The Joy of Poetry: As Much as She Could Carry
Enjoy an excerpt of the newest title from T. S. Poetry Press, The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life with Poems, by Megan Willome. Source: The Joy of Poetry: As Much as She Could Carry
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Entries by Bethany
Poets in the Park
Next weekend I’ll be reading in Redmond at Poets in the Park. I’m on the schedule twice (to my surprise), at 4:00 with writers Priscilla Long, Holly Hughes, and John Wright, and again a little later in the day, 5-5:30, along with Polly Buckingham of Stringtown, and Robert McNamara. Click here to see the full schedule of […]
When Women Were Birds
I bought this lovely book last summer while on a mini-retreat in Port Townsend. Then, as I often do, I mislaid the book and didn’t read it. The other day, a friend asked if I wanted to see Terry Tempest Williams with her at the Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham (tonight!). Despite my usual crazy-busy […]
“a freely chosen task”
I seem to have a lot of conversations with people who want to write, but “not now.” I’ll do it when I feel more of an urge, they tell me, when I feel inspired, when the spirit moves me. And years go by and the writing still hasn’t happened. This is what I’ve learned from […]