Java Love: Poems of a Coffeehouse

by Patricia Goodwin

Java Love is a series of poems about the people who go to a café, based on the original Java Sun in the seacoast town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Founded by a pilot, who had traveled the world and missed the rich coffees he’d enjoyed around the globe, original Java Sun was unique. Everyone said Java Sun was the best part of the day. It could be a wild scene. You opened the door and you were on. You never knew what anyone was going to say, including yourself, and you had to say it immediately and well. It was like a living play without a script or director, only actors and action. It came fast and furious. A test, a happening, a love. Have a sip. All you need is Java Love.

90 pages, Paperback

Published June 11, 2018

About the author

Patricia Goodwin grew up in an Italian American neighborhood outside of Boston. She was the first in her family to finish high school and go on to college. She graduated cum laude from Salem State College, Salem, MA where she earned a BA in English Literature. In the early days of the natural foods movement, she created and taught macrobiotic educational programs for the East West Foundation, Brookline, MA (now the Kushi Institute, Becket, MA). She is currently a writer and a publicity agent for artists and independents. She promoted Women in the Arts, 2003, which raised funds for H.A.W.C. (Help for Abused Women and Children). In addition to many articles of non-fiction, which have appeared in publications such as The Boston Herald, American Express OnTime, AAA Horizons, The Marblehead Reporter and The North Shore Sunday.


She has three books of poetry, Marblehead Moon (Plum Press, 1993), Java Love (Plum Press, 1997) and Atlantis (Plum Press, 2006). "A Child's Christmas in Revere", a chapter from her novel, Holy Days was published in the anthology, Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America (Seal Press, 2004) She is currently working on another book of poetry, The Housewife, and a novel, Oxygen. Patricia lives with her husband and daughter in an historic seacoast town in Massachusetts.