-The following first appeared with a slightly different selection of photos in The Floyd Press on December 7, 2017. Shoppers mingle at the 23rd annual Winterfest Arts and Crafts Festival, the Floyd Center for the Arts longest running event. The Saturday through Sunday event, December 3rd and 4th, featured more than 30 vendors of regionally […]
1. After a two-day visit to see a doctor at UVA hospital in Charlottsville, and after doing a poetry reading in Blacksburg on Sunday, I stayed in my bathrobe till 2:00 on Monday, reading and blogging, while books, bags and clothes were strewn all over my bedroom. 2. In Charlottsville, Joe and I listened to […]
_________Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
It was the second time that Chelsea Adams and I read our poems together in the past couple of months. We were invited to the Blacksburg Public Library on Sunday to read from our chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press. The crowd was light but attentive. There was an ease of sharing. The laughter and […]
–My poem, The Storm of 2016, was chosen for this fall’s New River Valley Voices (NRVV) competition. I (pictured center) read it at last week’s NRVV program, which also included the work of the above writers of prose and poetry. The juncos stand precariously on snow They can’t feel the ground beneath them Their black […]
At the Piedmont Virginia Community College’s annual light installation show, we saw an electric flower garden. The flowers in the “Nocturnal Garden, were made of paper, plastic bottles and foil. The exhibit was a collaboration of art and technology students at Murray High School, a charter school where they do project-based learning. Believe it or […]
1. Santa didn’t come to Winterfest this year, but my friend Amy’s baby Pearl was there in her Santa suit. I wouldn’t fit on her lap to tell my Christmas wishes, but I’d let her sit on mine, anytime. 2. If Pearl is a Santa’s helper then the picture below is of her in the workshop. […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 30, 2017. “Our goal is to open the best coffee shop in the state of Virginia,” said Red Rooster Coffee Roaster’s co-owner Haden Polseno-Hensley during the November 25th open house tour of the Red Rooster Coffee/Black Water Loft’s new two story building on East Main Street. Standing […]
Beatniks ring saucers with teaspoon clappers Jam with jazz rappers Sing praises to Lao Tzu ____Colleen Redman / Poets United
______Shadow Shot Sunday
