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Shushka (Suzanne) Edison
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Poet; mental health coordinator; educator in Narrative Medicine; writing about: loss and resilience, grief and joy. www.seedison.com Books: Since the House Is Burning; The Body Lives Its Undoing and others.
Featured reader: Suzanne Edison
TUESDAY, March 4th, at THE GRANGE--DUVALL, WA
7 pm
Suzanne Edison’s book, Since the House Is Burning, by MoonPath Press, was published in 2022. Her
chapbook, The Body Lives Its Undoing, was published in 2018.
More poetry @www.seedison.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I'll be in conversation with Ronda Thorington. Registration links also here.
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January 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Shop at Costco. They overwhelmingly kept their DEI policies in tact. www.axios.com/2025/01/23/c...
Costco shareholders vote against anti-DEI proposal
More than 98% of Costco shareholders voted down an anti-DEI proposal Thursday at the company's annual shareholders meeting.
www.axios.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Also the NIH is frozen. We saw this in his first term, but the actions are swifter and more sweeping now. Protect your work. download it. Keep copies. Also, do not apply for any grant money using the words "health equity." www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org
January 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The menace is moving quickly to suppress information. This "freeze" of information is chilling. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others
One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.
www.npr.org
January 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
So grateful to Bear at Verse Daily for reposting this poem.
www.versedaily.org/2025/command... "Commandments with a Line from Jack Gilbert."
www.versedaily.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A new poem out today in Gyroscope Review. p. 19 www.gyroscopereview.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I have written so many "fire" poems. This is in my book Since the House Is Burning, but was written years ago. Sadly, still relevant.
January 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My workshop next Wednesday, January 15th in Olympia, WA. Please sign up soon, spaces limited.
January 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Olympia Poetry Network
poet and open mic Wednesday, January 15, 2025
6:00–7:30 pm Featured poet:
Suzanne Edison
Reading live at Traditions,
the Gathering Space
5th & Water Street, downtown Olympia Open mic signup starts 5:30pm
January featured

All are welcome.
January 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Nature of Our Times link to 4 poems. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org?s=Suzanne+Ed...
You searched for Suzanne Edison - The Nature of Our Times
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January 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Recent poems in Quartet Journal (Editor's Choice); Judith Magazine; and The Nature of Our Times. www.quartetjournal.com/current-issue
Winter Issue 2025 | Quartet Journal
൪uartet is an online poetry journal that highlights the creativity of women fifty and over.
www.quartetjournal.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM