Mary C.M. Phillips's Blog, page 5
June 3, 2020
Virtual Poetry
If you’re looking for a poetic escape, please join me (and four other poets) on June 12th at 6:30 P.M. for a virtual poetry reading hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace. See below for the link and more information. Stay safe, Mary
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Join the Walt Whitman Birthplace for a Virtual Open Mic!! Five poets will present their poetry and everyone is invited to to be part of the audience, or share a short poem as well (time permitting!)! Musician Bryan Gallo will perform live! Friday, June 12th at 6:30PM EST. $5 suggested donation.
Link below to the reading on Friday, June 12th:
Caitlyn Shea is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Virtual Open Mic #1
Time: Jun 12, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85183631569?pwd=ZWYySHFyazJEN1RBdjQzK0RVcFZoUT09
Meeting ID: 851 8363 1569
Password: 327212
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Virtual Poetry
If you’re looking for a poetic escape, please join me (and four other poets) on June 12th at 6:30 P.M. for a virtual poetry reading hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace. See below for the link and more information. Stay safe, Mary
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Join the Walt Whitman Birthplace for a Virtual Open Mic!! Five poets will present their poetry and everyone is invited to to be part of the audience, or share a short poem as well (time permitting!)! Musician Bryan Gallo will perform live! Friday, June 12th at 6:30PM EST. $5 suggested donation.
Link below to the reading on Friday, June 12th:
Caitlyn Shea is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Virtual Open Mic #1
Time: Jun 12, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85183631569?pwd=ZWYySHFyazJEN1RBdjQzK0RVcFZoUT09
Meeting ID: 851 8363 1569
Password: 327212
One tap mobile
+16465588656,,85183631569#,,1#,327212# US (New York)
Virtual Poetry
If you’re looking for a poetic escape, please join me (and four other poets) on June 12th at 6:30 P.M. for a virtual poetry reading hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace. See below for the link and more information. Stay safe, Mary
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Join the Walt Whitman Birthplace for a Virtual Open Mic!! Five poets will present their poetry and everyone is invited to to be part of the audience, or share a short poem as well (time permitting!)! Musician Bryan Gallo will perform live! Friday, June 12th at 6:30PM EST. $5 suggested donation.
Link below to the reading on Friday, June 12th:
Caitlyn Shea is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Virtual Open Mic #1
Time: Jun 12, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85183631569?pwd=ZWYySHFyazJEN1RBdjQzK0RVcFZoUT09
Meeting ID: 851 8363 1569
Password: 327212
One tap mobile
+16465588656,,85183631569#,,1#,327212# US (New York)
Virtual Poetry
If you’re looking for a poetic escape, please join me (and five other poets) on June 12th at 6:30 P.M. for a virtual poetry reading hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace. See below for the link and more information. Stay safe, Mary
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Join the Walt Whitman Birthplace for a Virtual Open Mic!! Six Poets will present their poetry and everyone is invited to to be part of the audience, or share a short poem as well (time permitting!)! Musician Bryan Gallo will perform live! Friday, June 12th at 6:30PM EST. $5 suggested donation.
Link below to the reading on Friday, June 12th:
Caitlyn Shea is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Virtual Open Mic #1
Time: Jun 12, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85183631569?pwd=ZWYySHFyazJEN1RBdjQzK0RVcFZoUT09
Meeting ID: 851 8363 1569
Password: 327212
One tap mobile
+16465588656,,85183631569#,,1#,327212# US (New York)
May 15, 2020
Virtual Book Launch #poetry
Tonight was the virtual book launch for Pathway to Dreams, a new collaborative poetry anthology by James Paul Wagner – and other poets (of which I am one). You can listen here to tonight’s reading/launch. My contributing poem can be heard around 27.00 on the timeline. Congratulations to James Paul Wagner and all the other poets on this wonderful new collection of poetry!
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90% of proceeds will be donated to Feeding America during the launch (tonight), 30% thereafter.
April 23, 2020
Collaborative Poetry in the Time of Social Distancing
The Mondo is a form of classical Japanese Collaborative poetry. This guide brings to light the instructions on how to host a Mondo poetry workshop or pair up with friends and family to write them together. Edited by one of the authors of the best-selling “Japanese Poetry Forms, a Poet’s Guide”, this book also contains the results of 40 paired poets who wrote amazing Mondo during a virtual poetry workshop held during the time of social distancing, proving that poetry, even from far apart can bring us closer. From Local Gems Poetry Press.
I’m happy to be a collaborator in this new anthology and grateful for partner-in-poetry, Jennifer Criss, and poet/editor James Paul Wagner for pairing poets, bringing life to poems, and fostering creativity during this period of isolation.
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April 11, 2020
Poetry during isolation
Poetry for the purpose of diversion…
Thank you James Paul Wagner and Nick Hale of Local Gems Poetry Press for including me in this virtual reading. Isolating is hard enough….poetry helps. Hoping you are all well and safe, Mary
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April 4, 2020
Isolating with music
Isolating is certainly easier with music (and coffee). I recorded this song last week. Thanks to Mark Phillips (guitars and slide-mandolin) and to Nancy Romano (co-lyricist).
Stay safe everyone, Mary
March 20, 2020
Bards Virtual Poetry
Blogging (for me) seems a bit trivial today with all that’s going on in our world.
This post is simply for the purpose of diversion. Thank you to James Paul Wagner and Nick Hale of Local Gems Poetry Press for including me in this episode of Bards Virtual Poetry Readings (click below).
Enjoy. And may God bless us….everyone.
February 20, 2020
ROAD TRIP – New poetry from Linda Trott Dickman
This month, I had the great fortune of attending the book launch for Linda Trott Dickman’s new poetry book, ROAD TRIP.
Written while she and her husband, David (also a poet), took a cross country trip, the book explores the “joy in traveling the roads and singing their song.”
I personally connected with many of the poems as I love the feeling of freedom during a road trip, the rhythm of the road itself, the sense of covering long distances.
I’ve enjoyed Linda’s work on the printed page as well as at poetry readings. Her knowledge of poetry (she’s a retired librarian) is certainly impressive with diverse poetic influences, such as Lee Bennet Hopkins, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gelett Burgess, Malcolm Guite, Joyce Sidman, Jack Prelutsky, Jane Yolen, Mark Irwin, and Dr. Seuss.
Linda’s poems are also written as poetic devotions: “From the very first poem I wrote, I had a prayer. I wanted every first to be for the Lord. My first published poem, Unretouched, was published in The Salt and the Light (a Christian literary journal).”
So, what’s next in print? Here’s what she tells me:
“I’m excited, that one of my poems will be included in a new children’s anthology. The poem was a dream come true from my longtime poetry hero, Lee Bennet Hopkins, who passed away this past August. I read him in the 70’s in college, I met him in the 80’s and we became friends on Facebook in the last couple of years. I was courageous enough to ask him how one gets published in one of his anthologies and after he read a sample of my work, he invited me to write a very specific poem for a goldfish. It will be published in one of his last anthologies from Eerdmans Press (a Christian press). So, my first published effort for children will be for a Christian Press!
I will love sharing this poem with children, as well as the other poems in the book. I am in amazing company. During my many years as a children’s librarian, I taught poetry to children and they were among my best teachers!”
I’m thankful (as are many others) that she loves sharing her poetry too. Below is an excerpt from ROAD TRIP:
Remedio
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, For Camilla
Soft upon mountains
Gentle on arid land
Seeking healing elements
Woven basket in hand
Mindful of creation
Pruning carefully
Gathering but what is needed
Leaving some for the bees
Boiling, blending, steeping
Wax and herb and lard
Combined in a concoction
For those whose work is hard
Cota, torito, and garra
escoba de víbora gleaned
blended for aching bodies
bathed in boiled water for tea
hands lovingly choose them
planning for years to come
Honoring creation
Honoring God’s green thumb
– by Linda Trott Dickman
ROAD TRIP from Local Gems Press is available now on Amazon.
