Mountains reach toward the sun, slowly rising through millennia to impress us with their timeless majesty. Their immensity calls us to climb, grow, and reflect upon their quiet grace that outlives us all. Read all new works by twenty-five Central and Western Massachusetts voices from the Quabbin area as they meditate on the literal and figurative mountains that exist in all our lives.

Mountains and Meditations (Quabbin Quills Anthology)

Literature & Fiction

SCARF, Maggie

Bishop, Jon

Day, Liz

Chencharik, Kathy

Michaels, Steven

Leslie, Karyl J.

Green, Ned

Buck, Sue

Burke, Nancy Damon

Deans, Kay

United States

Perpetual Imagination

Souls long gone still wander among the living in Salem. The sound of gallows swinging lingers in the wind. Salem is a boneyard, and like its cemeteries, it mingles four centuries of history with buds of new life sprouting up between the crevices. History is carved into the gravestones, but the death throes of autumns and icy morgue of hundreds of winters have worn away the words, eroding fact into legend. Accusations and confessions have crumbled away into poetry, under the spring shade of new leaves, surrounded by wildflowers. This anthology includes poems by: Amber Newberry, Laurie Moran, Erin Crocker, Rie Sheridan Rose, Jon Bishop, Alec Firicano, Samantha Lucero, J.H. Crone, Cynthia Morrison, Destiny Eve Pifer, Conrad Audette, Cindy Veach, Joanna Costello, Anusha VR, L.J. Paxson, Heather Wagner, Chris Denmead, Marc Sorondo, Monika Bielecki, Jon Etter, Melissa Pleckham, Nancy Brewka-Clark, John Etter, Sebastion Herzfeld, Samantha Lucero, R.C. Mulhare, Ariella Ruth, G.E. Smith, Phil Storey, Hannah Jane Bones, Bret Valdez, Alec Anthony Firicano.

Entombed in Verse: An Epitaph for Salem

Newberry, Amber

Mulhare, R.C.

Etter, Jon

Firicano, Alec

Wagner, Heather

Storey, Phil

Herzfeld, Sebastion

Sorondo, Marc

Rose, Rie Sherida

Poetry

FunDead Publications

Review\nA touching chronicle of things loved and things lost. These are poems filled with sharply observed detail, and suffused with humane wisdom and quiet melancholy. 
Charles Coe, author of All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents\nScratching Lottery Tickets on a Street Corner shows what can happen when a former journalist like Jon Bishop takes up the poet's pen. Bishop's first book of poems highlights the excitement possible when the skill of precise observation combines with a remarkable command of language. Time after time Bishop captures and preserves the otherwise fleeting moment--the changing light of day, the angst of solitude-becoming-loneliness--all rendered in tableaux that are as affecting as they are memorable. 
Rod Kessler, author of Off in Zimbabwe and professor emeritus at Salem State University\nThis is down-to-earth poetry, written with keen observation of life and its complexities, wry humor, and honest self-awareness. A good read. 
Ann Taylor, author of The River Within

Scratching Lottery Tickets on a Street Corner

Finishing Line Press

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