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POETRY MONDAY: June 7, 2021
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Susan Shaw Sailer

Good morning, everyone.  It’s hard to believe it’s June already, really “bustin’ out all over” after what, for many of us, has been our long winter’s lockdown.  I hope you used all your time indoors to read more of everything and to write as much as you could.

Our poet today is someone whose work I’ve known and admired for some time, but I was especially struck by the strength of her latest collection, The Distance Beyond Sight (Main Street Rag, 2020).  One of the poems in it, “The Emigrant,” is included for you today.

Having grown up in Tacoma, Washington, Susan Shaw Sailer now resides in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she has lived for the past 30 years.  At the age of 48 she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Washington and in 1989 moved to teach in the English Department of West Virginia University.  After retirement she went back to graduate school for an MFA in Poetry at New England College and until last year continued teaching, this time in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WVU. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: June 7, 2021

John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier
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Click Here to Read:  John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary: A central figure in the group that included Paul and Jane Bowles, he lived in a mud hut in the Marrakesh oasis with a Dutch baroness  on the Telegraph Obituaries May 12, 2021. 
John Hopkins (right) and Joe McPhillips (left) on ‘The White Nile Diaries’, with a white R50 BMW.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.