{"product_id":"it-could-have-gone-another-way","title":"It Could Have Gone Another Way","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLynda La Rocca\u003c\/strong\u003e is a New York City-born poet and freelance writer who has also worked as a teaching assistant and a municipal and general-assignment reporter for New Jersey’s \u003ci\u003eAsbury Park\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePress.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eLynda’s four previous poetry-chapbook collections include \u003ci\u003eSpiral\u003c\/i\u003e (Liquid Light Press, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eUnbroken\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2023). Her individual poems have appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003eFrogpond\u003c\/i\u003e (Haiku Society of America), \u003ci\u003eThe New York Quarterly,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Colorado Sun, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eLight, a journal of light verse since 1992\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eShe was the first-place winner in the poetry category of the 2020 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, an arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, and a “Top-Four” winner in the 2021 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eLynda has taught adult-education poetry, presented poetry workshops at numerous venues, and served as a judge in dozens of state, national, and international poetry contests. She loves writing, reading, cooking (and eating), learning about wine, watching figure skating, hiking, birding, spending lots of time in nature, and performing her poetry solo and as a member of the River City Nomads’ performance-poetry troupe. Lynda lives in Salida, Colorado, with her writer-photographer husband Steve Voynick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 60 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (October 2, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53362147918133,"sku":"rev1787286966734","price":12.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/it-could-have-gone-another-way_1.jpg?v=1787286972","url":"https:\/\/chicpeakfashion.shop\/products\/it-could-have-gone-another-way","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}