May 28 – Naomi Shihab Nye – Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator, grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, TX. Teaches at Texas State University, has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S., poetry editor for New York Times magazine and The Texas Observer, visiting writer in 100+ schools and communities all over the world. She has written or edited 30+ books, most recently Grace Notes – Poems About Families.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone
Shonda Buchanan is author of the memoir, Black Indian, and of
Katherine Edgren has authored four collections of poetry, the most recent being Keeping Out the Noise. Her work has appeared in Coe Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Third Wednesday. Before retirement, she headed a department at University of Michigan Health Service and served as a City of Ann Arbor Council Member.
Judith Kerman is a poet and multi-artist (singer, performer, crafter). She has published eleven books or chapbooks of poetry, most recently Definitions (Fomite Press, 2021), and three books of translations. She founded Earth’s Daughters magazine (1971) and Mayapple Press (1978). A retired college professor, she lives in Woodstock, NY.
Helen Ruggieri has 2 new books of poetry—The Sapphires and Blue Elegies: Poems for the Birds. Her book of essays and haibun about natural things is Camping in the Galaxy. She lives in upstate New York, where her whole front yard is a garden rather than grass.
Jeff Gundy has published eight books of poems including 
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