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Book Press Release: The Laundress Catches Her Breath

Book Press Release: The Laundress Catches Her Breath

The Laundress Catches Her Breath Poems by Paola Corso A thematic collection of poems that reveals the inner life of a working class woman in steel-town Pittsburgh, THE LAUNDRESS CATCHES HER... Read More
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This Coming Sunday: Our First Time at the Brooklyn Book Festival

This Coming Sunday: Our First Time at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Early in the morning this coming Sunday Josh Kashinsky, our Waiting Room Reader Coordinator, and I will be heading for Table 136 at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We’ll have a hand truck... Read More
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Remembering Poet Peggy Penn

Remembering Poet Peggy Penn

  Peggy Penn and I met about 15 years ago in a writing workshop lead by our beloved mentor, Molly Peacock, in my home in East Hampton. Peggy was stunning!... Read More
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Molly Peacock Remembers Peggy Penn

Was there anyone more elegant than Peggy Penn?  She had a deliciously chromatic style of dressing, where each item of clothing would echo in texture and color the next item,... Read More
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Poet’s Spotlight: Joseph O. Legaspi on “Imagined Love Poem to My Mother from My Father”

Poet’s Spotlight: Joseph O. Legaspi on “Imagined Love Poem to My Mother from My Father”

Joseph O. Legaspi Imagined Love Poem to My Mother from My Father was a rare gift, conceived almost magically—it wrote itself.  Inspired by Yusef Komunyakaa’s My Father’s Love Letters, I pondered how I... Read More
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Look! CKP at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

Look! CKP at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

Check out our writers contingent at the Brooklyn Book festival. (It was our first time at the festival!) Teresa Carson, Richard Jeffrey Newman and Joseph Legaspi Read More
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“Motherhood Exaggerated” reviewed on Skinny Mom!

“Motherhood Exaggerated” reviewed on Skinny Mom!

This was a beautiful and honest look at what childhood cancer can do to a family…both the positive and negative.  I couldn’t help but cry along with them at every... Read More
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Poet's Spotlight: Dawn Potter on "First Game"

Poet's Spotlight: Dawn Potter on "First Game"

“First Game” is one of those poems that almost doesn’t seem like a poem, by which I mean that the arc of its narrative is more audible than the arc... Read More
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Poetry news from the web

Poetry news from the web

The fate of the NEA budget is still being debated The Los Angeles Times is accepting poetry submissions thru August 25th NASA is sending haikus to Mars Boston Poetry Marathon is happening August 16-18th Why... Read More
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