Thrilled to have my poem chosen by such an impressive ezine. Not only beautiful and fitting graphics, but the introduction that was written for my poem is haunting. https://www.frontierpoetry.com/2018/12/14/poetry-rochelle-jewel-shapiro/
With dear friend, NANCY RUBIN STUART today to celebrate the paperback issue of DEFIANT BRIDES: THE UNTOLD STORY OF TWO REVOLUTIONARY-ERA WOMEN AND THE RADICAL MEN THEY MARRIED. Fascinating story drawn from the letters of the Philadephia blonde belle, Peggy Shippen, who married Benedict Arnold, and the letters of the spirited and voluptuous Lucy Flucker, […]
Poetry has helped me live through these political times. Perhaps soon I’ll be writing about butterflies again. http://www.carbonculturereview.com/poetry/the-generals-mouth/
Found a memoir that I think beats out Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes—Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes, by Martha Long. The title tells so much about this plucky, witty little girl in 1950’s Dublin who survived a violent stepfather, a mother who used her as a little mother to the children she kept spawning, […]