My Mother’s Hands by Ruth Thompson On the steering wheel my mother’s handsclench and unclenchclench and unclench. In the vast antipodes of my bellymy daughter […]
Writing Nontraditional Memoirs Discussion and Reading at Four Eyed Frog Books with Marcia Meier, Tania Pryputniewicz, and Ruth Thompson Marcia, Tania, and Ruth have been coming to Sea Ranch since 2013 with their long-time women writers' group, the …
Daffodils, rain, transport by poetry connecting kindreds everywhere we turned: Hundreds of writers flooding AWP, Portland, where I served writers with three card tarot readings and learned about so many of their own beautiful writing …
This November marks the two-year anniversary of the publication of my first poetry collection, November Butterfly. I’ve just finished a 15 page companion prompt PDF titled, November Butterfly: Thirteen Writing Prompts Based on the Power …
The Gratitudes November marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of my first book of poetry, November Butterfly. I am deeply grateful to Ruth Thompson and Don Mitchell of Saddle Road Press. What a beautiful year …
“…the reverse birth image never left me, of petals, hummingbirds, and Marilyn trying to breathe…”-- Marilyn, Arriving: Collage, Astrology and Poetry (Feral Mom, Feral Writer) November Butterfly (my first poetry collection, Saddle Road Press) comes out …