Such a special honor to be acknowledged by librarians, my life-long heroes! Thank you so much for awarding Known by Salt the 2022 Alabama Library Association Award for Poetry!
I was delighted to share my poem “Cahaba Elimia” (published in Exit 7) for the Magic City Poetry Festival’s Shelter in Magic Reading Series. Poetry blooms in Birmingham, so be sure to check out all the videos in the series.
Here’s the link:
I’m humbled and delighted to read with Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, and Naomi Shibah-Nye, poetry heroes, for Wednesday Night Poetry. I hope you will watch all of these beautiful videos.
If you don’t see the video, click the title. I come in at the 32.24 mark.
I’m thrilled and honored to have Known by Salt reviewed by Ash Durrance in Crab Orchard Review Book Reviews. Please check it out here: https://issuu.com/craborchardreview/docs/book_review_supplement_summer_2019?fbclid=IwAR2D6XUD2sGid6MTcw5hvOt98hq7GsyuGOnMgZugNxPGAtz5CK6J-9i2niw
The 2019 Known by Salt Tour and the Dark / / Salt Sisters Tour are about to begin!!! Check it out, thanks to the Alabama Writers’ Forum, we begin at the Helen Keller Library, the first library in Alabama. How fitting!! I hope to see you at one or more of these venues. Or invite us to your reading series, university, school, or library!
I’m thrilled and honored to have three poems of my poems, “Ephemeral Pool,” “An Accounting of Birds,” and “Lay at My Feet,” in the Creating with the Land: Works Created Harnessing Alabama’s Natural Resources exhibit at the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery in Montgomery, Alabama.
I’m thrilled and honored to be featured for tonight’s Wednesday Night Poetry! I’m reading my poetry, poems, showing off my bees, and reading a fabulous poem by Ada Long. Join us on Facebook! Search for Wednesday Night Poetry.
Thank you, Kirk Lua, for publishing my poetry and this video in The Normal School.
If you don’t see the video, click the title.
Write an ode (or anti-ode) and enjoy the gorgeous shots of the Cahaba lilies here:
https://cahabariversociety.org/cahaba-current-summer-2020/
And / or write a Greater Romantic Lyric on the Little Cahaba River here:
Thank you, Rachel Nix, for this wonderful review of Known by Salt!
You can read it here:
I thoroughly enjoyed talking with Stephen about Known by Salt. Check it out here: