It's competitive shower season Now is the time for serious shower-ers only Those who enjoy languorous strokes beneath the Whirlpool waterfall need not apply Contestants toil all year, alternating cool with heat, daylight with … [Read more]
Interview with Hilary Yancey, author of ‘Forgiving God’
June 5, 2019 By
Published March 2019 https://www.wacoan.com/forgiving-god/ … [Read more]
WACOAN: ‘Going, Going, Gone’
May 29, 2019 By
Published March 2019 https://www.wacoan.com/going-going-gone/ … [Read more]
The Cardinals
May 22, 2019 By
For the second time since we've lived in this house, cardinals made a nest in the mountain laurel. Inspired by Kristine O'Connell George's book of poems titled Hummingbird Nest, I've written a few of my own haiku about our cardinals. I didn't … [Read more]
Children’s Book Club: ‘Dear Mr. Henshaw’
May 17, 2019 By
Published May 10, 2019 https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2019/05/10/childrens-book-club-dear-mr-henshaw/ … [Read more]
Reader, Come Home: ‘Kristin Lavransdatter’
May 15, 2019 By
Published May 3, 2019 https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2019/05/03/reader-come-home-kristin-lavransdatter/ … [Read more]
‘Ode to this Body’
May 10, 2019 By
you walk upright walk right through water turn upside down inside out savor and digest living things, even carrots tackle hills ignore wind stand when assaulted curl into a ball and chase dreams, like a sleeping puppy chasing … [Read more]
By Heart: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by W.B. Yeats
May 8, 2019 By
Published April 26, 2019 https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2019/04/26/by-heart-lake-isle-of-innisfree-new-annabel-lee-challenge/ … [Read more]
‘The Slowdown’ podcast with Tracy K. Smith
May 3, 2019 By
Published April 19, 2019 https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2019/04/19/afternoon-tea-and-poetry-with-tracy-k-smiths-podcast-the-slowdown/ … [Read more]
The black hole
May 1, 2019 By
at the center of the galaxy consumed my husband's sock, stole the name of the book—you know, the one that changed my life, took the maple in the backyard, the house on the corner It appears to be eating our grass. I blame the … [Read more]
