Suzanne Freeman

  • 3rd place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

    Witness
     
    It seemed an unlikely spot for a prophet, the annual library book sale
    in a dim warehouse on a summer day, but there she was,
    rocking side […]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

     

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    Susan Crave Rosen, Orb

     

                      Bindings: Reni Gower with Brielle duFlon and Susan Crave Rosen to February 25

    Chroma Gallery at its new location, York Place 112 West Main St. Suite 10 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902

    Bindings introduces the work of three varied artists — the dynamic canvas strip hangings of Richmond…[Read more]

  • In a word: Yes.

    In their defense they did save me from a slow, painful wasting away. I was under 100 pounds when I got them—and it’s not the lungs’ fault, exactly. It’s the drugs I take to keep my body from re […]

  • We were the ones who fell between the cracks in the social order. We loathed the popular kids—the jocks, cheerleaders, and rich kids. We pitied the stoners and the nerds. To all of them, we were invisible, s […]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

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    Birch grove

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres is the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville.

    Ayres recently won a Juror’s Choice Award for his photograph, The Parlous Egg, at The Larkin Arts Annual Regional Juried Show, in Harrisonburg, VA.

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    The parlous egg

    Ayres also will sh…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

    birch-grove

    Birch grove

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres is the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville.

    Ayres recently won a Juror’s Choice Award for his photograph, The Parlous Egg, at The Larkin Arts Annual Regional Juried Show, in Harrisonburg, VA.

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

    Ayres also will sh…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

    birch-grove

    Birch grove

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, February 2.

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

     Ayres also will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

     

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, February 2.

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

     Ayres also will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the Larkin Arts Regi…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

     

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the Larkin Arts Regional Juried Art group show to run February 3 -25th.

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    Ice cream scoop and eggs

    The opening reception is 5-8 p.m., Friday, February 3 at Larkin Arts, 61 Court Square in…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

     

     

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the Larkin Arts Regional Juried Art group show to run February 3 -25th.

    ice-cream-scoop_1080_jpeg

    Ice cream scoop and eggs

    The opening reception is 5-8 p.m., Friday, February 3 at Larkin Arts, 61 Court Square in Harrisonburg, VA.

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

     

     

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the Larkin Arts Regional Juried Art group show to run February 3 -25th.

    The opening reception is 5-8 p.m., Friday, February 3 at Larkin Arts, 61 Court Square in Harrisonburg, VA.

  • Trudy wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago

    I did the same thing in the first two minutes upon meeting her for the first time that I did while sitting with a friend of more than 20 years two days before. I cried. I felt humbled and felt the tears well up, […]

  • While at first glance Virginia artists Robin Braun and Rob Browning seem drawn to different subjects, techniques and philosophies, their unexpected collaboration has surprised and delighted them […]

  • wow. what a nose for nuance!
    I never connected the yellows…

    thanks, Sharon!

  • Streetlight Poetry Editor Sharron Singleton and Alan Box Levine will read thier nature/earth poems at the closing of “Green Mind” show at Chroma Gallery. The readings will be from 4-5 p.m. Saturday Janunary 28 at Chroma, 201 East Main Street, 2nd floor, Charlottesville.

    Singleton’s chapbook, A Thin Thread of Water was published in 2010 and will…[Read more]

  • Trudy wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago

    This past week I had an unusual experience in a memoir class. Several of us had turned in an excerpt to be critiqued during class. The workshop leader asked another writer to read my excerpt aloud. We were not to […]

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    She felt the first loose tooth at 5am on Tuesday. A back tooth on the lower left side, her wisdom tooth? She felt it the moment she woke up, lying in bed while the monitor screamed in her ear.

    She […]

  • Writing a story from a foreign or external perspective offers not only the reward of expanding your own awareness about people but can also lead to empathy for others that you may not have had before. To write […]

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    Stephanie Gross was intrigued early by pictures and their stories. “I spent a lot of time as a kid looking at pictures,” she says. ”My mom was a docent at the National Gallery and she used to walk me thr […]

  • The squeaky snow in Indiana reminds me of growing up in Poland. So does the temperature, seven degrees Fahrenheit. I’m glad it’s not seventy and sunny. Better days for sitting down and writing rarely come […]

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