Charise M. Hoge, Guest Author January 15-19

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January 15, 2018

Charise M. Hoge, Guest Author January 15-19

This week we welcome Charise M. Hoge, MA, MSW, as our guest author. Charise is a dance/movement therapist, performing artist, and writer. Her work in arts and healing has brought wellness programs into hospitals, prisons, counseling centers, museums, and businesses. Her dance performance career spans four decades across several U.S. cities. She’s a third culture kid (TCK), military spouse, and co-author of the book A Portable Identity: A Woman’s Guide to Maintaining a Sense of Self While Moving Overseas. Her first poetry chapbook, Striking Light from Ashes, is available from Finishing Line Press (July 2017). Her poems are featured in various journals and platforms, as well as her own blog mixandmosspoetry.com. Find out more about Charise here.

Welcome, Charise.

-- sdl

Posted by The Best American Poetry on January 15, 2018 at 07:09 AM in Announcements, Feature | Permalink

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman