I am a writer with an MFA degree. At age 52, I am retired from full-time employment. I reside in Albany, New York, USA, with my husband and teenage daughter. Since 2000, I have been active in my local writing community as an open mic participant, workshop leader, volunteer for the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, and/or critique group member. My poems, etc., have appeared in assorted journals, webzines, anthologies, radio broadcasts, chapbooks, podcasts, and art galleries. For more details, see my blog page “My Poetry Credits.”
Therese Broderick won the Smith’s Tavern Poet Laureate Contest in Voorheeshille and she has released the following regarding her big win.
At my sister’s house during the holidays, I fed her pet bird from my lap. I’ve never before been so close to a bird. One of my holiday gifts was a beautiful pair of chopsticks with which I now eat grapes, peas, pasta, chunks of bread, and anything else fit for chopsticks.
CEILING LAMP, KITCHEN ~kelly green Beneath a flaring rim (its inner cape pearl-white, one bulb glowing edgeless as the moon I saw last night partially hazed, haze magnifying circumference, moonlight leaking past boundaries) I sit, eat red Cortlands, right-click, split open mail with a silver blade on a table off-center, just northeast of […]
