Entries by Bethany

Nothing Is Wrong

Lately I seem to spend a lot of time feeling as though something is wrong with me. I had a splendid and welcoming and in general sort of enveloping experience reading my poems Thursday evening with Kevin at the longhouse at Hibulb Cultural Center (“more than a museum” and truly worth a visit). Kevin was […]

Poetry Reading, March 2, 6-7 p.m., Hibulb Cultural Center

hcc-mar2017-poetry-kcraft-breid-1 I would love to get this flyer to just show up in the full here, but I’m wrestling with my limited technological abilities, so I’m not sure it will. Click on the link, if not. Technology — both a curse and a blessing — sort of like learning that we have discovered 7 planets […]

The Lives of the Heart

When I was getting an MFA in poetry, one of my professors admonished us to take on more complex subject matter. One doesn’t write about moons and hearts,” he said. But in her 1997 interview with The Atlantic, Jane Hirshfield offered some counter-wisdom. It’s an interview I have reread many times, and it seems to me that […]