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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

May 7, 2022 By Suzanne

March 2022- Autoimmune Awareness Month

I somehow missed this shout out about some of my work by TAB journal in March. The Body Lives Its Undoing, a book of poems (by me) and visual art by others, is still available. All proceeds go to The Benaroya Research Institute.

Filed Under: Art & Medicine, Illness & Healing, literature review, poetry Tagged With: autoimmune disease, poetry, The Body Lives Its Undoing, writing

October 1, 2021 By Suzanne

After My Last Breath–poem

My poem is out today in Gyroscope Review’s Crone Power issue. Fee free to download a PDF version or get it through Kindle or other places in print.  It’s the final poem in this issue. I hope you’ll read other’s work too.

Filed Under: Art & Writing, poetry Tagged With: after life, poetry

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Town Hall-2019 The Body Lives Its Undoing

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Since the House Is Burning-book and audio of 3 poems

April 27, 2022

Writing Workshop for Parents of Kids Living with a Chronic Illness

February 18, 2022

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

January 19, 2022

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