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Thank you for visiting my blog! I write on many topics and your comments are always welcome.

October 1, 2022 By Suzanne

Book Reviews–Since the House Is Burning

A book review is a gift from the reviewer to the reader and writer. It is a conversation in which the writer is allowed into someone else’s perceptions of their words and it is a way for potential readers to learn about a book they might want to read.  It is also a labor of kindness since very few reviewers get paid for their work.

I am grateful to both Claudia Putnam whose review of my book appears in MER online (aka Mom Egg Review) and to Risa Deneberg for her words in River Mouth Review.

 

Filed Under: literature review, poetry, poetry book Tagged With: Book Review

August 6, 2022 By Suzanne

Town Hall-2019 The Body Lives Its Undoing

The Body Lives Its Undoing

I had not realized that Town Hall Seattle made a recording of the event I presented in September 2019 (a few months before COVID unleashed itself on the world), but here is a link to that reading and interactive event.

My recent 4Culture grant will expand on this project, now called The Kaleidoscope of Autoimmune Diseases.

In September 2019, I spent 2 weeks at Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat later outlining my thoughts for it.

It’s been almost 3 years since inception and it will be a long pregnancy with this book project, but I hope you all will follow along with me. I’ll post periodic updates.

Partial Mind Map

Filed Under: Art & Medicine, Art & Writing, Illness & Healing, Kaleidoscope of Autoimmune Disease, readings

June 17, 2022 By Suzanne

Ekphrastic Review poem

The Ekphrastic Review publishes a weekly visual prompt as a way to elicit literary responses.  Thank you to them for publishing mine along with many others. It is in response to Rubens The Massacre of the Innocents.

Innocence Aftermath

Nothing new here.
Hasn’t it always been so,
this othering? Desire

to rid ourselves from threat
to the kingdom of self.

Murderers might be armored
with righteous fervor
or crowned with orders to obey.

Perhaps untethered voices
scramble one’s mind and a rapacious

quest to still them. Some baked-in-trait,
trick or taint in our genes
commandeers our heads. Centuries

of bloodshed. Blood as dictator
and treasure. More valued

than gold. Yet, it’s the naked
violence against children,
slaughter of the defenseless

we seem unable to quell. We are sick.
Of it all. Aren’t we?

https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-writing-challenges

Filed Under: Art & Writing, poetry Tagged With: Ekphrasis, poetry, Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents

May 21, 2022 By Suzanne

Where to find Since the House Is Burning + Readings

Book cover with blue, red and orange abstract paintingMy book is available from the following bookstores. Please shop local if possible or order online from an independent bookstore:

Open Books: A Poem Emporium

Eagle Harbor Books

IndieBound.org

Elliott Bay Books

READINGS:

Eagle Harbor Books–June 30, 2022–7 pm–in person.  Please register for the reading at Eagle Harbor Books.

Langley Library, Langley, WA–Friday, July 8th–6:30 pm ( with Julia Levine authors of Ordinary Psalms)

It’s About Time Reading Series–Thursday, July 14th–6 pm (online–register through Seattle Public Library events page)

Elliott Bay Bookstore–Thursday, Sept. 8th–7 pm (with Cindy Veach, author of Her Kind)–in person

Hugo House–Wednesday, November 9th–7 pm (in conversation & reading with Kristen Millares Young)–in person

MoonPath Press reading with Alice Derry–Sunday, November 13th @ 3 pm Pacific–online

Filed Under: events, poetry, poetry book, readings, Uncategorized Tagged With: poetry, Poetry reading

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Since the House is Burning–front and back covers–Reading

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