I am a writer with an MFA degree. At age 52, I am retired from full-time employment. I reside in Albany, New York, USA, with my husband and teenage daughter. Since 2000, I have been active in my local writing community as an open mic participant, workshop leader, volunteer for the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, and/or critique...
Therese Broderick won the Smith’s Tavern Poet Laureate Contest in Voorheeshille and she has released the following regarding her big win.
At my sister’s house during the holidays, I fed her pet bird from my lap. I’ve never before been so close to a bird. One of my holiday gifts was a beautiful pair of chopsticks with which I now eat grapes, peas, pasta, chunks of bread, and anything else fit for chopsticks.
CEILING LAMP, KITCHEN ~kelly green Beneath a flaring rim (its inner cape pearl-white, one bulb glowing edgeless as the moon I saw last night partially hazed, haze magnifying circumference, moonlight leaking past boundaries) I sit, eat red Cortlands, right-click, split open mail with a silver blade on a table off-center, just northeast of ...![]()
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