It’s been over six months since I’ve had a drink. It’s pandemic-related. I didn’t want a depressant to make me sleepy while reading poetry and binge-watching Schitt’s Creek and ACORN shows. To be honest, I hardly noticed. I had a glass of wine maybe three times a week. My husband loved to buy me wine…
Tag: West Virginia
Authors' Roundtable
I attended FestivALL’s Authors’ Roundtable today. FestivALL is the name of Charleston, West Virginia’s city-wide arts festival. I wanted to learn more about the present state of poetry in West Virginia and it is going strong. The four poets, Mary B. Moore, Elizabeth Savage, Cameron Barnett, and James Harms, were each remarkable, and the emcee,…
June Books
“We are at war and do not speak of it.” Robyn Eversole “And you have been with methrough the long and hateful night although you are only a shadow” from “To My Reader”
A Morning with Irene McKinney
Today I attended a workshop dedicated to Irene McKinney’s poetry, most specifically, Six O’clock Mine Report. During the pandemic, I have attended many helpful and fun webinars with great prompts for generating new poems. After receiving another invitation to register for another workshop, I began to wonder what it would be like to develop my…