This is being posted just in time for the Winter Holidays, 2020. I give thanks to all the folks who have participated either as audience or as featured readers in our Cholla Needles Zoom Shelter-In-Place readings. Though I miss our live meetings tremendously, I can still give thanks that we have found a meeting alternative & we can continue building each other up. Enjoy the videos below! I give thanks to the over 175 videos that have been posted on our many Shelter-In-Place pages posted so far in 2020. As always, if you are browsing our pages, we considerYOUa part of our family and you are welcome to become part of our Shelter-In-Place video pages. Simply contact us at editor (@) chollaneedles.com* & ask how to get your videos posted on our pages. You can also use this address to send us your poetry, short stories, essays, and art for publication in our monthly magazine. [*for web newbies - when sending emails leave out the spaces & parenthesis when writing the email address].
Good Times!!! Enjoy the videos:
Steve Braff - Hanukkah Blessing
r soos composition Advent Meditation 1
Romaine Washington - Time Transfusion
Lauren Henley and Zara Kand discuss & read from "From the moon, as I fell" on The Desert Split Open Webcast
Lisa Mednick Powell and Miri Hunter
sing Give The Guns To The Girls
Kurt Schauppner reads One Sunday Morning
Noreen Lawlor reads When Asked
Kendall Johnson reads Four Poems
from A Whole Lot'a Shakin'
Ginny Short reads Inter Lupine et Canine
John Sierpinski reads Light Night Hotel HBO
Francene Kaplan reads from Dogmander Pt I
Allyson Jeffredo reads from Even Gods
Don MacQueen reads Break
Tamara Hattis reads Three Poems
from Colors of My Pain
Hayley McCullough reads Self-Examination
r soos composition Advent Meditation 2
Romaine Washington reads Resignation
L.I. Henley & Zara Kand
sharing a portion of their book:
"From the moon, as I fell"
Miri Hunter and Lisa Mednick Powell
sing I'm So Glad
Kurt Schauppner reads
Five Haiku About Home
Noreen Lawlor reads Mojave Haibun
Kendall Johnson explains his writing process
Ginny Short reads Is That Love
John Sierpinski reads Inopportune Times
Francene Kaplan reads from Dogmander Pt II
Allyson Jeffredo reads from
Songs After Memory Fractures
Don MacQueen reads Last Letter from Yuma
Tamara Hattis reads This Is Not A Test
Hayley McCullogh reads Intentions
r soos composition Advent Meditation 3
Romaine Washington reads Mapping Home
L. I. Henley & Zara Kand
discussing their book
"From the moon, as I fell" Pt 1
L. I. Henley & Zara Kand
discussing their book
"From the moon, as I fell" Pt 2
Mark T Evans reads Sunflowers Of A Andaluz
Kurt Schauppner reads For Ed
Noreen Lawlor reads Hung With Silence
Kendall Johnson reads Elegy In White
Ginny Short reads A History of Trauma
John Sierpinski reads Family Reunion
Francene Kaplan reads from Dogmander Pt III
Allyson Jeffredo reads
Did No One Ever Tell You The World is Full of Ghosts
I can't breathe, the tub half coffin, half rust --once inside the shower
its fragile spray takes hold tighter and tighter till the rain can't wait :winds
are nothing new here though I can break loose untied, reborn, cleaned
the way this spider was paired with the Earth, crawling closer while the sun waits
stuck to the bottom trapped by the black dot it warms and escapes
only as morning, one strand surrounded by dew and the others.
Simon Perchik, an attorney, was born 1923 in Paterson, NJ and educated at New York University (BA English, LLB Law). His poems have appeared in various literary journals including Cholla Needles, Partisan Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The New Yorker. Click here for purchase information ($10)
