Known by Salt wins the 2022 Alabama Library Association Award for Poetry
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!
Magic City Poetry Festival Reading
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 read poetry with Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, and Naomi Shihab-Nye!!
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.
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW reviews KNOWN BY SALT!!!
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
BOOK TOUR BEGINS SOON!!!
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!
New Book! GLASS CABIN!
I’m thrilled to announce that my husband Jim and I have co-written Glass Cabin, a collection of poetry and prose published by Pulley Press on April 23, 2024!! We’re so delighted to work with Frances McCue and Pulley Press, whose mission is to publish and support rural poets! And check out the beautiful photo collage, my stepson Dylan created! Dan Schafer’s book design is absolutely stunning! We couldn’t be happier!
Glass Cabin chronicles the thirteen years we have spent building our home by hand out of secondhand tin, tornado-snapped power poles, and church glass on a ridge in rural Alabama. It describes how we built a life with room reserved for writing, the work of measuring cuts for stairs, of hauling water — one ton at a time — up the side of the mountain, of hammering nails, and gathering tin. It is our meditation on hope, on frustration, and on people’s places in the wilder parts of the world.
You can purchase the book here.
Creating with the Land
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.
WEDNesday NIGHT POetry FeAture
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.
Video Reading: In the Weeds
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.
Take a Virtual Poetry Writing Field Trip with the Cahaba River Society and Me
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:
Review in Up the Staircase!
Thank you, Rachel Nix, for this wonderful review of Known by Salt!
You can read it here:
Interview with Stephen McClurg
I thoroughly enjoyed talking with Stephen about Known by Salt. Check it out here:
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