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Last year I appeared on Michael’s show to promote If There Is No Wind. On Feb. 6, 2024, I am returning to discuss and read from Even the Dog Was Quiet (Human Error Publishing.) For more information, click on this link. There will be a recording, but tune in real time in you can. 

I will be reading, along with several other poets, to support the Montague Reporter on Sunday, January 21st. (The poetry reading is free.) This is a local independent weekly community print newspaper that services the 5 villages of Montague in Massachusetts. If you are interested in donating to the newspaper, follow the link below. Come join us from the comfort of your home. Register in advance to get the meeting link.

Alex Polner’s opening at the Gaelen Gallery was amazing! Alex did the cover and illustrations for my book, Even the Dog Was Quiet. You still have a chance to see it. The show runs through Feb. 25, 2024, is open 7 days a week and admittance is free. Alex’s work appears with Mixed Media artist, Ry An. Check the website for times or contact Gallery Director, Lisa Suss at 973-530-3413, lsuss@jccmetrowest.org. And, if you can’t make it to the show, check out Alex’s website to take a look at his specatacular work.

I will be a featured reader with Gillian Sze and Catherine Graham for Parkland Poets (passcode is 2024) on Thursday, January 11, 2024, from 9-10:30 pm ET. (Note” the flyer states it is at 7:00 pm, but that is MST.) PLEASE JOIN US. Open mic available. Sign up during event. (See the flyer below.)

My poem “Wishing Stone” appears in the latest edition of Book of Matches: A Literary Journal! Thanks to Editors Kelli Allen and Nicholas Christian for their love and care with issue #10. Truly beautiful work. My writer friends, their submission window reopens 1/12/24 if you are interested in sending in work.

Had a great time reading at the 2024 Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza at the Westbeth Community Arts Center In NYC. Some of the fabulous readers and audience in attendance (the event went from 2-10 pm!): Ron Kolm, Steve Bloom, Susan Weiman, Jennifer Juneau, Evie Ivy, Madeline Artenberg, Patricia Carragon, Roxanne Hoffman, Linda Kleinbub, Nancy Mercado, Tracie Morris, Su Polo, Phillip Giambri and so many more! Great way to ring in the New Year.

Alex Polner, my partner, and illustrator for my latest book of poems, Even the Dog Was Quiet (Human Error Publishing), will be exhibiting pastels and drawings beginning January 7th at the The Gaelen Center for the Arts in West Orange, NJ. Alex will be sharing space with Ry An, a mixed media artist.

Opening Reception: January 7, 2024, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Location: 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ
Admittance: Free
Exhibit Showing: January 7th- February 25th, 2024
Alex’s Website: https://alexpolner.myportfolio.com
**If you can’t make the exhibit, check out Alex’s website.**

I am pleased as punch to have work in two Writing the Land anthologies. Thanks to Lis McLoughlin, Founder and Director of the project. Activism + Poetry = Writing the Land.

For the “The Connecticut River,” my work was based on the North Branch of the Park River in Hartford. Guided by Mary Pelletier, the Park River Watershed Revitalization Initiative’s Program Director, I was able to see the river and understand its plight.

For “Youth Write the Land” I worked with children in the Columbia Land Trust Conservancy in Greenport, NY. They wrote, we wrote, and I wrote about what we experienced together with the assistance of their Conservation Education Coordinator, Jenifer Rosete. The experience? Joyful. For more information about Writing the Land and their projects, go to writingtheland.org.

Thank you, Anna Covouras for reviewing my poetry book If There Is No Wind (Human Error Publishing, 2022) in Minerva Rising Press. I am both grateful and flattered. To read the entire review, click the link provided.

Events are in EST and will be updated on my Margaret R. Sáraco website.

12/21/23 @ 7 PM, CALLING ALL POETS. I will participate in a 5-10 min. Kim Brandon is the featured poet. Virtual, $5 admittance.

01/01/24, from 2-10 pm (I’m In the 5-6 set) THE ALTERNATIVE NEW YEAR’S DAY SPOKEN WORD/PERFORMANCE EXTRAVAGANZA. I read for 3-min. Westbeth Community Room, 55 Bethune St, NYC. Donations accepted.

01/11/24 from 9-10:30 pm. PARKLAND POETS Featured Reader. Open mic available (sign up during event.) Virtual on Zoom. Meeting ID: 833 7485 4308, Passcode: 2023. Free.

01/21/24, 1:30 pm LOCAL: POETRY, PAPER, PLACE—A FUNDRAISER FOR THE MONTAGUE REPORTER Participating Reader. (Registration is for 2 poetry events, the first begins at 12 pm.)  Advance registration required. Virtual. Free. 

I will be hosting the Parkland Poets Virtual Reading! Thursday, December 14th, 9:00 pm-10:30 pm, EST. Readers: Scott Alderson, Jan Jenkins, and Brian Erickson. Open mic–2 minutes or one poem. This event is free. No prior registration required. Log on 15 minutes before start time.

If you missed this festival, missed this reading, the videos are now up of the whole festival for you to watch at your leisure, this is the Human Error Publishing hour, enjoy.

The Sagra del Libro book festival (Italian American Writers Association) was in Greenwich Village yesterday at the Jefferson Market Library with an array of knock-your-socks off writers! Thank you Maria Lisella, Kathy Curto, and Christina Bruni for organizing everything.