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.
