>New Book- The Sound of Her Good Name  Winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize/ Slate Roof Press Chapbook Contest!   Order here-   https://www.slateroofpress.com/books/the-sound-of-her-good-name.html Close Call How we find each other in a good dinner down back streets with the music of Fruit Bats and drive&listen a choreography of liquored romancing and kitchendancing until enough is enough of this happyhorseshit and you turn the switch     the we never know when we’ll wake dreamscape     the place where snap and dinner’s over in the streets of Saigon     Paris on motorbikes the symphony of full bodied reds     Cowboy Junkies and kitchen dances when I am sent home because you’ve had enough of this    each in the other’s arms    where you could lose yourself if not careful  

Unbuttoned Presents Series ! June 9, 2023- Slate Roof Press poets Candace R. Curran and Janet MacFadyen definitely rocked the boat at Luthier's last night in Easthampton, MA, as part of the Unbuttoned Presents Series !  

You are invited to Speak Easy, a poetry open mic featuring local poets, Jody Stewart & Candace Curran at the Buckland Public Library. Friday, October 28th from 6 to 7 pm. Sign up for 5 minute slots at 5:45 pm.

Congratulations to Candace R. Curran,  winner of the 2022 Elyse Wolf Prize/ Slate Roof Press Annual Chapbook Contest! We have the honor to announce the selection of  The Sound of Her Good Name , by Candace R. Curran of Shelburne Falls, MA, as the winner of our 2022 chapbook contest.   Candace becomes the newest member of Slate Roof Press , and receives the $500 Elyse Wolf Prize and publication of her chapbook in an art-quality edition.  This year we focused on poets from our home territory in western Massachusetts. Finalists: Sarah Levine of Easthampton, MA, for  Each Knuckle with Sugar Annie G. Rogers of Amherst, MA, for  Becoming Bird We thank everyone who participated for their considerable time, work, and heart in preparing and submitting a manuscript. The selection process was difficult; we received many excellent manuscripts representing a broad spectrum of poetic styles and concerns, and each one was carefully considered. Our selection process...

 

Poems Around Town (PAT) is a project of Write Action, with support from Time to Write and the Brattleboro Literary Festival. The April 2021 event featured submitted poems placed in shop windows throughout downtown Brattleboro. I was honored to have two poems included in the companion book "Poems in the Time of Covid" published by Small Pond Press. Order "Poems in the Time of Covid" at https://writeaction.org/about/covid-poems.html