Before the World Was On Fire, by Christine Potter Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. How do you navigate a world in flames? This chapbook says take a look backwards and consider how far you’ve come.

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This lucky poet has two books coming out this fall/winter. First up is my chapbook from Bottlecap Press, Before The World Was On Fire. It's about growing up in the 60's and 70's, and being an old gal in the 20's. And how you get through everything with the power of the word.

Wednesday, October 29 at 7 PM, Pearl River Methodist Church--join six Rockland County poets who have written for a very, very long time. Julie Agoos, Tim Doyle, Maureen Henry, Wally Glickman, Brian Kates--and MOI! Thanks to Rockland Poet Laureate Juan Pablo Mobili for setting this up. Do come!

How can you both escape the current horrors and resist them? Read Eclectica, the literary magazine with a conscience and also fabulous poetry, CNF, and fiction. And lots of other stuff. Autumn issue OUT NOW, and free for all to read. www.eclectica.org/index.html

Grist For The Mill – A Poetry Corner For Rockland County - Rockland County Business Journal The arts are a significant thread in the fabric of Rockland County. They inspire, enrich, and chronicle our lives. They also play a role in our economic well-being; theater, writing, dance, crafts dra...

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Local Rockland County poets face the current discouraging times with encouraging verse and soulful advice in this month's Grist for The Mill, from the Rockland County Business Journal. Link in comments.

Grist For The Mill - A Poetry Corner For Rockland County - Rockland County Business Journal RCBJ-Audible (Listen For Free) Editor’s Note: The arts are a significant thread in the fabric of Rockland County. They inspire, enrich, and chronicle our lives. They also play a role in our economic w...

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Delighted to see my poetry column live at Rockland County Business Journal. Grist for the Mill this month is about Mary Lou Buschi, an excellent local poet. Link in the comments.

Excellent

Game on.

This is scary!

Thanks to Midwest Quarterly for including this poem about my eleventh finger (no kidding) in their summer issue!

Hi, Bluesky poets and writers! I'm poetry editor at the venerable Eclectica Magazine, one of the 'net's first 'zines. General submissions for poems are just about filled up for the autumn issue, but if you've got something really good, why not shoot it our way? www.eclectica.org

Three Poems by Christine Potter

Three Poems open.substack.com/pub/wrongtur... Delighted to be included in Wrong Turn Lit today! These are all favorite poems.

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Hey, we're busy reading POEMS over at Eclectica Magazine. Our Autumn issue comes out around October 1. How about trying our WORD CHALLENGE? Include the words Curio, Cider, Foil, & Dolorous in a poem of any style, and send it to us through our WORD CHALLENGE portal. No reading fee!

Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland - Rockland County Business Journal Kelly Jo Lillian is a poet and a healer who lives in Rockland County. She shares the faith that poetry is often wiser than poets themselves—that the poem tells you what you want to say, not the other ...

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Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland - Rockland County Business Journal Kelly Jo Lillian is a poet and a healer who lives in Rockland County. She shares the faith that poetry is often wiser than poets themselves—that the poem tells you what you want to say, not the other ...

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Did you know? Rockland County, NY, has more poets than you would believe. We have so many poets that poetry even poets it up in the Rockland County Business Journal--because poetry is the business of life. This month's column stars poet/creativity coach Mary Jo Lillian. Happy August!

"This airplane flies on collective exhales," the pilot announces. "Please breathe together." We practice. The plane shudders, lifts slightly. "Think light thoughts," she adds. A child giggles. We rise ten feet. Someone remembers their wedding—twenty feet. The couple beside me kisses—we're airborne. "What happens if we panic?" "We land," she says. "But we always take off again." Below, other planes circle, waiting for their passengers to synchronize hope. --- *Enjoyed today's story? Share your thoughts and follow us for more tiny daily tales.* #vcc365 #Aviation #Flying #Hope #Unity #PositiveThinking #Mindfulness #Breathwork #Imagination

Be the reason someone believes in good people.

Are you the reason?

Thus ends the “Great Experiment.” We kinda had it coming.

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Bella has the antidote to neo-fascism and despair; Fancy Feast for kitties, and the newest issue of Eclectica Magazine, one of the net's OG 'zines, for hoomans. Link in comments to the best poems in forever and fab prose, too.

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland - Rockland County Business Journal Wally Glickman is an astonishing reader. His poems are musical (he writes songs, too), funny, political, and somehow also reverent.

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New column's up about Rockland County, NY's Wally Glickman in RCBJ. Wally's delightful. Read all about his last performance at Nyack's Big Red Books. Link in comments, photo by Richard Fulco.

This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy.

Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.