I’ll be reading virtually in the Rozzie Reads in the poetry series on Thursday, June 17, at 7 pm. I’d be delighted to see you there. Please note that you will need to get the link by emailing hguran@aol.com.

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic

Thursday June 17th, 2021   7 pm on Zoom

Sponsored by Friends of the Roslindale Library

Featured Poets

Born and raised in the Philippines, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes is the author of Present Values, winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems have appeared most recently in Scoundrel Time, Solstice, and Memorious; and have been anthologized in The Powow River Anthology (Volumes I and II), Villanelles, and The Achieve Of, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-‘90s to 2016.  

Wendy Drexler’s third poetry collection, Before There Was Before, was published by Iris Press in 2017. Her poems have appeared  in Barrow Street, J Journal, Lily Poetry Review, Nimrod, Pangyrus, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, South Florida Poetry Review, among others. Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and in numerous anthologies. She is poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club.

Here is an image of my poem recently published in the latest issue of Mom Egg Review (#19).

Note that both printed copies and PDFs of this issue are available for purchase at the web site.

I am having a virtual poetry reading on Friday! Here is the information.

If you would like to attend via Zoom, contact Richard Waring at this link.

Or send him a direct email at rwaring@nejm.org.

I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine pangyrus. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.

Types of Animals

after Borges

some by branching   by bivalve   by colony   by loping   by leaping
some disguised in waiting   in watching   by blending in motion
some in color   in welcome   whose wealth   was seductions

More . . .

I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine pangyrus. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.

Pandemic

Some saw a raven with ruptured feathers.
Some smelled the homeless millions pressed
inside a drop of blood. Some felt dark planets

More . . .

I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine pangyrus. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.

How to Make a No-Sew Coronavirus Mask From a Poem

1. After you’ve read this poem, place it
   on your kitchen table

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Here’s a video of me reading my poem “The Galapagos Tortoise,” which was published in the 2020 issue of RHINO.  I made the video in response to a call from RHINO: they had to cancel their release party because of the coronavirus and asked contributors to participate in a virtual launch. I’m joined by one of the giant tortoises from the island of St. Croix.

Enjoy!

I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine Rockvale Review. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.

Green Jug

Mother, I’m here with your painted copy of a Cezanne still life
that hangs over the dry sink you bought
with my father years before
I was born.

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I’ve just had a poem published in the magazine Rockvale Review. Here is its opening, and a link to the entire poem.

Every Second Must be the Duration of Something

Begin with light slathering the eel grass
and the horizon, a wide what-if.

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