Valerie Sonnenthal
A case of the Willys in Chilmark
Congratulations to Marianne Goldberg and the entire Pathways Projects Team on three more winter residencies now lined up for Pathways Gathering Space at the...
Chilmark: The Yard, The Barnyard, and more
This has been a week of cancellations, suffering through a sore throat, rising above an allergy-fogged head, being vigilant daily about grooming dogs for...
Chilmark bids its graduates farewell
Yes, it is really June and weekends are swelling with visitors and activities in Chilmark. I just returned Sunday from getting my certification as...
From pre-wedding softball to the Blessing of the Fleet: Busy weekend in Chilmark
The CCC playing field came to life Saturday morning with at least 40 people enjoying an all-ages softball game for a weekend of celebration culminating in Sunday’s wedding at The Beach Plum Inn of longtime summer resident, filmmaker Jackson Waite and his new bride, novelist and contributor to Esquire, Lisa Taddeo.
Chilmark mourns Pat Gregory
Summer’s coming.
Chilmark: store is open, farms full of greens
On my way home I thought I could catch the end of opening day at the Chilmark General Store, but missed it only to find a couple of mothers minding their young kids toddling and crawling on the front porch. I heard that the porch was full at lunchtime and an opening day crowd enjoyed themselves.
Poets’ Corner: Part One
Valerie Sonnenthal joined the Cleaveland House Poets when she moved to the Vineyard in 2006, She publishes Errata Edition Books on Books series and can be found cooking, swimming, listening to writers, and walking her dogs when she is not teaching or studying Gyrotonic movement, how our feet behave, and any ironic poetic thing.
Poets Corner: Distance
Distance
Distance suits you so well, familiar
like a worn suit, the one you choose
Distance, her long waiting curves you drive
your hands around her sleek horizon
singing...
Poets Corner: Orange Poem
Orange Poem
pressing the bright smoothly waxed skin
against green Sunkist glass ridges
wrist spinning evenly
remembering 72nd Street, my mother smiling and
whirring white porcelain
draining below into a...
Drawing a crowd at Cuttyhunk
On August 8, I made my first trip to Cuttyhunk after living on the Island for the last seven years.
Apt and eloquent
I was thrilled to read the MV Times writer Gwyn McCallister's apt and eloquent