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The 2024 Poetry Contest
23 Sep 2024

The 2024 Poetry Contest

by admin | posted in: Aging, Poetry | 0

Selections from the brand new issue of Passager, featuring honorable mentions by Susan Zimmerman, Judith Bowles, Bonnie Jacobson, John Biggs and Mark Fryburg.

abuse, existentialism, grief, growing up
Moon Walk
22 Jul 2024

Moon Walk

by Ruby Taylor | posted in: Poetry, Uncategorized | 0

Adventure and anthropomorphism featuring poems by Ann Howells, Ann Rayburn and Beth Paulson.

abuse, adventure, grandchildren, grandmother, space
Back to School
5 Sep 2023

Back to School

by admin | posted in: Memoir, Poetry, Uncategorized | 0

Core memories, with pieces by Ellen Hirning Schmidt, Maureen Murphy Woodcock, Maryhelen Snyder.

abuse, art, change, childhood, school
Battered Wife
26 Jul 2023

Battered Wife

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Memoir | 0

Excerpts from Iowa writer Pam Kress-Dunn’s memoir “Love and Fury in a Plastic Box,” from the 2019 Passager Open Issue.

abuse, healing, marriage, mothers, pain, violence
Auld Lang Syne 
25 Jul 2023

Auld Lang Syne 

by admin | posted in: Aging, Poetry | 0

A look back on the last year at Passager and a peek ahead, with poems by Mark Elber, Sandy Longley, Christine O’Leary Rockey, Joyce S. Brown and Jo Miles.

abuse, existentialism, love, marriage, motherhood, mothers, nature

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Passager News

Morgenthau winner Winifred Hughes is coming to Baltimore! Join us May 31-June 1 for a reading (alongside local poet Diane Macklin) and sign up for her ecopoetry workshop. Further details on our Events page.

“I wanted to live as boldly as my mother . . . there were places that I lived in fear, and one of them was putting my writing out in public.” Read the full article featuring Passager writers Diane Macklin, Elaine Logan and John Biggs in The Baltimore Beacon.

“I refuse to turn my life over to the disease.” Read the full interview with David Bergman, author of Plain Sight, about the unique challenges of writing with Parkinson’s.

Read “The People Who Started Again In Their 90’s,” an article from The Guardian featuring Passager poet Sarah Yerkes.

The Academy of American Poets has awarded Passager poet Moira Egan the Raiziss/ De Palachi Fellowship for her translation of Letters of Black Fire by Italian poet Giorgiomaria Cornelio.

Headstone received Massachusetts Book Awards Poetry Honors! Congratulations, Mark!

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