1. Written on an old scrap that I just dug out from a pile of papers: You don’t have to inject patience, just withdraw the irritation. The patience is there naturally. 2. Some things I don’t have much patience for, including when my fourth grade flip flopped on a picture taking day: HERE. 3. A […]
I love poems infused with history worked into the present day topic Like rocks overturned we return to our worms unearth our wounds for good irrigation Burrowed in journals are rich story castings lineage lines that link generations Like mineral veins of precious inheritance I’m mining the evidence of my ancestral descent Leaving my fingerprints […]
I save old pieces of poems the way a junkyard owner saves old cars for parts. It makes sense that poets recycle, since poetry is a form of conservation, a shorthand of language. Writers use everything around them. They draw from what they know, and conserve their words to make their writing more efficient. We […]
The following is a press release on the new Blue Mountain School that my husband Joe Klein (pictured center) is director of. It is interspersed with photos of a teen mixer that took place in May for potential students. Since then, Ezekiel Fugate, has been hired as a lead teacher and in depth story appeared […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 6, 2013 The inaugural season of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival (VBRMF) was kicked off with a brass fanfare at the Artisan Market Friday evening. Playing alongside the Market Pavilion, a group of academy student musicians and faculty mentors added a new flavor […]
1. This week, I learned all kinds of things, like what vegetables hold more pesticide residue than others, the discovery of a species of giant bug that scientists had thought was extinct, a new literary magazine to consider submitting poetry to, and that the man and woman who did the voices of Mickey Mouse and […]
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~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 30, 2013. A debut screening of a documentary film, titled A Matter of Art, was held at Natasha’s Café on the evening of May 13th. Produced and directed by Parv Sethi, the film highlights twelve Floyd artists and includes footage of performances. […]
This pot is going places. Watch the whole story below. _____________Our World Tuesday
The Floyd Artisan Market happens every Friday in conjunction with the Friday Night Jamboree when downtown takes on a festival atmosphere and fiddlers and others are happily pickin’ in the streets. This Friday was also the opening day of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, bringing eleven days of classical music to the musical mix that […]
