It’s that time of the year again! Get your poems out and count your syllables. Here are deadlines for the Sue C. Boynton poetry contest: Submissions open: Sunday, March 1, 2015 Submission deadline: 6:00 pm, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Winners notified by phone or e-mail: by April 30, 2015 Awards ceremony: Thursday, May 14, 201ContinueContinue reading “Poetry Contest: 2015 Sue C. Boynton”
Author Archives: Shannon Laws
Event: Clover Reading
You are invited to the Independent Writers’ Studio’s publication Clover A Literary Rag Winter Vol 8 reading This publication is published in Bellingham, Washington, but accepts submissions from poets and writers located all over the nation. Every year as word get out, the book grows in proportion. This is my second time appearing in theContinueContinue reading “Event: Clover Reading”
Poetry Book: Odd Little Things
This book was a lifesaver. Written over the years of late 2012-2014 the poetry that emerged from my finger tips started to take a new direction. Nature and love topics will always be on my forethought, but objects like a pole, a cinnamon roll and a rain drop on a porch at night attacked myContinueContinue reading “Poetry Book: Odd Little Things”
Poem: Comforter
Soft fog is silent atop Lake Samish The sleepy water snores against its shore Glacier waters bounce off rock-face leaping down into the warm bed like cold feet. The lake sits as milk on the bottom of the bowl A ring of jagged evergreens holds it all down I squint and the view is aContinueContinue reading “Poem: Comforter”
Little Words
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M.C. Escher Three Worlds, 1955 This morning I am thinking about a friend I use to know, when I lived in a different town. I’ll call her “N”. N has brain damage caused by an accident and a stroke. I do not know how or when she got it;…
DNA Part Five: How Do You Identify?
This morning I’m reviewing my results from 23andMe. I’m feeling frustrated and exhausted. Starting to wonder if I am an alien baby thrown from a space ship as it was circling the sun. The results came back on Thanksgiving 2014, but the closest relative located is a third cousin; we have four segments in commonContinueContinue reading “DNA Part Five: How Do You Identify?”
Poem: Groaning with Graffiti
In the style of Denise Levertov, poet (1923-1997) Three years the poem of your body, of my eyes upon your body of my hands reading each muscle— Stroking, sweeping the scent in the rite of worship, going down from the beat of a neck vein, along broad shoulders, twisted hair trail, belly to cock. ForContinueContinue reading “Poem: Groaning with Graffiti”
Poetry: Housekeeper
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Housekeeper People of all types Come and go to my hotel The same room will house Many different lives Some stay for less than eight hours Others for days Each time I reset the room Removing the evidence of a life I know them now when they walk in…
Generous writing; Foie Gras reading
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As you know I’ve just started to dive into this great adventure called “become a master author and get published”. My writing has gone under the microscope and I am its worst critic. My spelling is not so good; I’ve read less than 200 books in my lifetime, and…
Credentialing vs. Educating
Happy New Year! Every year they blow up the Space Needle in Seattle, my home town. The firework engineers attempt to create a new show every year. It is probably a challenge given the structure they have to work with. Same structure, different show. I feel a little like I need a “new show”. GoingContinueContinue reading “Credentialing vs. Educating”
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