Last week I received an intriguing email, (which at first I thought had to be spam) from Dr. Dimitris P. Kraniotis, President of the World Congress of Poets, inviting me to the 22nd Congress to be held in Larissa Greece this summer. Oh my! For a brief moment I imagined myself rubbing shoulders with famous […]
Well it seems the response was favourable, in that at least there weren’t any riled up Anglicans on my front lawn brandishing pitchforks and torches. The dear woman who read my poem said that people did come up afterward to “whisper” how much they liked it. Ah yes, well, I can understand their reluctance to […]
Greetings gentle readers! This Wednesday, April 13, a selection of poems from the work of John B. Lee, Marilyn Geer Pilling, and yours ever faithfully will be read at All Saints Anglican Church at 12 noon as part of their Lenten series. Renowned organist David Palmer and clarinetist Trevor Pittman will also be sharing their […]
I remember sitting in church as a teenager, listening to our parish priest define men and women’s roles in the family. “The husband,” he said, “is the head of the family, and the wife is the heart.” Mum couldn’t understand why I was so vehemently rankled. “But that means the man makes all the decisions, and the […]
holy cards: dead women talking is a collection of narrative poems focusing on the histories and legends of women saints from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman traditions.
holy cards: dead women talking is a collection of narrative poems focusing on the histories and legends of women saints from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman traditions.