Yesterday was a good day for writing. My piece in https://ofrustandglass.com/scars-poetry/ was published and then I was featured in the ESWA newsletter @ https://www.easternshorewriters.org/SpotlightWriters. It has rained nonstop here in Hampton Roads, but no snow in sight. Enjoy the first day of the month-Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit...
March and April have been very busy months. Just this past week, I was honored to discover that my mini-chapbook, Martha June and Me, has been selected for the Ghost City Summer Series. I was excited to have poems published at One Art , New Verse News , and Sandy River Review , and poems forthcoming in Belle Point Press ' Sonnet Anthology, Dead Mule School of Literature, and MacQueen's Quinterly.
Carol Parris Krauss Just a Spit Down the Road Carol Parris Krauss’s poems in Just a Spit Down the Road never fail to surprise, unveiling the familiar to regale what she finds beneath, no matter how strange and counter, whether the protective and petticoated sentry spirit of her charming haibun “The Ruts of Highway 58” or her cloud-climbing cat who “sharpens her claws on the altostratus” and is “careful not to shred the layers” [causing] “her to slip through the ice crystals” but at the end, “disturbing the mundane.” Disturb the mundane is what Krauss does in these fascinating poems full of twists and turns of language, perspective, and form as she unfolds landscapes, characters and stories with her sharp observances informed by history, science, and “a world littered with / all the pebbles her pockets can not hold.” —Suzann...
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