Invictus — The Sequel
As the US and Algerian soccer teams were resting up for their match in the World Cup, Sylvia and I watched the film Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s deft visualization of Nelson Mandela’s dance of reconciliation with Francois Pienaar, captain of the South African Rugby team, in 1995. The recently elected Mandela saw the importance of embracing [...]
Plugged In!
I am finally and hopefully able to send out announcements of recent postings after a two-month hiatus due to a malfunctioning “plug-in” that wouldn’t work in my new server. I can now invite you to check out recent poems and other posts. “On the Trail,” a poem prompted by the constant need to understand the [...]
On the Trail
Walking in his moccasins I felt a pain shoot up my leg. I tried to shift terrain, find smoother ground, a grassy place rolled flat. I shook my foot and curled my toes. The pain insistent made me stop, sit down, remove the pebble buried in the hide, the stone that made him cry in [...]
Celebrating FRESH
To celebrate the second issue of Fresh, the new literary magazine edited by J. C. Walkup, Buffy Queen, and Penny Morse, I will join former NC Poet Laureate Fred Chappell and others to read from our poems and writings. We will be hosted by Accent on Books, 854 Merrimon Avenue, North Asheville, at 6 pm [...]
William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.