PSNH Member Spotlight

Happy Summer. Congrats to all our members for their accomplishments.

Liz Ahl’s poems have appeared in Moon City Review, South 85 Journal, RHINO, and New Verse
News. Her poem, “You Try To Fix It,” was featured on the Slowdown at the end of May. Liz will
be reading at Quincy Bog Natural Area in Rumney at 7 p.m. on July 8. Later in July, she’ll head
out west to enjoy one of the LGBTQ+ stays at Desert Rat Residency, which she was awarded for
a poem selected by David Groff. After that, she will be spending time at the Dorland Mountain
Arts colony, working on a new poetry collection. Dorland Mountain Arts; Desert Rat Residency;
The Slowdown

Deb Baker’s poem, “What was,” appeared in the May issue of The Christian Century and in the CC poetry editor’s “Poem for the Week” newsletter. Deb Baker in The Christian Century

Zion Bellefonte’s poem ‘Perimeter Grass’ was recently published online by Half and One. Perimeter Grass by Zion Bellefonte

William Coleman was awarded a 2026 New Hampshire Teacher Poetry Prize from the University of New Hampshire. His book manuscript, Most Like Ourselves in Translation, was named a semi-finalist for this year’s Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. In July, an essay about teaching poetry will be published in English Journal.

Shoshana Cote will be facilitating a five-week workshop, “The Prophetess,” with Adventures in Learning in New London, NH. The group will discuss Nobel Literature poem-translations and questions presented in Shoshana’s book, Weavings of Departure. Registration opens over the summer and the course begins mid-September. Adventures in Learning

Pat Daneman’s chapbook, Find Me, will be published in the fall by Charlotte Lit Press. Pat also has poems recently published or forthcoming in Stone Canoe, Thimble, Third Wednesday, and Cloudbank. Pat Daneman poetry & photography

Maggie Dietz will read from and discuss her new book of poems, If You Would Let Me, at Water Street Books in Exeter, NH, on Sunday, July 12 at 3:00 p.m.  Maggie Dietz at Water Street Books

Finishing Line Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new chapbook by Linda Dini Jenkins. How Way Leads on to Way, will release on July 10, 2026. How Way Leads on to Way

Melissa Rossetti Folini’s poem “Sea-renity” was chosen as part of the Portsmouth Poet Laureates Storefront Windows program. Her poem “Hidden Wings” was selected for the forthcoming Comfort Round Anthology by the PPLP. Her poems “Heaven” and “Leafing Through History” will appear in the upcoming anthology, The Turning of the Leaves, from Quabbin Quills Quabbin Quills

Jeff Friedman had three prose poems posted on Vox Populi on April 23, 2026 and three six-sentence micros published in Gooseberry Pie Lit. He also has a flash story coming out in Midway Journal in July. Jeff Friedman Vox Populi; Jeff Friedman Gooseberry Pie

Beth Ann Hooper’s latest poetry collection, Haunting the Dead, was published on May 1, 2026, and includes video interpretations of three of the poems, accessible via QR codes in the collection. Three poems are also featured in Poetry in Motion Picture, a short arthouse film that will be on the film festival circuit in 2026 and 2027. Both the book and the film will launch on Saturday, July 25, 2026 at The Bookery in Manchester, NH. Beth Ann Hooper in The Tonearm

Rodger Martin led a U.S. contingent of poets to the fifth annual Poetry Bridging Continents Symposium held at WB Yeats’s home, Thoor Ballylee, in Gort, Ireland, May 15-19. The five U.S. poets, including Meg Kearney and Maura McNeil, joined with poets from China and Ireland to speak and read. Yeats Thor Ballylee Society

Tim Mayo announces the publication of his fifth collection, Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster. Tim will be reading with Chard deNiord at the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT on June 24 at 7pm. He will also be reading for the launch of Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster at 118 Eliot in Brattleboro, VT on Saturday July 11 at 4:30 p.m. Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster; Tim Mayo at Norwich Bookstore;

Laurie D. Morrissey is the new poetry editor of Appalachia, a journal of mountaineering and conservation published twice yearly by the Appalachian Mountain Club. Appalachia

Liane St. Laurent will be one of three featured readers at the Old Manse in Concord, MA on Aug. 23. Liane’s chapbook, un/winter, is available at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH. un/winter by Liane St. Laurent

Jon Wesick’s latest collection, Rants of a Cranky Old Man, is available at Amazon. Rants of a Cranky Old Man by Jon Wesick

Laurie Zimmerman’s poem “Young Country,” set in the NH community of Andover, NH, appears in the current issue of Asheville Poetry Review. Recently, another poem, “Mist,” was a finalist for the Cavafy Prize from Poetry International. Asheville Poetry Review