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“A place in yourself finds a refugee.” - from “The Arrival” by Joanne DeSimone Reynolds

Refuge is a chapbook of site-specific poetry, written en plein air at Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio in Harvard, Massachusetts. Each text is a poetic response to scenery and sentiment observed in the moment while visiting the property, and is paired with original photography. Published in September 2020. Edited by Susan Edwards Richmond; creative direction by Linda Hoffman; photography by Brent Mathison and Linda Hoffman; and layout & design by Lynn Horsky.

>> Click here to read this chapbook online in PDF. We encourage you as well to visit oldfrogpondfarm.com/plein-air-poetry, where you can read about current and future plein air poetry activities at the Farm & Studio. Elsewhere on the website, you can find a calendar of events, Linda Hoffman's blog, and an archive of information about other arts, agricultural, and spiritual activities at the Pond & Farm.

CONTENTS:

• Editor's Note by Susan Edwards Richmond
• “Cattail Blues” by Didi Chadran
• “Catalpa, June” by Terry House
• “Bifurcation” by Carla Schwartz
• “Shell-tering in Place” by bg Thurston
• “A Windy World” by Joan Alice Wood Kimball
• “Her Refuge, the Farm” by Georgia Sassen
• “Seed Time” by Lynn Horsky
• “I Am The Storm” by Catherine Weber
• “Catalpa speciosa, you're oh so...” by Louise Berliner
• “Cousins” by Greg Lowenberg
• “On the Ground, Alone” by Dawn Paul
• “Pond Alchemy” by Linda Hoffman
• “For Me, A Bench” by Hilary Sallick
• “Traveling” by Polly Brown
• “How Earth Offers Refuge and Remedy in the Year of Global Pandemic” by Cheryl Perreault
• “Ode to a Tool Shed, at Midsummer” by Lynne Viti
• “Refuge Not” by Franny Osman
• “Where Is My Refuge?” by William Lenderking
• “Sitting Out the Solstice Under the Japanese Maple Tree” by Heather Corbally Bryant
• “Pinegrove” by Zachary Bos
• “The Arrival” by Joanne DeSimone Reynolds
• “Near the Spillway” by Helen Marie Casey
• “In a Time of Floods and Virus” by Moira Linehan
• “Catalpa” by Wendy Drexler
• “Fallen Tree” by Mary Pinard
• “The Rescue” by Susan Edwards Richmond
• About the contributors

The Plein Air Poetry program curated by Susan Edwards Richmond is a long-running highlight of the annual cultural calendar at Old Frog Pond. This year's chapbook is a co-publication of Hawk & Whippoorwill, Pen & Anvil, and Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. For more information about this project, fruit@oldfrogpondfarm.com.

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