by Annaliese | Feb 21, 2024 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Writing Blog
There’s been a lot of reading going on here. Yes, the reading of books and articles, solitary poems that move me. I’ll get to that. Maybe today. Maybe another. We’ll see. But right now I’m talking about going out in the world to read—and since I don’t yet have a book...
by Annaliese | Nov 1, 2023 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Uncategorized, Writing Blog
I’m over the moon with the publication of the current issue of Waterwheel Review, which includes my poem “her.story.” An online publication, it features one selection by three writers in each issue. Carefully curated and beautifully presented, the work is not genred,...
by Annaliese | Sep 25, 2023 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Uncategorized, Writing Blog
The light is lating. A slightness of time and breath. Two nights ago, 11,687,600 birds crossed over my head in migration (well, over Maine)—in the dark, between sunset and sunrise, most of them while I was sleeping. In the cluster of days around the night migration, I...
by Annaliese | Jul 19, 2023 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Uncategorized, Writing Blog
OK, everybody, if you’ve subscribed to my web blog, you might have read this in your inbox this week: I’m signing a major deal! Annaliese Jul 17 this is the coolest thing ever, talk about an overnight success story! that took about 10,000 overnights! here we go...
by Annaliese | Mar 18, 2023 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Writing Blog
Saturday, 3/25 @ 2 p.m.BookSpace (event location The Briar Patch)48 Columbia St., Bangor Kathleen Ellis’s fabulous new poetry collection, Body of Evidence, winner of the 2022 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, launches this Saturday. If you landed on this page through the...
by Annaliese | Feb 10, 2023 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Uncategorized, Writing Blog
The Poets Corner, a fabulous organization out of Rockland, Maine, has selected their lineup for LOVE LETTERS: Epistolary Poems for their Valentine’s Day event. Online. Sunday, 2/12, at 4 p.m. ET. “Epistolary” is just a fancy word for saying these poems are like...