L.R. Berger, Pace e Bene’s New England Associate, has her poem, “The President and The Poet Come to the Negotiating Table” appearing in a just published anthology of poems all longing and working for peace titled, “The Other Side of Sorrow,” edited by Patricia Frisella and Cicely Buckley (ISBN 978-0-9724167-1-9).

The book also includes the poem, “Hushhhh” by Colin Nevins, age 12, who was a student in L.R.’s workshop, “Letters to the World,” which gives children an opportunity to express their passionate concerns and wishes for the world through the medium of poems.

Colin’s poem will also be featured in Pace e Bene’s April issue of “The Wolf” The cover of this anthology features a photograph of the revolving doors of the World Trade Center taken in July 2001.

Award winning poet Marie Howe writes on the back cover, “At a time in our history when official language is used to coerce and to lie, the poets here use it to touch and to taste the actual, the real. On the other side of sorrow is another way to live on this earth. Awake and alive, these poets help us to form the sentence (we can almost imagine!) that will change our collective life.”

“The Other Side of Sorrow” can be ordered for plus shipping by emailing frisella@worldpath.net, by ordering through your local independent bookstore, or by sending a check to Frisella, 31 Reservoir Road, Farmington, NH 03835.

You can reach Colin Nevins and L.R. Berger at writeonlr@aol.com.

HUSHHHH
by Colin Nevins

Many wonder if the waterfall speaks,
but poets know.

It speaks Hushhhh
no more guns

Hushhh

no more bombs

Hushhhh
no more cries of pain

Hushhhh
no more lies

Hushhhh
no more secrets,

as it chisels away
at our brainwashed minds.