Welcome! Best wishes to all as we work for health and for equity.
News: My new book, Tremors, will be out in September 2021 from Four Way Books.
Some recent and upcoming readings:
Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 1 pm
Solo reading at the Stockbridge Public Library.
Recording of the event is available here.
Thursday, April 15, 2021, 7 pm.
Reading with Bruce Weigl.
Zoom reading for Rozzie Reads, sponsored by Friends of the Roslindale Public Library.
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Monday, October 25, 2021, 7:15 pm.
Reading with Joan Houlihan
Boston-area book launch for Tremors
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
42 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, December 16, 2021, 6-7 pm.
Reading and discussion with Julia Lisella
Phosphorescence Reading Series
Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst
Sunday, March 13, 2022, 5 pm.
Two of my poems are the text of "Far Past War," a new choral work by my sister, composer Augusta Read Thomas. The work will be premiered by the Cathedral Choral Society in a celebration of women's suffrage and women composers. Washington National Cathedral
3101 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington DC
For more information:
Click here for Augusta's website.
Click here for the Choral Society's website.
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Poem of the Month:
Salt
by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943)
O breath of wind and sea,
Bitter and clear,
Now my faint soul springs free,
Blown clean from fear!
O hard sweet strife, O sting
Of buffeting salt!
Doubt and despair take wing,
Failure, and fault.
I dread not wrath or wrong,--
Smile, and am free;
Strong while the winds are strong,
The rocks, the sea.
Heart of my heart, tho' life
Front us with storm,
Love will outlast the strife,
More pure, more warm.
