Here below the post from Tupelo for the poems of August 2013.

"Our seven volunteers for August are: Lynn Doyle,
Karen L. George, Mariela Griffor, Rachel Kubie, Denise Rodriguez, M. E.
Silverman, and Scott Whitaker. Read their full bios by
clicking here.


Please follow their work (by clicking “Follow” on the bottom of the page),
and feel free to acknowledge their generosity and creativity with a show of your
admiration and support by donating on their behalf to Tupelo Press. (Click here to donate,
scroll down to the form at the bottom, and put a contributor’s name in the
“honor” field.) Just imagine what a challenge it is to write 30 new poems in 30
days!"

One / by Mariela Griffor


How was Markus looking for some comfort
in the heart of his wife without noticing that she didn’t
even care about his search? It was kind of cruel
to have met in the high school and for years to call
each other sweetheart because the sweetheart
was not living there anymore. Her mind moved out
years ago when money was not enough and the
payment due at the end of the month broke her heart,
she didn’t know about real needs until she meet him.
Her body stays with them. They were too many to
abandon them and
forget about them she thought at times.
This cruelty would not be pardoned by
her own family
and friends and she did care about what they thought about
her.

The nine volunteers for June are: Sally Fisher, Lois P. Jones, Janet
Kenning, Jacqueline Kolosov, Lea Marshall, James Kirk Maynard, Heidi Johannesen
Poon, Lisa Donne Sampson, and Larissa Szporluk. Read
their full bios by clicking here.

A VISION

When I was a child the world seemed
to be frolic around me. He was around
from morning to night, seven
days a week, like a cat, a poplar,
a cousin who wants to play.

First publish in Crack the Spine Magazine:
http://diversionsjournal.wordpress.com/

 A Salon and Reading with Kjell Espmark, Monica Espmark, and Mariela Griffor.
Wow, blessed to even be in the audience of these established writers. Kjell is a distinguished professor, longtime writer and poet, and on the committee for the
Nobel Prize in Literature. Monica, his wife, is also a writer who focuses on
bibliography and has interviewed many important minds. Mariela founded and runs
Marick Press and is also a wonderful poet. The three talked about publishing a bit and then took
questions from the audience, giving tons of advice to young writers. Mariela and
Kjell read poems from their latest works to a small audience later that night.
Follow Alison here: http://diversionsjournal.wordpress.com/