by Robin Barber | Nov 16, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Stacks of Fine Woodworking Magazines (Contemplating Eventual Downsizing) by Donald Wheelock My first thoughts of them aren’t with the craftbut with the atmosphere, with starting work:the optimism of the summer sun,the early morning...
by Robin Barber | Nov 16, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine The Music of Mourning by Donald Wheelock Music takes me calmlyto its lair, rehearsesdark emotions, whetherthose of majesty orscents of love and asheswhere we grieve together. Phrases made from griefthrive in peace here. So, too,when...
by Hilary Zaloom | Oct 31, 2023 | Reading Events, Readings - new
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 4 PMNorthampton Friends Meeting Hall 43 Center Street, Suite 202Northampton, MA Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome! For those how can’t or prefer not to attend in person, a Zoom session will be available...
by Hilary Zaloom | Oct 10, 2023 | Reading Events, Readings - new
Sunday, October 22, 2023, 4 PMNorthampton Friends Meeting Hall 43 Center Street, Suite 202Northampton, MA Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome! Julie G. Olmsted Julie G. Olmsted has been a writer, preacher, runner, meditator, theologian,...
by Robin Barber | Sep 25, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Upon My Sword by Liz Pertzoff My hands are an enlarged version of a lady’s hands that in Victorian literature might have been described as “long-fingered if nicely formed.” When I was younger I’d expected my fingers to become replicas...
by Hilary Zaloom | Sep 18, 2023 | Reading Events, Readings - new
Reading and Book Signing October 7, 2023, 5 PMFlorence Civic Center90 Park StreetFlorence, MA Free and open to the public. Suzanne M. Smith Suzanne M. Smith’s devotion to her writing life has, until now, been a well-kept secret. She has worked for many years in...
by Robin Barber | Jul 31, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Scenes from the Death of a Devout Man By Norma Sims Roche He’d played the organ at 7:30 Mass for as long as most of the other retirees could remember. When the small white man with thick white hair stopped showing up, there was no...
by Robin Barber | Jul 31, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Wire to Wire by James Brunel Do not do as I did, one recent semi-tropical evening, high above the placid, flaccid, steamy dead-end shores of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, and ask your assembled in-laws, gathered there from distant compass...
by Robin Barber | Jul 31, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine She Made the Sale by Marc Berman A fanatic at the doorselling environmental salvationbegs for money at dinnertime. Not now, I say. Come back later.But my wife appears,morphs into a polite 80 year old widowand nodding, let’s the...
by Robin Barber | Jul 31, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine The Nightingale by Susan Cocalis A non-conformist nightingalelonged to be a great white whaleHe once had heard of Moby Dick,whose skin was white and very thick,whose blubber never turned to flab,in his pursuit of Old Ahab.So for this...
