Loose Leaf Notes

My Poem “Slow Burn” was recently published in Floyd County Moonshine, a regional publication “over ten years in production, brewing up smooth home distilled literature,” their website reads.

HERE is the 2008 review I wrote for The Floyd Press about the publication’s inaugural issue.

I also have three photographs in the new issue.  The one above goes well with and follows my friend Chelsea Adam’s short story, Trespassing, about a woman’s discovery of old abandoned house in the woods.                                                                                                                                                                                                  And HERE is the review of my poetry collection, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, which appears in the Summer 2017 issue and was written by Felicia Mitchell, a poet and creative writing teacher at Emory and Henry College.  She begins, ‘Colleen Redman’s new chapbook from Finishing Line Press, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, is an intriguing collection. The poems, rich with imagery and introspection, resonate with an original voice grounded in a range of experiences.  Intelligent and compassionate, they promise to draw in readers with their layering of dream and day, of past and present, of insight and story.’ The issue also features a few poems from the collection, which can be purchased on Amazon.

Got Moonshine?  This special all-color 10th anniversary issue features six of my photographs, including the cover shot. Its editor-in-chief is Aaron Moore, who grew up in Floyd and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at Sichuan University in China. The issue also features several Floyd writers HERE.

Check out Moonshine editor Aaron Moore’s new collection of poetry, The Snapping of the Stick, published by Finishing Line Press HERE.