Poetry Reading in July

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HI Folks,

Excited to share that I will be participating in a reading in July as part of Hemingway’s Poetry Series. I’ll be in company with some wonderful writers. Information down below and also on the Events page.

Hope you’re all having a good start to Spring. Until next time…

Judy

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HEMINGWAY'S SUMMER POETRY SERIES

Week 7:
Mant¿s,
Bob Pajich,
JudithRobinson,
Meghan Tutolo
Anastasia Walker

July 26
7PM ET
@ White Whale Bookstore

For more information and to RSVP:
whitewnalebookstore.com/events

New Review at California State Poetry Society

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Hi Friends,

Happy New Year! Sending wishes for a good year to all of you.

As 2023 begins, I wanted to share a review I did for Andrena Zawinski’s new book of poems, Born Under the Influence. The review is featured as part of California State Poetry Society’s December Poetry Letter.

You can read the review HERE, along with some other excellent, Pushcart nominated poems. And you can visit Word Poetry Books to learn more about Andrena’s book, as well as purchase it.

Sending care.
Judy

Wildflowers Cover Everything

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Hi Friends,

Happy to report that some of my work is now up on Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Digital Exhibits. These works, part of my solo exhibit, “The Numbers Keep Changing,” were displayed at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh in Summer 2019, with the painting hung alongside this corresponding poem, which also functioned as the label.

See it at here and down below.

 

WILDFLOWERS COVER EVERYTHING FOR FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS*

And the priest reports
A few villagers,
Aged but still living,
Remember

The festival days.
Mozart was played.
Strudel was served.
And beer.

There will be no towers
Of shoes or dentures,
No photo galleries,
No lampshades or gold teeth.

I write this poem
And Father Desbois does what he can
To survey, to count, to record,
But they were millions.

A New Poem at Bike PGH, and More at Persimmon Tree

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Hi Friends,

December already. Wow. Wishing you a nice final month of the year.

In the meantime, I have a poem featured on Bike PGH and also another painting featured at Persimmon Tree. You can read the poem below, see the painting above, or click links to go straight through.

Sending care.
Judy

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everyone

I tell everyone to try

to take note of things

that are improvements

like soft foaming soap in a bottle

vastly sturdier tires

air in the shrunken city —

so much cleaner that men don’t

wash cars on Saturdays anymore;

everyone is wearing black

and talking on small personal phones

many are fat and no one smokes

but everyone knows the way

to stay alive is movement

dance spin run yoga make room

for those bikes but watch out —

everyone runs the red lights.

Hemingway Poetry Series — July 26

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Hi Friends,

I’m pleased to announce that recordings are now available from the July reading which featured myself, along with the remarkable writers Joan Bauer, Scott Silsbe, Anastasia Walker, Mant¿s, Bob Pajich & Meghan Tutolo.

Follow the link here to find more information on each writers, as well as audio recordings of each reader.

Thanks for tuning in. Until next time.

xx
Judy

Intimate Interview at The Christal Ann Rice Cooper Website

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Hi All,

I’m pleased to share with you something more than a poem or a story. Recently, I was interviewed by The Christal Ann Rice Cooper Website to speak about my poem, Now the Sadness, which concerns itself with the grief of losing my son. Never an easy topic, but I was honored to have a space to speak about my son, and also how I wrestle with his passing in my writing.

Full interview and gallery can be found here.

Until next time,
Judy

Evening Street Press Now Online

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Hi All,

Happy to report that the Summer 2022 issue of Evening Street Press is now online and can be read free of charge. You can also purchase a copy from the links below. My poem Prompts to Self is featured in the magazine.

Evening Street Press
https://eveningstreetpress.com/product/evening-street-review-number-34-summer-2022/

Google Books
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jNl1EAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA1&printsec=frontcove

Scribd
https://www.scribd.com/document/578736375/Evening-Street-Review-Number-34

Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4F6B6VQ

Wishing you all a nice summer. Stay safe and healthy.
Judy

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Review and Friday Forum

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Hi Friends,

Hope this finds you well. Lots of good news to share with you today.

Firstly, I’m very pleased by and honored with a nice review of Buy A Ticket from Kristofer Collins at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

“All of it, though, the suffering and joy, the innocence and experience, are in Robinson’s poems all of one piece, a whole cloth, a brilliant heartbreaking tapestry.”

You can read the entire review here.

Also, I’m happy to report that I will be reading from Buy A Ticket as part of Carnegie Mellon’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Friday Forum. The forum will take play on Friday, May 20th at 1pm. Learn more about it here.

Thanks for sharing this news with me. Take good care.

Until next time,
Judy

Artist Profile at Jewish Chronicle

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Hi Friends,

Hope everyone is safe and healthy. I’m pleased to announce that the Jewish Chronicle has run an artist profile on me in lead up to the publication of my new book, Buy A Ticket as well as the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books.

You can read the profile here, as well as see me read on May 14 at 3:15pm during the Festival of Books.

Look forward to seeing some of you there.

With care,

Judy

Artwork Featured on Persimmon Tree

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Hi Friends,

Hope you are as good as can be. I’m pleased to announce that my art has been featured in the Spring edition of Persimmon Tree, an online magazine of the arts by women over sixty. (It also appeared in their recent newsletter.) The Spring edition is entitled Forgetting, and there you will find wonderful prose and poems by a slew of talented writers. I hope you enjoy it. Until next time…

Judy