your june-in-bloom annogram

Gratitude to Editors and Publishers
Thanks to Raya Morrison of Blood & Bourbon (Canada) for publishing “Grace,” “Profile,” and “Cape Revival;” my Face Painting in the Dark publisher Robert Murphy, for highlighting on the Dos Madres blog poems translated into Spanish by Ligia M. Yamazaki and read by us both on the Book Movie (Madrid); and novelist Darrell Laurant for posting the May annogram on the We Who Create Facebook page.
Sarah Bracey White in “Transcendence”

Wini McQueen and the Story of Cotton

The Lost Poems of Emily Brontë

Cousin Brucie Back on 77 WABC

New and Recent Releases
Catherine Arra, Deer Love (Dos Madres Press, 2021)
James Cummins, Recalcitrant Actors (Dos Madres Press, 2021)

Jennifer Franklin, No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018)
First Literary Review - East May-June
purifying wind (Moon Shadow Sanctuary Press, 2020)
What Remains (Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, 2019)
Creative Calls

Bull City Press Open Chapbook Reading Period – by June 15
Mom Egg Review open call on “mother figures” – poetry, fiction, prose, hybrid – by July 15
The Poet call for work on friendship – by June 30
Creative Workshops

Norwalk Poetry WorkshopMahopac Poetry Workshop, 6pm, every second Wednesday
Mini Tutorial on Poetic Meter thanks to Yorktown Poet Laureate John McMullen
ModPo, University of Pennsylvania’s free poetry course and global community
Norwalk Poetry Workshop, first and third Mondays, 6:30pm; email poet_laureate@norwalkpl.org to register
The Poets Salon, led by Ed Ahern and Alison McBain of Fairfield Scribes Press, 10am, every second Saturday
June Readings and Events – ET

June 6, 6pm, Pequot Library, Meet the Author featuring Laurel Peterson; register here
June 6, 4pm, Katonah Poetry Series, Roseanna Warren; register here; $5 donation

June 14-19, The Schomburg Center Literary Festival; register here

Poets and Writers Stage
at the Norwalk Art FestivalJune 17, 7pm, Byram Shubert Library, Art Historian Beth Gersh-Nesic on Fathers in Art; register here
Wednesdays - Sundays, through June 21, 12:30-5:30pm, Upstream Gallery, photographer Jo
Zalon Meer and painter Daniel van Benthuysen (LIVE; walk-in gallery)
June 26 and 27, 12 noon and 3:30pm, Poets, Writers, Storytellers Stage at the Norwalk Art Festival, Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Park, Norwalk, Connecticut (LIVE and in person)
Monthly Readings – ET

Every Tuesday, 2pm, Spoken Word World (Paris)
Every Tuesday, 7pm, Curley’s Diner
Third Fridays, 7pm, Hudson Valley Writers Center Open Mic – click on third Friday for details
Southwest Salad
Homage to McDonald’s salad of yore once good for a fast-food grab. While missing it recently, I decided to duplicate it:
½ 15-oz can organic black beans, drained
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
2 cups nacho chips, crumbled
1 organic carrot, grated
1 bag organic romaine lettuce
3-4 tablespoons Drew’s Chipotle Ranch dressing
Tear up lettuce into bite-size pieces into a large salad bowl. Add all other ingredients, toss with dressing, and serve immediately.
̓Round the Net

Translator Chen Du on this Pilgrimage Press reading, and for work, with co-translator Xisheng Chen, in Delos and Exchanges
Poet Terry M. Dugan on her reading at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY
Poet Jennifer Franklin on her book, No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018) reviewed in Women’s Voices for Change

PoetCindy Hochman on her poem, “Of Course, Of Course,” appearing in the LIPStribute to Lyn Lifshin

Poet and memoirist J. Chester Johnson for noting new jazz compositions performed at Lincoln Center focusing on Ida B. Wells’s work and the Elaine Race Massacre explored in Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation (Pegasus, 2019)

Poet Heller Levinsonon having six poems appear in Sulfur Surrealist Jungle
Yorktown Poet Laureate John McMullen for this revision quick reference guide and this article on paying for poetry submissions

Photo by Reston AllenPresence Editor Mary Ann B. Miller for Presence 2021 poets John Hodgen, K. T. Landon, and Martha Silano whose work appeared in Verse Daily last month
Poet Carl Phillipson winning the $75K Jackson Prize
Poet Jean-Luc Pouliquen on this excellent review of his book, Vu du Parc (Independently published, 2021)
Poet Christina Rau for these first-ever virtual museum tours, “Pioneers of Poetry and Paint: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Walt Whitman” followed by her poetry workshop
Poet and playwright Joe Simone on his poem, “Catching Mr. Crandall,” in Bardball

Poet Linda Simone, whose essay “Triptych,” is in What Remains (Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, 2019), awarded honorable mention and shortlisted for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Book Award
Memoirist Mary Wasaczon her first, incredibly poignant publication, “Hello and Goodbye,” in MomentsBetween
Until next time,
Ann