Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty-year writer and the author of 12 published books of fiction and poetry and 5 stage plays. She has been nominated 21 times for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Another play, LADY IN A POST BOX, co-written with poet and writer Ciaran O’Driscoll is moving toward production in Ireland. Her play CLANDESTINE is making the rounds. OFFICE, a Novel was re-printed as a Second Edition. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review.
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On A Day Of Quiet Rain
By Susan Isla Tepper
Do nothing the prophets
whisper
awake and while sleeping
the yellowed pages
curling almost to dust
You come upon
a meditation garden
purely by accident on a day
of quiet rain
And there was Jesus, himself
pictured on placards
lined up, golden, filigreed:
attached to wooden poles
in the ground
beginning with The Last Supper.
They had taken a beating from weather.
Judith A. Lawrence was the editor/publisher of River Poets Journal for several decades. She is also a prolific painter and has had numerous poems published in anthologies and literary magazines. She has five published books: Point of Comfort, a Memoir, Uncharted Territories, a book of 20 short stories, The Metamorphoses of Connie Toscano, a Novella, Remembrance, a book of 50 Poems, The IRS Chronicles, a comedic take on IRS Examiner Training, and The Lafourche River Murder, a Mystery/Thriller scheduled to be published July, 2024. All books are available on amazon.com.
She is currently working on a sequel to the Mystery/Thriller, and a book of short poems, Moonbeams, containing her watercolors.
Judith lives in Florida with her pet Piccolo, a spoiled Shih Tzu.
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