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04/09/2026

Tulsa!
Oklahoma City!
Norman!
Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman, translators of From Lightning’s Strike by Juana Karen Peñate, are taking the poetry on the road this month.

At each event, the translators will read from the book and also discuss the translators’ art, the Mayan Ch’ol language, and take audience questions. Copies of the book will be available.

“From Lightning’s Strike” on tour In: Uncategorized|Last Updated: April 9, 2026 Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman, translators of From Lightning’s Strike by Juana Karen Peñate, will be taking the poetry on the road this month. At each event, the translators will read from the book an...

04/14/2025

Ellen Stone reads from "Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them" at the Ann Arbor District Library.

Get your own copy here: http://mayapplepress.com/ellen-stone-everybody-wants-to-keep-the-moon-inside-them/

https://www.youtube.com/live/0qpGOOnh0Y8?feature=shared&t=763

Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. Local poet Ellen Stone will read excerpts from her new book Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon ...

04/05/2025

Went to the Kingston, NY, HANDS OFF! demonstration today on my scooter. My guess is a couple of thousand people in pouring rain.

02/20/2025

http://mayapplepress.com/joy-gaines-friedler-secular-audacity/

Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 66 pages - 2025 -SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE 17.56 + S&H - - - Just as it is audacious to stand up for justice, it is audacious to write a poem. It is audacious to read poetry. This collection of poems looks at life through a secular—albeit Jewish—lens, recognizing,...

02/20/2025

http://mayapplepress.com/ellen-stone-everybody-wants-to-keep-the-moon-inside-them/

Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 88 pages - 2025 - SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE: $17.56 + S&H -- -- Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it i...

02/20/2025

http://mayapplepress.com/how-many-hands-to-home-lisken-van-pelt-dus/

"How Many Hands to Home" is a journey of compassion, traveling through fire, war and displacement to arrive at a place of acceptance and embrace of the expansive human spirit. The many voices of the poems engage with both individual and shared experience, exploring the two sides—the challenges and...

08/07/2024

Come watch the three readings given by the participants in this year’s Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat on YouTube at

The Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat began as the Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Retreat in Saginaw, Michigan, in 2003, and moved to Woodstock in 2012. During ...

07/30/2024

Stay tuned for the YouTube links for our readings! Friday at 7 EDT, Monday at 3 EDT, Tuesday at 7 EDT.

07/27/2024

07/15/2024

Eleanor Lerman's "Slim Blue Universe" was shortlisted for the Rubery Award:
https://www.ruberybookaward.com/2024-winners.html

Get your own copy from Mayapple Press here:
http://mayapplepress.com/slim-blue-universe-eleanor-lerman/

A lovely novel about relationships and duty told from the perspective of an American expat in Japan. Sedge’s wife has left him, and the novel deals with his predicament and how cultural...