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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Fall! In 2020, Michael Craig Palmer photographed Hudson Valley's fall trees & leaves & asked me to write accompanying poems, resulting in Autumn in a Solitary Time, Audience Askew Press, a celebration of nature's enduring beauty & and of human connection.

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 5

Please check out the poem & the whole beautiful issue: www.theheadlightreview.com/pieces/volum...

On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death — The Headlight Review

I decide to join the resistance against negativity. / To celebrate that cancer is a chronic illness now. / And that an old family friend will be able to live / with his blood cancer, stage four.

www.theheadlightreview.com

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 5

Honored my chapbook is a finalist for the Headlight Review Prize, & grateful to Headlight Review for publishing my poem, “On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death,” in the current issue, along with other prize-winning & finalist poems. 1/2

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Jul 16

Have begun releasing my classical guitar music on Spotify. Soon I’ll release 2 more “albums.” While I’m not a professional musician, I’ve performed for many years in hospital settings & elsewhere. Here’s hoping you enjoy the music:

open.spotify.com/album/2i6UlP...

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’m very grateful to Certain Age Magazine for publishing my poem, “Mega-Galaxies.” If you’d like, you can read the poem, and listen to me read it, here:
www.certainagemag.com/post/mega-ga...

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · May 18

Please join us Wednesday for readings and a conversation on this vitally important subject

Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · May 14

📚 Elementals book club returns on 5/21 with Vol. 5, An Elemental Life. If the elements are kin to one other, then what does it mean to live in kinship with the elements?

Book club is hosted online by @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. Register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... @gavinvh.bsky.social

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · May 7

Marjorie Tesser, Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach were terrific and generous co-hosts.
You can buy a print copy for $18 here: merliterary.com/product/mer-mo…
Or the PDF copy for $5 here: merliterary.com/product/mer-mo��
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https://merliterary.com/product/mer-mo…

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · May 7

were two launch events with over 50 participating writers.
MER 23 Launch I. youtu.be/1W05WnyO4Ec?si…
MER 23 Launch II youtu.be/UJydu8tsqUk?si��
(Note that this was the second of two readings.)
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MER 23 Launch I

YouTube video by MER - Mom Egg Review

https://youtu.be/1W05WnyO4Ec?si…

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · May 7

It was an honor to participate in the MER reading on May 4th for Volume 23 of this amazing journal on motherhood and women’s lives. There are many rich offerings in the issue, and I recommend it highly.

Here’s my reading of “As If It Were My Name” youtu.be/lJriBe2ruIU
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Elizabeth J Coleman reading for MER23 Launch

YouTube video by elizabeth j coleman

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 30

My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact, the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University. You can read the full poem on page 34.
And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue!
drive.google.com/file/d/1vA0y...

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 27

I’m pleased my poem @ being a grandmother appears in the current issue of the journal Mom Egg, and I’m delighted I’ll be reading “As If It Were My Name” at the launch Sunday, May 4th, 5:30 pm ET. Preregistration (free) here to online reading: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MER 23 Launch Reading II - May 4, 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

us02web.zoom.us

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 23

This #poetrymonth, let’s let poetry inspire us with call to hearts & minds for hope & action to protect Earth & its inhabitants. Youth poet Lauryn Brown wrote (HERE: Poems for the Planet @CopperCanyonPrs 2019), “Nature has a voice/If only you’d listen.” @DalaiLama @UCSUSA

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 23

In this #Earthweek2025, let’s not let the various crises we face in our democracy deter us from working to address the greatest existential crisis modern humans have faced press.un.org/en/2021/sc14...

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Climate Change ‘Biggest Threat Modern Humans Have Ever Faced’, World-Renowned Naturalist Tells Security Council, Calls for Greater Global Cooperation | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Climate change is a “crisis multiplier” that has profound implications for international peace and stability, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council today, amid calls for deep pa...

press.un.org

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 23

we celebrated #EarthDay2025 yesterday, while continuing to grapple with the devastating impact of the current Administration’s actions on the health of our planet, and its inhabitants insideclimatenews.org/project/trum...

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Trump 2.0 - Inside Climate News

From his first moments in office, President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency, unleashed oil and gas drilling, targeted climate enforcement, excised environmental justice protections a...

insideclimatenews.org

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 23

we celebrated #EarthDay2025 yesterday, while continuing to grapple with the devastating impact of the current Administration’s actions on the health of our planet, and its inhabitants insideclimatenews.org/project/trum...

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Trump 2.0 - Inside Climate News

From his first moments in office, President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency, unleashed oil and gas drilling, targeted climate enforcement, excised environmental justice protections a...

insideclimatenews.org

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ironically, just one day after the loss of one of the environment’s greatest champions www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action

Addressing energy leaders, pope warns of ‘catastrophic’ effects of global heating

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 18

I’m grateful Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” We fell in love with the elephants when we walked through the Serengeti years ago, sleeping in small tents along the way.

You can read the poem here:

ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...

#ecopoetry #poetry CiderPressRev

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 16

So grateful “As If It Were My Name,” about my grandchildren, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th.
Get a print copy! ($18)
Get a PDF copy ($5, directly to your inbox) @merliterary.bsky.social
#poetry

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 4

Delighted & grateful my poem “In the Morning in the City” appears among these amazing prizewinning & commended poems @Passionfruitlit
passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morni...
#poetry

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 2

I’m grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” alongside two other wonderful poems in their Spring 2025 Lit Fox Poetry Series.

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Mar 26

In this time, I think it’s essential we think of “hope” as an action verb: bulletin.kenyon.edu/article/hope-i…
As David Orr said, “Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.” 3/3

https://bulletin.kenyon.edu/article/hope-i…

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Mar 26

Malaysian poet Cecil Rajendra wrote in “My Message” (Here: Poems for the Planet @CopperCanyonPrs @DalaiLama @UCSUSA)
“…I want my poems/to leap out from the page/rip off the covers of my books and march forthrightly to/that sea of somnolent humanity…”
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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Mar 26

When I find myself struggling to feel hope in this time of terrible uncertainty & crisis, in this time of great cruelty towards fellow humans & our planet, I remind myself hope is a strategy store.hbr.org/product/hope-i…, & “despair not an option” @BernieSanders
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https://store.hbr.org/product/hope-i…

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Mar 19

I am so honored that Wandering Aengus Press has chosen my poetry collection THE BODEGA AND THE WREN as a finalist for their Trail to Table Book Awards, and and so very happy for the winners and the other finalists #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetryawards #poetrylovers

Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 19

Finalists:
Sasha Bailyn
@jessicainclan.bsky.social
Lisa Birman
@cindybradleywriter.bsky.social
@elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social
Geri Gale
Lynn B. Glicklich Cohen
Justin Hunt

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Feb 26

Thrilled to learn @Poetry_Society has awarded Giovanni the prestigious Frost Medal posthumously, so wonderfully deserved.

Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · Feb 19

So sad to learn of Nikki Giovanni’s recent death, one of the marvelous poets who contributed to HERE: Poems for the Planet (@CopperCanyonPrs 2019) @UCUSA @DalaiLama. We made the decision in 2019 only to include living poets, & we’ve lost so many great ones since then 1/2