I want to notice the moment everything changes, like the subtle shift in daylight, when what was impossibly bright is now a smaller, deeper dark coming on.
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Fall Diptych
Meditations on a season
“Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words”
Book Excerpt: An American Sunrise: Poems
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Joy Harjo, who served three terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation.
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On Modern Farming
Arwen Donahue illustrates daily life on a Kentucky farm
Life moves rapidly in the 21st century, but Arwen Donahue invites readers to slow down and consider the small moments in Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year.
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How You’ll Remember You Were Made from Her
Sara Moore Wagner gives voice to the addict mother in Hillbilly Madonna
In Hillbilly Madonna, Sara Moore Wagner infuses her poems of Appalachian family trauma with deep compassion and an unusual focus on women’s experiences of addiction.
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Out of the Shadows of History
Novelist Patricia L. Hudson brings Rebecca Boone, Daniel’s wife, to the fore
Rebecca Boone, wife of the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone, is front and center, fully alive and endlessly compelling, in Patricia L. Hudson’s novel Traces.
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Flight to Balad
We pushed it way too far but miraculously escaped with our lives
Medics flung open the cargo doors and deposited an Iraqi man whose drawn and lined face exposed a life well acquainted with war and hardship. Shouted instructions to “Get him to Balad!” — the site of the big American trauma hospital — sent us on our way.
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