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Announced as 2025 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship Award Winner
I am delighted to share that I was selected as the recipient of NC Poetry Society’s award winner for the Susan Laughter Meyers’s Poetry Fellowship. I am honored…
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Earth Songs and the Machines that Mediate Between
Lead vocalist of Wardruna Einar Selvik said at their show at Red Rocks Amphitheater last October that there used to be a song for everything: sowing seeds, picking…
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Honoring Stories, Honoring Our Humanity: Thinking About Close Reading
Oh, dreaded high school English class. Where Mrs. ——— beats social truths out of poems and stories, and clenches the narratives in her fists to wring out all…
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Brave Enough to Admit We’re Lost: Finding Self to Find Community
In early 2025 I had the privilege of hearing Clint Bowman read from his new book of poems, If Lost, at Poetry Hickory, a monthly poetry reading with…
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Earthed by Light: Response to Sylee Gore’s chapbook Maximum Summer
Despite the heat in Sylee Gore’s chapbook of poems Maximum Summer, the book holds a cold dark, the baby being fitted with clothes knitted while the speaker is…
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Have You Hugged Your Poem Today? (Who Are We Writing For?)
John O’Donohue says in Eternal Echoes: “Analysis is always subsequent to and parasitic on creativity. Our culture is becoming crowded with analysts and much of what passes for…
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