Tag: poems

At this point, obsessed with grayness as I am and as are so many of the people I know, I'll stick to the weather, daily life, my neighborhood, Mutzl (my dog) and Hermes (my cat) bad politics and delicious food.

When I wake up at 7 in the real morning and hear the long, detailed weather report, I feel... What can I say?

Three poems for the season by Matsuo Basho, Robert Frost, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrations by Adam Gudeon.

That place across this table, that table, every table that knows the harvest of heart and home and neighbor and need as we ask once more, ask to become our blessings.

Two poems about President Donald Trump: “Of him it can truly be said he is all bully and no pulpit.”

Hannah Fries, former poetry editor of Orion magazine in Great Barrington, is the first Berkshire author to be published by Hedgerow Books, an imprint of Levellers Press in Amherst. She will be reading at The Bookstore in Lenox at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9.

On Thanksgiving, a poetic meditation by the Becket poet David Giannini.

Zegans’ love for the Berkshires can be found in this collection.

The two photographs accompanying these poems were salvaged from my flood destroyed home and studio in New Orleans August 2005.

The book’s central question: Under the influence of chronic pain and its associated medications and their side effects (e.g., brain fog), how does one follow through with a complex thought? A narrative? A life?

With the Edge Holidays 2014 sections, we offer expanded listings and illustrated readings to add to your holiday enjoyment.