Below is the program for the WomenSpeak poetry reading at the FRANK Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC this Sunday, March 10th. Click on images to enlarge/read/print. The poetry reading is part of the launch weekend for the WomenSpeak ekphrastic poetry (including my poem “Night Garden”) and fine art exhibit. A beautiful companion book of the … Continue reading WomenSpeak Poetry Reading Program
Two of my poems, “Lessons in Mining” and “Bonfires,” are in the new issue of The New Southern Fugitives. “Lessons in Mining” has an epigraph by WV Mine Wars Museum founder Chuck Keeney and was inspired by an experience at my Appalachian school that I’ve come to think of as the sylvan version of Stanford’s … Continue reading Two Poems in The New Southern Fugitives
My poem, “Give the Bard a Hep A Shot,” will appear in the inaugural issue of Barnhouse. It is the second work in my series about life as a poet in Appalachia. The first, “Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot,” was published by Barzakh. Continue reading Poetry Forthcoming in Barnhouse
My ekphrastic poem, “For Want of an Ark,” is the first collaborative work published in the new “Call & Response” series by the Looking at Appalachia photography project, which has been featured in The New York Times and National Geographic. My poem was inspired by my own experience in the “1,000-year flood” of Elk River … Continue reading Ekphrastic Poem in Looking at Appalachia Project
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