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Martha Silano

A Tribute to Martha Silano by Eleven Poets: An Online Reading Hosted by Terrain.org

September 30, 2024
5-6 p.m. PT

Monday, September 30, 2024 | Online


Eleven poets gathered to read in tribute to Martha Silano, who was recently diagnosed with ALS. They each read a poem from Martha’s new collection of poems, This One We Call Ours, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Poetry Prize.

Terrain.org poetry editor Derek Sheffield hosted the following poets:

  • Derek Sheffield: “My Daughter is Drawn to Blue Flax”
  • Heidi Seaborn: “What They Said”
  • Tina Schumann: “What Can I Tell You” 
  • Barbara Crooker: “Letter to a Dead Mother”
  • Kelli Russell Agodon: “When We Say It’s the Little Things”
  • Jed Myers: “I Love the World”
  • Ronda Broatch: “At the Bottom of the World”
  • Molly Tenenbaum: “Two Hundred Million Years Ago This Was All a Sea Floor,”
  • Tina Kelley: “Why I Love to Garden in My Front Yard”
  • Susan Blackwell Ramsey: “The Sausage Parade”
  • Barbara Ungar: “Once,”

Please join us for a beautiful evening of poetry in honor of Martha.


Photo of Martha Silano by Langdon Cook.