1. This is what I miss about my grandsons now that they are teenagers. A past flash back Oh Baby! post HERE. 2. It’s a June moon / suspended in the sky / waiting for a poet’s push / to swing it 3. Waiting for the Dough to Fall. 4. When someone who knows you are a […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 19, 2025. An estimated 400 people came together in downtown Floyd for Floyd’s No King Day, a nationwide day of peaceful protest that took place on June 14th in nearly 2,000 locations across the country. Organized by the 50501 Movement, which stands for 50 states, […]
1. Standing near our town’s one stoplight during the No Kings protest, I was caught in some shots that were later posted on Facebook by friends. 2. It didn’t rain but the wind was so strong that the sign I held up felt like a kite and I worried about flying away. 3. I had […]
Juneteenth was celebrated in Floyd the same day as the No Kings peaceful protest (story and photos coming soon). Hosted by Floyd Care with a mission to inspire Community Action for Racial Equity in Floyd County, Virginia, the celebration commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. The music of Jerome Claytor and Touch […]
1. There’s a fine line between play and work when it comes to writing poetry. 2. It’s good to see yourself represented in a story. I felt represented when I first read the children’s book Fredrick by Leo Lionni to a group of preschoolers many years ago. Fredrick is a laid-back field mouse who seems […]
Sunday at The Little River Poetry Festival is bittersweet because we eventually have to say goodbye to each other and the next festival (June 5 – 7 2026) seems so far away. It’s become a real community, and after 10 years of coming together and sharing our world with each other through our poetry, bonds […]
Saturday started for me at nature’s amphitheater where poets in kayaks read poems that they wrote on their way down the river. A poet’s hope floats came from a poem that one of the poet kayaker read. While they were paddling, Jack led an ekphrastic workshop with two of his paintings (nudes) for us to […]
It’s the 10th annual Little River Poetry Festival in the meadow on Thunderstruck Road. Katherine and I opened the festival with a new Soulful Aging Tour call-and-response reading titled Ars Poetica. Poems about poems and writing poems was inspired by the 19 century Roman poet Horace who wrote a long poem called Ars Poetica, which […]
The moon grew faint like a broken heart pumping light as it turned on and off The clouds closed like curtains providing privacy before its glow was exposed as half the moon it used to be __________Colleen Redman / dVerse Poets Pub / Poets and Storytellers United
1. Listening to my friends Joel and Bob play Bowie’s ‘Major Tom to Ground Control’ at the Buffalo Mt. Brewery, I shouted out “Tommy can you hear me?” 2. They got my reference, which always thrills me because the kids who bag my groceries at Slaughters don’t get my vanity license plate reference to Let […]
The Soulful Aging Poetry Tour is back. Katherine Chantal and I will be opening the 10th annual Little River Poetry Festival in the meadow where On the Water was located (2053 Thunderstruck Rd.) on Friday at 2:00 with a back and forth duo reading titled Ars Poetica. Latin for “The Art of Poetry,” Ars Poetica […]
I love to hear our Floyd homegirl rock (listen HERE), but her performance at The Harvester showed her softer side. I’ve heard Morgan play at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, at The Grey Eagle in Asheville and in her hometown here in Floyd at Floydfest, The Floyd Country Store, Epperly Mill, Floyd Yoga Jam and […]
