The Lost Tower Publications’ Shout it Out! Anthology is now available on Barnes and Noble! Check out my poem broken and click here to buy the book!
Have a wonderful day!
New Poetry Published!
Read my poem warpath in the 2016 edition of Dragonfly Arts Magazine! Dragonfly Arts Magazine is a publication of HopeWorks, a private nonprofit agency founded in 1978 to eliminate sexual and domestic violence in Howard County, Maryland, by providing shelter, counseling and advocacy, increasing community awareness, and changing societal attitudes.
A poetry reading is being held on Thursday, June 16th from 7pm-9pm at Owen Brown Community Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045. The event is free and you can register here! I will not be there, but many of the other poets who are published in this magazine will be.
You can pick up your copy of Dragonfly Arts Magazine at the following places:
- HopeWorks of Howard County Office
5457 Twin Knolls Road, Suite 310
Columbia, MD 21045
- Figure Savers
8875 Centre Park Dr #1A,
Columbia, MD 21045
- Columbia Art Center
6100 Foreland Garth
Columbia, MD 20145
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, than you better go.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Oliver
One of my favorite poems from Mary Oliver, from her book Thirst.
New Poetry Published!
My poem broken has been published in Lost Tower Publication’s Shout it Out! anthology! Money raised from the purchase of this book will support victims of domestic violence. Poets from America, Canada, China, England, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the Philippines are included in the anthology.
The book is sold on Amazon USA here and Amazon UK here.
And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking. -Audre Lorde
New Poetry Published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Please check out my poem “just barely” that has been published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette today.
A Word from Mohadesa Najumi…
“The woman who doesn’t need validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” -Mohadesa Najumi
To All the College and High School Graduates…
“The capital-T Truth is about life before death…It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:
‘This is water.’ ‘This is water.’ I wish you way more than luck.
-David Foster Wallace in his speech “This is Water”
Something Bigger than Yourself
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–you gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -Steve Jobs
A word from Emily Dickinson…
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” -Emily Dickinson
No More
“Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame or abuse.” -Brooke Axtell #NOMore
New Poetry Published
Please take a look at my new poetry that has been published on “The Feminist Wire.”
S. Carter 