
About the prize The Jane Underwood Poetry Prize was established to celebrate and memorialize Jane Underwood, the founder and long-time director of The Writing Salon…

Quiet Lightning presents their 136th show, curated by Danielle Bero & Sage Curtis and held virtually on Monday, November 2, 2020, with readings/performance by (in the following…

CALLING ALL WRITERS! Words are great companions, but are you looking for a little more human interaction? If so, I’m starting a virtual writing group over Zoom for…

Written on 08-27-20. When my late husband was alive, he often used to chide me at my constant desire to get out of the house. “You’ve…

Written on 08-18-20. This is the column I haven’t wanted to write. The one that tells the truth that I don’t want to think about….

Written on 08-06-20 I have now been writing these COVID-19 Edition Punks The Muse columns for 14 weeks. They are helping me to survive this…

Written on 8/04/2020 I last went to work 147 days ago. Nearly half a year, living in the United States of COVID-19. It has been…

Written on 07/25/20 Today I did yard work by the patio of my rented house. I’m trying to improve it so I can enjoy it…

So, like you (probably) I struggle to some degree with COVID 19 depression. There are those days I just don’t want to get out of…

Quiet Lightning presents their 134th show, held virtually on Monday, July 6, 2020, with readings/performance by (in the following order): Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo…