“Mourning Dove Portfolios” by Mary K O’Melveny
May 13, 2021
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One poem – “Mourning Dove Portfolios” – by retired labor rights lawyer and poet Mary K O’Melveny.
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Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
One poem – “Mourning Dove Portfolios” – by retired labor rights lawyer and poet Mary K O’Melveny.
Two poems – “Native I Am, Cocopa” and “Sweet Nectar” – by poet, editor, and Best of the Net & Pushcart Prize nominee Michael Lee Johnson.
One poem – “The Sea in the Window” – by Salmagundi Magazine Executive Editor and Skidmore professor Peg Boyers.
One poem – “half-life story” – by Liverpool UK poet Paul Tanner.
Anthem for Brian I see your heart too big to stay under skin and bone. The cavity meant to hold it begs to be expanded. This dark universe days your
One poem – “Dream: An Angler at Hundred” – SUNY Distinguished Professor of English emerita at SUNY New Paltz, Jan Zlotnik Schmidt.
Two poems – “the tighter the knot, the stronger the hold” and “Night in America, Summer 1972” – from professor, writer, and filmmaker Dean Goldberg.
One poem – “The Old Car” – by Amsterdam, New York-based, award-winning poet Francine Farina.
Two poems – “Readiness Is Nothing” and “A Faster Runner” – by Brian Rihlmann.
One poem – “Declaring Sovereignty” – by Nancy Shiffrin who recently first prize in the Angela Consolo Mankiewicz Poetry Contest.
Four prose poems – “The Passenger”, “Furniture Music”, “Ahoy!”, and “Savage State” – by SUNY New Paltz journalism professor Howie Good.
Two poems – “Zen and the Art of Eating Inside a Restaurant for the First Time in Eleven Months” and “Relic” – by Therese Broderick.
