Steven Ratiner is a poet, educator, book reviewer, publisher of The Red Letters. Since 2019, he has been the Poet Laureate of Arlington, MA
Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
Joined January 2022
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I am delighted to share the news that my new poetry collection, GRIEF'S APOSTROPHE, has been published by Beltway Editions. It can be purchased on most of the book sites like Bookshop.com, Amazon, and Barnes&Noble. Take a look!
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Sorry for the long silence - busy with the production of 8 grand readings/concerts: WE (too) THE PEOPLE to celebrate America's 250th and the power of diversity in the arts.
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Sorry for the long silence - busy with the production of 8 grand readings/concerts: WE (too) THE PEOPLE to celebrate America's 250th and the power of diversity in the arts.
to view the recordings:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
But...
#WEtooTHEPEOPLE #poetry
...but I'm delighted to have Ted Kooser return to the Red Letters with a marvelous new poem about his Midwestern upbringing.
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It's my pleasure to announce Dzvinia Orlowsky has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Шум,” published as Red Letter #275. - part of a sequence reclaiming Ukrainian words from Russification. Congrats, Dzvinia!
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I've been remiss!
The last two Red Letters were gems: #294-Susan Donnelly’s delightful meditation on Bach, automotive emergencies, and the freedom of what comes next.
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…and RLP#295 - Jennifer Clarvoe’s “On the Road Between the Keats House and the Freud House” a spiritual travelog covering a tiny swatch of London.
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The Red Letters is beginning its SEVENTH year, marked with a poem from my own Grief's Apostrophe.
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A new piece from poet Carolyne Wright: "Making Love in a Cemetery"--teenage lust shaped into an Italian sonnet.
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Linda Bamber's new poem (RLP #286), by turns sardonic and solemn, takes us back to Covid & our shared brush with mortality.
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RLP#282: a poem from former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser from the new chapbook FELLOW CREATURES--a benefit for the Red Letters.
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Red Letter#277: a marvelous new poem from acclaimed poet Carol Muske-Dukes' next book, (BAD) SCHEHERAZADE.
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What sly delight in Pam Alexander's "Long Story Short" published as RLP#274 - a history of Earth and its possible destruction.
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RLP#243: a poem from Kevin McLellan's collection Sky. Pond. Mouth. -- heartbreak and revelation. To receive the new installment, subscribe, or submit poems: stevenratiner.com/category/r… or view at: dougholder.blogspot.com #KevinMcLellan #RedLetters #WaltWhitman
Celebrating Ted Kooser's new chapbook - a benefit for the Red Letters. Read about it in this week's RLP:
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Red Letter #271 features a poem from one of China's foremost poets, Wang Jiaxin - utterly relevant to our times.
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Poet-turned-soldier, in defense of Ukraine, Artur Dron' offers us an honest, harrowing glimpse from the frontlines. RLP#266
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Jack Stewart offers yet another fascinating take on the Wicked Witch of the (far) West in his new Red Letter poem.
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Acclaimed novelist Askold Melnyczuk's first love was poetry. The Venus of Odesa collects his poems& translations. RLP#264 depicts conscience clashing with calamity.
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Heart-breakingly beautiful - Susan Roney-O’Brien's new poems about coping with an awful diagnosis: MS. Red Letter #263.
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A posthumous poem from Danielle Legros Georges, built upon slave documents from Colonial N. E. Crispus Attucks lives! To receive the new installment, subscribe, or submit: stevenratiner.com or view at: dougholder.blogspot.com
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