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“The gentle candor and vulnerability of these poems, matched with their hard-won truths, are possible only because their speaker has lived the ‘myth’ of paradise and family so deeply that myth has become an eloquently distilled memoir. Nearly every poem is an encounter with the human heart, acknowledging betrayal, anger, loneliness, longing, grief—gratitude also. These poems are grounded in a compassion that is never shallowly rooted.” —Margaret Gibson
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Author Archives: Edwina Trentham
CTNow – February Poets Corner
Hartford Courant February 14, 2019 The poems of Edwina Trentham: A declaration of what matters
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Workshop – Don’t Be Afraid of Its Plenty: Writing About Joy
I will be conducting a one-day workshop on March 18. In this one-day workshop, we will take on the challenge of writing about joy in ways that express the complexities of that intense emotion. A full description of the workshop … Continue reading
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Keep Your Fork, There’s Pie!
Please join John Surowiecki and Edwina Trentham for a reading at Two Wrasslin’ Cats Coffee House in East Haddam, CT on February 11 from from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Edwina will read from her poetry chapbook, Dinner Parties, a … Continue reading
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New artbook from Edwina
Dinner Parties grew out of the artist, Nancy Goodrich, hearing me read my seven sonnet series, Dinner Parties a couple of years ago. She asked if she could illustrate the poems. She created an art book and sent me a … Continue reading
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