Poetry Month Spotlight: The Ones We Have by Leah Naomi Green

The Ones We Have by Leah Naomi Green is a fine chapbook published in 2012 by Flying Trout Press. Leah teaches at Washington & Lee…

Poetry Month Spotlight: Believing Their Shadows by Anne Colwell

Believing Their Shadows is a lovely book of poems by my friend Anne Colwell. Published by Word Press in 2010. From “Casida of the Lover…

Poetry Month Spotlight: Matching Skin by Shirlette Ammons

Today’s Poetry Month Spotlight falls on Matching Skin by Shirlette Ammons, a poet from Durham, NC. The book was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2008 and,…

Poetry Month Spotlight: Sam Taylor’s Body of the World

Sam Taylor’s Body of the World was published in 2005, but I didn’t meet Sam until we were both in residence at the Virginia Center…

April is Poetry Month

April is Poetry Month, a month-long celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. As a writer of literary fiction,…

>Poetry Month

>It’s April. And April means Poetry. Whether we have Eliot to thank for this or Chaucer, I don’t know, but in honor of Poetry…