This week we welcome Lisa Vihos as our guest blogger. Lisa was an art museum educator for 20 years and is currently the director of alumni relations at Lakeland College in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where she is also pursuing a Masters of Counseling degree. She is an associate editor of the literary journal, Stoneboat. Her poems have appeared in Big Muddy, Free Verse, Goose River Anthology, Lakefire, Red Cedar, Seems, Verse Wisconsin and Wisconsin People and Ideas. Lisa blogs over at Lisa's Poem of the Week.
Welcome, Lisa.
In other news:
We're also pleased to welcome back Sally Ashton, who is in Lisbon right now, teaching at a new International Literary Program from June 19th-July 2nd and traveling with her winemaker husband around Portugal through July 12. Sally will post a few times a week about her adventures. In addition to her many accomplishments, Sally was recently named poet laureate of Santa Clara County. Read about her appointment here. Sally has initiated a "favorite poem" project that you can read about here
— sdh