Mary Ellen Talley and Lyn Coffin are our two featured readers this Wednesday July 1 starting at 7 PM. for Virtually Live PoetryBridge #14. Everyone on the mailing list will receive an invitation link Wednesday morning. If you know someone who wants to be on our mailing list, please have them personally contact me directly at info@poetrybridge.net.
See Featured Poems to read poems they plan on reading.
Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have recently been published in Raven Chronicles, Banshee, What Rough Beast, Flatbush Review and Ekphrastic Review as well as in the anthologies, Chrysanthemum and Ice Cream Poems. Her poems have received two Pushcart nominations and a chapbook, "Postcards from the Lilac City" will be published by Finishing Line Press in October.
Her reviews of poetry books can be found in several journals including Crab Creek Review and Compulsive Reader. Hailing from Spokane, WA,which is known as the "Lilac City,"
Mary Ellen has lived most of her adult life in Seattle with her husband Ken. She has become able to devote herself to poetry endeavors as an empty nester and since retiring from her career of forty years as a school based speech-language pathologist.
Here is a link to her new book. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/postcards-from-the-lilac-city-by-mary-ellen-talley/
Lyn Coffin’s latest book, Three Centuries: Three Poets,(her translations of 3 Georgian poets) was published by Adelaide Books (New York) in October. She is currently working on a take off of Gogol’s Inspector General. This Green Life, her new and collected poems, was published in Spanish by Pregunta Ediciones (Spain).
Lyn recently read at the New York Poetry Festival, (to a total of 8 people) and the Toluca and Mexico City International Poetry Festivals. One of her short fictions was in Best American Short Stories, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (in the last century). She has had 34 books published, by Abattoir Editions, Ithaca House, and many others and has won a few grants and many awards.