Category Archives: Poetry

30 Poems in November #2

Posted on November 6, 2025 by alicebarrett

An Inland Lighthouse for the LostWhen sitting in your car on a dark moonless night in what might be Goshen or Ashfield or Cummington,Your headlights staring at three llamas who are staring at your headlightsWhich way do you go?Only two … Continue reading →

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30 Poems in November 2025 #1

Posted on November 6, 2025 by alicebarrett

30 Poems in November #1 Continue reading →

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Center for New Americans helps western Massachusetts Immigrants. Help them

Posted on November 6, 2025 by alicebarrett

The Center for New Americans Annual Fundraiser Helping Immigrants, refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers in Western Massachusetts. 30 Poems in November is our fundraiser and it is easy as pie. A group of Center supporters each writes 30 poems in one … Continue reading →

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Noises

Posted on May 7, 2025 by alicebarrett

How can we live with this? Continue reading →

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St. Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell

Posted on February 27, 2025 by alicebarrett

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the … Continue reading →

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Needle-Nose Pliers by Josh Parish

Posted on February 23, 2025 by alicebarrett

Do you know what is never the right tool for the job? Continue reading →

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The Dove, La Paloma by Rafael Alberti

Posted on February 20, 2025 by alicebarrett

The dove was wrong.
She was mistaken.

Se equivoco la paloma.
Se equivocaba. Continue reading →

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Lace by Siobhan Campbell

Posted on February 14, 2025 by alicebarrett

Crochet, a hook and one set of fingers… Continue reading →

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On Election Day by Anita Gallers

Posted on February 13, 2025 by alicebarrett

my Jewish star hangs
beside my “I voted” sticker… Continue reading →

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Old Poets by Michael Longley

Posted on February 11, 2025 by alicebarrett

Old Poets Continue reading →

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