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Celebrate the Written Word with The Center for the Arts and The Annual 2025 Poetry Contest
New London, NH: The Center for the Arts is honored to partner with The Newbury Public Library and the Inkwell Writers’ Alliance in...
Mar 8, 20252 min read
December Poetry
Poems from John Hay Poet Society Lanterned Yawl Christmas Eve on lanterned yawl Drawn upon my woolen shawl Gliding down the icy path...
Dec 29, 20247 min read
November Poetry
Poems from John Hay Poet Society The President Elect's Private Thoughts the Morning After the Election (Written before the election...
Nov 30, 20244 min read
October Poetry
Pause to Enjoy Fall Ah crisp, cool mornings with a nip in the air Trees changing color, dropping leaves everywhere. The weather is...
Oct 31, 20246 min read
September Poetry
FROM HEAD TO TOE Your hair is the color of gold Like the sun is a form of mold. Eyes are blue as the sky I...
Sep 30, 20241 min read
August Poetry
ANTS HAY DAY Black Grass Nibble Scraps Crawl Grandson Feeding Summer Park ...
Aug 31, 20242 min read
June Poetry
Aunt Ida The journey of a single tear carved creases in her weathered face, stilled promises of what might have been. Ellen Evans Pysz,...
Jun 30, 20241 min read
April Poetry
Ode to the Penultimate Snows By Allison Cummings When snow days still the city, we goggle balaclavas to glide in grooves, carve snow...
Apr 23, 20244 min read
March Poetry
SPRING FEVER Last night I had a troubling dream. High in a beech sat a camouflaged nest of spider silk, moss and green lichen. Two little...
Mar 26, 20246 min read
February Poetry
GEORGE WASHINGTON – REMEMBRANCE Farmer, gentleman, Founding Father, Soldier, statesman, éminence grise, He who served when called, when...
Mar 12, 20245 min read
November Poetry
PERCHANCE THANKSGIVING Four centuries now since they first came here Pilgrim foot upon our shore, Leather shorn with metal buckle seeking...
Feb 20, 20244 min read
December Poetry
TIME Nose Dimming, shoulders slooped A sigh churtles thru his drumming lips He turns his gaze Tired eyes scan the others Now grandsons...
Feb 20, 20246 min read
January Poetry
Decisions To Make Janus, I seek answers from your forward-face, The God who presides at all life’s gates - I don’t wish to look back,...
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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