Rhode Island Poetry
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The Favor
A stream of thought reveals a stream of gratitude
Poetry by Mark Terrill
While everyone else was going to school, Mark Terrill was working and traveling, shipping out as a merchant seaman, and touring with various rock bands in the capacity of road manager. In 1982 he was a participant in Paul Bowles’s writing workshop in Tangier, Morocco, and after extended stays in Tangier, Lisbon, Paris and Hamburg, he's lived in Germany since 1984, where he's been scraping by in various guises, including shipyard welder, cook and postal worker. Recent books include The United Colors of Death (Pathwise Press), Bread & Fish (The Figures) and Kid with Gray Eyes (Cedar Hill Books).
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June Haiku
Three poems helping us see a woman, playful whales, and splashing waves
By Robin M. Buehler
Robin M Buehler is a journalist in southern NJ. Her poetry have appeared in Canadian Zen Haiku, Autumn Leaves, Byline Magazine, Poetic Hour, Taj Mahal Review, Sigla Magazine, Writers Post Journal, and other journals.
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A Selection of May Haiku
Anticipation of spring, spring flowers, and round stones all make subjects for these haiku and haiku-related poems
Poems By Patricia Wellingham-Jones and Davi Walders
Patricia Wellingham-Jones maintains a website featuring her work at www.wellinghamjones.com . Davi Walders' poetry and prose have appeared in more than 150 anthologies...
It's Raining In Love
Relationships can be tricky
Poetry By Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 - September 1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan's work became identified with the counterculture youth movement of the late 1960s, even though he was said to be contemptuous of hippies
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Very Much January
A wintertime visit to an aging relative
By Jessica Del Balzo
Jessica Del Balzo is a student at Emerson College where she studies Writing, Literature, and Publishing. .
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Shadowland
Memories can be hard to hold
By Stephen Mead
Stephen Mead is a artist/writer living in northeastern NY. As an artist he is self-taught, yet has been heavily influenced by both surrealism and expressionism. In the early 1990's he was published in several little literary magazines, but stopped to pursue visual work.
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Harvest Poem
Harvest brings the simple farm life full circle
By Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886), though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded with Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets of the 19th century.
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Coming Home
At what point are you finally home? When you step on the porch? Open the screen door? Climb the stairs?
By Lillian Baker Kennedy
Lillian Baker Kennedy, the author of Tomorrow After Night (Bay River Press 2003) and Notions (Pudding House Publications 2004), also co-published, co-edited A Sense of Place, Collected Maine Poems (Bay River Press 2002). Kennedy practices law and lives in an old cape bordered by wild roses in Auburn, Maine.
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Eel-Grass
Missing the mundane of Narragansett Bay
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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The Station Nightclub
Perhaps it's morbid, but Don Kunz, like Shakespeare, wonders what dreams may come to those who have passed on.
By Don Kunz
Don Kunz is a URI professor.
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Old Piano
Memories of an old family friend and the joys it gave
By Nina Riggs
Molting
A poem of aging
By Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Born in 1939 in The Bronx (New York City), Marian Kaplun Shapiro received her B.A. in English (writing) from Queens College, and her Masters and Doctorate from Harvard. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where she practices as a psychologist and poet. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and a Jewish Quaker. In addition to her poetry, which has appeared in various literary magazines, she is the author of a book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1989), a chapter in What Is Psychotherapy? (Jossey-Bass, 1990), and in Play (Wiley, 2002) and many journal articles.Since beginnning to send out her poetry four years ago her poems have appeared in twenty-nine journals and three anthologies...
Spring Haiku
After the snow and before the leaves...
By Janie Clayton
Janie Clayton is eleven years old and lives someplace in Alaska with a dog named Spot and a cat named Puff. She does not have a brother named Dick or a sister named Sally.
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Buzzard Bay Freezes Over
headline on the New Bedford Standard, 12/31/17
By Eve Rifkah
Eve Rifkah is the co-founder and artistic director of Poetry Oasis, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) non-profit poetry organization and editor of Diner: a journal of poetry. Poems and/or essays have appeared in The MacGuffin, 5 AM, Chaffin Journal, Porcupine Press, The Worcester Review, California Quarterly, ReDactions, Jabberwock Review, Southern New Hampshire Literary Journal and translated into Braille. Her chapbook At the Leprosarium was the winner of 2003 Revelever chapbook contest. She received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College and lives with her husband, poet Michael Milligan.
Blizzard -- January 23, 2005
Winter can be cold
By Audrey Friedman
Audrey Friedman teaches 8th grade English at Davisville Middle School in Rhode Island. She received an MFA in Poetry in January, 2005 from Vermont College. Her work appears in numerous journals including the California Quarterly, The Newport Review, The Black Buzzard Review and new work is forthcoming in The Comstock Review, Diner, and Heartbeats III: Jewish Writers at Their Best from Targum Press. Audrey's chapbook, "Gallery of the Surreal," is available from Premier Poets Press, Middletown, RI.
BIRD FOR TONY,
quitting the job
at the Fish Lure Factory in Providence, RI
By Andrena Zawinski
Andrena Zawinski has won awards for poetry of social concern, for free verse, for researched based non-fiction, and has been four times nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in: Nimrod International Journal of Fiction and Poetry, Gulf Coast, Paterson Literary Review, Talking River Review, Quarterly West and other journals. She is feature editor of Poetrymagazine.com.
Christmas Haiku
Observations at Christmas by an 11-year-old. What happened to those cookies?
By Janie Clayton
Janie Clayton is eleven years old and lives someplace in Alaska with a dog named Spot and a cat named Puff. She does not have a brother named Dick or a sister named Sally.
Ode to Robert Frost
Every season can be loved. Autumn, though, is special.
Curt Stump is a freelance writer, poet and artist. He is also the host of the emerging Stone and Plank art gallery and writing center located in Smithfield, Rhode Island Website: http://www.stoneandplank.com
At the Bottom of the Cliff
A beachcomber at the bottom of a cliff brings fantastic images to mind. Poem by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Love and Knowlege
Audubon brought the knowlege of birds to the world. Poem by Robert Penn Warren
Summer Lightning
A poem about a lightning storm, uncommon in Rhode Island
Just A Summer Poem
Packing the kids in the old Chevy, back in the days when Dad was young and the Chevy was new.
This Marriage
A poetic blessing of a marriage by Islamic poet Rumi
First Spring Day
... and the first day of spring -- Poetry by Henry Van Dyke
Mother's Day Poem
A haiku about one particular Mother's Day ritual
Sister Turtle
Will the tide come before the predators? -- Poetry by Lee Glantz
Providence
Discovering the meaning of happiness in suburbia -- Poetry by Barbara Schweitzer
Heart-shaped Rocks
Patterns in nature are universal, even when it comes to relationships -- Poetry by Barbara Schweitzer
Winter Haiku
Snowflakes from the eyes of a child -- Poetry by Mikyla Wilfred
On the Twenty-Fifth Day of the Month of Kislev
Celebrating the tradition of Chanukah -- Audrey Friedman
Building a Day at the Beach
Building and destroying by the sea -- Lauri Burke
Sovereigntry
The fight of the Narragansetts continues -- Al Stein
Sandy Point
A year hasn't been quite enough -- Michele F. Cooper
Crocus
It's time to live again - Audrey Friedman
Vigil
A visitor to Rose Island - Shirley Utterbeck
The Door
Beachcombing - Lauri Burke
Reflections of Silver Spring Lake
Ice, life, and jealousy - Krista D'Amico
Fox
A sly mother and curious children - Michele F. Cooper
Our Town
Main Street has its share of characters - Betsy Lincoln
Canada Geese
Watching the flock - Chris Waters
Four with three besides
Swans - Barbara Schweitzer
Budding
Spring and youth - Audrey Friedman
Giving Thanks
The classic poem of the American Thanksgiving -- Author Unknown
Heron
Feathered grace, hunting Rhode Island marshes -- Pat Hegnauer
Laundry Day at Casey Farm
Sit back and watch the breeze blow -
Heather Christie
Reflections on a Rhode Island Autumn
Bluebirds and foliage - Christine Lund Orciuch
Diamond Hill
Ghosts of skiers - Paul Pence
Pond and Wind
Winter's chill - Paul Pence
Sailing Scenarios
Fear of deep water - Betsy Lincoln
Scarborough Beachcomber
They're on every beach - Audrey Friedman
Whisper
Courting the wind - Paul Pence
The Landing
RI's saga - Thomas D. Jones
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Premier Poets Chapbook Series
Rhode Island has its own Poetry Chapbook Series, including many of the poets featured in RIRoads!
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For each title, just send $3 plus 50 cents postage to:
Premier Poets --
Michele F. Cooper, ed. --
94 Sandy Point Farm Road --
Portsmouth, RI 02871
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