Chapter 16

“To the Aliens, Letter #4”

Book Excerpt: Star-Tent: A Triptych

By Amie Whittemore | May 25, 2023

Amie Whittemore was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where she directs MTSU Write.

“Spell for the End of Grief”

Book Excerpt: Glass Harvest

By Amie Whittemore | December 7, 2018

Amie Whittemore’s poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.

The Aging of Aquarius: The Hippies of the 60s in Their 60s and Beyond

By Galit Nimrod
Cambridge University Press
292 pages
$24.99

“This book is the first to explore the aging experience of older hippies by examining aspects related to identity, generativity, daily activities, spirituality, community, end-of-life care, and wellbeing. Based on 40 in-depth interviews with lifelong, returning, and past residents of The Farm, an intentional community in Tennessee that was founded in 1971 and still exists today, insights into the subculture of aging hippies and their keys to wellbeing are shared.”

~ the publisher