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Gay Pride
18 Jun 2024

Gay Pride

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

Love and resilience, featuring poems by Mary Cronin, Karen Hones and Patti Ruskey.

history, LGBTQ+, loss, love, memory, pain
The 2024 Morgenthau Prize
28 Nov 2023

The 2024 Morgenthau Prize

by admin | posted in: Poetry, Uncategorized | 0

Passager’s first book prize for a writer 70 or older, with poems by its previous winners Dennis H. Lee and Mark Elber, and judge David Keplinger.

childhood, contest, heritage, history, memory
More from the New Issue!
26 Jul 2023

More from the New Issue!

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Fiction, Poetry | 0

Two more pieces from the new Passager Open Issue, from Marc Morgenstern and Anne Sheldon.

community, disability, elders, growing up, memory
2021 Contest Issue
5 Jul 2023

2021 Contest Issue

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

Four poems from the new poetry contest issue, by Marie Fochios, Gail Newman, Colleen Anderson and Jan Mordenski. 

beauty, connection, family, growing up, memory, poetic forms, writing process
Hope
8 Jun 2023

Hope

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

Springtime and other feelings we need right now, with poems by Barbara Stout, James McGrath, Gilbert Arzola and Shirley J. Brewer. 

change, healing, loss, memory, nature, Spring

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Passager News

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit to the 2025 Passager Poetry Contest by April 30. Winner receives $1,000 prize, publication of multiple poems, and a featured interview in the next issue of Passager. Full guidelines on our Submit page.

Join us on Zoom for an online reading and celebration featuring writers from the new issue of Passager—2 pm Sunday, April 27. Register now 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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