Highlands Book Fair
On Saturday, September 11, I will be at the “Celebration of Books” in the Highlands Civic Center, Highlands, NC, from 9 am to 3 pm. Around 12:20 I will be doing a reading from Red Clay, Blood River, and perhaps a bit of poetry. This event is sponsored by the Cashiers/Highlands Writers group. It looks [...]
Dirt and Life
Thanks to recommendations from two friends, I have been enjoying the writings of Barry Lopez and William Bryant Logan. North Carolina poet Kay Byer, after hearing about the ecological framework of Red Clay, Blood River, suggested I read Lopez’s collection, Vintage Lopez. I then went on to his About This Life, a collection of essays. [...]
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 [...]
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