If you’re from Long Island or appreciate the nature of Long Island, you may very well enjoy Paumanok – Transition. A beautiful poetry — and photographic — anthology.
I’m happy to be a contributor alongside such poetic talent.
Paumanok~Transitions is a tour de force – an impressive performance by poets, photographers and the editor and co-editors! This year-long anthology of poems and photographs begins each month with Whitman’s words which transition the reader from the past to the present. The illuminating poems in this anthology lead the reader backward and forward at the same time – an oxymoron, a feat only possible with words. The poetic words in these pages document transitions of the personal, spiritual, social, sexual, emotional and political, akin to Whitman’s own journey – when he went forth as a child from his Birthplace into the world as a builder’s apprentice, journalist, essayist, newspaper founder, Civil War nurse, novelist, poet and Comerado. His fellow travelers in this volume vividly relate their transitions with spontaneous awareness or aching recall – involving a movement or shift that is transformative for both poet and reader. — Cynthia Shor, Executive Director, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
Mary C. M. Phillips 
So happy to be in here together!
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Yes! And thank you! 💚✨
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Mary
I had to look up “camerados” and found this: https://www.camerados.org/principles/
Was this your intended meaning?
If Yes, then their principles mirror what Multicultural Solidarity of LI is doing in their Friendship Circles gatherings. Eileen and I have spent nearly a year with these Suffolk County-based folks and we are interested in starting a circle in West Hempstead. This summer, one of our Circles was on the Shinnecock Reservation – where two female tribal elders led our gathering, as we sat around a very old fire circle.
There’s another similarity in these GD lyrics: “Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands.” (Blue gloves not needed…as we’re already vaccinated with music.)
tOM
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Thanks Tom. I know of a poetry group that meets at a church in Suffolk – and includes Native American drumming. I think you would really enjoy it. I will get you more information. Thanks for commenting and Merry Christmas!
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Congratulations, dearest Mary. Wishing you the best in your writing. Hope all is well with you and your family in this critical situation of global pandemic. Happy blessed season and New Year.
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Thank you Hamza. Hope you are well! Blessings for peace – and good health – in the New Year.
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