THIS BLOG IS NO LONGER OPERATIONAL. PLEASE ENJOY WHAT IS HERE, AND DO LEAVE A COMMENT IF YOU WISH. NORTH CAROLINA'S NEW POET LAUREATE IS CATHY SMITH BOWERS. SHE WILL SOON HAVE HER OWN WEBSITE THROUGH THE NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL SITE. I WILL BE SHIFTING MY ATTENTION TO HERE, WHERE I AM, (SEE SIDEBAR)USING IT TO DRAW ATTENTION TO WRITERS WHOSE WORK DESERVES ATTENTION. I INVITE YOU TO VISIT ME THERE. For a video of the installation ceremony, please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAk6fOzaNE.
Go to http://www.yourdailypoem.com/, managed with finesse by Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, who says, "Our intent is to make visitors to Your Daily Poem aware of the joy and diversity of poetry."
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Home: What Does It Mean? How Can We Expand its Voice?
I am holding a copy of the seminar program for the recent NCCAT program, NC IS MY HOME: Celebrating NC's Literary Heritage. I invite all writers, teachers and students to respond to the question of what home and heritage mean, how our educational system can teach our literary heritage to a new generation, and how we as citizens and readers can support our teachers in passing on the love of literature.
I've lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina since 1968, though I'm a native of SW Georgia. My paternal grandmother was born in the Blue Ridge, and I grew up wanting to live here. Where I am.
I've published five collections of poetry, the most recent 4 being with LSU Press, and have published poetry in magazines ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Appalachian Heritage. But I also hike, bang pots and pans around in my kitchen, and love several dogs who leave fur all over my carpets. I write poetry because it's my way of singing back to the world both within and without.
Urrea's The Hummingbird's Daughter
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When I first encountered Luis Alberto Urrea, I read his novel *House of
Broken Angels*, and was particularly fascinated with how well he wrote from
wom...
Jason Tandon
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Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of
poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the
Hec...
MY HIRSUTE LOVE
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*MY HIRSUTE LOVE*
Back in the early 50’s when Western Carolina University was still
Western Carolina Teachers College, I got a crush on a feist...
VOICE LESSONS: Craft Tip and Prompt
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*Below you will find my Craft Tip from Diane Lockward's Poetry Newsletter,
Oct. 2011. I highly recommend that you get your name on her email list to
recei...
Exploring the Art of Poetry
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Exploring the Art of Poetry
Poetry, like all art, is of course, about creating, about making something
where there wasn’t anything before, or about making ...
1 comment:
A Nomad's Home
My home speaks as an echo.
Hope into home's hollow -
Hobbling or hopping
Between been, am, and will
with eager contentment.
Kay: Thanks for being an inspiration to this Texas transplant, rooted and thriving now in the cultural depth of this great state of North Carolina.
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