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How Do You Spell the Sound of Crickets

Year

2022

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

PaperAngelPress

Summary

"Write to me. Keep me alive," wrote Jory Post to Paola Bruni as he was dying of inoperable cancer.Hence, the quiet conversation ensued - one poet to another - an intimate, and at times playful, sharing of hopes, fears, and grief. Paola Bruni is a writer, wife, and doggie mom living on California's Central Coast. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, and winner of the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Prize judged by Ellen Bass, as well as a finalist for the Mudfish Poetry Prize.Her poems have appeared in such prestigious journals as The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Five Points Journal, Rattle, Massachusetts Review, and Catamaran Literary Reader, among others. Her short plays have been produced by Actors Theater, Santa Cruz as well as short-listed for play festivals around the globe.You can learn more about the world and works of Paola Bruni at paolabruniwriter.com.

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