national poetry month

April 29, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Daily Haiku by Leslie Sittner

woodlands waking upspring appears with bits of greentree buds in first blush Full Worm Moon in Marchrobins and crows dig for treatsdivots show success trail mud sucks boots inlittle white dog in knee-deepmud season just sucks doves share a taught wirewaiting to make ground landingbeneath bird feeders midnight dog walk dankrain-fog-clouds obscure viewingApril’s Full Pink … Continue reading Daily Haiku by Leslie Sittner

April 24, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Directional by Ruth Ann Dandrea

My front door opens to the east.My back door opens to the north.Patio doors open south. Onlywindows look west. This morning’ssun rises bright in the eastern sky,but dark clouds come from the westto eat it up. Another train moansa low whistle along its southerntrack, saying, “Somebody’s goingsomewhere.” But it isn’t me. I wait.Sitting in the … Continue reading Directional by Ruth Ann Dandrea

April 24, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

It’s Too Dark, April 2020 by Edward Pontacoloni

“I love you, but I can’t see you right now,” she turned away from him, “it’s too dark.” Owls are nocturnal and hunt in the dark. Like panthers that prefer their blackness. The sun’s corona lent its name, and blackness spread pandemically, Turning her away. Absenting her from him. Like black is the absence of … Continue reading It’s Too Dark, April 2020 by Edward Pontacoloni

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

To My Sister 4/21/2020 by Amaryllis Doyle

I love you but can’t see you nowOn your birthday, tomorrowWe’re both in the high risk categoryfor covid-19’s tragedy I didn’t come in Winterbecause of icy weather.I can’t come now in Spring‘cause of this virus thing. The photo of your daffodilsBrings a satisfying show.Ours are showing promiseAs the buds out wait the snow You were … Continue reading To My Sister 4/21/2020 by Amaryllis Doyle

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Alone by Annette Pisano-Higley

I love you but I can't see you right now,"Hear me", I cry,Your answer echoes my name, softly, "I am here.",Floating, wistfully, through tainted air,The droplets of plague kept at a distance, only by distance.A bottomless moat between us widens,Like a sea wall against the waves,I cry raindrops in a city cordoned like a stone … Continue reading Alone by Annette Pisano-Higley

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

I love you, Aunt Ellen, but I can’t see you right now… by Judyann Grant

Like the jigsaw puzzle that lay in a thousand pieces on my dining room table, the corona virus turned our lives into a jumble of sharp edges, disjointed bits and oddly shaped pieces. It was the best of times. The natural world took a deep breath for the first time in centuries. People on pause … Continue reading I love you, Aunt Ellen, but I can’t see you right now… by Judyann Grant

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Directional by Ruth Ann Dandrea

April 10, 2020 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Haiku by Doug Deneen

DROPLET SHINES. DROP DRIPS.H TO THE OH MY GOD! NO!LETTER’S LOVE WORDS BLEED. BUG BUGGED BY BUM LEG.SEVEN STEPS OKAY, THEN LIMP.ONCE GRACEFUL, NOW CLUTZ. IMAGE BREAKS ON ROCKCOLORS FIZZ BELOW SURFACERIVER REFLECTS GOLD BIRD SINGS. BIRD DANCES.CHICKEN HAWK BEATS WAR DRUM—BOOM.BIRD FLEES. NOT HIS THING. PUPPY LICKS SNOW GONE.SNIFFS. SCRATCHES. NO MORE. GROUND DRY.WAG … Continue reading Haiku by Doug Deneen

March 29, 2019March 28, 2019 Adirondack Center for Writing Announcements, Local Opportunities

Annual Poetry in the Round at Left Bank Cafe

Wednesday, April 17th 5:30pm April is National Poetry Month! Kick off the celebrating at the annual Poetry in the Round event at Left Bank Cafe on April 17. Bring a poem to share or just come to listen. Celebration of Maurice Kenny and Earth Day. Keep the celebration going April 26-May 12, and wander around … Continue reading Annual Poetry in the Round at Left Bank Cafe

ACW FAMILY NEWS

📍 A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country by Clarence Hall traces the long history of incarceration in the Adirondacks. Published by University of Massachusetts Press, copies are available here.

📍 Written during the Pandemic of 2020 LAMENT FOR US ALL is Carlos Reyes‘ 13th full-length collection. Available for purchase at the author’s website here.

📍Herb Terns has a new Adirondack novel, Iron Sharpens Iron, available for purchase here.

📍Eric Mondschein has published a new short story, Dinner at Grandma’s published by Something or Other Publishing LLC, in their short story anthology 25 Servings of SOOP: literary Journeys into Life, Meaning and Love.

📍Jessica Kane has published Anchors in the Storm, a new picture book written as a comforting tool to help parents be with their children and connect during moments of despair. The book is available digitally www.jessicalaurelkane.com.

📍Alice Gilborn has released a new of poetry, “Apples & Stones” (Kelsay Books), which features poems set in Colorado, the Adirondacks, and Vermont. The book is available from Kelsay Books, the Northshire Bookstore, and Amazon.

📍Stanley A. Ransom, Jr. has published Outskirts Press, Inc. has published America’s First Black Poet; Jupiter Hammon of Long Island (Outskirts Press, Inc.). Kirkus Reviews states: “an essential volume for all libraries interested in Black, and American poetry.” Paperback and Kindle e-book editions are available on Amazon.com.

📍Ronald Berger has just published The Gorge, a thriller based on his experience as

a whitewater raft guide on the Hudson River during the 1990s. Paperback and Kindle e-book editions are available on Amazon.com.

📍Christopher Shaw has published a new book The Power Line, and can be ordered at his website.

📍Howard Kirschenbaum has just published a new book, Coming of Age in the Baby Boom: A Memoir of Personal Development, Social Action, Education Reform and Adirondack Preservation. Paperback and Kindle e-book editions are available on Amazon.com.

📍Brian Heinz‘s newest book, a thriller novel for ‘tweens and teens,’ Peabody Pond, has been published and released by 4RV Publishing.

📍Betsy Folwell has released an extended version of Short Carries as an audiobook for the first time. These essays are about wildlife and wilderness, regional history and small-town life, with keen observations and a touch of humor.