Well, if you are a fan of the ‘word’ then you wait with a joyful expectation for the next book, collection of poems, essay, play, lyrics, screenplay or any other creative endeavor that centers around a special person weaving and positioning words in forms that intrigue, empower and stretches our imagination and sense of our life.  And your joy will continue to broaden! bill berry, jr. and Elinor Cramer On Thursday, September 14, Syracuse based poet Elinor Cramer kicked-off the fall 2017 season of “ word, revisited ,” a bi-monthly literary program produced by The Cayuga Museum of History and Art , Olive Trees , and aaduna . And she created a wonderful ambiance of celebration, pathos and intriguing poetic tales of the colorful denizens of a cooperative apartment called the Mayflower from her recent chapbook aptly titled, “Mayflower.” Ms. Cramer wasted no time in capturing her audience’s imagination and creating an ambiance where her characters became real ...

Go to www.aaduna.org and click on current issue. Read it. And then… You decide its value to you.  We think you will be enlightened and challenged after reading and seeing what this issue contains whether you are in agreement with what you experience or not.  You decide. Stay creative,  bill _____________________________ aaduna   - an online adventure with words and images - a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at  www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!   Share with your friends,  "like" our  Aaduna-Inc  facebook page and follow us on twitter  @ aadunaspeaks  !     aaduna-Inc   Visit regularly for updates !   @ aadunaspeaks

They come from all over the globe…not just the United States where states like Connecticut, Louisiana, and New York are represented. In New York State, contributors call Rochester, Syracuse, Auburn, Moravia, Albany, and Kingston home. They reside in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; St. Paul, Minnesota; Los Angeles, California and California’s Bay Area, which “ encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, along with smaller urban and rural areas.”  Bulgaria, Mongolia, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Mumbai, India, Hong Kong, Vancouver and British Columbia in Canada play host to their residencies.   The contributors featured in aaduna’ssummer 2017 issue are diverse and represent the nuances, intricacies and contemporary world view associated with a multicultural grouping of writers, poets and visual artists.      Their names are Serafimova, Junhua, Oquendo, Mbaye, Byer, Kapungu, Taiye, Gayle, Ligüe...

  bill berry, CEO/publisher aaduna with mascot, "Cleopatra" (photo by Lisa Brennan) Cleopatra, a Sphynx feline, shared aaduna mascot status with her brother, Cairo, until he passed away last December due to congestive heart failure.  Whenever, I am working on aaduna (especially now as we do final edit and review on the next issue,) she routinely sits next to the laptop or on my lap and watches what I am doing, or she goes off into a cat trance.  This picture is worth 80 words because it conveys more than words do. * * * * * * Watch for aaduna's Summer 2017 issue - LAUNCHING SOON! _____________________________ aaduna   - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at  www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!   Share with your fr...

Most of us in Auburn, NY, the surrounding regions and adjacent counties embrace the fact that poet and musician Ron Van Nostrand knows a lot about poetry and those folks who pen wonderful and enchanting verses.   When “ word, revisited ” started to line-up featured speakers for 2017, Ron enthusiastically and wisely recommended a colleague that he continues to be impressed with, and that assessment has lasted the length of time.    Elinor Cramer (photo provided) Elinor Cramer is a prolific poet who lives in Syracuse, NY where she also practices psychotherapy.   Ms. Cramer’s recent chapbook, Mayflower (published by Red Bird) is about an interlude of living in a cooperative apartment building with unlikely shipmates, and being part of the usual conflicts and extraordinary caring. Her full length collection, “She Is a Pupa, Soft and White” was published by WordTech Communications in 2011.   Her poems have appeared in “Stone Canoe,” “ Olive Tre...

"America United," via google images Another week is starting.  Possibly a new and different chapter in the USA’s pathway towards a more “perfect union.” Maybe. Chaya Bhuvaneswar shares, "Today: a hopeful conversation with a passing police officer, who was gracious and pale and stately in his well-pressed uniform, a "life-er" at least sixty years old, a fit sixty. I wished that there had been more cops like him in Charlottesville, to prevent violence. He said, "It's not a good time for the country right now, but you and me, we're going to make things better" even though I'd never seen him before. All he knew about me was that I'm here, American. "A citizen. Bringing to mind Claudia Rankine's magnificent poem, "Citizen", winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and joyously so.  "It's in that hope - that there is going to be a better time, that there will have to be a time we will look b...

We have heard phrases or sayings that suggest there is always a new beginning after any closing.  When one door closes, another one opens.  The end of a story is the start of new one. Divorce is a new opportunity i.e. a new beginning etc.   And I always surmised that what does not kill you only makes you stronger is a saying that falls into this same realm of closure and new starts.  Saturday closes the week, and Sunday is sitting right there; ready; primed; eager to get a new week off and running.  There are two summer contributors who have the task of closing out this series of aaduna introductions to the next issue on a Saturday.  The actual beginning in this promotional initiative will be the launch of the summer issue and that will come soon.  With the realization that the end is just the beginning, we present He Junhua and Flo Au . *****   He Junhua (photo provided)   He Junhua was born in 1988 in Hubei,...