This is my fourth year to publish an “end of year book list.” (Here’s last year’s list and comments.) I…
Crystallized Thinking “Poetry, at its noblest, is crystallized thinking.”–Ralph Spaulding Cushman Four years ago this past June, I wrote a…
I have penned these lines at the invitation of my friend Erin Mashburn Moulton, who periodically writes her own versions…
I thought that when I quit drinking in September of 2017, that it was the hardest thing I’d ever done.…
Last Thursday night I had the wonderful blessing of hearing Corey Mesler read from his latest poetry collection, Among the…
April is National Poetry Month, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite poetry collections by contemporary (mostly southern)…
My friend Jennifer Horne is a poet. She’s published several books of poetry, and also a collection of short stories.…
My friend Jennifer Horne recently told me about a wonderful poet who just released her first volume of poetry—American Happiness.…
This morning I did four loads of laundry while reading a wonderful new book of poetry by Jacqueline Allen Trimble,…
About a month ago I did a post about my husband’s ancestor, Ralph Spaulding Cushman, whom we discovered through a…