I was only sixteen when my father left us behind in Sedona, Arizona. He divorced my mother and moved to New Mexico saying he was fed up with her telling everyone she saw UFOs. She even claimed that one of her friends had been abducted and impregnated by aliens, who were keeping the fetus. I […]
Kenneth Salzmann—or just Ken, moved to Ajijic in 2014, from New York’s Capital Region and Hudson Valley, following careers in nonprofit administration and journalism. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies throughout North America, and in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Another Gray Afternoon in Guernica Not even the startling red of anguishpooling in
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Don Beaudreau has lived at Lakeside with his husband Juan Rivera for 10 years. They share their home with 7 dogs, 2 cats, and a white lab mouse. He is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, and a retired English and music teacher. A professional jazz and ragtime pianist, Don has raised money for numerous social
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RON JANOFF began writing performing and publishing poetry in New York in the 1970’s, took a long hiatus as a Director at New York University, earned his Ph.D. there, went on to teach Latin in Brooklyn high schools, served as President of the New York Classical Club, and became a licensed New York City tour
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While experiencing a series of Shamanic Visions in the early 1980’s, John Sacelli met his totem Lynx (links) who introduced him to a series of inter-dimensional, alternative and past life adventures. John/Juan is the author of The AngeLynx Oracle, The Angelish Dictionary and Lynx in Time – the 1960’s and three books of poetry. He
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Spoken word artist Susa Silvermarie is a widely published and anthologized writer known for original work that delights the senses while calling the spirit. Silvermarie is grateful to spend her third trimester of life lakeside here in Mexico, sharing her work at www.susasilvermarie.com.Her collections Poems for Flourishing and Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit are available on Amazon, and a new collection
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Warren grew up in London, England and graduated with an Honours degree in Mathematics from King’s College, Cambridge. Michael moved to Toronto in 1972, and then to Ajijic, Mexico in 2000. Michael was a member of the “Blue Asterisks” poetry workshop for eleven years in Canada, and also a director of
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Susan left with one hundred dollars in her purse and her six-month-old baby strapped in the car seat of the old pickup truck. In the area behind the seats was everything she needed packed into two little suitcases. The baby slept, unaware of the danger her mother was leaving behind or where she was going.
Judy Dykstra-Brown moved to San Juan Cosala in 2001. The Tennessee Writers Alliance National Poetry Award’s first place winner in 2002, for the past nine years, she has published a minimum of one poem a day on her blog at https://judydykstrabrown.com/Her books include three memoirs, three children’s books and an adult coloring book with humorous
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Do Cats Meditate? Chris Smith Again you’re thereUpon my chairDistant in your mindWith content purrYou do not StirRighteous and DivinedWhere do you goI just don’t knowOnly can I surmiseYour natural flowWith breathing slowThe distance in your eyesIs your elevationA Feline meditationOf ancients you connectFor the great preservationOf a whole human nationEntrusting that you protect *****
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