Tag: Poem

My Grandmother in the Bath / Fran Schumer

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Fran Schumer’s poem is one of three winning poems from 3rd Wednesday’s annual poetry contest. Contest judge, Ronnie Hess, said, “My Grandmother in the Bath does what only good poems can — draw portraits of people, their hardscrabble lives, their place in our own family history. Poems to break your heart. Of course we make our own mistakes, realizing our errors too late. The descriptions here are often breathtaking — “apples she baked until they were soggy, sweet, defeated” — yet anchored in the everyday places, like a hot bath, where you can be lonely “and have time to think about the pain.”

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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.