-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on May 11, 2017 The Little River Poetry Festival is back! Building on last year’s inaugural event, this year’s festival is scheduled for June 9 – 11 and will take place in the meadow of On the Water kayaking during the day and the Floyd […]
_____Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday
– Crying During Acupuncture is a poem I wrote in December and posted here. It was published in February with the below back story at Poets United, an online community site for poets who blog. The poem is included in my book, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, published by Finishing Line Press. I lost two […]
1. “We’re not here to do the big things. We’re here to do what we can.” – Nikki Giovanni, speaking at the 2017 Artemis literary journal launch. 2. Nikki and I have a few things in common, such as: We both love Bonnie Raitt. We both have had a seizure. We are not that friendly […]
Mara shares a birthday with Pete Seeger, which made celebrating her birthday with poets and folk singers at Lucie Monroe’s Open Mic a good alignment. My birthday is in May too and coming up soon. I share mine with the Ayatollah Khomeini and Enya. I don’t know what’s going on here but I like to imagine […]
Once again our house was transformed over the weekend into a pottery gallery for the latest 16 Hands Studio Tour, spring 2017. This year our son Josh, a 16 Hands member, hosted guest artist Joey Sheehan, who has done the show with Josh more than any other guest artist, but not quite as many times as […]
The days are small packed tightly together not much room for last minute changes I don’t like cruises I’ve never been on one I don’t like to gamble or get my hopes up about an afterlife or God I fear the waiting room where people cough and no one talks and there is no proof […]
That’s a picture of me packing a suitcase for the afterlife, sorting a few years of poetry into a collection, one that reads like a memoir, explores the weight of loss, rummages through my childhood closet and is informed by dreams. I’m picking and choosing what fits and distilling the rest to its essence. Poet […]
1. When we do what we were made to and follow it to a completion, when we offer our work as a way to touch others, it opens the way for more. 2. “Sometimes the line will agree with the sentence and sometimes the sentence will argue with the line.” Claudia Emerson 3. The Pope gives […]
It’s also a visual ad for Abbey Bowen’s work at Under the Sun Tattoo in Floyd. Abby also took the picture. / Wordless Wednesday
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 27, 2107 The rainy weather on Sunday must have had everyone thinking of warm soup. The turnout for the 10th annual Empty Bowls filled the high school cafeteria. “I think a lot of people like to come just to see neighbors that haven’t seen all […]
There would be no other reason for me to get on four-wheeler at this stage of life other than that my nearly 9-year old grandson Bryce invited me to. My son Josh once invited me to learn to Contra Dance, saying he knew I would love it if I did. It was for Josh that […]
