MY NEW BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
I have approved the first draft and am waiting for proofs. Production will be complete by the end of May!
However, you don’t have to wait to reserve a copy. You can pre-order my book: “Poets Should Not Write About Politics”
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IN JUST TWO WEEKS!!!
great weather for MEDIA Presents: Laurel S. Peterson & Francine Witte
great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event with 2 amazing features:
Laurel S. Peterson: Poet, Author – Norwalk, CT
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Francine Witte: Poet, Author – New York, NY
When:
Sunday, March 28th, 2021 – 4pm-6pm EDT
Where: ONLINE ZOOM
** To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register for this event via Eventbrite
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The features will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page
Plus open mic. (3 minutes) – The host will be taking open mic signups during the event.
Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson
Admission: FREE
21+
POET BIOs
Laurel S. Peterson
Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds and Talking to the Mirror, and a full-length collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? She also co-edited a collection of essays on women’s justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience and wrote a mystery novel, Shadow Notes. Her second mystery novel, The Fallen, is scheduled to be released later this year, and a new poetry collection, Daughter of Sky, will be released in early 2022. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine Inkwell, and served as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019.
Francine Witte
Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, Passages North, and many others. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and (The Theory of Flesh.) Her chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) will be published by ELJ September, 2021. She lives in NYC.
I’m very appreciative that RoguesScholar Press published 2 of my poems in The Alternative New Year’s Deferred Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza (ANYDSWPE) 2021 Anthology!!!
meld ingredients
while musing urban haiku
my kitchen applauds
Appreciative to Beyond Words International Literary Magazine
I’m very appreciative to Beyond Words International Literary Magazine for publishing my poem “Wintry Blues” in the Spring edition of their magazine.
My Travels #16
Cancun, Mexico – 1992
Not much dialogue about Cancun! I spent far too much time at Señor Frog’s!
Here’s a pic of me recuperating in the central square.
one of only two
bowls of a set I purchased
In Moscow are left
Announcing the winners of the 2020 Helen Kay Chapbook and Sinclair Poetry Prizes
Sinclair Poetry: Jerry T Johnson for Poets Should Not Write about Politics.
Helen Kay Chapbook: Cassondra Windwalker for The Bench
Helen Kay Chapbook Finalist: Charles H Johnson for The Time Traveler
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Jerry T. Johnson, Poet 