garden after rain
leaves on wood path
and red begonia
Ellen Grace Olinger
Creative Note:
I received the Fall 2021 Pinyon Review: Limited Edition, Hand-Sewn.
Susan Entsminger is Editor.
garden after rain
leaves on wood path
and red begonia
Ellen Grace Olinger
Creative Note:
I received the Fall 2021 Pinyon Review: Limited Edition, Hand-Sewn.
Susan Entsminger is Editor.
This afternoon, I am reading Harvesting Fog Poems by Luci Shaw. Her book was published in 2010 by Pinyon Publishing in Montrose, Colorado.
I subscribe to Pinyon Review. Susan Entsminger is Editor.
Last week, I enjoyed creating two more boxes of book donations for Goodwill in Sheboygan, which included poetry journals and art magazines. Perhaps some may read poetry and discover poems that have meaning for them. Or learn more about history from a memoir. Discover a simple gift for someone.
As book stores closed in our area, I was happy to see good collections at thrift stores and other stores. Library sales. The books may travel to another state or country. Be read and shared again. Someone may decide to subscribe to a small press poetry journal. I know I cannot read or reread “everything.”
Next I plan to wash some old clothes, sometimes from thrift stores too, and donate them. Cotton that has been washed many times may become quilt pieces for someone.
You can tell that I am catching up with some simple tasks. One step at a time, and creative work too. Much is in the past now, and I am grateful every day, and look forward as well.
Take good care.
Yesterday, I finished rereading A Listening Life, by Tracy Balzer (2011, Pinyon Publishing). She is a new author for me. I know the quality of the work from Pinyon Publishing, and I saw that Jill Briscoe and Luci Shaw recommended the book.
Tracy Balzer “carry some quiet around” is the author’s site. Her new book will be published in June 2021 – more information at her site.
time with a book
needed rain falls
on the gardens . . .
quiet and I hear
the sound of a train
Poem by Ellen Grace Olinger
water and sky
are the same
soft grey
green tree branches
and the wood
of my desk
and a piece of furniture
from my Swedish grandmother
Today I am reading Harvesting Fog poems by Luci Shaw – Pinyon Publishing 2010; Montrose, Colorado. Author Copyright.
I had not looked at Pinyon Publishing for a time. “Quality Writing Celebrating the Arts & Sciences.” So I will learn more today.
Ellen Grace Olinger
Gary Hotham selected this haiku of mine for the 2014 Members’ anthology, from the Haiku Society of America.
morning prayer
water birds flying north
stay close to waterEllen Grace Olinger
(Published first in SMILE, 67, 2012)
The cover design and illustrations are by Lidia Rozmus.
Lidia Rozmus has a Web Studio at Brooks Books Haiku.
I enjoyed reading Spilled Milk: Haiku Destinies, by Gary Hotham (2010, Pinyon Publishing); with Paintings by Susan Elliott.
Today seems like a good day to finish my submission of poems for the Haiku Society of America 2014 Members’ Anthology. Gary Hotham is the Editor. This link goes to the page about the anthology at their website:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/member-anthol.htm.
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I’m also reading Spilled Milk: Haiku Destinies by Gary Hotham. This beautiful book was published by Pinyon Publishing in 2010. The book includes Sumi-E Watercolors by Susan E. Elliott.
http://www.pinyon-publishing.com
As you know, Luci Shaw is a favorite poet, and I learned of Pinyon Publishing in Colorado, when I ordered her book Harvesting Fog: Poems by Luci Shaw (2010).
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The leaves of perennials are beginning to grow through last year’s fallen leaves.
Blessings, Ellen