#shareHERstory – January Gill O’Neil: Crossing North/South Divides through Poetry
by Joey Phoenix This month, Creative Collective is celebrating Women’s History Month! Follow along as we tell the stories of women writers, makers, small business owners, organizational leaders, and community heroes. Acclaimed Poet, Salem State University professor, and Beverly resident January Gill O’Neil (she/her/hers) found herself and her two teenage children in Mississippi during the start of COVID nearly a
Salem State Hosts Poetry Seminar: Public Readings June 4-8
SALEM, MA – Salem State University and the Salem Athenaeum announce the eighth Salem Poetry Seminar, a week-long event for students at public colleges and universities in Massachusetts. The Seminar gives thirteen students, selected from throughout the commonwealth, the opportunity to study poetry writing intensively with noted teachers and authors Charlotte Gordon, J.D. Scrimgeour, and January Gill O’Neil. Scrimgeour,
“When We Fly, We Find Our Fire.” – Reading January Gill O’Neil’s Rewilding
by Joey Phoenix What happens when you have to start over after a major life change? Do you keep doing what you’ve been doing or do you let yourself become something brand new? These are the questions January Gill O’Neil examines in her newest book Rewilding (Cavankerry Press, 2018). Rewilding is a term for ecological, large-scale conservation where land
