The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is one of the best Christmas stories ever! We laughed and choked up watching the Herdman kids, the worst trouble-making kids ever, bring the magic of Christmas to light in The June Bug Center’s latest play. – Look for coverage in this week’s Floyd Press.
A popular hit with an unforgettable hook The moon tops the charts with a star-studded playlist ________Colleen Redman / Poets United
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 12, 2019. From one end of Locust Street to the other, and up and down Main Street, locally-owned downtown shops are stocked and decked-out for the holidays. Everything from fine arts and crafts to warm woolies, toys and stockings stuffers can be found within walking […]
1. When I find myself feeling bad that I missed seeing Santa at the Floyd Christmas parade this year, I remind myself that I met at least four Santas in Colonial Williamsburg over the weekend. There was the traditional Santa Christmas Card ‘Tell me what you want for Christmas’ department store Santa. 2. There was […]
Jack Callan is a prolific ekphrastic poet who put together Points of Agreement, an ensemble poetry program for the Society of Virginia’s First Saturday Series, a Christmas reading at the Ford Colony Country Club in Colonial Williamsburg. Jack, who is the co-founder of The Little River Poetry Festival in Floyd, wrote a poem the night […]
It was shepherds pie and bangers and mash at the DOG (Duke of Gloucester) Street Tavern. We ran into St. Nick along the cobblestone streets and thanked him for spreading Christmas spirit. The British are coming! And we made friends with them. We were in town for the cause of poetry. I hung out with […]
Buddha moon laughed till its side split and all that was left was a smile __________Colleen Redman / Poets United
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 12, 2019. It took three turkeys and a generous spread of side-dishes and desserts to feed more than 100 friends and neighbors at Dogtown’s 4th annual Community Thanksgiving Potluck last Tuesday evening. “It’s grown every year,” said Dogtown General Manager Aaron Bauer. “It’s really about […]
1. Black Holes Could Be Gateways to Parallel Universes. Or A ‘Mirror World’ Could Be Hiding Behind Dark Matter, a hypothetical kind of matter that cannot be seen with telescopes but accounts for most of the matter in the universe. – More from 8 Clues that Suggest Parallel Universes Exist HERE. 2. Exist then exit? […]
The last few weeks of my brother’s lives played out like the conclusion of a dramatic Hollywood script, a plot with a twist. The road trip they took, two weeks before the first death, became the beginning of a larger journey, the one in which they would both leave this world. I have decided to […]
I’m setting the record straight Even as it fades away Passing on a legacy of story with words that will outlive me Scattering the sum of parts Examining proof of concept I’m leaving my poet’s thumbprint Love letters to whom it concerns _________Colleen Redman / Poets United / dVerse Poets Pub
