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Tonight at Easton Book Festival

Marly at Easton Book Festival***Hosted by editor and book critic John Wilson7:00 p.m. EST November 15Easton Book Festival event release:  "Marly Youmans is one of today’s masters of language and imagination. Her poetry and fiction blend fantastic, historical, and everyday elements that have delighted readers for decades. In this program, book critic and editor John Wilson introduces a series of

Gratitude!

I'm still in house quarantine after returning from North Carolina (the state now has a shorter and more lenient version, but I don't qualify for that, having left under the old rules), so my life has not been too exciting of late. However, I'm expecting something wonderful about my books at the online Easton Book Festival, I have some other e-events coming up, I have a long interview coming out

The Plague Papers at Poemeleon

"The Wife's Reply," originally at Autumn Sky Poetry, is now part of poet Robbi Nester's anthology The Plague Papers. The online anthology is inviting and colorful, images that inspired its poems arranged in a lovely table-of-contents grid by Cati Porter of Poemeleon, where the online book is housed.Clip from Robbi's introduction:  In this anthology, the only one of its kind to my knowledge, we

New reading, new poems--

POETRY, MOSTLYI've been down in Carolina for some weeks, and of course I did not bring enough books with me (because who can bring enough?), even though there are books here as well, and I somehow tumbled into the lovely Harry Alter Books while my mother was at PT and came out with a Modern Library Pound Poems and Translations, some Horace odes, a pretty Petrarch collection, and Rupert Brooke.

Professor Phillips at Lafayette.edu

Thanks to @MobyProf for this short, strong review at https://today.lafayette.edu/2020/10/1... Click to big-ify!

Clive, Charis, clips, poems

CLIVE'S LATEST PRINT WITH PENFOLD PRESSInterested in the multitudinous making of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who has illuminated so many of my  books and made them beautiful? Here's yet another affordable chance to own a bit of his work.Clip from his website: Launched today, my new print edition with Dan Bugg at Penfold Press, The Tiger’s Bride. It marks a return to a theme I explored in my first print

Autumn skies

"The Young Wife's Reply" at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily(Response to "The Husband's Message," c. 970, from the Exeter Book)I've fallen behind with posting online publications on the blog and should resolve to do better, but here's one that came in this morning. Autumn Sky is one of those rare places that has quick turnaround and also likes formal poetry, so you'll find a number of poems of mine in the

My summer escapes, etc.

Bryan Nelson Elder CC BY-SA 3.0SUMMER ESCAPES FROM THE CRAZINESS,Accompanied by the Youngest and the HusbandMy husband was supposed to be volunteering in Mongolia this summer and was attempting to lure me along. Needless to confess, the woes of the virus kept us in the Village of Cooperstown. And we had some luck, as it was the prettiest summer in 22 years, sunny and warm and blooming. And now

New interview

Rear cover detail, front cover detailby Clive Hicks-JenkinsAn interview diving into Charis in the World of Wonders. With the stellar questions of Amit Majmudar. At his Kenyon Review blog.

Horse. Angel. Riddle.

Once again, I have been terribly lazy about sending out. But thanks to Callum James (I met him some years ago in Wales, during splendid celebrations for the retrospective of painter Clive Hicks-Jenkins) for requesting some poems for the Spiritus Mundi series at Cunning Folk in the U.K. He was, for a short time, their poetry editor. The lovely illustration above is by Helen Nicholson, who is an