Katherine Chantal and Colleen Redman will be presenting a poetry reading at the Soup Shop on Sunday, June 26 at 2 pm. Located at 7360 Floyd Highway in Copper Hill (just beyond Check Elementary School), the one-stop Soup Shop is the inspiration of owner Susan Huff, who supports local farmers by using locally purchased farm […]
Put a pen in my hand before you lower the casket and plant me like a kiss goodbye Put a pen in my hand so I can write Dear John letters to everything on earth I have loved And if the afterlife is boring I can take up writing fiction I can work on crossword […]
When bras were white even after Labor Day before they were burned for free love and peace and falsies were tissue paper stuffed in A cups a visible slipped strap was cause for embarrassment When cigarettes were glamorous and your mother’s closet was an exotic taboo where you tore open a sanitary napkin to see […]
The pioneers have left for the uncharted New World They fell off the horizon when the world was flat When I was 3rd of nine in an unbroken family line before survival was optional and paradise was a gamble we had already won We navigated destiny with safety in numbers with a lifetime of chances […]
-The following is the poem I wrote and read at my friend Alwyn Moss’s (November 3, 1926 – April 21, 2022) memorial service at the Quaker House in Blacksburg, where there was music, poems and Open Worship sharing and story telling. The second poem I read, First Tree (a gingko) is one of Alwyn’s from […]
Picking a poem for a reading is like playing spin the bottle when you’re 13 years’ old Do you want to be picked? Are you rewarded with a kiss? or happy with your lucky miss? _______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
I The moon likes to shine from different angles It changes its pose and each one is whole Not one thing I say one and move on like the moon across the sky I orbit round and back again Always changed but the same II Don’t tell me the moon is always full I can […]
My mother had a red kitchen with apple and strawberry plates before her kitchen was red it was pink but her life was not rosy My father had two answers when asked ‘how are you?’ A good day answer was “I got out of bed I’m ahead of the game” A bad day answer was […]
Poetry Society of Virginia’s Vice President Angie Dribben heads up a creative writing group at the Jessie Peterman Library in Floyd. Local poets joined with some of the group’s poets and other members of the Poetry Society of Virginia for an Open Mic on Saturday that Dribben’s emceed. Jack Callan, co-founder of the annual Little […]
I carry my pen like a lonely heart ready for a love letter ready to be won over and swept off my feet by the desire to meet the poem of my dreams ___________Colleen Redman / Read Part I The Break-up HERE. Poets and Storytellers United
I lost interest in the poem I was writing like I did with my boyfriends in high school I agreed to go steady but then didn’t know how to say ‘I like you but not like that’ I want to be friends with poetry I want to find the right one But some poetry is […]
Pack it up Sell off the parts Let it drop Become a disembodied name that slips the mind Fall out of character Start at the end and take a number Walk through walls or walk on water Become the air for others to breathe A memory that floats like a fragrance _____Colleen Redman / Poets […]
