Paula Meehan and Returning Home
Paula Meehan, a Dublin poet, has decades of work to share and decades more to produce.
Continue reading →Cynthia Kraack
Cynthia Kraack is an author of fiction and nonfiction including The High Cost of Flowers, winner Midwest Book Award, and 40 Thieves on Saipan.
Time Zones
When a crisis hits at home and you are 3, 700 miles away, differing time zones magnify each bump.
Continue reading →Reading in Howth
sharing the stage with Annie Depp, an American poet loved by the Irish, and Jessica de Koninck, a New Jersey poet capturing Pushcart nominations
Continue reading →Speckled People
With the Irish Sea always audible, we walked the coast line for lunch, the hill for dinner then back to the Howth Yacht Club for time with best selling Irish writer Hugo Hamilton.
Continue reading →Welcome to Ireland
Tonight’s dramatic performance of Eamon Grennan’s Emigration Road at the Howth Yacht Club brought deeper insights into the continuing drain of youth and intellect from this country.
Continue reading →A Writer’s First Blog
There are exciting writing events in the next six months of my life to share. First up-the Stonecoast Writers workshop in Howth, Ireland next week. When a few dozen Irish and American writers spend ten days together, there will be good stories to share.
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