I’m thrilled that Rochelle Hurt included Known by Salt in her round-up of books “A Year in Motherhood” in the Southern Indiana Review.  What an honor to appear alongside Camille Dungy, Patrica Smith, and others! Rochelle’s lyrical take of motherhood and grandmother-hood in Known by Salt is:

Mother of squelching shame with love. Mother of chicken bones and homemade clothes and trailer parks and Southern silt. Mother of generational understanding. Mother of women making their own beauty. 

Check it out here: https://www.usi.edu/sir/reviews/the-meter-reader-2018-round-up/?fbclid=IwAR2kZdc5E9tnCg1z2ANCgi2sNJIQNHRxr_7LQ0xvP_ZmHR650hEChyGTlvs

Jim and I had the best time reading in Madison and Monticello, Georgia for the Local Readings Series in December! Thank you, Luke McFarland, for inviting us to read and to visit your classes at Monticello High. Thank you, Susan Draeger and Doug Olive, for hosting us in your lovely guest house and for holding a reading at your fabulous restaurant Mint Juleps in Madison. (I loved your goats!) Thank you, Aislinn, for wowing us with your beautiful songs! And thank you, Monticello high school students, for sharing your work and ideas with us.

I had a wonderful time talking with poetry editor and poet Alina Stefanescu about busted biscuits and poetry for Pidgeonholes. Visit them. Check out all their weird words. You won’t be sorry.

http://www.pidgeonholes.com/2018/10/weird-words-with-tina-mozelle-braziel/