News by Bonnie Manion

Karamu published "Feeling the Cold" in May; PK's Advocate published "A Horse, Of Course" in June/July; The Illinois State Poetry Society website published "Ireland in Summer" in June; Bonnie will attend an Iowa Summer Writing Festival (U of IA) poetry workshop with poet Douglas Goetsch in July. The University cancelled all June classes due to flood conditions at Iowa City, IA.

The 2008 annual, Karamu, has published Bonnie's poem, "Feeling the Cold" in May, 2008.

Spring, 2008, Plainsongs has published Bonnie's poem, "In This Moment" last month.

The Illinois State Poetry Society published Bonnie's, "Affectionately Yours" in April, and published "Ireland in Summer" in June, 2008.

PK's Advocate published Bonnie's, "A Horse, Of Course" in its June/July issue.

Mrs. Manion will attend the Iowa Summer Writing Festival workshop on "Poetry Process" from June 22-27th.

Bonnie's poem, "A Horse, Of Course," has been accepted for publication in PK's Advocate, a poetry and news tabloid disseminated on the East Coast, for later this year.

Hastings College of Nebraska has published Bonnie's poem, "In This Moment," in its Plainsongs Journal this month, May, 2008.

To celebrate April as Poetry Month, Mrs. Manion was asked to read some of her poetry to several English classes at Hoopeston Area (Illinois) Middle School during April, as well as teach some of the basics of the art of writing poetry to these seventh and eighth grade students.

Bonnie's poem, "In This Moment," will be published by the journal PLAINSONGS of the Hastings College Fine Arts Dept. in May, 2008.

My poem, "Aborted Fetuses," has been accepted for the Annual, Karamu Journal of Eastern Illinois University, for its Spring, 2009 issue.

Karamu will publish "Feeling The Cold" later this Spring, in May, 2008.

The Illinois State Poetry Society (ISPS) has published "Everyman" in February, and will publish "Affectionately Yours" in April on its website.

Time of Singing will publish Bonnie's poem, "Forgetting How to Pray" in Volume 34, Number 23, Winter 2007.

"Two Weeks In", won a Third Place in the Illinois State Poetry Society 2007 poetry contest in the Free Verse category. The Judge commented: "This poem...has the kind of terrifying efficiency that takes a reader's breath away. Direct, honest, courageous."

Another BJM poem has been published : Worthy Is the Lamb, in PrayerWorks, a ministry of The Master's Work.

Bonnie J. Manion will be Marquis Who's Who in America, 2008 Edition.

Bonnie had four poems read aloud during the Sacred Arts Festival in Durango, CO on Poetry Night, September 15, and these poems also will appear in a commemorative booklet from the 2007 Festival: The Host of Heaven, A Place I Go, The Face of Christ, and One in the Spirit.

The music notations of Bonnie's lovely piano compositions may now be viewed from the Music tab of this website. Simply click on any piece, and all the pages of the composition will be brought up in order. New arrangements and performances of her music are encouraged; but please advise us of same, sending the new arrangements to the address under the Contact tab. Please note her absolute copyright to these original compositions, and give credit to Composer Bonnie J. Manion.

St. Anthony's Messenger monthly has purchased "Erin Summer" for future publication.

The thrice-yearly journal of Hastings College in Nebraska, Plainsongs, has accepted Bonnie's poem, "In This Moment," for a future issue.

The Illinois State Poetry Society website is publishing Bonnie's poem,"My God," this month.

Bonnie will conduct a 3-hour poetry-writing workshop for the Pagosa Springs, CO. Arts Council on September 27, 20007

Illinois State Poetry Society (ISPS) is publishing Bonnie's hybrid poem, "A Daughter, A Son" on their poetry website in August.

PKA's Advocate has published "Our 44th Anniversary" in their August/September 2007 issue.

Bellowing Ark has published "An Autumn Drive in the Country" in their July/August 2007 issue.

The Storyteller has accepted Bonnie's poem, "Driving to Clifden," for their quarterly international magazine--July/August/September, 2007 issue.

St. Anthony's Messenger has published Bonnie's poem, "Afternoon Chapel Glow," in the July, 2007 issue of their popular Catholic monthly magazine.

PKA's Advocate has published my poem, "Chocolate Covered Raisins" in its June/July 2007 issue.

Illinois State Poetry Society has published my poem, "Wings II (Flown Away)" on its website, www.illinoispoets.com this month.

Bellowing Ark Journal has accepted Bonnie's poem, "An Autumn Drive In The Country" for future publication.

Illinois State Poetry Society (ISPS) will have an added poem of Bonnie's, "Flown Away/Wings II", online next week on the ISPS website.

Bonnie's poem "Feeling The Cold" has been accepted by Karamu Poetry Journal for publication in their Spring, 2008 issue.

Alan Harris, the tech person for the Illinois State Poetry Society (ISPS), is making a link from my Bio and Poems on their website

More poetry accepted (May, 2007) for publication: "Our 44th Anniversary" and "Chocolate Covered Raisins" accepted by PKA's Advocate, a poetry journal, for future publication.

Also, notice that Bonnie will appear in Marquis' Who's Who in the World 25th Silver Anniversary Edition, 2008.

Publication Nomad's Choir has published Bonnie's poem, "Rainsense" in their Summer, 2007 issue.