REMINDER: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, Zohreh Zadbood, Sat, January 31, 2026
Happy New Year! Time to manifest a fabulous 2026 for peace, love, happiness, and poetry!
Brownstone Poets on Zoom is back for another superb year of poetry.
You are invited to join us for our January event on Zoom on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 2 pm ET with David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, and Zohreh Zahbood.
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, late registrants are not guaranteed Zoom access to join the open but will receive a link to watch the reading live-streamed on YouTube.
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
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.
Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1095400162632846
Looking forward to seeing you at our reading!
Bios:
David Dephy is a Georgian American award-winning poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Orchestra and is the Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets 2024-2026. His poem, “A Sense of Purpose,” is being sent to the Moon by The Lunar Codex, NASA, and Brick Street Poetry in 2025. He was exiled from his native country of Georgia in 2017 and was granted political asylum in the USA immediately and indefinitely. His family, beloved wife, and nine-year-old son joined him in the U.S. after seven years of exile in 2023. He lives and works in New York City.
Pamela L. Laskin taught children’s writing and directed the Poetry Outreach Center at City College. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, children’s literature, and fiction. She is a recipient of the International Fiction Prize from Leapfrog Press and two Freedom Through Literacy Awards. Ms. Laskin has received the Judith’s Room Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Prize in 2022 for her middle-grade novel, What I Forgot to Tell You (forthcoming 2025), and again in 2023 for her current novel. She is currently collaborating with Ukrainian author Vasyl Makhno on a YA verse novel, Wisteria and Weeds.
Zohreh Zadbood is an Iranian storyteller, photographer, and poet writing in Persian and English. A recent NYU graduate, she is completing her MFA in creative writing at The New School. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, About Place Journal, The Los Angeles Press, Soup Can Magazine, and New Generation Beats Anthology. Her poem “Nobaraneh” was named Poem of the Week by Beatlife Magazine. She has performed at Unnameable Books (2024), the NYPL–58th St. Branch (2023), and The 550 Garden (2024) for the East Midtown Partnership’s World Poetry Day celebrations and at Café Lafayette during the Jersey City Artist Studio Tour (2025).
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Cold Moon Journal
Cold Moon Journal, January 24, 2026
crystal glass-- another year retires
https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/…/patricia…
Thank you, Timothy Daly and Oana Maria Cercel for posting my haiku today in Cold Moon.
Happy Saturday,
Trish oxoxox
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Reminder: Brownstone Poets Sat, Jan 31
REMINDER: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, Zohreh Zadbood, Sat, January 31, 2026
Happy New Year! Time to manifest a fabulous 2026 for peace, love, happiness, and poetry!
Brownstone Poets on Zoom is back for another superb year of poetry.
You are invited to join us for our January event on Zoom on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 2 pm ET with David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, and Zohreh Zahbood.
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, late registrants are not guaranteed Zoom access to join the open but will receive a link to watch the reading live-streamed on YouTube.
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 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.
Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1095400162632846
Looking forward to seeing you at our reading!
Bios:
David Dephy is a Georgian American award-winning poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Orchestra and is the Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets 2024-2026. His poem, “A Sense of Purpose,” is being sent to the Moon by The Lunar Codex, NASA, and Brick Street Poetry in 2025. He was exiled from his native country of Georgia in 2017 and was granted political asylum in the USA immediately and indefinitely. His family, beloved wife, and nine-year-old son joined him in the U.S. after seven years of exile in 2023. He lives and works in New York City.
Pamela L. Laskin taught children’s writing and directed the Poetry Outreach Center at City College. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, children’s literature, and fiction. She is a recipient of the International Fiction Prize from Leapfrog Press and two Freedom Through Literacy Awards. Ms. Laskin has received the Judith’s Room Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Prize in 2022 for her middle-grade novel, What I Forgot to Tell You (forthcoming 2025), and again in 2023 for her current novel. She is currently collaborating with Ukrainian author Vasyl Makhno on a YA verse novel, Wisteria and Weeds.
Zohreh Zadbood is an Iranian storyteller, photographer, and poet writing in Persian and English. A recent NYU graduate, she is completing her MFA in creative writing at The New School. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, About Place Journal, The Los Angeles Press, Soup Can Magazine, and New Generation Beats Anthology. Her poem “Nobaraneh” was named Poem of the Week by Beatlife Magazine. She has performed at Unnameable Books (2024), the NYPL–58th St. Branch (2023), and The 550 Garden (2024) for the East Midtown Partnership’s World Poetry Day celebrations and at Café Lafayette during the Jersey City Artist Studio Tour (2025).
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February Sense & Sensibility is up
Welcome to Sense & Sensibility ~ February 2026
Happy February, dear poets and lovers of Haiku.
Thank you to the following poets in this beautiful issue:
Tim Dwyer, Vishal Prabhu, John S Green, Steliana Cristina Voicu, Earl Livings, Lisa C Reynolds, Mike Jurkovic, Morning Star, James Penha, Anna Cates, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Robert Epstein, Susan Murray, Sarah Mahina Calvello, Marcellin Dallaire-Beaumont, Topaz, Luciana Moretto, Richard E Schell, Andrew Pineo, Marion Alice Poirier, Greg Beatty, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, Anne Louise Curran, Jerome Berglund, Janet Ruth, Tracy Davidson, Seamus Ó Connor, Aidan Castle, Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, Mary Oishi, Joan C Fingon, Geer Austin, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, Esther Cohen, Brandon R Burdette, Kit Kennedy, Austin Alexis, Thompson Emate, Goran Gatalica, Partha Sarkar, Linette Rabsatt, Sara Clancy, DJ Tyrer, Christina Chin, Joanna Ashwell, Sathya Venkatesh, Fatma Zohra Habis, Elizabeth Lara, Glorija Lukina, Jan Garden Castro
Read it at:
https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/sense-sensibility-february-2026/
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Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Jan 31 at 2 pm ET
Brownstone Poets on Zoom: David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, Zohreh Zadbood, Sat, January 31, 2026
Happy New Year! Time to manifest a fabulous 2026 for peace, love, happiness, and poetry!
Brownstone Poets on Zoom is back for another superb year of poetry.
You are invited to join us for our January event on Zoom on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 2 pm ET with David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, and Zohreh Zahbood.
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, late registrants are not guaranteed Zoom access to join the open but will receive a link to watch the reading live-streamed on YouTube.
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 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.
Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1095400162632846
Looking forward to seeing you at our reading!
Bios:
David Dephy is a Georgian American award-winning poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Orchestra and is the Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets 2024-2026. His poem, “A Sense of Purpose,” is being sent to the Moon by The Lunar Codex, NASA, and Brick Street Poetry in 2025. He was exiled from his native country of Georgia in 2017 and was granted political asylum in the USA immediately and indefinitely. His family, beloved wife, and nine-year-old son joined him in the U.S. after seven years of exile in 2023. He lives and works in New York City.
Pamela L. Laskin taught children’s writing and directed the Poetry Outreach Center at City College. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, children’s literature, and fiction. She is a recipient of the International Fiction Prize from Leapfrog Press and two Freedom Through Literacy Awards. Ms. Laskin has received the Judith’s Room Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Prize in 2022 for her middle-grade novel, What I Forgot to Tell You (forthcoming 2025), and again in 2023 for her current novel. She is currently collaborating with Ukrainian author Vasyl Makhno on a YA verse novel, Wisteria and Weeds.
Zohreh Zadbood is an Iranian storyteller, photographer, and poet writing in Persian and English. A recent NYU graduate, she is completing her MFA in creative writing at The New School. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, About Place Journal, The Los Angeles Press, Soup Can Magazine, and New Generation Beats Anthology. Her poem “Nobaraneh” was named Poem of the Week by Beatlife Magazine. She has performed at Unnameable Books (2024), the NYPL–58th St. Branch (2023), and The 550 Garden (2024) for the East Midtown Partnership’s World Poetry Day celebrations and at Café Lafayette during the Jersey City Artist Studio Tour (2025).
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Sustained Resistance: In Honor of MLK Jr
1/17/2026: Sustained Resistance: In Honor of MLK Jr. on Zoom- I’m scheduled to read Saturday, January 17 Sunday, ET: 1:00pm to approximately 6:30pm. Hosted by Larissa Shmailo. Zoom Link to come.
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Spillwords Spotlight on Writers, January 10, 2026
Thank you, Rebecca M. and Dagmara K. for this honor to be interviewed for Spotlight on Writers for Spillwords.
Check it out under Spotlight on Writers at Spillwords.com.
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Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/.../aftaernoon-of-january... Thank you, Roberta Beach Jacobson, for posting my political ku on Five Fleas Itchy Poetry on January 8. Shout-outs to Tony Williams, Patrick Sweeney, Tejendra Sherchan, Randy Brooks, Peter Jastermsky, and Martina Matijević. Stay safe.
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Submissions Open for February Sense & Sensibility
Happy New Year! Submissions Open for February Sense & Sensibility on January 7, 2026 Posted on January 6, 2026
Welcome to another year of Sense & Sensibility! Another month to explore your creativity during these uncertain times.
Due to the holiday season, our call for submission will be on January 7, 2026. Submissions will end on January 15 at noon ET, unless we reach our quota sooner. Please submit early to increase your chances of being published.
For poets published in the January issue, please skip a month to submit again.
*The prompt for February: Love vs. Hate.
Please submit your work via this Google Form below when submissions open on January 7, 2026. Please don’t send submissions before then because they will not be considered for publication.
https://forms.gle/Ucgp3vEHKHMgq7yS8
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Publications for November - December 2025
Happy 2026! Publications for November - December 2025
Too many to list. Please go to the website blow: https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/publications-for-november-december-2025/
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Poetry Orchestra, Direct Message, January 2, 2026
Poetry Orchestra, Direct Message, January 2, 2026
After a difficult start to this year, I’m honored to have my recorded poems, “Innocence” and “Bird Watch,” from my chapbook, Innocence (Finishing Line Press, 2017), in David Dephy’s video from Poetry Orchestra. Thank you, Roxanne Hoffman, for recording these selections. Pleased to share the space with Alan Semerjian, George Wallace, Billy Lamont, Jordan Franklin, and, of course, David Dephy. Enjoy the poetry and the NYC flair.
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/poetry-orchestra-direct-message-january-2-2026/
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