1. George Santos is the Anna Sorokin of politics. 2. I just did my first online Zoom poetry reading with a group of dVerse poets from around the world. It was a good experience and the host was wonderful, but it was a little like contra dancing as opposed to free style dance. I love […]
We’re losing our minds and acting our age with an honest delving into the expanding horizon that comes with the narrowing of life. We’re working on it. It’s a trio this time. Katherine Chantal and I will be joined by Mary Wiley for our next Soulful Aging poetry reading. We might forget a name but […]
-The following is an article by Neil Harvey on the Death and Bereavement class that Katherine Chantal and I were invited to read our poetry for. It appeared in Radford University’s Highlanders in the News January 13, 2022 Robert Frost said poetry occurs “when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found […]
I gave it all away spent it all in one place Now I’m doubting my literary ability and checking the sofas for loose change __________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. Yes, we’ve been watching the Monty Python documentary on Netflix. 2. And with episodes in 6 parts, it really is the Full Monty. 3. Just when I think nothing is happening, something does. 4. Like venison cooking lessons with my 14-year-old grandson who shot his first deer this year. 5. I love to look […]
Colleen Redman grew up as one of nine siblings on a peninsula in the South Shore of Boston, MA during the ‘50s – ‘60s. Since 1991, she has lived with her husband in a cabin off the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, a rural Virginia county known for its mountain culture, roots music, small […]
She liked tunnels but not bridges rooms rather than open floor plans documentaries more than biopics and gingerbread more than brownies She teared-up when she saw Andrew Wyeth’s art in a D.C. museum and listened to every song that Mark Knopfler ever recorded She said, “I always feel more prepared when I have a toy […]
1. Gavel or grovel? 2. I was sure I was going to see another on camera slap when Kevin McCarthy walked up to Matt Gaetz HERE. 3. “When the North Star of your own faith is becoming obscured, when you feel as if you’re in stormy seas and low visibility, who are the lighthouses? John […]
“My own soul was moved and deepened as I read this poetry memoir by Colleen Redman. I love the way she speaks of letting the soul have the right of way as she faces the latter part of her lifetime. Having looked back and honored the grief from her losses of family members she now […]
My mouth is slowly disappearing like a shoreline receding a basin emptying into a shrinking waterway of winding lines My hair is fading like a bleached coral reef as my timeline is rising on the way to eternity My skin thins translucent like frosted glass on a night sky view where a veil is lifting […]
1. I’m pushing the year to a close, rushing to turn the calendar’s page, to clean the slate and start afresh, to meet the inevitable unknown. 2. I wonder if my line, ‘I don’t ever want an avatar’ will go the same way as ‘I don’t ever want an answering machine,’ which I didn’t want […]
