The Cleaveland House Poets will host a special event on Wednesday, Jan. 18, from 5 to 6:30 pm at Arnie’s Poetry Cafe at the M.V. Playhouse in honor of the memory of Arnie Reisman. He was the founder of the Poetry Cafe, just one of the many gifts he gave to the Island. Paula Lyons […]
Every year on August 6, Cleaveland House Poets join Dionis Coffin Riggs’ family members for a poetry reading at the West Tisbury library on her birthday. I asked her niece Dionis Montrowl if she knew a good candidate for my garden column, and she mentioned her sister, Judith Fielder. A few weeks later I ran […]
I have been a member of Cleaveland House Poets for 16 years, and therefore head to Cleaveland House on the Edgartown–West Tisbury Road biweekly (except during the pandemic). I began wondering about the property across the road as I watched it transform, albeit from a distance. My curiosity got the best of me, and I […]
This installment of Second Acts started out as a profile on Steve Ewing, dockbuilder-poet. If ever there was a Vineyarder finding his “other self,” it’s Steve, a man who drives 20-foot pilings into sand and mud and then goes home to express his feelings in iambic pentameter. But in exploring Steve’s expressive journey, it became […]