Elizabeth J. Coleman
@elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social
Poet, attorney, mindfulness teacher, guitarist, collage artist, environmental advocate. Editor, HERE: Poems for the Planet, Copper Canyon Press, 2019. Two poetry collections from Spuyten Duyvil Press. On Insta, Threads, Twitter, Facebook.
The last leaves are falling in Manhattan…Michael Palmer & I memorialized our turning toward nature in fall 2022, during the pandemic with images (his) & poems (mine) in Autumn in a Solitary Time (Audience Askew Chapbooks 2023). Please enjoy this image & poem #chapbook #poetry
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy Fall! In 2020, Michael Craig Palmer photographed Hudson Valley's fall trees & leaves & asked me to write accompanying poems, resulting in Autumn in a Solitary Time, Audience Askew Press, a celebration of nature's enduring beauty & and of human connection.
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Happy Fall! In 2020, Michael Craig Palmer photographed Hudson Valley's fall trees & leaves & asked me to write accompanying poems, resulting in Autumn in a Solitary Time, Audience Askew Press, a celebration of nature's enduring beauty & and of human connection.
Honored my chapbook is a finalist for the Headlight Review Prize, & grateful to Headlight Review for publishing my poem, “On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death,” in the current issue, along with other prize-winning & finalist poems. 1/2
August 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Honored my chapbook is a finalist for the Headlight Review Prize, & grateful to Headlight Review for publishing my poem, “On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death,” in the current issue, along with other prize-winning & finalist poems. 1/2
Have begun releasing my classical guitar music on Spotify. Soon I’ll release 2 more “albums.” While I’m not a professional musician, I’ve performed for many years in hospital settings & elsewhere. Here’s hoping you enjoy the music:
open.spotify.com/album/2i6UlP...
open.spotify.com/album/2i6UlP...
July 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Have begun releasing my classical guitar music on Spotify. Soon I’ll release 2 more “albums.” While I’m not a professional musician, I’ve performed for many years in hospital settings & elsewhere. Here’s hoping you enjoy the music:
open.spotify.com/album/2i6UlP...
open.spotify.com/album/2i6UlP...
I’m very grateful to Certain Age Magazine for publishing my poem, “Mega-Galaxies.” If you’d like, you can read the poem, and listen to me read it, here:
www.certainagemag.com/post/mega-ga...
www.certainagemag.com/post/mega-ga...
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m very grateful to Certain Age Magazine for publishing my poem, “Mega-Galaxies.” If you’d like, you can read the poem, and listen to me read it, here:
www.certainagemag.com/post/mega-ga...
www.certainagemag.com/post/mega-ga...
Please join us Wednesday for readings and a conversation on this vitally important subject
📚 Elementals book club returns on 5/21 with Vol. 5, An Elemental Life. If the elements are kin to one other, then what does it mean to live in kinship with the elements?
Book club is hosted online by @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. Register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... @gavinvh.bsky.social
Book club is hosted online by @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. Register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... @gavinvh.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Please join us Wednesday for readings and a conversation on this vitally important subject
It was an honor to participate in the MER reading on May 4th for Volume 23 of this amazing journal on motherhood and women’s lives. There are many rich offerings in the issue, and I recommend it highly.
Here’s my reading of “As If It Were My Name” youtu.be/lJriBe2ruIU
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Here’s my reading of “As If It Were My Name” youtu.be/lJriBe2ruIU
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Elizabeth J Coleman reading for MER23 Launch
YouTube video by elizabeth j coleman
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May 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It was an honor to participate in the MER reading on May 4th for Volume 23 of this amazing journal on motherhood and women’s lives. There are many rich offerings in the issue, and I recommend it highly.
Here’s my reading of “As If It Were My Name” youtu.be/lJriBe2ruIU
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Here’s my reading of “As If It Were My Name” youtu.be/lJriBe2ruIU
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My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact, the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University. You can read the full poem on page 34.
And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue!
drive.google.com/file/d/1vA0y...
And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue!
drive.google.com/file/d/1vA0y...
April 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact, the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University. You can read the full poem on page 34.
And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue!
drive.google.com/file/d/1vA0y...
And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue!
drive.google.com/file/d/1vA0y...
I’m pleased my poem @ being a grandmother appears in the current issue of the journal Mom Egg, and I’m delighted I’ll be reading “As If It Were My Name” at the launch Sunday, May 4th, 5:30 pm ET. Preregistration (free) here to online reading: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MER 23 Launch Reading II - May 4, 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MER 23 Launch Reading II - May 4, 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us02web.zoom.us
April 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’m pleased my poem @ being a grandmother appears in the current issue of the journal Mom Egg, and I’m delighted I’ll be reading “As If It Were My Name” at the launch Sunday, May 4th, 5:30 pm ET. Preregistration (free) here to online reading: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Ironically, just one day after the loss of one of the environment’s greatest champions www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action
Addressing energy leaders, pope warns of ‘catastrophic’ effects of global heating
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Ironically, just one day after the loss of one of the environment’s greatest champions www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I’m grateful Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” We fell in love with the elephants when we walked through the Serengeti years ago, sleeping in small tents along the way.
You can read the poem here:
ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
#ecopoetry #poetry CiderPressRev
You can read the poem here:
ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
#ecopoetry #poetry CiderPressRev
April 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I’m grateful Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” We fell in love with the elephants when we walked through the Serengeti years ago, sleeping in small tents along the way.
You can read the poem here:
ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
#ecopoetry #poetry CiderPressRev
You can read the poem here:
ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
#ecopoetry #poetry CiderPressRev
So grateful “As If It Were My Name,” about my grandchildren, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th.
Get a print copy! ($18)
Get a PDF copy ($5, directly to your inbox) @merliterary.bsky.social
#poetry
Get a print copy! ($18)
Get a PDF copy ($5, directly to your inbox) @merliterary.bsky.social
#poetry
April 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So grateful “As If It Were My Name,” about my grandchildren, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th.
Get a print copy! ($18)
Get a PDF copy ($5, directly to your inbox) @merliterary.bsky.social
#poetry
Get a print copy! ($18)
Get a PDF copy ($5, directly to your inbox) @merliterary.bsky.social
#poetry
Delighted & grateful my poem “In the Morning in the City” appears among these amazing prizewinning & commended poems @Passionfruitlit
passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morni...
#poetry
passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morni...
#poetry
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Delighted & grateful my poem “In the Morning in the City” appears among these amazing prizewinning & commended poems @Passionfruitlit
passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morni...
#poetry
passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morni...
#poetry
I’m grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” alongside two other wonderful poems in their Spring 2025 Lit Fox Poetry Series.
April 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” alongside two other wonderful poems in their Spring 2025 Lit Fox Poetry Series.
When I find myself struggling to feel hope in this time of terrible uncertainty & crisis, in this time of great cruelty towards fellow humans & our planet, I remind myself hope is a strategy store.hbr.org/product/hope-i…, & “despair not an option” @BernieSanders
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https://store.hbr.org/product/hope-i…
March 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
When I find myself struggling to feel hope in this time of terrible uncertainty & crisis, in this time of great cruelty towards fellow humans & our planet, I remind myself hope is a strategy store.hbr.org/product/hope-i…, & “despair not an option” @BernieSanders
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I am so honored that Wandering Aengus Press has chosen my poetry collection THE BODEGA AND THE WREN as a finalist for their Trail to Table Book Awards, and and so very happy for the winners and the other finalists #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetryawards #poetrylovers
Finalists:
Sasha Bailyn
@jessicainclan.bsky.social
Lisa Birman
@cindybradleywriter.bsky.social
@elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social
Geri Gale
Lynn B. Glicklich Cohen
Justin Hunt
(cont...)
Sasha Bailyn
@jessicainclan.bsky.social
Lisa Birman
@cindybradleywriter.bsky.social
@elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social
Geri Gale
Lynn B. Glicklich Cohen
Justin Hunt
(cont...)
March 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I am so honored that Wandering Aengus Press has chosen my poetry collection THE BODEGA AND THE WREN as a finalist for their Trail to Table Book Awards, and and so very happy for the winners and the other finalists #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetryawards #poetrylovers
Thrilled to learn @Poetry_Society has awarded Giovanni the prestigious Frost Medal posthumously, so wonderfully deserved.
So sad to learn of Nikki Giovanni’s recent death, one of the marvelous poets who contributed to HERE: Poems for the Planet (@CopperCanyonPrs 2019) @UCUSA @DalaiLama. We made the decision in 2019 only to include living poets, & we’ve lost so many great ones since then 1/2
February 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thrilled to learn @Poetry_Society has awarded Giovanni the prestigious Frost Medal posthumously, so wonderfully deserved.
So sad to learn of Nikki Giovanni’s recent death, one of the marvelous poets who contributed to HERE: Poems for the Planet (@CopperCanyonPrs 2019) @UCUSA @DalaiLama. We made the decision in 2019 only to include living poets, & we’ve lost so many great ones since then 1/2
February 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So sad to learn of Nikki Giovanni’s recent death, one of the marvelous poets who contributed to HERE: Poems for the Planet (@CopperCanyonPrs 2019) @UCUSA @DalaiLama. We made the decision in 2019 only to include living poets, & we’ve lost so many great ones since then 1/2
Grateful @OwenLewis introduced me to poet Pascale Petit & her stunning “Green Bee-Eater" poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bee���: “If you see one singing..you might dream/of the forests//that once clothed/our flying pla#ecopoetryc#ClimateCrisisteCrisis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bee���: “If you see one singing..you might dream/of the forests//that once clothed/our flying pla#ecopoetryc#ClimateCrisisteCrisis
https://poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
January 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Grateful @OwenLewis introduced me to poet Pascale Petit & her stunning “Green Bee-Eater" poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bee���: “If you see one singing..you might dream/of the forests//that once clothed/our flying pla#ecopoetryc#ClimateCrisisteCrisis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bee���: “If you see one singing..you might dream/of the forests//that once clothed/our flying pla#ecopoetryc#ClimateCrisisteCrisis
Grateful @Greenpeace enumerated 2024 environmental victories around the globe greenpeace.org/international/…
I continue to believe strongly hope is a strategy, sort of… @HarvardBiz
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Hope gives us courage & energy to fight for Earth’s future, & ours.
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I continue to believe strongly hope is a strategy, sort of… @HarvardBiz
hbr.org/2012/10/hope-i���
Hope gives us courage & energy to fight for Earth’s future, & ours.
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https://greenpeace.org/international/…
January 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Grateful @Greenpeace enumerated 2024 environmental victories around the globe greenpeace.org/international/…
I continue to believe strongly hope is a strategy, sort of… @HarvardBiz
hbr.org/2012/10/hope-i���
Hope gives us courage & energy to fight for Earth’s future, & ours.
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I continue to believe strongly hope is a strategy, sort of… @HarvardBiz
hbr.org/2012/10/hope-i���
Hope gives us courage & energy to fight for Earth’s future, & ours.
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When a friend sent me this article, I thought of a sacred part of my life, in addition to family, poetry, and visual art: music.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/b...
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How the Sound of Music Can Be Healing. Literally.
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When a friend sent me this article, I thought of a sacred part of my life, in addition to family, poetry, and visual art: music.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/b...
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Orbital, Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize 2024 novel about 6 humans orbiting our planet in a spacecraft (@GrovePressUK ) is one of best books I’ve read. The book’s sense of urgency in this time of climate crisis contrasts with growing disregard for the planet by many in power.
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January 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Orbital, Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize 2024 novel about 6 humans orbiting our planet in a spacecraft (@GrovePressUK ) is one of best books I’ve read. The book’s sense of urgency in this time of climate crisis contrasts with growing disregard for the planet by many in power.
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Since the election, I’ve been wondering about the role of the arts in helping us be kinder and care more for each other and the planet, and I found this : www.brookings.edu/articles/new...
#poetry #ecopoetry #kindness #protectourplant @mindfulness @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA
#poetry #ecopoetry #kindness #protectourplant @mindfulness @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA
New evidence of the benefits of arts education
New findings provide strong evidence that arts educational experiences can produce significant positive impacts on academic and social development for students.
www.brookings.edu
December 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Since the election, I’ve been wondering about the role of the arts in helping us be kinder and care more for each other and the planet, and I found this : www.brookings.edu/articles/new...
#poetry #ecopoetry #kindness #protectourplant @mindfulness @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA
#poetry #ecopoetry #kindness #protectourplant @mindfulness @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA
Honored Cider Press Review has published, Windhovers on their beautiful website.
“A group of swans is called a lamentation.
The stars—indifferent—masquerade as friends.”
Full poem at: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
@CiderPressRev @CaronAndregg
“A group of swans is called a lamentation.
The stars—indifferent—masquerade as friends.”
Full poem at: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
@CiderPressRev @CaronAndregg
Windhovers by Elizabeth Coleman – Cider Press Review
ciderpressreview.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Honored Cider Press Review has published, Windhovers on their beautiful website.
“A group of swans is called a lamentation.
The stars—indifferent—masquerade as friends.”
Full poem at: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
@CiderPressRev @CaronAndregg
“A group of swans is called a lamentation.
The stars—indifferent—masquerade as friends.”
Full poem at: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
@CiderPressRev @CaronAndregg
I’m so sorry this heart-breaking poem by the late Jane Meade, “Money,” in Here: Poems for the Planet @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA @dalailama (2019) has renewed urgent resonance today: “..by then//…The water didn’t belong to the water.”#climatecrisis #ecopoetry
December 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM
I’m so sorry this heart-breaking poem by the late Jane Meade, “Money,” in Here: Poems for the Planet @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA @dalailama (2019) has renewed urgent resonance today: “..by then//…The water didn’t belong to the water.”#climatecrisis #ecopoetry