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Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican. Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Persephone Lit Mag, Red Branch Review, and others
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submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

submitted 19 days ago • 106 comments

Which owl is winning?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

And Jesus said: “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God". Matthew 19:24

submitted 20 days ago • 531 comments

Today was rough, but I'm going home to bookmail. So that's great.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Do better, Greenville. Good grief.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I get to see Jaime French's live show tonight!!!! I GOT MEET AND GREET TICKETS!! (Jaime, bestie, please get on Bluesky so I can @ you)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I'm looking to form a support group for people trying to read this specific book

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

It's that time

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I'm curious about a disconnect I'm seeing in my students who love to read and write. They struggle to translate the patterns they see in the books they read to their own writing--things like how to format dialogue. Or breaking a story into more than one long paragraph. What's happening?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It struck me today that every work of dystopian fiction I've ever read involves a future without books. Maybe that's all it takes.

submitted 28 days ago • 105 comments

The Roanoke Rambler published this poem I wrote in the wake of Hurricane Helene. #Poem #poet #Helene

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Just a reminder. The library is free to use. Free to check out books and DVDs. Free to take your kid to Story Time. Free to ask a question. Free to sit quietly for a minute. Or an hour. #supportyourlocallibrary

submitted 30 days ago • 62 comments

On this day, January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was published for the first time in The Evening Mirror.

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

*on the Lord's Supper* Protestants: purely symbolic Catholics: the literal body and blood Anglicans: a secret third thing

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

submitted 35 days ago • 2462 comments

First poem acceptance of the year!!!! They took a poem from my first collection 🥹

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

If you are experiencing The Horrors in light of The Current Events, I highly recommend watching Flannigan's Fall of the House of Usher. It will give you The Cathartic Horrors.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 753 comments

Severence is the best show I've seen after Better Call Saul. Everything about it is perfect. An obsession- worthy series.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

submitted 39 days ago • 1217 comments

Kyrie eleison.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I hope you’ll join me in the Cool Person challenge (being a Cool Person by getting a library card, lengthening your attention span and sharpening your mind through extensive reading)

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

End of the year poetry publishing update ☺️🤗 Thanks to everyone who cheered me on this year. www.instagram.com/reel/DETeFxo...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Happy new year!! I wrote my 96th-100th poems of the year (all haiku) in the last two hours before midnight 😅

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas, y'all!

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Tonight is my first Lessons and Carols service since I joined the Anglican Church. 😊

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not normally the conspiratorial sort, but I really don't think Luigi did it.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think I want a new year this time around, I want a gently used year like a 2015 or maybe a 1998 if it's in good shape idk

submitted 70 days ago • 92 comments