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Richard Havenga is the September 2014 Blue Heron Speaks Featured Poet

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Richard Havenga

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Blue Heron Review is pleased to share the talents of poet and nature photographer, Richard Havenga, this month.  Richard blends his talents for visual and literary art in the form of photo Haiku poems on his blog, “Walk With Father Nature,” which offers readers a unique fusion of photography and poetry.  Each poem is a breath.  Each photograph is a window to the world of natural beauty and philosophical reflection.  Please visit the Blue Heron Speaks page of our site, to read and view his photo Haiku selections: Gold Rings, Theater of Clouds, Celestial Vision, and Willow Leaf.  Richard will also be a special, guest contributor in the Winter/2015 issue of Blue Heron.

Richard Havenga seeks to make the ordinary extraordinary through close, personal observations of nature. Weaving words of grace and gratitude through the tapestry of his exquisite photographs, Richard shares everyday miracles with the rigorous curiosity of a naturalist, and the immeasurable perceptions of an artist. Richard writes with a supple blend of awareness, spirituality, and discovery. Always attentive outdoors, always searching for new epiphanies of beauty, always grateful for the extravagant gifts of creation, he leads the reader-viewer along an inviting trail of words and images; gifts thoughtfully selected, and graciously given. Richard Havenga is a writer, nature photographer, poet, teacher, naturalist, and author of the blog, “Walk With Father Nature”. He’s been married to his loving wife, Mary, for 43 years. They live on ten wooded acres, on a designated “Natural Beauty” road near Cannonsburg, Michigan. Find out more about this author:

Blog: http://walkwithfathernature.blogspot.com/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/richardhavenga/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=201360611&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/richardlhavenga/services

Karen Carissimo is the August 2014 Blue Heron Speaks Featured Poet

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KAREN CARISSIMO

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Blue Heron Review is proud to shine a spotlight on the poetry of Karen Carissimo this month. Her beautiful use of language, evocative imagery and narrative style will take you on a journey with each poem. To read her poems: Lisbon, Deathbed, and Journey, please visit the Blue Heron Speaks page of our site.

Karen Carissimo’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Cimarron Review, Cutthroat, Notre Dame Review, North American Review, Western Humanities Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review and Fourteen Hills, and nonfiction in The San Francisco Chronicle. Her first book of poems, Dream City, was published in 2012 by Iris Press. She is currently at work on a second collection of poems and a novel. Find her on Verse Daily. Karen’s poetry collection, Dream City, is available on Amazon and from Iris Press.

Megan Morgan is the May 2014 Blue Heron Speaks Featured Artist

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Megan Morgan

Megan Morgan photo by Eva Tsang

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The Blue Heron Speaks featured artist for May is Fine Art Photographer, Megan Morgan. Since last month was National Poetry Month, I wanted a change of pace for this page.  If poets paint with words, then visual artists create poetry through the beauty of image, form and visual concepts. To honor the light-bearing month of May, it is my great pleasure to introduce and shine a spotlight on the talents of photographer, Megan Morgan. I hope you enjoy these majestic glimpses of light in their natural and unexpected forms. Visit the Blue Heron Speaks page of this site to view three of Megan Morgan’s light-themed photographs.

Megan Morgan is a visual artist currently living in Northern California who focuses mainly on photography. She graduated from the San Francisco Art institute with a Masters of Fine Art in 2012. Her work can be found in exhibitions throughout North America including Toronto (ON), Detroit (MI), Halifax (NS), San Francisco (CA) and more. Megan’s work embraces the notions of place, identity, history and light. More formally, Megan’s work ranges from portrait photography to environmental landscapes, to issues surrounding gender and race as well as the abstract. Additionally, as a yoga instructor, she believes in the goodness and uniqueness of all people and strives to find ways to capture the best of this lifetime with the people and places she teaches and photographs. You can find her musings, websites and other creative work here:

http://www.manouchephoto.com
http://www.meganmmorgan.com
Twitter: @MeegnMMorgan
Tumblrs: http://www.mintedvintage.tumblr.com
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http://www.manouchehphoto.tumblr.com

Happy National Poetry Month! May Sarton is the April 2014 Blue Heron Speaks Featured Poet

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May Sarton

Photo: Lotte Jacobi(photo by Lotte Jacobi)

In honor of National Poetry Month, I have chosen to feature a special writer who is no longer with us. I hope you enjoy these three poems by May Sarton. Visit the BLUE HERON SPEAKS page of this site to read:

Now I Become Myself
The Phoenix Again
When a Woman Feels Alone

We have to dare to be ourselves,
however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
― May Sarton

Carolyne Whelan is the Blue Heron Speaks Poet for March 2014

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Our Blue Heron Speaks featured poet for March 2014 is:

Carolyne Whelan

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Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in poetry and nonfiction at Chatham University in 2009, where she was a finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize for a Single Poem, and was a Jan-Ai fellowship winner. Her first chapbook, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, most recently Willows Wept and Sugar House. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Visit the Blue Heron Speaks page on this site to read two of Carolyne Whelan’s recent poems, “Watching the Red-Tailed Hawk’s Courtship Ritual” and “After Rumi”.

Paulette Beete is the Blue Heron Speaks Featured Poet for December

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Our  Blue Heron Speaks featured poet for December is:

PAULETTE BEETE

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(author photo by Carrie Holbo Photography)

Visit the Blue Heron Speaks page to read three of Paulette Beete’s latest poems.

Paulette Beete’s poems, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in journals included Crab Orchard Review, Rhino, Escape into Life, and Provincetown Arts, and in the anthologies Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC and Saints of Hysteria (with Danna Ephland). She has held residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is the author of two chapbooks: Blues for a Pretty Girl (Finishing Line Press) and Voice Lessons (Plan B Press). She blogs semi-regularly at www.thehomebeete.com.