May 20, 2024

Archives for 2019

Poem from Sugar Fix featured in YouTube video

Mr. Nance, a high school teacher and avid reader who has a YouTube channel of educational videos, reads and shares "In This Bright Land" from Sugar Fix. Watch below or follow this link to YouTube. Thanks, Mr. Nance, for your enthusiasm for this poem and book! Here's how to get your Sugar Fix! Vintage camera image: Pixabay … [Read more...]

Sugar Fix is “charming, surprising, and moving” – and now available!

My first full-length poetry collection, Sugar Fix, has made its debut in the world at the beginning of my favorite season - on the autumnal equinox - and one week shy of my fifty-somethingth birthday. This begs an entire essay or speech about second acts and second chances, but that will have to be on another day. For now, "elated" sums things up for me. I had a few early copies to sell at the poetry and storytelling booth at our local arts festival this weekend, and one review has already … [Read more...]

Sugar Fix Cover Reveal!

I'm so excited to share the cover of Sugar Fix, my first full-length poetry collection, forthcoming from Terrapin Books in September 2019. My first appearance with the book will be at the Southern Festival of Books, October 11-13 in Nashville, and I'll be announcing events in Rutherford County and beyond soon. Stay tuned!   … [Read more...]