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Grandfather’s Mandolin
14 Jun 2023

Grandfather’s Mandolin

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

Ancestors traveling their paths to the future, with excerpts from Grandfather’s Mandolin by Fran Markover.

elders, family, grandparents, heritage, immigration, Judaism, legacy, loss, music, religion
Ox Horn Bend
14 Jun 2023

Ox Horn Bend

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Memoir | 0

Fathers and long-awaited answers, with excerpts from Ox Horn Bend by Roy Cheng Tsung.

childhood, family, growing up, healing, heritage, immigration, international, legacy, pain, post-war, violence, War
The 2022 Contest Issue
26 Sep 2022

The 2022 Contest Issue

by admin | posted in: Aging, Poetry | 0

Honorable mentions from the new issue of Passager, with poems by Joyce Schmid, Julie Pratt and James McGrath. 

contest, Death, legacy, loss, love, marriage, nature
Coupla Old Men
19 Apr 2022

Coupla Old Men

by admin | posted in: Aging, Poetry | 0

Meet Bert and Callum, with pieces by Kathy Shorr and Kirk Wareham.

legacy, nature
Valentine’s Day
14 Feb 2021

Valentine’s Day

by admin | posted in: Poetry | 0

Three poems about love, from Sheila Golburgh Johnson, Virginia Anderson and Ebby Malmgren.

beauty, childhood, courtship, legacy, love

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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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