Category: Poetry

Day After the Death of Queen Elizabeth II / Diana Dinverno

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Diana Dinverno’s haibun was one of three winning poems in 3rd Wednesday’s annual poetry contest. Conest judge, Ronnie Hess said “The Day after the Death of Queen Elizabeth is a deft and moving haibun that combines family and English history. I was swept along by the two pasts, the two chronologies, which are told in luminous and fine detail. Like the poet, rendezvousing with an 87-year old cousin she’s never met, I wanted this meeting, this reading “to stretch into years.” We are in “lush countryside,” indeed.”

DDinvernoDiana Dinverno is the author of When Truth Comes Home to Roost (Celery City Chapbooks, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Gyroscope Review, The Westchester Review, Panoply Magazine, The MacGuffin, and other publications. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, Diana writes and practices law in Michigan. For more information, visit www.dianadinverno.com.

Interruptions / Stefan Balan

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Stefan Balan submitted one of the three winning poems in 3rd Wednesday’s annual poetry contest. Contest judge, Ronnie Hess, said “Interruptions is a location poem that in its tightness and painterliness sets the scene with humor, tenderness, and compassion. Can we catch the moments of our lives, remember them, celebrate them, let them go? Please, yes, yes, yes. Well done!”