Come celebrate the launch of Eileen Ivey Sirota’s newly released book, Watching from the Bleachers. She is joined by Ellen Cole (Notes from the Dry Country, Prognosis) and Claire McGoff (From These Outskirts).
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Eileen Ivey Sirota is a psychotherapist, poet, and potter. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, District Lines, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists,
Ellen Aronofsky Cole is a poet, actress, puppeteer, and teaching artist. Her books include her full length collection, Notes from the Dry Country, (Mayapple Press, 2019) and Prognosis, (Finishing Line Press, 2011.) Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Little Patuxent Review, Potomac Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Fledgling Rag, New Verse News, The Ekphrastic Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her article “My Life as a (Fake) Patient,” was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. She has been nominated for The Best of the Net and the National Book Award. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Brian, and a small, feisty parrot named Haiku.
Claire McGoff is a poet, wife, mother, and grandmother. Her work has appeared in Image Magazine, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and has been included in Snowdrops, a collection of winter poems by Wingless Dreamer. Her poem “Fawn” was awarded honorable mention Bethesda’s Urban Partnership Poetry contest in 2023. Claire enjoys participating in several writing circles and is a 2018 graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Claire grew up in Colorado and in the Texas panhandle and after college, moved to New York state where she completed an internship in Dietetics, married and started a family. After several years there, she and her husband settled in Maryland where they expanded their family, raising six children and many pets. During these years, Claire served in various volunteer positions in her children’s school including the school lunch program and head of hospitality. In addition to poetry, Claire relishes her family, friends, traveling, live music and being in nature. From These Outskirts, published in 2022, is Claire’s debut collection.
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