Ada Limón the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023. ''Poetry is elemental, necessary, & deeply human.'' Ada Limon

https://www.adalimon.net/

Look Who Has Stories in the 2023 Coolest American Stories Anthology. "“Coolest American Stories 2023 will remind you why you fell in love with the short story in the first place: unforgettable characters, memorable plots, and crackling prose. The tension hums on every page. This is a collection you won’t want to miss.” —PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist Rebecca Johns, author of The Countess

"COOLEST CLASS OF 2023"
(our 2023 contributors)
David Borofka
Nikki Dolson
Gerald Elias
Nancy J. Fagan

Elizabeth P. Glixman
R. C. Goodwin
Nathan Alling Long
Patricia García Luján
Alex Pickett
Georgia Smith
Morgan Talty
Francisco Uribe
T. E. Wilderson
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https://www.coolestamericanstories.com/

Re-Listed/ I Am The Flame Poetry chapbook/ Finishing Line Press. "With these poems, Glixman goes “to the outer edges of memory” to honer her ancestors. ...–Kimberly L. Becker, author Words Facing East"

 My family immigrated to the US from Russia years ago before WW II. They fled persecution and oppression. Sound familiar. A different time in history but similar tactics used by a country whose agenda is causing havoc in the world.

 I have a longing to know my ancestors. These are poems of remembrance,

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/i-am-the-flame-by-elizabeth-p-glixman

Universal Oneness Anthology Relevant In Today's World

Remember John Lennon' song Imagine or the song We Are The World?  Both were reminders about our desire for peace and harmony for everyone in the world. At this time in human evolution these songs and this poetry anthology remind us of the great potential we have on planet earth to make this world a world of peace and abundance. It all starts from within each of us. We are all connected.

 I hope reading these poems in this anthology will reaffirm to readers the wonders of themselves and the world. I have a poem in this anthology entitled WHY I DREAM ABOUT DIRT AND SEED. 

 https://visualverse.org/submissions/why-i-dream-about-dirt-and-seed/

 

Universal Oneness: An Anthology of Magnum Opus - Poems from around the World (360 poems by 360 poets from 60 Countries), 2019 

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Oneness-Anthology-Magnum-Countries/dp/B07WPSGBRF

5/13/22 The Tragedy of War. We Have A Choice. Why Do Humans Choose War? Moving Poets From Ukraine War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk

5/13/22 The Tragedy of War. We Have A Choice. Why Do Humans Choose War? Moving Poets From Ukraine War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk

9/19/ 2022 Attention Short Story Lovers/ New Coolest American Short Stories Anthology/ New Annual Short Story Anthology Will Captivate You

 

""Love short stories? This collection is for you. Not yet sure how to feel about short stories? This collection is definitely for you. Whoever you are, wherever you are: read these stories!" -Lori Ostlund, Flannery O’Connor Award winner and author of After the Parade and The Bigness of the World"

 Coolest American Short Stories

 Listen to podcast with the editors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey.

Podcast With Editors

My Story Auras will be in the 2023 Anthology More on the 2023 Anthology in future posts. 

9/19/22 Mary Oliver Poem Geese and Drawing

                                                    

 Geese©2000 by Elizabeth P. Glixman

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting 

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

from Dream Work by Mary Oliver

published by Atlantic Monthly Press

© Mary Oliver

5/26/22 A Meditation on Grief / Jack Kornfield From Gratefulness

"When after heavy rain the storm clouds disperse, is it not that they’ve wept themselves clear to the end? —Ghalib"

"Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. When we grieve we allow ourselves to feel the truth of our pain, the measure of betrayal or tragedy in our life. By our willingness to mourn, we slowly acknowledge, integrate, and accept the truth of our losses. Sometimes the best way to let go is to grieve."

Read more here

https://gratefulness.org/resource/a-meditation-on-grief/?utm_source=A+Network+for+Grateful+Living&utm_campaign=2b71f3b1c5-newsletter_october_2020_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c606570b82-2b71f3b1c5-114033121&mc_cid=2b71f3b1c5&mc_eid=96494f4802

5/13/22 The Tragedy of War. We Have A Choice. Why Do Humans Choose War? Moving Poems From Ukraine War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk

 There are two sides to everything.  Somethings like night and day we can't change although electricity has allowed our nights to be brighter.  When we have a choice we often choose that which makes our life better. War in human terms does not make  life better  for anyone except perhaps  governments or certain businesses ( war it is said helps economies). 

When you see the destruction in Ukraine and all around the world you wonder what have we as a human collective done to this glorious planet and to ourselves and each other. Who in their right mind would choose suffering over peace for all?  Who could defend bombing magnificent museums, defenseless civilians, children, relics, hospitals, peoples' homes and innocent animals? It really seems to come down to what you believe, have been taught or experienced in your life.

 Isn't it time collectively to stop wars? Don't you want that? Don't you want to experience the earth being free of  man made pollution, new ways to provide food and freedom for those struggling, new forms of governments that promote  freedoms and resources for all? Don't you want to experience  higher states of inner peace and happiness, live up to your potential? See your families prosper?

Lets stop the suffering.

 Remember beyond nationality and race we are  the same. Maya Angelou said

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

― Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems

 The  Human Tragedy of War

Poets From Ukraine- W Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk

https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/war-poetry-in-ukraine-serhiy-zhadan-and-lyuba-yakimchuk/

4/10/22 Check Out Solstice, a magazine of diverse voices

 https://solsticelitmag.org/our-mission/

4/10/22 Another Time, Another War Poetry W.H. Auden

September 1, 1939

W. H. Auden 

"I sit in one of the dives

On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.

Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,..."

Read the rest at Poets.org

https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939?mc_cid=bbbd87e82

1/12/2022 " Poems for Peace Young people living in conflict use poetry to express their hopes for a more peaceful future."

Mandala for fearlessness. We need to be fearless in our pursuit of inner and outer peace.

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Poems for Peace

Young people living in conflict use poetry to express their hopes for a more peaceful future.

           https://www.unicef.org/children-under-attack/poems-for-peace