Remembering August weekends with Mary at the Charlestown beaches 💚

SAVE THE DATE! Eight weeks will fly by, and we hope to see you there and hear your poetry, too.

Thank you!

Thank you to The Poetry Box for bringing this chapbook to real playful joy! thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/no...

"From the Altar of the Land" completes the trilogy of historical fiction stories-in-verse about strong women. Thanks for taking a peek

Deirdre

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Poetry Readings and Art Exhibit at the Hoppin Gallery in Barney Library, Farmington, CT on Saturday, March 15th. Doors open at 12:30 PM. Open Mic. All are welcome.

Deep gratitude to Clare Songbirds Publishing House for bringing my chapbook to life on the page. All about animals and their intersection with us humans.
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One month! Art Opening and Poetry Readings combined. Open mic, too!

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from "The Beauty of the Place" in the chapbook "Deirdre"

...the Great Blasket Island...
great mountains rising lonely from the sea,
lined with loose stone walls and man's determination.

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Tomorrow is my daughter's birthday so this passage came to mind...

Misneach: A Story of Kidnap, Enslavement & Colonialism by D. Walsh Gil So begins the story of Aoife McGuire, a midwife in Ireland in 1650, kidnapped by Oliver Cromwell's men, and sent into the New World. The next years of her life trace the harrowing trajectory of many o...

From the poem, "Dreaming," in Misneach: A Story of Kidnap, Enslavement, and Colonialism
Nothing is more intimate
than the togetherness they once shared
amniotic ocean waves

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Happy days

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A writer is a world trapped inside a person.
—Victor Hugo

The Love Song of a Sonnet has a Turn by D. Walsh Gilbert First-child born into a world of earthworm,white birch, and ledges of granite, I wasspared the park pigeons and subway ratsMamma escaped for our family’s sake. Listento the whip…

With great thanks to A-Minor Magazine for publication last September: aminormagazine.com/2024/09/30/t... for this full poem and other poets' lovely poems!

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From "The Love Song of a Sonnet has a Turn"

We drifted apart, Tuesday’s child, full of grace,
and Saturday’s child who works for its living.
Birth—our first great separation fell
on the night of a waning gibbous moon,
once full, then shadowing toward half.
We were one, and then, we were two.

ONE Issue #1 – Winter 2024:’ONE’ Buy a Paper Copy Reading stories online is great, but everyone knows there’s nothing quite like the smell and feel of a physical book, so if you…

Huge gratitude to Penstricken for including several of my poems in their issue "One" . One little story about my mother working itself out. penstricken.com/one/

Gather Victoria ANCESTRAL FOOD. HERBAL WISDOM. MAGICAL COOKERY. SEASONAL CELEBRATION.

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The inspirational artwork is included with each poem--in full color. How would they inspire your writing?

imagine the small bones by D. Walsh Gilbert poems in conversation with art In skillfully crafted, luminous, ekphrastic poems, D. Walsh Gilbert's stunning full-length debut imagine the small bones, examines the details of life's inherent struggl...

Art and Poetry hand-in-hand
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All Open Mic tonight at Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, 7 PM. Up to two poems. Everyone is welcome. Let's brighten up this rainy day!