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 | 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...
by Annaliese | Sep 30, 2022 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Uncategorized, Writing Blog
So much, so much…and grateful for it all. If you knew the whole list of “muches” right now, you might be questioning my sanity using the word “grateful.” But I am! I’ve learned over this long life that even when difficulties plunk on your path, they...
by Annaliese | Aug 21, 2022 | PRESENCE: Designs for Living, Uncategorized, Writing Blog
I’ve never had so many readings lined up at once, a surfeit of words and possibilities. And now, too, I’m in the midst of doors opening and able to look at people sitting right in front of me. If I were a musician, it would be like a Lincoln Center or Jazz Standard...