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Our regular contributor from Alaska, Tom Sexton, sent us a new poem that shines a light in the darkness in these days that are getting shorter, with the news often disturbing. As he wrote on Sunday, October 24th, “At least the Pats won.” We need every and any reason to…
Read More »This week on Trasna we feature a new publication by Beir Bua Press, ‘Only Connect,’ an anthology of poetry and prose written during the pandemic and shared weekly with a group of writers on Zoom sessions led by Margaret O’Brien. Featured here is the introduction to ‘Only Connect’ and four…
Read More »Lunch.Break.Haiku. By Doug Sparks After leaving my job for a publishing company last month, I began picking up odd hours working as a substitute teacher in the public schools. You may have heard, there’s a shortage. While this job doesn’t give me a lot of spare time, I get a…
Read More »Autumn is the season that embraces reflection: thoughtful persons give thanks for their harvest even as they mourn the [human] losses that befell them during the time past. In the poems she reads for Trasna, works from her newly published collection Reshaping the Light, Irish writer Breda Joyce voices the…
Read More »History of the Button Factory By Gary Metras By the time the button factory depleted all the fresh water mussel shells from three rivers and was about to shut down, the Civil War began. It switched to ripping up earth and blasting rocks to mine tin and lead, to manufacture…
Read More »Back from its extended summer break, Trasna is please to present the latest publication from poet Maeve O’Sullivan, Wasp on the Prayer Flag. This is Maeve’s fifth collection with Alba Publishing. It chronicles the years from 2018-2021 in haiku and senryu. Rooted in Ireland and its varied landscapes, with…
Read More »’56 Ford By Fred Woods All aboard! Got the keys to the Ford bench front seat column shift pop the clutch and split the suburban night. One arm driving Sugar shift for me six Pabst on the floor knee to knee sweet air of cut-grass in the dark. Two buck…
Read More »The Lowell Review Several writers featured in Trasna (2020) have been included in a new annual publication, The Lowell Review. Copies of The Lowell Review are available for purchase, or online through Richardhowe.com. Below are selections from those Trasna pieces included in the 2021 edition with selections from 2020. We…
Read More »Hosted by Mark Bohrer, Poet Laureate of North Andover, and North Andover Poets Corner, the Powow River Poets will read from their work on Tuesday, August 17, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., outdoors at the Stevens Estate at 723 Osgood Street, North Andover. The Powow River Poets is a group of…
Read More »The Boston Globe’s “New England Literary News” section recently featured We Hold on to What We Can, a new book of poems by Sarah Alcott Anderson that is published by Loom Press. Here’s what the Globe wrote about Anderson’s book: In her wise and elegant debut collection “We Hold on…
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