BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM, for ROB RAMOS JR

BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.

BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.

Saturday, January 2 at 6 p.m.

Enjoy a night of inspirational, emotional and thought provoking poetry while supporting Rob Ramos our grassroots, progressive candidate for Brooklyn Borough President.

Featuring:

Patricia Carragon Linda Lerner Prince A. McNally Robert Anthony Gibbons Roxanne Hoffman Freida Jones

Suggested Contribution: $20

RSVP for link and/or join host committee at: Robramos4brooklyn@gmail.com

ZOOM LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89713363407

Meeting ID: 897 1336 3407 Contribute at: https://www.nycvotes.org/campaigns/robertramosjr

Check out our FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1194114214347597/

Host Committee: Patricia Carragon, Cindy Scavella, Bridget Cevellos, Natalia Vogel, Zoila Guiza, Theresa Brissett, Lakisha Keitt, and more.

www.robramos4bk.com

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REMINDER:Brownstone Poets on ZOOM

REMINDER:Brownstone Poets on ZOOM, Sat, Dec 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, Carrie Magness Radna

REMINDER:

Brownstone Poets on ZOOM

Saturday, December 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST New York City

Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers,

Carrie Magness Radna

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our December features are Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, and Carrie Magness Radna. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief. Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/9hxvyh Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our December reading!

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/296341978268709

BIOS:

Yuyutsu Sharma World-renowned Himalayan poet and translator, Yuyutsu Sharma has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

Bertha Rogers

Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several collections, among them Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2011); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation and illuminations of the riddle-poems in the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book were published as Uncommon Creatures in 2019. She co-founded Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills in 1992; although retired, she still teaches literary workshops and edits poetry collections for the Center. She lives on a mountain in New York’s western Catskills.

Carrie Magness Radna

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her upcoming poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), will be published in 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.

https://carriemagnessradna.com

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Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM

Saturday, December 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST New York City

Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers,

Carrie Magness Radna

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our December features are Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, and Carrie Magness Radna. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief. Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/9hxvyh Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our December reading!

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/296341978268709

BIOS:

Yuyutsu Sharma World-renowned Himalayan poet and translator, Yuyutsu Sharma has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

Bertha Rogers

Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several collections, among them Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2011); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation and illuminations of the riddle-poems in the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book were published as Uncommon Creatures in 2019. She co-founded Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills in 1992; although retired, she still teaches literary workshops and edits poetry collections for the Center. She lives on a mountain in New York’s western Catskills.

Carrie Magness Radna

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her upcoming poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), will be published in 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.

https://carriemagnessradna.com

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Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry

Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Welcomes the Fall Poets of PRATIK: A MAGAZINE of CONTEMPORARY WRITING Sun, Nov 22 at 2:30 P.M.

Honored to be part of this line-up:

Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Welcomes the Fall Poets of PRATIK: A MAGAZINE of CONTEMPORARY WRITING

Sunday, November 22 at 2:30 p.m. EST

Online Event

Hosted by Sandy Yannone

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/663288314371227

Join Cultivating Voices host Sandy Yannone as we welcome Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma, editor of Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, for a reading to celebrate the Fall 2020 issue with current and past contributors. Pratik is a purely non-profit quarterly literary publication and is published by White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu.

SELECT PRATIK POETS WILL READ AT THE EVENT. DETAILS to FOLLOW. Highlights of the Current Issue: Art, Poetry and Music collaboration; Dreams of a Sleeping World; Art of Oscar Oiwa; Plus an interview with Hollywood Musician Chad Cannon EIGHT POETS FROM VERMONT: Chard deNiord David Huddle Tony Whedon Major Jackson Cleopatra Mathis Joan Aleshire Kerrin McCadden Karin Gottshall Sydney Lea DAVID B. AUSTELL Marshaling the Milliards A tribute to Harlem Renaissance Hero, James Weldon Johnson Four Poets from Nicaragua Ernesto Cardenal, Rubén Darío, Salomón de la Selva, Joaquín Pasos A SHEAF OF OTTAWA POEMS Shai Ben-Shalom, Seymour Mayne Nicola Vulpe, Betty Warrington-Kearsley, Erwin Wiens ELEVEN ITALIAN POETS Claudia Russo, Flaminia Cruciani, Rita Stanzione, Zairo Ferrante, Paolo Staglianò, Antonello Airò, Cinzia Marulli, Gabriella Becherelli, Vittorio Fioravanti Grasso, Antonio Blund, Adriana Scanferla Featuring DAVID AXELROD CHARLES BERNSTEIN JILL HOFFMAN BILL WOLAK MIKE GRAVES PATRICIA CARRAGON Plus New Work by GLORIA MINDOCK & HOWARD PFLANZER Afterlife: Two Poems by H.K. KAUL (1941-2020) Now available on Amazon USA, UK, Canada and India, Links below: Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dp Amazon UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dp Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dp Amazon INDIA; https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08GZ23NSG?ref=myi_title_dpUS

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Reminder: Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood

Reminder: Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood to read for Brownstone Poets, Sat, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. REMINDER:

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM

Saturday, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha SoodHi there, We’re back! On ZOOM. Our November features are Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, and Megha Sood. Plus a limited open mic. 3 minutes max. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/x8wjjo

Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our November reading! Your Hosts, Patricia Carragon and ZOOM Master, Roxanne Hoffman Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2975475686099838/

BIOS:

Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and Spillwords Press Publication of the Month winner. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, read with 2013 US Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, and performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival. His Beat poetry is to be anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (December 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust” and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. www.joshuacorwin.com .

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Boston Literary Magazine Queen Mob’s Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street and Wilderness House Literary Review. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, has just been released.

Megha Sood is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK based Literary Journal MookyChick.Over 500+ works in journals including Better than Starbucks, Gothamist, Poetry Society of New York, WNYC Studios, Kissing Dynamite, American Writers Review, FIVE:2: ONE, Dime show review, etc.Works featured in 50 other print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. Three-time State-level Winner NAMI NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019/2020.National Winner Spring Robinson Lit Prize 2020, Finalist in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019, Adelaide Literary Award 2019 etc.Currently co-editing anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, MookyChick), and (“The Kali Project”, CrossTree Press). She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @meghasood16.

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Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Saturday, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading: We're back! On ZOOM. Our November features are Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, and Megha Sood. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief. Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/x8wjjo Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event. Looking forward to seeing you at our November reading!

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2975475686099838/

BIOS:

Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and Spillwords Press Publication of the Month winner. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, read with 2013 US Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, and performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival. His Beat poetry is to be anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (December 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust” and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. www.joshuacorwin.com .

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Boston Literary Magazine Queen Mob's Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street and Wilderness House Literary Review. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, has just been released.

Megha Sood is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK based Literary Journal MookyChick.Over 500+ works in journals including Better than Starbucks, Gothamist, Poetry Society of New York, WNYC Studios, Kissing Dynamite, American Writers Review, FIVE:2: ONE, Dime show review, etc.Works featured in 50 other print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. Three-time State-level Winner NAMI NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019/2020.National Winner Spring Robinson Lit Prize 2020, Finalist in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019, Adelaide Literary Award 2019 etc.Currently co-editing anthologies ( "The Medusa Project", MookyChick), and ("The Kali Project", CrossTree Press). She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @meghasood16.

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Publication News Late September through October

Late September Through October Publication News

Thank you Jason Wright and Chad Parenteau for publishing my poems for Oddball Magazine, September 24, 2020 and October 13, 2020

Haiku Duet for Justice Ginsberg https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-patricia-carragon-3/

Blue in Green

https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-patricia-carragon-4/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madness Muse Press, Week #1, September 27, 2020

Honored to have The Intellectually Gifted Dog in the first week of this weekly journal. Thank you John Compton.

Cheers to the following writers: Jason O'Toole, L.B. Sedlacek, Julet Cook, J.J. Hastain, and more.

https://madnessmusepresssite.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/patricia-carragon/

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Spectrum 25, October 2020

Thank you Don Kingfisher Campbell for accepting my poem in this photo for Spectrum 25 congrats to David Dephy, Megha Sood, Joshua Corwin ----------------------- Beat Generation, National Beat Poetry Anthology Virtual Launch Part 2, October 16, 2020, Local Gems Press

Thank you James Paul Wagner for selecting my recording of "Take Five." So happy that this poem is in the anthology.

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/bardspoetryrevolution/2020/10/16/beat-generation-national-beat-poetry-anthology-virtual-launch-part-2

You can pre-order your book here:

https://www.bardconvirtual.com/beat-gen-anthology.html ---------------------------------

Muddy River Poetry Review, #23, Fall 2020

Thank you Zvi S. Sesling for publishing i've got you under my skin in Muddy River Review. Kudos to Jeff Santosuosso, Carrie Magness Radna, Ace Boggess, Miriam Sagan, R. Bremner, Bob Heman, Michael T. Young, ayaz daryl nielsen, Tom Suermondt, David Miller, et al.

https://muddyriverpoetryreview.webs.com/?fbclid=IwAR24BrMlUaRO-uy7DY8_RKuivdiEr98pe1u-jdBadDr7HwXKcZYHinekwiU

https://muddyriverpoetryreview.webs.com/Patricia%20Carragon-1.pdf

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Bear Creek Haiku

Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Saturday, October 17, 2020

Wow, what a week! I'm in Bear Creek Haiku with Carrie Magness Radna and Jo Balistreri. Cheers to Matthew Banash, Ed Markowski, Judith Partin-Nielsen, Kierat Recktenwald, Dennis Rhodes, Alan Catlin, Carl Mayfield, r soos

Thank you ayaz daryl nielsen

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/10/poets-matthew-banash-ed-markowski.html

Bear Creek Haiku, #166, October 2020

Thank you ayaz daryl nielsen for publishing my haiku. Congrats to Michael Ceraolo,Judith Partin-Nielsen, Dennis Rhodes, r soos, Paula Yup, Toma Rosen, t. kilgore splake, Teresinka Pereira, John McDonald, James B. Peters, Carl Mayfield, et al.

faucet waterfall thinking of cats and haiku while brushing my teeth

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summer heat tell that to the sleeping cat

Spillwords Press, October 23, 2020

Excited to have my Halloween Catku posted in the latest Spillwords Press, October 23, 2020. Thank you Dagmra K.

https://spillwords.com/halloween-catku/

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Poets Wear Prada's Rainbow Project for the Color Orange, October 23, 2020

Haunted Brooklyn by Patricia Carragon Haunted Brooklyn by Patricia Carragon

Much gratitude to Poets Wear Prada's Roxanne Hoffman and Jack Cooper for publishing my poem "Early Autumn for the Rainbow Project

https://rainbowliterary.blogspot.com/2020/10/patricia-carragon-early-autumn.html

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Happy to have "Strange Fruit" in the current Jerry Jazz Musician Poetry reflecting the era of COVID, Black Lives Matter, and a heated political season — Vol. 4 October 29, 2020. Thank you Joe Maita. Pleased to see my friends Ronald P. Bremner, Carrie Magness Radna, Linda Lerner, Jack Cooper, Prince A McNally, and Ermira Mitre

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/10/poetry-reflecting-the-era-of-covid-black-lives-matter-and-a-heated-political-season-vol-4/

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Welcome to Lit Balm's Halloween Party

Welcome to Lit Balm's Halloween Party

Saturday at 5 PM EDT – 6:30 PM EDT Public · Hosted by Lit Balm: An Interactive Livestream Reading Series, Larissa Shmailo and Jonathan Penton Online Event

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/461603228

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/2791643571157098/ Get ready for a spooky edition of Lit Balm: An Interactive Livestream Reading Series! Lit Balm is a weekly online literary series featuring readings from innovative authors worldwide. On October 31, our Halloween Party, in full costume, will feature Patricia Carragon, Michael Anania, Big Mike, and Robert Archambeau with his daughter Lila!

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Meowku Flash Sale on Amazon

Still don't have your copy of Meowku?

Time to take advantage of the MEOWKU Flash Sale

on Amazon.com

Originally $12.00, NOW $8.50

(SAVE $3.50 and GET FREE SHIPPING

WITH PRIME)

Patricia Carragon, author of Urban Haiku and More, returns with more Haiku, this time inspired by her favorite muse, our sphinx-like companion, the CAT.

Here is the purchase link: https://amzn.to/2MTklrO

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Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM

Saturday, November 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, Megha Sood

Hi there,

We're back! On ZOOM. Our November features are Joshua Corwin, Chad Parenteau, and Megha Sood. Plus a limited open mic. 3 minutes max. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol

Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/x8wjjo

Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Looking forward to seeing you at our November reading!

Your Hosts, Patricia Carragon and ZOOM Master, Roxanne Hoffman

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2975475686099838/

Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and Spillwords Press Publication of the Month winner. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, read with 2013 US Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, and performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival. His Beat poetry is to be anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (December 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust” and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. www.joshuacorwin.com .

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Boston Literary Magazine Queen Mob's Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street and Wilderness House Literary Review. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, has just been released.

Megha Sood is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the UK based Literary Journal MookyChick.Over 500+ works in journals including Better than Starbucks, Gothamist, Poetry Society of New York, WNYC Studios, Kissing Dynamite, American Writers Review, FIVE:2: ONE, Dime show review, etc.Works featured in 50 other print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. Three-time State-level Winner NAMI NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019/2020.National Winner Spring Robinson Lit Prize 2020, Finalist in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019, Adelaide Literary Award 2019 etc.Currently co-editing anthologies ( "The Medusa Project", MookyChick), and ("The Kali Project", CrossTree Press). She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @meghasood16.

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