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The 2023 Poetry Contest Issue
26 Sep 2023

The 2023 Poetry Contest Issue

by admin | posted in: Poetry, Uncategorized | 0

Featuring honorable mentions from the new issue, with poems by Joanne Holdridge, Liz Ahl, Laird Harrison and Nancy Lael Braun.

childhood, food, growing up, love, school
First Anniversary
29 Jul 2023

First Anniversary

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

A look back to Passager’s beginnings back in 1990, with poems by former US Poet Laureate Josephine Jacobsen and Judson Jerome.

beauty, connection, growing up, love, nature, passager poet
Mother’s Day
29 Jul 2023

Mother’s Day

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

Four poems paying tribute to our mothers, by Wilderness Sarchild, Mary Lou Rife, Diana Morley and Ilene Millman.

childhood, family, growing up, love, motherhood, mothers, music
It Pleases Me No End
26 Jul 2023

It Pleases Me No End

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

Three poems to celebrate the season, from Steve Matanle (Nightbook), Sarah Yerkes (Days of Blue and Flame), and Jean L. Connor (A Cartography of Peace). 

beauty, childhood, Christmas, elders, flight, friendship, holiday, insomnia, love, nature
Christmas
26 Jul 2023

Christmas

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Fiction | 0

Excerpts of “An Empty Sky,” a short story by Massachusetts writer Sean Padraic McCarthy  from the 2020 Open issue of Passager.

beauty, Christmas, Death, family, fatherhood, holiday, loss, love, parenting

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Passager News

Just released! The 2023 Poetry Contest issue, featuring the winning poems of George Drew and 48 stunning honorable mentions.

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

Now available to watch: a reading and conversation with contributors from the 2023 Passager special Winter Issue on generational trauma.

Brand new from Passager Books: Mothernest, a stunning debut by poet Sandy Longley.

Christine Lincoln, Passager’s friend, writer, teacher, artist, community leader and activist, guest edited our special Winter Issue on Ancestral Trauma – and it’s here!

Grandfather’s Mandolin by Fran Markover was named a 2022 Best Book Awards Winner. Congratulations, Fran!

"Book Prize Celebrates Older Poets" – read the Poets & Writers article about Passager.

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