Entries by Bethany

Escape into Life

  Thanks to Kathleen Kirk, several of my poems are now published (with art!) at Escape Into Life: http://www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/bethany-reid/ You should also check out Kathleen’s personal blog — Wait! I Have a Blog?! — which includes links to her poetry. Today she blogged about thistle, which explains my featured photo (rather proud that I captured this). […]

home again, home again, jiggity jig

I need to upload my pix from Idaho to the computer…but I am home again, sitting in my writing space, scribbling away. We left my sister’s place above Lewiston, Idaho, at 7:15 yesterday morning, dropped my mom off at her place in Chehalis at 8 p.m., and didn’t arrive home until 10 p.m. It was […]

Unbridled

Although my niece, Shelby, wasn’t part of our family until she was eight, and my older girls were seven, I have been thinking — obsessively — about when they were all younger, and I thought I would share this poem. It was part of a collection (now abandoned) that I called Unbridled. I was experimenting […]

The purpose of art…

“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.” -Victor Shklovsky