” and “Howden Pond” Curio Poetry, Chapbook:“ Intermezzo,” “Waking Early,” “Salvation” and the Air’s Empty” Karla Linn Merrifield & Friends (mgv2> publishing, June 1913) “Empty Spaces,” Le Mot Juste, “Traveling Alone,” and “Pumpernickel”Re/Verse, “ Himself is Home” The Germ, “Watching Silence Briefly” and “Hemlock Lake” Avocet, “ At Day’s End” and “Meanwhile” Eunoia Review, “Delta” Brevity Poetry Review,”Prelude” Pyrokinection, 6 haiku in Kind of a Hurricane” High Coupe,”Serenade” and Beyond All This” “Listen, Carefully” Poppy Road Review, “”Snowmelt” and “Mud” Poetry Pacific, “Well Hidden” and “Beneath the Black Willow” “Small Worlds Floating” Weekly Avocet, “Nevertheless” and “Concurrence” Jellyfish Whispers, 2 Haiku Poetry Haiku (UK), “Spellbound” Big River Review, 1 haiku Haiku Journal, “Rainier” Rose Red Review “When There’s Nothing Left to Say,” “Feeding a Fire,” “Temptation in Standard Time,” and” Household” Napalm & Novacain; “Hit & Run” (prose poem), “Weathercast” Poppy Road Review, “Over Time” Poetry Quarterly, “Aftermath” (prose poem) Turtle Island Quarterly, “Mistaken Dream” and “Truth & Consequence” “What I Want” (a found poem) Right Hand Pointing, “Going Home” and “Portrait in Black & White” Muddy River Poetry Review, “Dry Summer” and“ Finches” (cinquain) Cyclamens and Swords, 1 Haiku Three Line Poetry, “Off-Kilter” (prose poem),” On a Summer Evening,” “Hard to Forget,” Flutter Poetry Journal, “Not Yet” First literary Review, 2 Haiku and “The Night’s Discrepancy” Northern Cardinal Review, Essay: “In Concert” Canto Magazine,“Tell the Truth, Do You Lie” Eunoia Review. Fiction: “Free Advice” Flash Fiction World Contest (UK) “Reading, Closely” Kind of a Hurricane: Pound of Flash, Anthologies: “Neutralities” The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home, edited by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart and Pamela Mittlefehldt (Holy Cow Press, 2013) “A Time Comes When You No Longer Think It” Ekphrastia Gone Wild, Rick Lempert, Editor, August 2013,“Taking Off” (flash fiction) Lummox, “Genesis” (poem) Beach & Sand Anthology: Kind of a Hurricane, “Woman Bathing” and “Paddling at Dusk” Ekphrastic poetry In Gilded Frame Anthology: Kind of a Hurricane. Micro-Chapbook: How Deeply They Delve, Origami Poem Project (May 2013).<br>
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<b>Between Worlds</b>, a chapbook of prose, Foothills Publishing, April 2013.<br>
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<b>In 2012, poems published:</b> “A Clearing” and “Not Sleeping” The Centrifugal Eye, “Pumpernickel” Tar River Poetry, “This Heat” Blueline, “Commitment” and “Humoring Warhol” Golden Sparrow Literary Review,”Dead Pine’ and “Traveling Through Flesh” Crack the Spine,”Wild flowers” Live and Let Live, and “January” Imagination and Place, Anthology on Weather.” Wondering,” “Friendship” and “Blink” The Applicant. “A Stroke of Luck” A Baker’s Dozen, “Trusting the Pull of the Full Moon” Granny Smith Magazine. “Green Ghetto” and “Relativity” Ann Arbor Review,”Spic n’ Span” Scissors & Spackle, “Summit” Indian River Review,”Hit & Run” Medulla Times, “Motion Picture” Agenda (UK), “Counting by Twos” Motherhood Anthology, “Fog rolled in” Adanna Literary Review,”The Hour of When” Avocet, “Seeing my Mother” Yes, Poetry, “One Star’s Light” Brevity Poetry Review,”One Way” Prose Poem Project, “The Clearing” Red Poppy Review; Essay: “No Dominion” Great Lake Book Project.<br>
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<b>Between Worlds</b>, Finalist in Split Oak Press prose chapbook contest (Summer 2011); accepted for publication, Foothills Publishing, April 2013.<br>
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<b>Poem “Simply” accepted in Poets Walk</b>, Rochester, NY. First Installation complete Fall 2012. Lines of selected poems are engraved in stone on Poets Walk, along with audio recordings of poems, which may be able accessed through cell phones while walking on Poets Walk. <br>
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<b>Served my term (2007-2012) as poetry adviser</b> for the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), Successfully raised awareness and changed the awards demographic to represent all of New York State.<br>
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In May 2012, my prose chapbook Between Worlds, which was a finalist in the Split Oak Press Chapbook Competition ,Summer 2011, has been accepted for publication by Foothills Publishing. It will be released in October 2012.<br>
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<b>In 2011, A total of 40 publications: poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction essays appeared in the following print and online reviews:</b>
Apple Valley Review (poem:”Barn Swallows, Returning”), Aroostook Review (short story: “The Catch”) , Avocet (poems:”Transformation,” Apricot Tree,” Rhythms” and “Bereft”) , Blueline (poem: “Nature of Change”), Cave Region Review (prose poem:“Such As It Is In Autumn”), Cherry Blossom Review (poem:”Two Worlds”), Crack the Spine (poems: “Dead Pine” and “Traveling Through Flesh”), Curio Poetry (poems: “Thoughts keep her Adrift,” “History” and “ ”A Beautiful Arrogance”),Golden Sparrow Literary Review ( prose poem “Commitment”; poem: Humoring Warhol”) , Greatest Lakes Review (poem: “This Forgotten Hour”) , Grey Sparrow Review (short story: “Honeymoon Jar”) , Imagination and Place, An Anthology on Weather (poems: “Wild, Flowers,” Live and Let Live, “ and “January”) Indigo Rising( 3rd Place: Pantoum Contest: “Beneath the Black Willow”), L.E.S. Review (poems: “Denouement” and “No Promises”), The Meadowland Review (poem: Waking All the Same”), The Montucky Review ( poem: “A Time Comes When You No longer Thin It.”) Numinous Magazine (poem: “Spectrum”), Oak Bend Review (CNF essay: A Game Called Gorilla”), Off the Coast ( poetry review), Poetry East (poem:” Swept Away to Gone”) Postcard Shorts ( fiction: Dinner, Rescued), Prose Poem Project (prose poems: “Nearly, Invisible” and “Turtle Shell”), Red Poppy Review (poem: “Crucible”),Split This Rock (poem: Groundwork”), Tar River Poetry (poem: “Pumpernickel”), Twenty/20 Journal (poems “Meetings” and “Origami Heart” nominated for Best of Net) and Untitled Country Review (poems: “The Bees” and “Departure”). <br>
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<b>Prior to 2011:</b><br>
Recent poems accepted for publication in the upcoming anthologies:<br>
From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright, edited by Bruce Hendricksen and Robert Johnson, Lost Hills Books (2007)<br>
Eating the Pure Light, Poems honoring Thomas McGrath, edited by John Bradley, Marsh Hawk Press (2009)<br>
The Poets Guide to The Birds, edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser, Anhinga Press (2009)<br>
Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, edited by Holly Hughes, Kent State UP (2009)<br>
Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, edited by Ellen Foos, Vasiliki Katsarou and Ruth O'Toole, Ragged Sky Press, June 2009.<br>
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<b>Poems:</b><br>
“Looking Back,” “Blue Notes,” “Small Child Holding A Balloon” and “Early Morning”
Gray Sparrow Press Spring 2010<br>
“Something brief, but bright” Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems Fall 2010<br>
“Rowing Toward Light” Tar River Poetry, Fall 2010<br>
“Strawberry Samaritans” and “Interlude” Victorian Violet Press Spring 2010<br>
“Past Due” The Centrifugal Eye Spring 2010<br>
“(in) sight” The Raleigh Review Spring 2010<br>
“Uncovering the Well” and “Weight of Spring” Blueline Spring 2010<br>
“Traveling Alone . . .” The Bryant Literary Review Spring 2010<br>
“(in) sight” Brevities Fall 2009<br>
“Coming is Coming” and “Starting from Scratch” Off the Coast Summer 2009<br>
“Blind (Wo)man’s Bluff” Oak Bend Review Summer 2009<br>
“Small Worlds Floating: Bird’s Eye reView (Forthcoming)<br>
“Evidence of Movement” 2 haiku/senryu and 2 cinquain Sketchbook, Summer 2009<br>
“Snow Globe” Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, Fall 2009<br>
“Snowman” Iconoclast, Fall 2009<br>
“Portrait of a Lighthouse and Irises”The Centrifugal Eye Summer 2009<br>
“What’s She’s Waiting For” The Centrifugal Eye Summer 2009<br>
“A Ghazal called Desire” The Ghazal Page July, 2009<br>
“How the Clouds Don’t Look” Brevities (Spring 2009)<br>
“It Seems So” Le Mot Juste (Spring 2009).<br>
“Lady bugs live among us” Blueline (Spring 2009).<br>
“The Way I Remember It” Pearl, (Fall 2009).<br>
“Night Notes” Tar River Poetry (Spring 2009).<br>
“The Orchard” miller’s pond (forthcoming).<br>
The Sanctuary,” The Snapping Turtle,” and “ The Weather of Transformation” Bird’s Eye reView, Winter 2009.<br>
1 haiku in Acorn, Winter 2009.<br>
2 cinquain in Amaze: Journal of Cinquain, Winter 2009.<br>
“Eternal Thought,” Late Arrtivals,” “(Over) heard,” and “When the Time is Right” Poetry Midwest, Issue 22, Fall 2008.<br>
“Everyday” “(In) sight” and “Free range chickens” The Public Republic, Fall 2008.<br>
“End of Autumn” and “The View” Cyclamens & Swords, Fall 2008<br>
“Double Dare” Off the Coast, Fall 2008.<br>
2 haiku in Riverbed, Fall 2008.<br>
“Whale Dream” and “The Contest” Sea Stories, Fall 2008.<br>
“As It Is” Apple Valley Review, Fall, 2008.<br>
“Full Moon” and “Touch n’ Go” The Centrifugal Eye, Summer 2008.<br>
“First Day of April” The Hobble Creek Review, Issue 3, Vol. 2, Summer 2008.<br>
“Ode to Crow” and Triolet to the Adage As a Crow Flies” Blueline, Spring 2008.<br>
“A Matter of Getting There” Santa Fe Literary Review, Spring 2008.<br>
“ October Light” Into the Teeth of the Wind Summer, 2008<br>
“Peonies” Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Summer, 2008.<br>
“Groundwork” Le Mot Juste, Spring 2008.<br>
“Winter’s Lament” Visions International, Spring 2008. 76.<br>
“Sign,” “Back Yard Feeder,” and “The Dance” The Puckerbrush Review, Winter/Spring, 2008.<br>
“Beneath the Black Willow” and “The cornfield unpicked past ruin,” Iconoclast, Spring, 2008.<br>
“An Offering” The Wild Goose Review, Winter, 2008.<br>
“Winter’s Conceit,” “Among the Missing,” and “Evidence” The Centrifugal Eye, Winter, 2008.<br>
“Awakened, hour before dawn” The Hurricane Review, Fall 2007.<br>
“ The Present” The Comstock Review, 21.2 Awards 2007-2008.<br>
“Hypnotic” and” Awakened hour before dawn “The Centrifugal Eye, Summer, 2007.<br>
“Airport” White Chimney (UK) Issue Two, Summer, 2007. <br>
“(Over) Look” and The Distraction of Spring” Blueline Spring 2007.<br>
“ Hyacinths” The Potomac Review, Spring, 2007. <br>
“Divertimento” and “Work” The Puckerbrush Review Winter Spring, 2007.<br>
“Oriental Bells and the Light of Mute Swan’s Wings” The Café Review, Spring, 2007.<br>
“Thunder cloud” Le Mot Juste, Spring 2007.<br>
“Nature” Tar River Poetry. Spring, 2007.<br>
“The Log Stranded on the Beach Became Our Bench” Pebble Lake Review, Fall/Winter 2006.<br>
“Encore” Hymns to the Outrageous: American Poetry Sampler, Pudding House Publication, (forthcoming).<br>
“Last Day of August” Canter Collected (forthcoming)<br>
“Blessings” Urgent Care Anthology, Pudding House Publication, Winter, 2004<br>
“The Daydream” Blueline Spring, 2004.<br>
“Barter” The Puckerbrush Review Spring, 2004,<br>
“In the Warm Yellow Kitchen . . . ”T<br>he Paterson Literary Review, Spring ,2004.<br>
“Gone” and “The Usual” Blueline, Spring, 2003.<br>
“Encore” Iconoclast, Fall, 2002.<br>
“Fish” miller’s pond, Spring, 2003.<br>
“End of Summer” and “February” The Old Red Kimono, Spring, 2003.<br>
“Sliver” The Paterson Literary Review, Summer, 2003.<br>
“Gap” Pearl, Summer,2004.<br>
“Not Exactly” Paper Street Fall, 2004.<br>
“Pond” Rosebud, Spring, 2004.<br>
“Mourning refuse relief” The Hurricane Review, Fall, 2003.<br>
“Hour of Hunger” Into the Teeth of the Wind, Fall, 2003.<br>
“Button,” “Distance,” and “Delivery” The Coffee House, Charnwood Arts,Loughborough Library, Loughborough,Leicestershire, England, Fall, 2003.<br>
“Two Canoes” 5 A.M.,Issue 16, Spring, 2002.<br>
“Star(e) Blueline Volume XXIII (2002) 152. <br>
“Not Far Off the Path” and “Close at Hand.” Buckle, Fall, 2002.<br>
“Single Steps” Into the Teeth of the Wind, Spring ,2001.<br>
“You Can’t Fix This.” Eclipse, Spring, 2001.<br>
“After.” HazMat Review, Volume 4, Issue 2. Fall, 2000, 16.<br>
“Crossing Borders.” The Comstock Review. Awards 2000. Vol. 14, #2. (Finalist) 70.<br>
“Swimming in the Dark” and “Christening” Blueline Volume XX11 (2001) 45-46.<br>
“Niagara” and “View from a Hilltop.” Buckle, Volume 6 Spring/Summer 2001. 10-11. <br>
“Red Peppers.” Tar River Poetry, Volume 40, Number 1 Fall, 2000. 6.<br>
“Cold Cuts.” Tar River Poetry, Volume 39, Number 2 Spring, 2000. 5 .<br>
“In the end the voice of an adult speaks” and “Found” The Coffee House, Charnwood Arts, Loughborough Library, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, Summer 2001.<br>
“Corn, dark green . . .” and “Awake.” Words of Wisdom: Poet’s Theatre 20th Anniversary Anthology. Beatrice O’Brien, Ed. Fall, 2000. 41.<br>
“Shortsighted.” VIAS, Visions-International, Number 64, Fall, 2000.<br>
“Hunger is linen white.” The Comstock Review Fall, 2000.<br>
“Beyond Winter.” Lake Affect Volume XIV (1999) 35.<br>
“Early Morning.” Yankee May, 2000. 98.<br>
“Imagine your village,” “Awake,” “Anything but empty,” and “Face to face.” Blueline Volume XX, (1999) 121-124.<br>
“Great Horned Owl ” and “Snowlines.” Blueline Volume XXI (2000) 166-67.<br>
“Dash and Dare.” Jigsaw Spring, 2000. 23.<br>
“Bleach” and “Baby Boomer” Buckle & #4 (2000) 40.<br>
<br>
<b>Fiction:</b><br>
“The Interview” Six Sentences March 2010 (print edition)<br>
“Night Depository” Six Sentences February 2010<br>
“No Such Luck” The Northville Review March , 2009<br>
“The Check Out” The Northville Review January, 2009.<br>
“Taking Off” Lark Fall, 2008<br>
“ What Happened to Newton?” Gigglewater Review Summer, 2005.<br>
“Defining Even” Quarter After Eight, Vol 11/12 .Spring, 2005.<br>
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<b>Nonfiction:</b><br>
“Between Worlds” Gulf Coast, Summer-Fall 2008<br>
“Surely” Tiny Lights, Fall 2008.<br>
“Mother’s Dream.” Writers on Art Project. University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery,
Rochester, New York. November, 2002.<br>
“Remains.” Chelsea 67 (1999) 175.<br>
“Do You Remember Paris?” Jigsaw (Spring 2000) 43-44.<br>
“The Weather of Distance.” In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, Editors. New York: Norton, 1999.<br>
“Daylight Savings Time” Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, edited
by Judith Kitchen. New York: Norton, 2005.<br>
<br>
<b>Reviews & Articles:</b>
“Making Connections” Rebecca McClanahan. Deep Light, New and Selected Poems, 1987-2007.<br>
Tar River Poetry, Fall, 2007.<br>
<br>
<b>Plays:</b>
This Heat was one of ten minute play winners in GEVA Theatre’s Regional Playwright competition, 1998. Lost Track of Time 2Pages/2 Voices winner of GEVA/Writers and Books Short Play Competition, January 2011.<br>
<br>
<b>Chapbooks:</b><br>
<br>
<b>Sometimes Simply</b>, Foreseeable Future Press, 1996;<br>
Temptations, Foothills Publishing, 2001; and<b> M.J.Iuppa Greatest Hits</b>, 1986-2001, included in Poets’ Greatest Hits Project, Pudding House Publication, 2002.<br>
<b>As the Crow Flies</b>, a chapbook from Foothills Publishing, 2008.<br>
<b>Between Worlds</b>, a prose chapbook from Fotthills Publishing, 2013.<br>
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<b>Full-Length Poetry Collections:</b>
<b>Night Traveler</b>, Foothills Publishing, October, 2003.<br>
<b>Within Reach</b>, Cherry Grove Collections, March, 2010.<br>
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<br>
<b>Since 1985 more than 600 poems have appeared in national, university and small press publications, such as Yankee, Poetry,Press, New Letters, and more.<br>
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Pushcart nominations: 1997, 2001 and 2002.<br>
Best of the Web nomination: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013</b><br>
<br>
<b>COURSES TAUGHT:</b>
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<br>
<b>St. John Fisher College</b>
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The Essay 251, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Fall 2003,Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007, Fall 2010, Fall 2015, Fall 2016,Spring 2017, Srping 2018,
Creative Writing 253, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015,Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Creative Writing: Poetry 372, Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2010, Fall 2016
The Essay 258, Fall 2008.
Open Book: Read to Write249, Fall 2017, Fall 2019
Playwriting, 374 Fall 2018
Seeing Metaphor 275, Spring 2020
Creative Writing: Fiction 371, Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014
World Literature 248 Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013
Senior Writing Seminar 425, Spring 1999,Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007.
Career Seminar 411, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.
Post-Colonial Literature 238, Spring 2004, Spring 2005
Encounter with the Arts 102, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2914, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Film and Society, Arts 109, Summer, 2009, Spring 2010, Summer 20010, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 20, Spring 2016,Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020
Women’s Autobiography and Memoir 370, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2007, Fall 2009
Honors Projects: 2001-2002; 2003, 2008 Independent Study Projects (Falll and Spring): 2000-2001; 2001-2002; 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,2019, 2020<br>
<br>
<b>SUNY Brockport</b><br>
International Fiction 165 Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Fall 2005,Spring 2009,World Literature 223 Spring 2010; Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020; Literature and Culture 166, Spring 2004, Creative Writing 210 Spring 2003 and Fall 2003, Fall 2006: Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013,Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017; Fal2107, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020 Intermediate Poetry 302-21 Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Intermediate Poetry: 305, Spring 2010, 2012, Spring 2020 Intermediate Fiction 301, Spring 2007, Fall 2007; Directed Study: Fiction Fall 2009; Director of Honors Thesis, Spring 2010; Directed Study :Poetry, Fall 2012. ENG 492.01 Advanced Poetry, Spring 2017<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:</b><br>
<br>
<b>Curator </b>of The Genesee Reading Series, Writers & Books, Rochester, New York, 1990-2006.<br>
<b>Faculty Adviser </b>The Angle, St. John Fisher’s Literary Magazine, 1997 to 2013.<br>
<b>Faculty Adviser</b>, The Art Club, 2004 to 2015.<br>
<b>Faculty Adviser</b>, Swingbirds, Jazz Band, Fall2013 to present.<br>
<b>Faculty Adviser,</b> Measure 13, 2014-present.<br>
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<b>Coordinator for the Visiting Writer at St. John Fisher</b>, Spring 2001, poet Cornelius Eady and Spring 2002, poet Marie Howe; publicity for the following: poet Michael Collier Spring 2003; poet Robert Morgan Spring 2004 poet Jim Longenbach Spring 2006, poet Richard Wakefield Fall 2007; fiction writer Anne Panning Spring 2008 and poet Sarah Freligh Fall 2008; fiction writer Megan Abbott Spring 2009 and poet Robert Hass Fall 2009; creative nonfiction writer Sonja Livingston Spring 2010, writer Jennifer deWinter Spring 2011, poet B.K. Fischer Fall 2011, Gray Jacobik, Spring 2013, and Kate Racculia, Fall 2013, Morgan Parker Fall 2015, Sonja Livingston Spring 2016, Stephen J. West, Spring 2016, Rachel Hall, Fall 2016.<br>
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<b>Coordinator of Arts Visiting Writers:</b> Mark Yakich, Fall 2009,Todd Davis, Fall 2010, E. Louise Beach, Spring 2011 Margaret Randall, Spring 2011, Michael Meyerhofer, Fall 2011; John Roche, Spring 2012, Thom Ward, Fall 2012, James Whorton, Fall 2012, Anne Panning, Fall 2012, Susan Deer Cloud, Fall 2013, Nate Pritts and Jennifer Fortin, Spring 2014, Albert Albonado, Fall 2015, Frank X Walker, Spring 2016, Fall Patrica Roth Schwartz, Fall 2016.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:</b><br>
<br>
Associated Writing Programs.<br>
Writers & Books.<br>
The Modern Poetry Association.<br>
Poets & Writers.<br>
New York College English Association.<br>
M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-88569293782773401962022-06-08T12:58:00.002-04:002022-06-08T12:58:25.749-04:00June 2022: 100 Days of Healing<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkCRA1MlfZBMio3GZJ9Z32cgapDOy3j_0I7_lzMAPqqJ3CP48azksTibi2uQu0W7t7552BEY6eW2KkdBuycG394YDZ7WJXP62CXlKZftlUnP0NGYq5x4TutKV3BrE7vFrg2FMMIWlT4UNXGQyzOEcDl5l9Vv9xvcO21jEy7-zYQFYOPAC9LEDy9Rg/s3756/Planting%20beets%202022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2684" data-original-width="3756" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkCRA1MlfZBMio3GZJ9Z32cgapDOy3j_0I7_lzMAPqqJ3CP48azksTibi2uQu0W7t7552BEY6eW2KkdBuycG394YDZ7WJXP62CXlKZftlUnP0NGYq5x4TutKV3BrE7vFrg2FMMIWlT4UNXGQyzOEcDl5l9Vv9xvcO21jEy7-zYQFYOPAC9LEDy9Rg/w640-h458/Planting%20beets%202022.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planting Garden (50x50) Summer 2022<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <span style="color: #04ff00;">Garden Update:</span> Thus far, I've planted sunburst and sweet 100s cherry tomatoes; Ancho peppers, Marigolds and Italian eggplants in complimentary growing; marigolds keep those pesky tiny beetles from eating the eggplant leaves to lace.Sweet bell peppers, red, orange, yellow, green; beets red, orange and candy cane; carrots: Little fingers and Sci-Fi blend, and yellow squash.</p><p>A lot more to plant, and I will move along at my daydreaming speed until the whole garden is complete. I have hopes that this year will be a perfect growing season.</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Writing update</b></span>: Since the end of the semester, I have been trying to settle myself into a routine of reading and writing and creating. Last night, I attended poet Michael Czarnecki's weekly poetry sessions. This session, Michael read a selection of his spontaneous poems and the opening of his lyrical memoir; then opened the reading to an open mic. The poets and friends who attend these weekly sessions are some of my favorite people. Their poetry is stunning: lyrical narratives that embrace, history, mythology, identity, travel, cultures . . . I get goosebumps listening to each and every one.</p><p>I am so grateful to this community.</p><p>Since end of May, I have been writing every day. Have a fistful of poems now, a few 100 word stories, too. I think beginning each day with the intent to accomplish: gardening, writing, drawing, walking, daydreaming will restore my soul that has been banged up in the last 100 days. </p><p><br /></p><p>Last night, Michael Czarnecki explained his 3-sided (pyramid) POV. One side is the natural world (inspiration); 2nd side is creating, and 3rd side is people. He feels that this approach has allowed him to be his true self. <br /></p><p> <span style="color: #ff00fe;">Down the Rabbit Hole: <span style="color: black;">I have been watching (binge watching) the following shows: 3rd season of Barry (HBO/MAX), and The Anatomy of a Scandal (Netflix). The Anatomy has been haunting me. It has trigger topics (rape, infidelity, fraternity, and so on). It has made me very thoughtful.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="color: black;">Currently reading<i> American Dirt </i>by Jeanine Cummins.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br /></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-31049473358979513722022-01-05T11:46:00.002-05:002022-01-05T11:46:37.301-05:00Happy New Year!<p> <br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Dwelling, Here” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Amethyst Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, January, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Captivity</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">” Front Porch Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, January, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Surviving the Fog” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Trouvaille Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, January, 2021 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Left Behind” <i>Bluepepper,</i> February, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Another Premonition” and “The Elements of Winter” <i>Red
Eft Review,</i> February, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I Have Things to Tell You,” “Every Word,” and “A
Growing Compulsion” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dreich
5, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">UK,
March, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Zoom Hour” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Global Poemic, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">March, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Lullaby,” “Casting” “Clear sky” (cinquain) <i>The
Bamboo Hut</i>, 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Surviving the Fog” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Pangolin Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, (reprint) April, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“This is Salvation” <i>Front Porch Review,</i> April
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Plans” <i>Autumn Sky Daily,</i> April 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Barely Morning” <i>Third Wednesday</i>, May 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Today’s Sympathy” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Here: a poetry journal</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">"Forgetting Everything in the Rush to Get
There" <i>The Rail,</i> May, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Walking in Fog” <i>The Trouvaille Review</i>, May,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Sinking into the Depths of Noon” <i>One Art Poetry</i>,
May 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon” <i>Red Eft Review</i>,
June 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Almost, Time” <i>Red Eft Review</i>, June, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Safekeeping” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Le Mot Juste </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Anthology, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“On the Brink of Tomorrow” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Amethyst Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, June 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Looking for the Future” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Fireflies’ Light</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, July, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Hauling Water” <i>The
Trouvaille Review</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">, August, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shadow and Bough” <i>Amethyst Review</i>, August,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“In Need of Company” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eunoia Review,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> September 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Expectations” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Amethyst Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, October, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“The Cold Insult of So Much
Rain” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Right Hand Pointing</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, October, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Passing By” The Trouvaille Review, October, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“True Enough” and “The Wind” <i>Red Eft Review</i>,
November-December 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“One Breath, One Wish,” “Gratitude,” and “Seeking
Shelter” <i>SOFTBLOW,</i> December, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Blue Circling to Yellow” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eunoia Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, January 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 cheritas (morning & darkness outside) </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the cherita</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> (UK), 2/2022 and 3/2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“A Little Space” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eunoia Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, April, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">1 cherita (the farmhouse
stands) </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the cherita</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> UK, 6/2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Fiction:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“White Noise” <i>Milk Candy Review,</i> Winter, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Up in Arms” and “Yew (You)” <i>Otoliths,</i> Winter,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Everyday Life” <i>PIF Magazine</i>, February, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“She Would Be Worried” <i>A Story in 100 Words,</i>
February, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Holding, Still” <i>The Dribble Drabble Review,</i> March,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Early Bird Special” <i>A Story in 100 Words</i>,
April, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Heart(break<i>) The Drabble</i>, April, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Headlines” <i>City. River. Tree</i>. 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Loose Thread”<i> Eunoia Review</i>, May, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Spending Time Alone” <i>A Story in 100 Words</i>,
June, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Double Take” <i>Eunoia Review,</i> August, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Everything Will Be Perfect” <i>A Story in 100 Words</i>,
September, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Cracks in
the Night Clouds” <i>Eunoia Review</i>, November, 2021</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Crazy”
<i>A Story in 100 Words</i>, November, 2021</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 225.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 225.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">CNF
Essays:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Another Dark Place” <i>Eunoia Review</i>, February,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“In a Silent Way” <i>Otoliths, </i>May,<i> </i>2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“This is What I Found” <i>Turtle Island Quarterly</i>,
August, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“When the Unexpected Fails You” <i>Otoliths, </i>August,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Seeking Transcendence” <i>Ovunque Siamo</i>, November,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 225.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Anthologies</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Nearly, Magnolia” “Masked” Anthology, Black Dog &
One-Eyed Press, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nova Scotia,
Canada, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Another Dark Place” <i>Tiny Seed Literary Journal
Anthology: Forest,</i> September 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“There and Not There” <i>Voices Israel Anthology</i>,
Israel, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I Saw You Crying in Church<i>” Around the World:
Landscapes and Cityscapes</i>, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweetycat
Press, November, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Books, chapbooks</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Weight of Air</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">,
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">full
length poetry collection.<b> </b>Kelsay Books, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Rock. Paper. Scissors</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">.,
chapbook of 24 100-word stories, Foothills Publishing, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Nominations & Awards</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Best Microfiction 2022 nomination from<i> Milk Candy
Review</i> for “White Noise” published in January, 2021</span></p>
M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-33916352799031061312021-11-07T10:17:00.007-05:002021-11-07T10:17:57.830-05:00November: Time to Fall Back!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-N9kk3bFw36AKdFvvzplG4DZzw80pOIvRIpprtjuiNLrBeeFWEYTwrr-LC-j108M7pd3UN95CkiWdl9eoBr9PZX51S1Z_i7zgUCs-8HoA8nChOTL9Ob1SI6rN5lLYc4VSWIpKnd0FVA/s2048/IMG-9548+charles+cat%2527s+cradle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-N9kk3bFw36AKdFvvzplG4DZzw80pOIvRIpprtjuiNLrBeeFWEYTwrr-LC-j108M7pd3UN95CkiWdl9eoBr9PZX51S1Z_i7zgUCs-8HoA8nChOTL9Ob1SI6rN5lLYc4VSWIpKnd0FVA/w300-h400/IMG-9548+charles+cat%2527s+cradle.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Photo by MR Tonery, 2020 <p></p><p>This is Charles.<br /></p><p> </p><p>These are the days of Cat's Cradle: Darkness will come earlier now. The air feels significantly cooler.Time to bank fires in the wood stove. Only 4 weeks left in the Fall Semester. Everything is starting to pick up and slow down at the same time. I feel caught in this Warp Speed. Held still in the commotion that circles me constantly. I am suspended in this hour that promises me a bit more time. To accomplish what eludes me daily. </p><p>I make lists in my head. Yesterday was a good day to check things off the list. I felt satisfied by early afternoon. Now to re-trigger my own creative writing and art making. The sun is shining today. Everything thing seems to be golden. I need to go for a hike. Get inspired by the nature that surrounds me. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-14848686459344437152021-10-30T08:57:00.005-04:002021-10-30T10:25:57.835-04:00Autumn in Western NY. Gold and Bronze. Time of Reflection.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsXv-hANY_CuCHJlMUT_EwzQ_L2r5EwN-5_s8xaTQRt0HoGA0_6cAyE6yEiVwD6zupHkSlAWv4FLUw9FR9RUobFalfZtiESLALNOj_gA0_b1e6dLWIo0IrxXtSx51E4rRAX3c8aI__Zg/s2048/Letchworth+gorge+view.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsXv-hANY_CuCHJlMUT_EwzQ_L2r5EwN-5_s8xaTQRt0HoGA0_6cAyE6yEiVwD6zupHkSlAWv4FLUw9FR9RUobFalfZtiESLALNOj_gA0_b1e6dLWIo0IrxXtSx51E4rRAX3c8aI__Zg/w400-h300/Letchworth+gorge+view.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /> Letchworth State Park: 10/28/2021. Photo by Meghan Rose Tonery</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This week (10/23-10/31)began with rain, teeming rain, day into night, into the next day; rain swelling the creeks to overflowing. The foliage this year is gold, bright yellow, and bronze, with dashes of red. It hasn't been cold enough for the leaves to be dazzling as in the past. However, the season is upon us. The harvest, nearly done. Storage cupboards and freezers full. We are grateful for this year's many gifts. I imagine, in winter, when the wind is howling over Lake Ontario and the snow is fall like arrows, we will be happy to have toast with a dollop of our Fair Weather Strawberry Jam. We will close our eyes and savor the taste of summer.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kRAEvduPcbLenMMVDdzJggQkBF646J2btIReFlAmH43n-WggQyEmvfOGMo1sjDAoHw2CUlJJfqJ9ZiCl-ykySwzR3K7CqR0ileFIpP1aPQ5gYQvDVkEjeiwYqRyQNiO-9eE1SccyKyQ/s2048/October+field+of+Sunflowers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kRAEvduPcbLenMMVDdzJggQkBF646J2btIReFlAmH43n-WggQyEmvfOGMo1sjDAoHw2CUlJJfqJ9ZiCl-ykySwzR3K7CqR0ileFIpP1aPQ5gYQvDVkEjeiwYqRyQNiO-9eE1SccyKyQ/w400-h300/October+field+of+Sunflowers.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> October's Field of Sunflowers, Route 19, entering Pavillon NY,</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Photo: Meghan Rose Tonery<br /></span></span></p><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This has been a season of looking over my shoulder, wanting to take stock in where I have been and where I am going, still going. I am at a point in my life where everything counts or is being counted, and I don't want to miss those moments of solitude, of taking an easy breath, of standing in a forest, or on a hillside, or in a field, with my arms loose at my sides, and think, <i>This is it. </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i> * * *</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1y3Cg27l_ShTM29CIT4IS9vT7LC-_bf-DeKWSkHTrN8KCHsGni6W9hYpCL1321wJ_eJFTAVDUt3yAcK5H98BMljbGC1olCfiD1jL6jZnfCgEDfRBwsqpG1QCX9bekBAR4n-jeHsPqkZ0/s2048/MJ+in+Chair.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1y3Cg27l_ShTM29CIT4IS9vT7LC-_bf-DeKWSkHTrN8KCHsGni6W9hYpCL1321wJ_eJFTAVDUt3yAcK5H98BMljbGC1olCfiD1jL6jZnfCgEDfRBwsqpG1QCX9bekBAR4n-jeHsPqkZ0/w480-h640/MJ+in+Chair.jpg" width="480" /></a></i></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><br /> And, the Big Chair was Just Right! </i>Photo: Meghan Rose Tonery<br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">With real effort and determination, channeling the seven-year-old inside of me, I climbed up this Big Chair on the grounds near Letchworth Dam. Sitting in this chair, I felt connected to all the others who have climbed up and sat here for a minute or two, or more. There was a warning sign: <i>Do not hang off the back of chair; do not hang off of the arms. </i>But, no warning not to sit here. <i><br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What a thrill to climb up gracefully into this perfect seat. <i>Queen for a minute. </i> Then, Meghan asked me how I was going to get down. I thought for a moment ( it was quite a drop to the ground) and decided to re-trace my steps. <i> Ta-da! Home free.<br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> * * *</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Good News came on October 19th, 2021. Foothills Publishing (Michael and Carolyn Czarnecki, publishers, editors, producers) accepted my 100-word story chapbook:<i> Rock. Paper. Scissors.</i>, which features twenty-four 100-word stories. I am so grateful to them, for believing in my work these many years. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhgdviPqgZGXSh7QUzo0bnumJAtHc3PDftosKzHBzCmz84NO8SrTYZb2fN-NrKaA_jSSSQNzJFNOpyxans9GTc5psavw89y9aPiUQDj_ScjAQivwPp43YgDSQb4vyrbcqUZU8K5RY6M4/s2048/Falls+Letchworth+102821.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhgdviPqgZGXSh7QUzo0bnumJAtHc3PDftosKzHBzCmz84NO8SrTYZb2fN-NrKaA_jSSSQNzJFNOpyxans9GTc5psavw89y9aPiUQDj_ScjAQivwPp43YgDSQb4vyrbcqUZU8K5RY6M4/w480-h640/Falls+Letchworth+102821.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Letchworth State Park. Photo by Meghan Rose Tonery<br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></p></div>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-44802399274491629922021-08-28T12:40:00.003-04:002021-08-28T12:40:45.827-04:00Last Days of August: Looking Back on Summer<p> <br /><b>Ontario Series, #1, July, 2021</b><br /></p>M.J. Iuppa<br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgE4jMFVdogrHinTH5JpKoGRwXH7E39k2MD2hsJxlZgLoAXvA3kDGBnjN-vXO1I6GEwxP3qPx-eU01KssIG1IeVrSaMN2HNNqWcREfJoJ4sIAToHoKLMFI8SS86PR02hlZccyVloGxjZ4/s2048/image_72192707.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1327" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgE4jMFVdogrHinTH5JpKoGRwXH7E39k2MD2hsJxlZgLoAXvA3kDGBnjN-vXO1I6GEwxP3qPx-eU01KssIG1IeVrSaMN2HNNqWcREfJoJ4sIAToHoKLMFI8SS86PR02hlZccyVloGxjZ4/w259-h400/image_72192707.JPG" width="259" /></a></div>Over the summer, I made nature collages: stones, shells, sea glass found on the Lake Ontario beaches. I created scenes, which I hope inspires tranquility. The gift of summer, of being barefoot and walking on the sandy beach,close to the lip of the lake. I have made four of these so far. Framed them in 4x6 black frames. They are small windows. Two have been taken to new homes. I was thrilled that they were desired. It made me happy. New skill: I learned how to use a glue gun without removing my fingerprints.<p></p><p>As soon as the Spring semester ended in May, our planting season began. My husband had great luck starting our plants from seeds in our greenhouse. He even started flowers: Moon flowers, Lupines, Zinnias, Sunflowers, Marigolds-- all with great success. Our flower gardens have many colors and have been fun to watch them grow and multiple. <br /></p><p>We successfully planted three gardens: North, East and South, which total 5000 square feet. This is a lot to maintain. Now we're harvesting our efforts. Canning tomatoes, from sauce to puree, to whole in tomato juice. A steamy process.</p><p>It's been warm here. The heat is always expected in August, but this summer was truly pleasant, with many mild days and a decent amount of rain and sun. Perfect for gardens and orchards. So far, we have stayed ahead of our harvesting. I think I planted more than 200 tomato plants, cherry to plum to a variety of slicers. Thus far, nothing disappoints.</p><p>Besides gardening, I gave myself a writing challenge. To write every morning, which I did faithfully at the start of summer, and was successful in completing poems, 100 word stories, lyric essays. As the summer progressed, I had to divide my attention. Big garden commitment. Of course, the gardens need the care of small children. I mean things can get out of control pretty fast. So I fussed over everything every day. You guessed it, in the morning, before the sun got too hot. A chunk of writing time spent in the garden. But not lost time, I think I was writing in the garden. Loose thoughts coming together in my head. Lines repeating as I weeded. It was good work. I am grateful for this life on the farm. How it restores me. </p><p><b>A lot of change</b>: I made the decision to retire from <b>St. John Fisher College</b> after 24.5 years. It's startling to realize that I have been teaching there, January 1997 to August, 2021. So many classes and bright students, and papers and tests, and creative writing and visual art, and performances and readings, and laughter and discoveries and collaborations. I will miss <i>that </i>the most. I am grateful to my many wonderful colleagues (faculty and staff). I received a lot of support in my efforts to bring quality Art programs to <b>St. John Fisher College</b>. I am grateful for my work experience there.</p><p>Now I will continue teaching at <b>The College at Brockport</b> this semester and the next. Closer to home, with three classes to teach. No night classes. I am looking forward to the start of this semester on 8/30/21. I taught remote courses all last year. It's going to be wonderful being face to face in the classroom again. Hopefully, all of us will remain healthy as we navigate through the semester. It can be done as long as we're aware of what we need to do to stay safe.</p><p>Lastly, I wanted to create several manuscripts this summer, and I was successful. I have a micro-chapbook of prose (lyric essays and a prose poem) called <i>In a Silent Way;</i> a chapbook of twenty-four 100 word stories called <i>Rock. Paper. Scissors.; </i>and<i> </i>my fifth full-length poetry collection called<i> The Weight of Air. </i>I have submitted these manuscripts to chapbook competitions and presses. </p><p>On 8/6/2021, I submitted <i>The Weight of Air </i>to <b>Kelsay Books</b> for possible publication. It was accepted on 8/19/2021, with publication scheduled for May, 2022. I am thrilled by this good news. </p><p>Soon, the air will change, and shadows will grow longer, and autumn with be upon us. Another change of season. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-47483436614170568852021-06-06T13:48:00.004-04:002021-06-14T11:58:13.849-04:00June 6th, 2021: I have No Idea How It's Suddenly June<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdnV1Pqvxn0AGW0yCGsQ7qIm4drjKEPVXC4NXkgYn4MVRpgw7FECdpwTS7GbAvZ62TV2GH2pti9_XIIBKD-oMIiVpbQQMwW2LDj89wx5L73Q9o2JJlh1JS-C6BkbT5mRS05Cl-SkO5Zc/s2048/IMG_4992.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdnV1Pqvxn0AGW0yCGsQ7qIm4drjKEPVXC4NXkgYn4MVRpgw7FECdpwTS7GbAvZ62TV2GH2pti9_XIIBKD-oMIiVpbQQMwW2LDj89wx5L73Q9o2JJlh1JS-C6BkbT5mRS05Cl-SkO5Zc/s320/IMG_4992.jpg" /></a></div>Photo: Meghan Rose Tonery, June 2020<p></p><p><i>Time for Confession? I Hear Ya! </i> <br /></p><p>Suddenly, It's June. The work and stress of teaching is like the memory of childbirth. Already, I have forgotten the intense labor of those last weeks. True, I learned a lot, teaching in the "remote" format, but I missed being on campus. I am looking forward to teaching face to face in Fall 2021. </p><p>Somehow, I found the energy to do a fistful of end of year reports by their due dates in May as well as editing the upcoming 2021-22 catalog copy. With each task checked off the To-Do list, I felt lighter and lighter. I have forgotten my high anxiety, which was complicated by the number of hours I spent online. It's a little nutty how working from home doesn't have the "limits" of shutting your office door for the night or weekend. Instead, work is always there. I think both instructors and students suffered from this "constant" presence of work to be done. I am not sure what exactly I learned this past year. I stepped up; my students stepped up. We got it done. Now we're looking around, feeling a tiny bit lost, because we are suddenly free to do whatever we want. For me, that feeling of being oar-less is disconcerting, but I somehow right myself after two weeks of drifting . . . Now working on new poems and stories; edited my novella, hoping that it holds up for my readers (we'll see what they say!); sending manuscripts of prose and poems out. It's been 4 years since I've put together a manuscript. The process requires such concentration to get it just right (we'll see what they say!). </p><p>Of course, time doesn't wait here on the farm. Our gardens (5000 square feet) are nearly planted to capacity. We are out there in the early morning, trying to get things done before the sun and its brash white light fries us to a crisp. It's been plenty warm lately. Gardens are looking good, too.</p><p>My time in the garden is a meditation on whatever I'm writing or editing. So I can weed a couple hours; then come in and work a few hours on writing projects. I hope this will be a summer of healing and accomplishment. Here's hoping we have bushels and bushels of produce! </p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIFE4din2Z060QA7J8papUmXUZtAQKk7-gq9-M4hq6i8EJd-G3wnaTI249PsWbDz9U0KqXAi4oA6_f1HYnximCjEMHdhU_WdMxgr_tUNb83V-4GthaOuuCXKnyaLfASn0S8FTH6VB3r_4/s2048/IMG_7575.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIFE4din2Z060QA7J8papUmXUZtAQKk7-gq9-M4hq6i8EJd-G3wnaTI249PsWbDz9U0KqXAi4oA6_f1HYnximCjEMHdhU_WdMxgr_tUNb83V-4GthaOuuCXKnyaLfASn0S8FTH6VB3r_4/s320/IMG_7575.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-51802005317492468862021-04-01T07:52:00.004-04:002021-04-01T11:31:00.483-04:00This Thirst by M.J.Iuppa Reviewed by Adrian Koesters March 31.2021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWbBHOLWUzApU6HAJBFBSyuu1b9b26mz59aFu8e9sFgT9k-HJL_7zRZeDaWvcJqJIxd891yYPve2PftBSlLx53uG_QjUzfEpQUZsMcAn2HLFWaFCIWUfa2jpMVva0xLOqKHmkQ1xEJK0/s300/51dor6J12RL._AC_US300_QL65_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWbBHOLWUzApU6HAJBFBSyuu1b9b26mz59aFu8e9sFgT9k-HJL_7zRZeDaWvcJqJIxd891yYPve2PftBSlLx53uG_QjUzfEpQUZsMcAn2HLFWaFCIWUfa2jpMVva0xLOqKHmkQ1xEJK0/s0/51dor6J12RL._AC_US300_QL65_.jpg" /></a></div>Here is the link to the review of <i>This Thirst:</i><br /> <p></p><p> <a href="https://adriankoesters.com/f/m-j-iuppa-this-thirst#0e166538-1ba1-45c1-a30f-bcaff452678c">https://adriankoesters.com/f/m-j-iuppa-this-thirst#0e166538-1ba1-45c1-a30f-bcaff452678c</a></p><p> </p><p>Thank you, Adrian Koesters for this review. <br /></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-39803611846629767282021-04-01T07:39:00.003-04:002021-04-01T11:31:25.244-04:00Kaktus Reading on March 30th, hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche, featuring cousin poets M.J.Iuppa and lauren Ayers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxreSB7gIWmNQVvFJ1BAVjzwjVa7PD-y-RwGVY8oYfPvQ3bVc-8i3RnkXnwKTC0FiJczHHf8IeWNAxdjldGqf9VBAo1pudd02k7EnQmUjOrCspSkinMwJhDtREno-rhjUFemRaA1uf1Yk/s300/51dor6J12RL._AC_US300_QL65_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxreSB7gIWmNQVvFJ1BAVjzwjVa7PD-y-RwGVY8oYfPvQ3bVc-8i3RnkXnwKTC0FiJczHHf8IeWNAxdjldGqf9VBAo1pudd02k7EnQmUjOrCspSkinMwJhDtREno-rhjUFemRaA1uf1Yk/s0/51dor6J12RL._AC_US300_QL65_.jpg" /></a></div> <br /><p></p><p>Thank you to Jules Nyquist and John Roche for giving me the opportunity to read with my cousin. I read from my collection <i>This Thir</i>st (Kelsay Books 2017) <br /></p><p>Cover Artwork by Elizabeth King Durand<br /></p><p>Here is the You Tube link to our poetry reading on March 30th, 2021:<br /></p><p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YawuWoefwjE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YawuWoefwjE</a></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-30599348994509321812021-01-10T10:34:00.002-05:002021-01-10T10:36:35.451-05:00Sunday: January 10, 2021: What A Week.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicYni1po6QSRn8hT-T5DGWrker1Qoi3aB3_eek0QegLLyDfC4LNBIJSfuz9pyYtqiRHCUXw9wxmhAqLzWMJgvgqeV6UR7SPQDtHMUHj2-QkZZey2kF7JtQHB2cOADi-X-2HMFzz4jZu18/s500/0+Red+Headed+Woodpecker+2+sml.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="480" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicYni1po6QSRn8hT-T5DGWrker1Qoi3aB3_eek0QegLLyDfC4LNBIJSfuz9pyYtqiRHCUXw9wxmhAqLzWMJgvgqeV6UR7SPQDtHMUHj2-QkZZey2kF7JtQHB2cOADi-X-2HMFzz4jZu18/w526-h548/0+Red+Headed+Woodpecker+2+sml.JPG" width="526" /></a></div><br />Photo: P. Tonery 2020: Red-Headed Woodpecker.<p></p><p>Private Life: <br /></p><p>It's hard to believe that we're nearly mid-month of the first month in the New Year. I have been trying to be "intentional" in everything I do this year. I have been reading for my own pleasure 30-45 minutes a day. Love the big print books I rented from the Brockport Seymour library. Currently reading<i> three women</i> (nonfiction) by Lisa Taddeo. At first, I wondered what I was getting myself into by selecting this book, without really knowing what it's about. Endorsement from Elizabeth Gilbert is why I picked it up. The library visit is not the luxurious browse. It's find what you need or want, and move on. I wanted to see if the book club that I had attended twice in two years was having its meeting online. No longer associated with the Brockport Seymour library, but still led by a woman named Dryad or Driad, who strangely didn't like me, because she knew I was a writer and teacher. I think she was worried that I would take her authority. Hardly my intention, I just wanted to read a few books and listen to the discussion. I wasn't successful sticking with it because my teaching at The College at Brockport occurred during the hour of the Book Club's meetings. Too bad, because I really liked the people, including Dryad the leader, who attended the club. During the shelter in place, The Book Club moved to The Sweden Senior Center; yet, the Seymour library still reserves the books for the members. I was hoping that they were participating via zoom meeting and I could attend again. A librarian named Stephanie helped me. She phoned the Book Club leader. I guess when Stephanie revealed my name, the Book Club leader bristled and said, "Tell her that the membership is closed." So I am out of luck. I have been banned from a Book Club. I am going to read the book slotted for their next meeting: <i>The Lake of Dreams </i>by Kim Edwards. So, I'm hoping I'll find another Book Club for this year.</p><p> I have been attending readings, far and near, since the start of the year. I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to the featured readers and the open mics. Zoom has made this possible. I realize how many prefer in person readings, but this Zoom platform has made opportunities for so many who wouldn't be able to attend in person. I hope, after the pandemic lifts, that this platform will remain, giving all interested the opportunity to attend readings, concerts, lectures, and so on. </p><p>During the next 3 weeks, I will continue to work on writing and art projects and prepare for the upcoming semester, which starts on 2/1/2021. I am feeling healthy. Trying to get back to reduced sugar intake. I had quite a bit over the holidays . . . Just because. Need to take those long walks, again.</p><p> Public life:</p><p>My eyes are spinning in oil. I have been reading newspapers online, cover to cover. Watching the events on January 6th horrified me and my family. We sat transfixed for hours, trying to make sense of what what happening in the Capitol. It was so scary. I am beseeching our leaders to do everything necessary to put an end to the Trump chaos. The leaders who supported this chaos should be dismissed from their positions. They are a danger to us all. It's time to send a clear message to these people who have blindly put their faith in believing the lies. I believe the next four years will be a time of reconstruction of our values and moral integrity. We will make it so. I am fed up with racism, prejudice, bias, greed, deceit. It has to stop. I do believe, people to people, we can making a difference.</p><p>Do not hide from this challenge. Do not depend on someone else to bring peace and understanding to our communities across the United States. Have courage to be kind and considerate of everyone. Listen and speak with good intention.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-66486252845504094622020-12-23T10:24:00.002-05:002020-12-23T10:24:14.799-05:00Summer happened in CoVID -19 2020. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHydBleH2IVQP17t7gw9TlBeyBSBC88xAh02DC96aiEFIaFZOEHExqiEnPxa8Kws1qAA9hISeyfy12_y0UYRwaYeCkMiWS4P2RgfWz4MNKsiAX-6uFi9UFE2BmiOckOiVjYqwXyi44oc/s2048/IMG_4982.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHydBleH2IVQP17t7gw9TlBeyBSBC88xAh02DC96aiEFIaFZOEHExqiEnPxa8Kws1qAA9hISeyfy12_y0UYRwaYeCkMiWS4P2RgfWz4MNKsiAX-6uFi9UFE2BmiOckOiVjYqwXyi44oc/s320/IMG_4982.jpg" /></a></div><p>Glorious Peas! Our gardens were exceptional this year. A bounty of fruits and veggies. Spent hours upon hours in the gardens, weeding, waiting . . .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMRtTPT6zfmnXHpaog4wLJCpEjxRhIA5lPPmTRUKjXExneXx3-ygd2xEeNfiOXVIGRtbtgvzqvdKTmB_Y8O91HQxcbipK5jxVVJgO6gK1anpkB40NE_7XKDBJm3RBLLM1m2YyJrE05so/s640/IMG_0055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMRtTPT6zfmnXHpaog4wLJCpEjxRhIA5lPPmTRUKjXExneXx3-ygd2xEeNfiOXVIGRtbtgvzqvdKTmB_Y8O91HQxcbipK5jxVVJgO6gK1anpkB40NE_7XKDBJm3RBLLM1m2YyJrE05so/s320/IMG_0055.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p>This is a turkey egg.<br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGciVPZKr1sMH5OTzz-9TrC6xZVfdisxw-SKFH4WLpWQGvh9Yr3JBIe-Vqnvxnd07uNF7yML32UBZTRGDoaRy6T3Lu4HLyneJVIYVeEGQuXZ_Bbz8MAEeNSWziSIt6gi5XJAHeXrMB9-o/s2048/IMG_4989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGciVPZKr1sMH5OTzz-9TrC6xZVfdisxw-SKFH4WLpWQGvh9Yr3JBIe-Vqnvxnd07uNF7yML32UBZTRGDoaRy6T3Lu4HLyneJVIYVeEGQuXZ_Bbz8MAEeNSWziSIt6gi5XJAHeXrMB9-o/s320/IMG_4989.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>North garden was the Irish dream. Lavender, white and golden potatoes. Big harvest this year.</p><p>All photos: MRTonery, 2020<br /></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-20317341957749575952020-12-23T09:56:00.002-05:002020-12-23T10:12:54.295-05:00A lot Has Happened Since June. Time to Reboot.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX03mxCzeVhR_lQZK_zyeaTg-R0FZ_7jV4-BODZ4Dc1GHyx35PlOLum0cIdR4XWyVbmdHVFUnjJL8HnQshyphenhyphenHQTWP8k7O51J1hOCgZ5Kp48h_bdbY7DWxixkjvjEIK-_ZCTndUFJsqd9IU/s2048/IMG-9548+charles+cat%2527s+cradle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX03mxCzeVhR_lQZK_zyeaTg-R0FZ_7jV4-BODZ4Dc1GHyx35PlOLum0cIdR4XWyVbmdHVFUnjJL8HnQshyphenhyphenHQTWP8k7O51J1hOCgZ5Kp48h_bdbY7DWxixkjvjEIK-_ZCTndUFJsqd9IU/s320/IMG-9548+charles+cat%2527s+cradle.jpg" /></a></div><br />Photo: MRTonery, 2020<p></p><p><b>Publications for 2020: 85 in total<br /></b></p><p><b>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Poetry:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Morning, Listening to that Faint
Thunder<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">” Nine Muses Poetry </i>(UK),
January, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“What Will Be Left, in Leaving<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">” Freshwater Literary Journal</i>, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“How Bright the Moon Shines Tonight” and “No One Owns
the Clouds,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third Wednesday</i>, Spring,
2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Without Force (2)” and “The Day Turned Dark” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Front Porch Review</i>, April 2020; July
2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Epiphany in January” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amethyst Review</i>, February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“That Wasn’t What I Thought” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amethyst Review</i>, March 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Advent” and “Nothing Is What It Seems” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live Nude Poems, </i>February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Orion” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tar
River Poetry, </i>October, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“City Street Performance” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plum Tree Tavern</i>, February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“What Was Lost” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eunoia
Review</i>, April, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"In an Instant Comes a Gust of Whiteness” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lake</i>, April, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Triolet: “Things Are Not Always What They Seem” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amethyst Review,</i> May, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Out of Reach” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red
Eft Review</i>, March, 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Seeking the Self, Beyond the Self” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nine Muses Poetry</i>, UK, June, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“How to Expect, the Unexpected” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pangolin Review</i>, April, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Sometimes
the Lights Onstage Are So Bright” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prometheus
Dreaming</i>, April, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Waiting
for You in Rain” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Eunoia Review</i>,
May, 2020</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Strait
of Reflection” and “A Chance to Catch One’s Breath<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">” Dreams Walking</i>, 2020</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Melancholy”
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plum Tree Tavern</i>, June, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“(Out)look”
and “Vespers” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amethyst Review</i>, July
and August, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Days
of Empty Hours” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clementine Unbound</i>.
July, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Weathering
This” and “Eden, Rising” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Eft Review</i>,
June, 2020</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Ephemeral, Lasting” and “In Every Way” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Global Poemic</i>, June, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The Weight of Air” and “Not Light (hearted)” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nine Muses Poetry</i>, UK, September, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Calling Hours” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alba,
A Journal of Short Poetry, </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I Have Things to Tell You,” “Every Word,” and “A
Growing Compulsion” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dreich
5, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">UK,
March, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Another Shade of Yellow” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third Wednesday</i>, July, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">“Season of Quarantine,” “Second Chance,”
“Obscurity,” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">“Fair Weather” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ink Pantry</i>, August, 2020</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Mise
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">en</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scène” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anti-Heroin Chic</i><b>, </b>October,
2020</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Comparatively, Speaking” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prometheus Dreaming,</i> October, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Fool’s Moon, Full Moon,” <i>Trouvaille Review, </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">October, 2020</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Dwelling, Here” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Amethyst Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, January, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Captivity</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">” Front Porch Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, January,2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Gravity of Rain” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Red Eft Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, November, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“What Am I Saving</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">?”
Red Eft Review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, November,
2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“No Small Thing” and “Strandhill Beach in May,” </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Poetry and Place</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, December, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fiction:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“(Re)cycling” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City. River. Tree. </i>Spring 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Far from Home,” “After, Ever,” “The Memory House,” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and “Mask of
Loveliness,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Otoliths</i>, February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“She Says,” <i>Lost Balloon</i>, February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Caught on Tape” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Story in 100 Words</i>, January, 2020 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Wonder” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Story
in 100 Words</i>, February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Nearly, Magnolia<i>, Milk Candy Review,</i> May,2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Tit-for-Tat” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Dribble Drabble Review</i>, May, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Almost Positive” and “Intimate Places” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Otoliths, </i>July 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Living Alone
in Covid-19 Times, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Drabble</i>, May
2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“No Exit” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Dribble Drabble Review</i>, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“From Where She Sat” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">City. River. Tree</i>. 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Rock. Paper. Scissors.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Written Tales</i>, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Exchange” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">100
Word Story</i>, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hemmed-In” and “Mixed Tapes<i>” Otoliths,</i> 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Holding, Still” <i>The Dribble Drabble Review,</i>
Spring 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“White Noise” <i>Milk Candy Review,</i> Winter, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 225.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 225.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">CNF
Essays:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 225.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“No One Knows I’m Here<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">” Eunoia Review</i>, January, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“No Plans Come to Mind” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eunoia Review</i>, February, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Perspective” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eunoia
Review,</i> September, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Possessions” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Otoliths</i>,
2020 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Between Worlds” reprinted in <i>Flash Frontier,</i>
December, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Another Dark Place” <i>Eunoia Review</i>, February,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reviews:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Truɘ
Enough</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, by J.R. Solonche (Dos Madres, 2019)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Lake</i>, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anthologies</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"Clotheslines" CNF essay (reprinted) in <i>Stone
Gathering</i>, Summer 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“No One Owns the Clouds” poem (reprinted) in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lummox Anthology</i>, Summer, 2020 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Help me Find myself” and “Living Alone in Covid-19
Times”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shelter
in Place</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, Staring Problem Press<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, 2020</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anniversary
issue of Grey</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Sparrow, “To the Small Child Holding a
Balloon” (poem), 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Awards</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wigleaf
The Top 50 Very Short Fiction 2020, and Long List stories:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Iuppa, M.J., "She Can't Settle Down," Milk
Candy, (December 12, 2019)</span></p>
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<![endif]--> <br /></b></p>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-22129736178114246782020-06-12T09:05:00.001-04:002020-06-12T09:06:24.511-04:00Vistations and Dreams, June 12,2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Red-headed woodpecker, 2020 Photo: P. Tonery<br />
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Beyond where I live, two (invisible) pandemics become visible. Daily, I am distraught by what is happening. I wish for a cure, and know that a cure comes about when we care for each other.<br />
I listen to the news, like three doses a day. In between, I am outside working in our three gardens, or preparing reports, or courses, or writing to keep me centered and calm, because I feel overwhelmed by the hardships people are facing daily, in cities and small towns, across our country. Reports are saying the death toll from Covid-19 will reach 170,000 by October, 2020. That number is staggering and frightening, knowing the cruel way this virus work. Equally, moving into 18th day of protest in some cities means "Enough is enough." Things have to change. Things are changing. <br />
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I had no idea, (truly) no idea, that the Army bases in the United States were named after Confederate Generals. I was stunned by that revelation this week. Why would the Army honor the Confederate Generals? It's a strange contradiction, seemingly supporting a Confederate mindset; and, it's been an "under-telling" narrative for years.<br />
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait
for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the
change that we seek.”
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<br />M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-46430584794543501272020-06-02T07:02:00.002-04:002020-06-09T06:46:35.721-04:00In an eyeblink, or so it seems, it's June . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Hour at the Feeder: Baltimore Orioles love the Grape Jelly. A Mock Wine Social. Photo P. Tonery<br />
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So much as happened since the start of the new year. Spring teaching semester was interrupted by Covid 19. All of my courses were converted to online courses. Thankfully, I use Blackboard in my face to face classes. My students at both St. John Fisher College and Suny Brockport were champs. The six classes well went. The feedback I received from the students was so positive and encouraging. They felt the course work maintained the same level of work as the face to face class.<br />
I found my students to be extremely focused and on task. Their critical engagement deepened in their writing and discussion. It was a boatload of work. I literally spent 12-16 per day on my classes, either class lectures, or commenting on discussion boards, or grading papers and tests. It was an intense 7 and 8 weeks, respectively.<br />
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I think the shut down, due to the pandemic, is going to have all of us re-think how we work and where we working, and teaching may benefit from being reflective about what happened in this quick conversion and how we (teachers) delivered our materials to our students. <br />
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Now the Spring semester is over. I feel for all the seniors, who experienced graduation in a Virtual way. So many traditions were interrupted. I'm wondering if some of these virtual experiences will be incorporated into the "traditions" when we able to resume the traditions. I hope so. In any event, big shout out to all the graduates this year.<br />
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Besides the daily Covid 19 news, and watching the number of deaths rise in our country to a number that is hard for me to imagine,but when they do the memorials on the news, with pictures and narratives, my heart aches for the families and friends who have lost loved ones. The circumstance of being separated from their loved ones in their hour of passing. The medical caregivers and first responders for their nonstop work ; for our state, New York, being a strong model for other states on being prepared. I am equally impressed by the leaders(governors) in the state of Washington, Oregon, California. I am happy to see Mayors in some states, especially Alabama, challenging the quick open of some southern states, who haven't seen a peak of Covid.<br />
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Now, with the recent horrific news of the murder of George Floyd, and the protests and violence that has ensued for nearly a week in so many cities, including my city, Rochester.NY. My heart is so heavy. Since 1991, nearly 30 years, after each incident of police violence against African Americans, I have reviewed by behavior as a teacher, friend, community partner. I ask myself am I working, truly working to see social change. Racism and prejudice is a serious blight in our country. And, I believe my behavior demonstrates the power of "yes." I believe in affirmative action. I see my students, person to person to person, and I help all of my students, on so many levels, but I think I have made learning communities in my classes, and students are friends with each other, out of class. It has a ripple effect, and I know the people who have intersected with me, have contributed to my life and ways of seeing, and I know they pass it on. Since 1991, I have had the opportunity to teach over 10,000 students of all ages, 4-98.<br />
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When you look at the demographics of these protestors on the news, we can see that all races are represented, all ages, and these people are living a life where they respect each other and are fighting for equal rights and social justice. Some are at the start of this life career, and some have been fighting their whole lives, trying to make our world, wherever it is in the United States of America, a kinder and safer world, and each of our communities will be the model for the next.<br />
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Basically, it's answering the question: Do you see what's happening in your world? Where can you make a difference?<br />
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Maybe it's time to screen the personalities of our police. Police who demonstrate "bullying" or sadistic tendencies, with incidents, should not be allowed to continue on the force. We want to feel protected, not threatened.<br />
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Maybe, police shouldn't have guns. Do the police need to draw a gun for a traffic infraction? Maybe there should be a limit on how an officer restrains a person in question. Maybe the gun can be in car, but not used immediately. The police need to have body cams on. If citizens are witnessing a serious injustice, they should have the right to stop the injustice in the moment, if police officers are using excessive force and not heeding the witnesses call to stop. I don't know exactly how you do that calmly and peacefully, but I wish it had happened in George Floyd's arrest. People were calling out to stop, even George. Why are they taking so long to charge the other three officers? I find it so disconcerting.<br />
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On the Rochester NY news, Police Chief Singletary spoke eloquently to the crowd and us. I recognized him, and I knew by his body language and as an African American he was heavy-hearted, but he had his hands open in his gesture, not closed fists, and I thought,<b><i> here is a strong leader.</i></b> Of course, the people, who were organizing the peaceful protest, were seen by others as an opportunity to create havoc and loot and destroy-- all of this has been happening in other cities too, but sadly, in areas where the small business owner is a person of color, and grocery stores that serve in these areas<br />
have been destroyed, too. In Rochester, NY, many people came out to help with the first night's pillage, which was at least three days ago. Unrest continues.<br />
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Black Lives Matter. This racism and prejudice has to stop. Many of us believe this. Please everyone, vote in the upcoming elections. Be present. Talk, person to person, widen your community circles to be more inclusive, even in our social distancing. Make a difference.<br />
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Our leadership for the past three years has allowed hate rhetoric to be part of our daily lives.<br />
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In my creative writing classes, I tell my students this:<br />
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In 19th century literature the theme was:"The Good will be rewarded and the Bad will be punished."<br />
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In the 20th century, the theme was: Sometimes, the good don't get what they deserved. "<br />
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At the top of 21st century, I speculated that the current literature was addressing lying and getting away with it. We are now entering our 3rd decade, and the literature is all about lies and deceits.<br />
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Irony of situation? How close is our present day news to <i><b>The Hunger Games?</b></i><br />
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Next post, will be dedicated to Farm life and writing and art-- where I do my best thinking about what is happening in our shared day to day. <br />
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Today is Sunday (all week has felt like Sunday)!<br />
It's January 5, 2020. To date, four (4) of my 100 word stories and two (2) new poems have been accepted for publication in Spring 2020. I have also received my first rejection of the new year.<br />
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I am making a commitment to mindfulness. I did a 20 minute meditation yesterday; and truthfully, the experience was so liberating. I am hoping that these new-to-me tools will make the difference in my living. I want "out" of the things that bottle me up. After I did the meditation, I felt stress-free. No aches or pains. A clear mind.<br />
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I am working on some poetry reviews right now.<br />
Hoping to have them done and sent to the journals by the end of this upcoming week. I have been thinking about the difference between details and images. I have an upcoming course on Metaphor this semester. I have selected some wonderful texts. Hopefully, my students will be willing to jump into this challenging material. It requires imagination and wonder, which I think is the key to success in all types of work. The challenge is to present this task of engaging one's imagination and wonder without making any of them feel self-conscious. It's like being a circus performer, straddling two galloping gray horses; one is called 'rational' and the other is 'irrational,' but both are dependent on each other, in order to turn so many revolutions around the ring, until there is a new way of seeing and thinking and talking about art.<br />
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I have been writing a lot poems with cloud imagery(metaphor). I live in landscape that has magnificent skies, due to the Great Lakes, Ontario and Erie. It's also linked to the ephermeral nature<br />
of living and writing poetry, which is very different from writing fiction or nonfiction; yet, all will get me through the oncoming years and what I can and can't control. Things are changing, moment to moment; things living and dying in the course of day, hour, minute, nanosecond . . . What am I going to say to my students this semester? What am I going to say to myself as the days gain light, marching towards Spring and Summer, and another turn around the ring.<br />
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So much depends on balance, and keeping on.<br />
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<br />M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-43955499636497485132020-01-02T09:33:00.001-05:002020-01-02T14:15:01.697-05:00In the year 2020 . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year! New Decade! 2020<br />
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I have joined a community of writers on Fb, who are journaling every day. I have never been successful at journaling, and believe me, I have tried, and tried.I have already broken the first rule of the community of making a comment on a post made by my cousin Lauren,who is a poet, writer, and quiltmaker extraordinaire.<br />
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The first prompt by writer Saundra Goldman is to write for 10-20 minutes on: Where I am.<br />
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I have a new journal, and so I began. I think this will be a part of my mindfulness practice. I have already tapped into a website<a href="https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/" target="_blank"> https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/</a><br />
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I like the six steps meditation. I have been enjoying the articles, too. Some of the mindful practices are things that I already do, not knowing that they are "mindful." So, it was a pleasant surprise,finding out the benefits of such practices.<br />
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Since December 15, 2019, I have been writing, reading (mostly recipes) where I end up being the sous chef for my husband, who reads recipes all the time and has become a foodie over the past 5 years. It's been interesting "working" together in the kitchen, that is his domain.<br />
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Two days ago, on the eve of New Year's Eve, we made wild caught clams and this fabulous homemade pasta (not linguini). Here is the link to the recipe: <br />
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I really like Once Upon a Chef website. Instructions and visuals= mealtime success.<br />
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On New Year Day, I always pick my favorite things to do, as a guarantee that I will do them all year long. I was busy: revising, sending out manuscripts, eating healthy food choices; drinking 6-9 glasses of water per day; received my first rejection; but, also 4 of my new 100 word stories were accepted; reading; watching a few TV shows, which will fall to the wayside as soon as the semester begins. But Flirty Dancing was fun to watch. Although, I did feel badly for the dance partners that didn't get picked for a second date; and happened upon another show called Almost Family. It's complicated; while watching nearly finished the scarf I have been knitting, using all leftover yarns from previous made scarves. It's fun and very warm, and I may keep it for myself. I did dishes and put things away, and took a warm shower. Tried to go see Little Women but the theater was sold out. I really want to see this film. Maybe today, or tomorrow.<br />
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Hope all of you are off to a good start. Sun is shining and it's unusually warm (40 degrees) in western NY. I am going to enjoy this weather break. Winter will be back in no time.<br />
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<br />M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-31293839603073121792019-12-27T08:12:00.000-05:002019-12-27T08:13:58.454-05:00Not Chinese Calendar, but this Year, 2020, is self-declared The Year of the Cat.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think the upcoming year, 2020, will be the year of the Cat. Think of it, nine lives in one year. How are you going to live them ? I am hoping for a year full of surprises. The unexpected joys of being present. This will be the year I let go of things that hold me back. I will say good bye to things I have known (good and not so good) for a long time, and I think it will be the best decision I have ever made. <br />
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It always good to get new year plans ready in the the week before New Year's Day. This week has been luxurious and slow moving, and I have had time to write without interruption, which feels very serious and determined, but I hope as the days move on in the break, I will find another rhythm, something that is a bit less serious, yet still mine. Hopefully, I will be able to carry this through the Spring semester. Again, six courses. But, at the end of this semester, the Earth will be green and ready to encourage us to take off our sensible shoes. I will be listening. I know I am in a position to make each day significant in big and small ways, and like a cat I will see what I will see. I will nap, purr, hiss, mess around, ignore, annoy, hide all the day long. It will be quite a year. Hope it is for you, too.<br />
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<i>What Do I Know? </i>Another semester of teaching, listening, thinking, considering has ended. At 1:45 p.m. yesterday, I finished the semester's grading for 157 students. Two colleges, six courses, countless portfolios and final exams and papers; not to mention the administrative work involved in keeping an Arts program alive and well.<br />
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I am grateful that I was able to do this work without falling behind. I stayed aware of every student, which can be challenging because some of them think they have a cloaking device and can be hidden in plain view. There were moments of brilliance, and moments of surprise, and moments of boredom. It's what we teachers expect in our work. It's what keeps me coming back.<br />
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Once again, after having family gather at our farm for Thanksgiving, I gleaned a cold and cough that has lasted for 3 weeks now. My sad nose has had it. It's going to go on strike. I did sleep well last night, for the first time in several weeks. I sleep for a couple hours, then wake and work in the early morning darkness. You would think I would give up this ritual for more normal hours.<br />
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Maybe my spirit guide is an owl. I do love owls, especially Snowy and Long-eared Owls. I hear them at night calling to each other. In January, they will find their mates and set up their nests. In the thick of winter, their fledglings are born. Now that I am "free' for the rest of 2019, I hope to spend my time wisely. I want to take long walks, and see a few new movies, and meet up with friends that I haven't seen in weeks. I want to write every day, without interruption. I found my creative life (august-now) was caught in a vice grip. I literally had to filch time to do some of my own work. Teaching is such a battery-draining enterprise.<br />
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For a teacher,the energy is flowing out. For a writer, the energy has to flow in. The creative process demands no distractions or interruptions, and all I had this semester was exactly that-- interruptions with a capital I.<br />
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Now, here I am, with weeks of free days on the calendar. Time to recharge and see what inspires me.<br />
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Happy holidays to all.<br />
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Artwork: Elizabeth King Durand May, 2019<br />
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M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-78827230870075565982019-10-04T07:01:00.001-04:002019-10-04T07:03:58.878-04:00October 4th, 2019: Kiira's Sunset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photo P. Tonery on 9/20/2019 Kiira's Sunset. Moscow Road, Hamlin NY<br />
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<br />M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-69500804960491693592019-09-28T08:38:00.000-04:002019-10-04T07:02:08.797-04:00And, suddenly it's Autumn . . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photo K. Iuppa, The pond, or what I believe is the inside of seashell.<br />
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Suddenly it's fall, and we're still in the throes of harvesting our garden and picking our orchard; putting things by for the months ahead.<br />
The Fall semester began, nearly 5 weeks ago. I have 157 students, teaching six courses, three capstones, 2 internships, running an Arts program at Fisher that has this week provided the campus with three exceptional programs this week. So much work-- my eyes are spinning in oil.<br />
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A week ago, we lost my darling niece, Kiira Jepson. My heart aches over this. She was 54 years old and a light in our lives. I am thinking constantly of my oldest sister, her mother, and her brother who says she was his best friend. Her cancer moved very quickly. I was so hopeful that she would be the one to challenge the outcome; the one to set a new record for survival. And, she was determined to do so, too. I feel she has been with me, especially this week, going to all the events, attending my classes, with me while I'm making the next batch of sauce. I hear her voice and her laugh.<br />
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As some of you know from this blog, that in the past year, my family hit the cancer jackpot. I had a challenging cancer, and am now 7 months cancer free; my husband, as soon as I finished my course of treatment, began his treatment, and is now on the other side of it.<br />
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I am grateful for every day, every morning where my feet find the floor and I stand, and look both ways, and go in the right direction. Often, I wonder how I was cured. A miracle, really. But, maybe my work isn't done yet. Maybe, there is someone out there that I need to meet, have a conversation with, teach . . . Maybe I have to learn something more? Not sure.<br />
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In the meantime, I am going with the force. I am trying to be stress free. However, I would like to add 6 more hours to the day.<br />
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Today, some of my family will join me in picking apples and picking the garden. We still in full swing of harvest because of the late planting. Soggy Spring. Not so now. Every day has been gorgeous.<br />
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I will try to be more frequent with posts now, especially about art and writing.M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-27196884614794383722019-07-06T09:17:00.001-04:002019-07-06T09:17:24.017-04:006th of July. Still celebrating!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still Celebrating . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Accomplishments Summer 2019:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Garden planted! It took 9 days, but all is well. We have been having warm weather, bright sun, a taste of rain. Grow, Garden, Grow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've had good company in June and July. More to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Renewed our fishing licenses!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have been re-potting house plants. They have grown overnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Making cacti, succulent, rocks, seashells, dish gardens. Invented my version of cacti soil yesterday; then, found the bag of soil today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Writing sporadically. Some hits, some misses. A lot of thoughts swirling 'round and about . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recent published poem:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Seeing the Sunrise"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://redeftreview.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://redeftreview.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recent published 100 word story:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"She Looked on the Bright Side" </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://entropy2.com/blogs/100words/2019/07/03/she-looked-on-the-bright-side/" target="_blank">http://entropy2.com/blogs/100words/2019/07/03/she-looked-on-the-bright-side/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Theme song for Summer: "You Can't Stop the Beat!"</span>M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-74922050239073488252019-06-23T10:17:00.000-04:002019-06-23T10:18:16.409-04:00Late May: Travels to Western Ireland. A Dream Around Every Corner . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Galway, Ireland Photo: P. Tonery<br />
Graffiti: Call A Cab, O Swift One<br />
St. Brendan's Street<br />
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We were in Ireland from May 21-May29th, staying in Brooklyn NY on both sides of coming and going;<br />
arriving home on 6/2/2019.<br />
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In Ireland, sunny and mild spring days, with temperatures hovering in high sixties. There were occasional rainstorms with looming fog, but it seemed to burn off by mid-day. We stayed in Galway for three days, experiencing the city on foot (mostly). We did an on/off bus tour to get a sense of the city's layout (1.5 hours), with historical explanations of buildings and bridges and landscape. There was music (buskers) at every corner in the Street of Shoppes, and the musicians were wonderful, playing alternative to traditional Irish music. Throngs of people milled about the streets, stopping in shops or cafes for a bit to eat. We did this, too. I loved looking at the Wall Art, and the people moving past these walls and the pop up art stalls selling their jewelry, paintings, photographs. I bought a photo of a sheep standing in front of a cottage, looking straight at the camera. It's called "Home Alone." When I showed it to my niece Suzanne, who met up with us in Sligo, she said,"Sheep were overrated." I thought her comment was very funny, especially since we stayed in the countryside, outside of the town of Grange, near Sligo, which had scene after scene of cows and sheep grazing in grassy meadows.<br />
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At every turn in this trip, there were elements of research that have fueled my recent writing. I have written several poems and lyric essays about our experience there. I wish we had stayed on a bit longer, or forever. I was just starting to settle in, especially in Grange. We stayed in a gorgeous stone house, with walking lanes and gardens, and one particular crow that would sit on our bedroom's window ledge and knock against the windowpane every morning.<br />
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Now back to our little farm and the onset of the growing season. The weather while we were gone was very rainy and gloomy. Our garden plot, which is very large area, was floating, so we had to wait it out before we could turn it over. Yesterday, (6/22) the second day of summer, we began making the rows, laying down paper, planting a variety of tomatoes and peppers(4.5 rows worth).<br />
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Our plants were getting tall and pot bound. You could actually hear their sigh of relief when I placed<br />
them in the soil. This is "late" planting, even a few days later than last year. Last year, we had an exceptional summer (warm weather), and the plants did well, and we were canning produce into October. Today may be one of the first "summer" days, with temperature predicted to be close to 80 degrees and full sun.<br />
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Hoping to get the short rows in the North end of the garden planted with a variety of squash and zucchini. This worked well last year. The vines seemed to sprawl and thrive in this area. Hope we will be twice lucky.<br />
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<br />M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-20952966495213615472019-05-12T09:51:00.001-04:002019-05-12T09:51:49.220-04:00End of the Spring Semester! Here Comes the Sun!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Scopello, Sicily May 2018 Photo by Meghan Rose Tonery<br />
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These are the cats that own the town of Scopello. Someone would cook huge pots of pasta for them. See the one standing on two legs, eating his dinner.<br />
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This year we will be going to Galway and Silgo, Ireland. Another island culture.Can't wait to see the Burren with its wild orchids.<br />
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The Spring semester is over. It went by so quickly. I worked constantly. Now its time to recharge the battery and reflect on the year thus far. <br />
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Looking forward to getting things in order now. Set some summer goals besides maintaining the garden. It's been a cold spring. This past week, the weather alternated rain, then sun, then rain, then sun. It's raining now. Yesterday, after attending St.John Fisher's graduation, Peter and I decided to do some errands. We found a chicken house on the side of the road (in really good shape) and drove up<br />
to the homeowner to see if he was selling it or giving it away. Our good luck. <i>Free! </i>So we stopped everything and figured out a way to drive the chicken house back to our house, which wasn't far away. This little excursion could have been a total disaster. The chicken house in splinters in the middle of the road. Another hand of good luck, and we were able to make it back to our house without an incident. Soon this will be a happy chicken house!<br />
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<b>Recent publications:</b><br />
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<a href="https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/02/mj-iuppa.html" target="_blank">https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/02/mj-iuppa.html</a><br />
Lyric essay and Poem. <br />
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<a href="https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/end-of-winter/" target="_blank">https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/end-of-winter/</a><br />
Poem<br />
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<a href="https://poppyroadreview.blogspot.com/search/label/M.J.%20Iuppa" target="_blank">https://poppyroadreview.blogspot.com/search/label/M.J.%20Iuppa</a><br />
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Poem<br />
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<a href="https://amethystmagazine.org/?s=iuppa" target="_blank">https://amethystmagazine.org/?s=iuppa</a><br />
Poem<br />
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I am grateful to all the editors who have supported my writing, and have given me the opportunity to reach so many writers and readers worldwide. It's been such a gift.<br />
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During poetry month, I only wrote a fistful of poems, not 30, as so many accomplish every year.<br />
I only went to a couple of readings. My energy is slowly coming back, so I am hoping I will have more get up and go through the summer months.<br />
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I have a lot to do now. Time to switch gears and focus on things that are within reach.<br />
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Happy Mother's Day!M.J.Iuppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428073675269166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037482267269574535.post-17951341515300597272019-03-08T08:54:00.000-05:002019-03-08T08:54:19.329-05:00The First Week of March, 2019, Racing towards Spring . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It’s Friday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun’s shining, the air’s still quite
cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a yard full of new snow. I
have been working on lyrical CNF essays and poems for several weeks now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrote a sonnet Wednesday, much to my
surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a single sentence with
internal rhyme (another surprise), and it’s about the first day of Lent (yet, another
surprise). I have no idea what’s going on in my mind’s writing room these days,
why some things are so out of the blue, but this poem seems to be a gift.
Inspiration began with looking out the kitchen window, watching cardinals that
flit branch to branch in the crab apple tree, then make their way to our
feeders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love watching the dance.</div>
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Sonnets are not my forte. Those
who are successful writing sonnets do so without any hint of cliché. I have
always felt the heft of cliché in my attempts. My hunches were confirmed by
poets(mentors) I trust. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yep, that isn’t
so good,</i> they’d say. Consequently, I have steered away from sonnets.
However, I love reading them, and really I admire poet Henri Cole’s
sonnets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So gorgeous and witty and new. Some
critics have called these “pseudo-sonnet form.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All that matters
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