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Second Issue is available. Thank you to all the brilliant writers included in this issue: @imaginarymaladies, @laurencamp, @sageshort, @elisephd, and @writing_and_donuts. Original Cover Artwork by @imaginarymaladies Many thanks to @sarahvsalcedo at https://lnkd.in/extWHyXQ https://www.fivepoems.com/
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These lyrics worked well for a creative writing exercise with my adult students. A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no one sittin’ there But a chair is not a house, and a house is not a home When there’s no one there to hold you tight…
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I am honored and thrilled to be associated with the good people at JBI Library. See the description for a workshop I will be leading on behalf of this organization: “Join us for an open discussion about Jewish themes in poetry, as we read selected poems in Jessica Greenbaum’s poetry collection, “Spilled and Gone.” We…
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FIVE POEMS is open for submissions for our next issue, scheduled for late April or May. We welcome seasoned poets as well as poets at every stage of their careers. Read the submission request list carefully. Include an introduction and a short bio. https://www.fivepoems.com/
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Here is the inaugural issue of the Five Poems literary journal: https://www.fivepoems.com/. I would like to thank Sarah Salcedo at tallfirsproductions.com for her patient guidance and excellent assistance. Many thanks to the extraordinary first issue poets: Jaki Shelton Green, Denton Loving, Stevie Edwards, Courtney Leblanc, and Nicky Beer! Look for announcements for future issues.
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I taught the novel Dangerous Liaisons for many years with great success, and I watched the movie version with my undergrads in class. In their final essays, they told me, in ingenious ways, why the book’s topic, cruelty, had to be well written with care, and how setting the novel in a different time period worked…
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To say that this book saved me is an understatement. I’m not getting schmaltzy on you, but yes, like other parents way back then, when the Encyclopedia Britannica was the flavor of the year, many parents bought a set. Mine did. But when some other guy pressed our doorbell years later, and my father and…
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As many of you know, we left Manhattan for Houston to attend Graduate School in the late 1990s. Before then, I worked my way through Hunter College by catering private homes and many other-sized parties, thanks to this woman, who hired my husband and me. We worked every Jewish Holiday together as a duet and had…
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It’s no big surprise that healthy people in their later years want to and know how to make new friends. It took me a long time to figure out that setting boundaries for some friends, including family, and getting busy with a group of other newer friends focused on helping others was the key to…
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Mary Louise Penaz 