You are invited to join us for our event on Zoom on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 2 pm ET with Jason Morphew, Mary Newell, Pamela Hughes, and Don Yorty.
Roxanne and Patricia
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. The cutoff for Zoom access for an open mic slot is noon the day of reading. After noon, you will not be able to access Zoom. But you will receive a replay of the event after the reading.
Please follow these instructions:
Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO
(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D
If you don’t have PayPal, we accept credit/debit cards and Zelle. Please contact pcarragon@gmail.com to process your credit/debit cards or Zelle payment.
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
**If you do not plan to attend or read in the open, please let us know, and we will send you the livestream link.
Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2488386168298006?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
Bios:
Jason Morphew, the author of Eject City (Poets Wear Prada, 2025). His previously published poetry collections are dead boy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the chapbooks What to deflect when you’re deflecting (Poets Wear Prada, 2017) and In Order to Commit Suicide (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). Widely published, his poems have appeared in Seneca Review, Lana Turner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Smartish Pace, as well as published essays and reviews in The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among other places. Morphew is also a singer-songwriter and a ghostwriter. He teaches at Stanford Online High School and lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Mary Newell, PhD, is an educator, writer, and editor whose work bridges embodied experience and ecological consciousness. Her most recent book ENTWINE, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry with selected photographs, was published by BlazeVOX in 2025. Newell’s poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including About Place Journal, Clockwise Cat, Ecozon@, Interim journal, and Talisman. Her previous books include two chapbooks, TILT / HOVER / VEER and Re-SURGE, as well as the co-edited anthologies The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics and Poetics for the More-than-Human World. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and leads intermittent workshops on writing and on Feldenkrais, a mind-body method that focuses on awareness in movement. Newell lives in Beacon, NY, where she tends to the intersections of language, ecology, embodiment, and consciousness.
Pamela Hughes is author of two collections of poems, Femistry (Three Mile Harbor Press, 2025) and Meadowland Take my Hand (TMHP, 2017). Her poetry and prose have appeared in: Prairie Schooner, Canary; Literary Mama; PANK; The Paterson Literary Review; Brownstone Poets Anthology, The Minnesota Review and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction piece, “The Red Door: On Breasts, Periods and Female Empowerment” was published in the anthology, My Body My Words. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College and is the editor of the onlin
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Brownstone Poets / Blog
We Bloomed at Women Writers in Bloom
What a fantastic Sunday at Women Writers in Bloom. We bloomed with JP Howard and workshop facilitator LeConte Dill. LeConte taught us how to write a contrapuntal, a form that I, personally, want to learn. Food kept coming. Positive vibes on a sunny afternoon in Brooklyn. Meeting old and new friends. I left with a stuffed tummy and a smile.
Read more at: https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/we-bloomed-in-brooklyn/
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Submission Call for May Sense and Sensibility Haiku Journal Opens Apr 1
Submissions will open April 1, 2026, and end April 15 at noon ET, unless we reach our quota sooner. Please send early to increase your chances of being published.
For poets published in the April issue, please skip a month before submitting again.
The prompt for May: Mother Earth’s Rebirth. Think of the rebirth of flora and fauna: farm animals having babies, kitten season in the city, the planting of seeds, bee pollination, cherry blossoms budding on trees, spring festivals, the end of winter’s cold temperatures, longer hours of sunlight, planning summer holidays, and more.
With rebirth also comes the escalation of premature death: climate change, pollution, hatred, greed, extinction, and more. How are we, as Homo sapiens, going to resolve these critical issues? Our planet is reacting. We have planted a time bomb, and time is ticking.
Please submit your work via this Google Form below when submissions open on April 1, 2026. Submissions sent before then will not be considered.
https://forms.gle/xaJ3zEvbp1DLQf9HA
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We welcome PayPal donations at:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=Y2K8L9SMVYC5L&no_recurring=0¤cy_code=USD We also accept donations through Zelle. Contact me at pcarragon@gmail.com.
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Kinds of Cool, Vol II, Poetry by Women, 2025
Thank you Joe Maita of Jerry Jazz Musician for including “A Wonderful World,” “Ne Me Quitte Pas,” and “Now And Then ( In Remembrance Of …) in Kinds of Cool, Vol II, Poetry by Women. Happy to share the space with Carrie Magness Radna.
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/kinds-of-cool-vol-ii-poetry-by-women-2025/
Available on Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4uZkcVr
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A Big Brownstone Thank You to Don Yorty, Mary Newell, and Jason Morphew
A sunny day of poetry today at Brownstone Poets on Zoom. Poems for protest. A day for the No Kings Protest as well. Attendance was dramatically less. Livestream links were sent to the supporters who either attended rallies or had family functions. Shout-outs to Don Yorty, Mary Newell, and Jason Morphew. A powerful reading packed with emotion. Sadly, Pamela Hughes couldn’t come due to illness. Special thanks to Roxanne Hoffman, our Zoom Meister and the wonderful open readers and guests.
Happy Caturday,
Trish oxoxox
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LEAF Issue 9
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/leaf-issue-9/
Thank you, Amanda White and Ravi Kiran for selecting my haiku to be in LEAF issue 9, April 2026. Happy to share the space with so many excellent writers, too numerous to list.
https://leafjournal.io/leaf-issue-nine-has-arrived/embed/#?secret=pR24NlVm1n#?secret=tEsDDO2IfC
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Brownstone Poets is celebrating Small Press Month!
You are invited to join us for our event on Zoom on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 2 pm ET with Jason Morphew, Mary Newell, Pamela Hughes, and Don Yorty.
Roxanne and Patricia Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. The cutoff for Zoom access for an open mic slot is noon the day of reading. After noon, you will not be able to access Zoom. But you will receive a replay of the event after the reading.
Please follow these instructions: Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO (Note that your contribution is not refundable.) Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D If you don’t have PayPal, we accept credit/debit cards and Zelle. Please contact pcarragon@gmail.com to process your credit/debit cards or Zelle payment.
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
**If you do not plan to attend or read in the open, please let us know, and we will send you the livestream link.
Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2488386168298006?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
Bios:
Jason Morphew, the author of Eject City (Poets Wear Prada, 2025). His previously published poetry collections are dead boy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the chapbooks What to deflect when you’re deflecting (Poets Wear Prada, 2017) and In Order to Commit Suicide (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). Widely published, his poems have appeared in Seneca Review, Lana Turner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Smartish Pace, as well as published essays and reviews in The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among other places. Morphew is also a singer-songwriter and a ghostwriter. He teaches at Stanford Online High School and lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Mary Newell, PhD, is an educator, writer, and editor whose work bridges embodied experience and ecological consciousness. Her most recent book ENTWINE, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry with selected photographs, was published by BlazeVOX in 2025. Newell’s poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including About Place Journal, Clockwise Cat, Ecozon@, Interim journal, and Talisman. Her previous books include two chapbooks, TILT / HOVER / VEER and Re-SURGE, as well as the co-edited anthologies The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics and Poetics for the More-than-Human World. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and leads intermittent workshops on writing and on Feldenkrais, a mind-body method that focuses on awareness in movement. Newell lives in Beacon, NY, where she tends to the intersections of language, ecology, embodiment, and consciousness.
Pamela Hughes is author of two collections of poems, Femistry (Three Mile Harbor Press, 2025) and Meadowland Take my Hand (TMHP, 2017). Her poetry and prose have appeared in: Prairie Schooner, Canary; Literary Mama; PANK; The Paterson Literary Review; Brownstone Poets Anthology, The Minnesota Review and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction piece, “The Red Door: On Breasts, Periods and Female Empowerment” was published in the anthology, My Body My Words. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College and is the editor of the onlin
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5-7-5 Haiku Journal, ,March 21
Thank you, DJ Tyrer of Atlantean Publishing, for posting my inverted haiku (7-5-7) today, honoring my Slavic ancestors.
Read it at:
https://575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/haiku-by-patricia-carragon-19/#like-7255
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Writers at the Roerich
Today at Writers at the Roerich (Nicholas Roerich Museum at 219 West 107th Street, NYC). Such a lovely venue to hear my friends Amy Barone (in the red sweater) and Elizabeth B. Morse (in black) read. Great to see Ron Kolm, Barry Wallenstein, and Susan Weiman, plus the members of the Woodside Writers. Hosted by the lovely and gracious Eleni Traganas
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Narrative Northeast, Issue 13.
“Towers for the Poor” was published in Narrative Northeast, Issue 13. Grateful to Pamela Hughes for including the poem.
Check it out at:
https://narrativenortheast.com/?p=14229
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The April Issue of Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal is Out!
Welcome to Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal ~ City Life, April 2026 Dear poets and lovers of Haiku,
Thank you to the following poets in this beautiful and vibrant issue that tells the diverse story of city life:
Betsy Hearne, Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, Veronica Hosking, Carrie Magness Radna, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, Jacob R. Moses, ron scully, Sarah Mahina Calvello, Louise Hopewell, Marcellin Dallaire-Beaumont. Partha Sarkar,Earl Livings, DJ Tyrer, Joanna Ashwell, Susan Murray, Maya Daneva, Rebeca Thomas, Jagajit Salam, Andrew Pineo, Steliana Cristina Voicu, Tracy Davidson. Glorija Lukina. Jacek Wilkos, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Anne Curran, Marion A Poirier, Nemuko, Bita, Boryana Boteva, Jackie Chou, Merilee Johnson, E. C. Traganas, Jahnavi Gogoi, Xiaoly Li, James Penha, Margaret R. Sáraco, Luciana Moretto, Amy Barone, Thompson Emate, Jerome Berglund, Cynthia Gallaher, Bruce H. Feingold, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, Mary Oishi, Seamus O’ Connor, Miriam Sagan, Donald Zappone, Margaret Anderson, Richard E Schell, Josephine LoRe, Tim Dwyer, Mike Jurkovic, Barry Wallenstein, Brasswax
Check out the latest issue: https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/the-april-issue-of-sense-sensibility-haiku-journal-is-out/
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