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From Last Lullaby for My Son
“I was afraid I’d hurt him. Before he was born, I was afraid that I would hurt my son,” Kelle Groom writes of her infant child in her memoir, “I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl.” read more
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Blog Points South
Abundance
May 16, 2013
Leighton B. McKeithen, Jr.
March 12, 1925 – May 8, 2013 read more
Tags: Cameron, father, Fayetteville, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, poetry, Presbyterian, tribute, William Stafford, WWII
Caught
April 17, 2013
Street, at the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibit that features an hour-long video by James Nares edited from 16 hours read more
Tags: Berenice Abbott, experience, Giacometti, James Nares, looking, NC, New York, Southern Pines, Spring
Southern Literary Festival
March 5, 20131 comment
Each season brings a new pace. Spring carries particular anticipation — if only a momentary perspective, read more
Tags: Columbus State University, Dan Albergotti, Georgia, Kevin Wilson, moment, Natasha Trethewey, poetry, Points South, Southern Literary Festival, Spring, Stephen Dobyns, Tim O'Brien, vernal equinox
North/South Toward Home
August 22, 20121 comment
I had driven hundreds of miles when I caught sight of a sign in Laurel Hill, NC — not more than a few miles read more
Tags: Blue Ridge Writers Workshop, Celloasis, cuisine, fried oreos, Lake Lure, Mountains, North Carolina, signs, white sand, writers
David Rakoff
August 10, 2012
We were just beginning our 10 a.m. workshop here in Lake Lure, NC, opening our web browsers to download the morning’s submissions, when the email came from the friend who had been keeping me posted on David Rakoff’s battle with cancer. read more
Tags: David Rakoff, friends, inspiration, intelligence, kindness, mentors, remembering, wit, writers, writing
Writing at Lake Lure
July 31, 2012
The second week of August, a group of wonderful writers is gathering in Lake Lure, NC, read more
Tags: Lake Lure, Mountains, North Carolina, workshop, writing
A morning’s walk
July 30, 2012
It’s a warm Monday, the last Monday in July. The relative cool, a surge of energy — perhaps caffeine — sends me read more
Tags: coffee shops, ferris wheel, Manhattan, neighborhood, New York City, Upper West Side, urban living, whetstone
NC, Tashkent, and Octavio Paz
April 20, 2012
I awake at the beach in North Carolina hours before the others, but then read more
Tags: home, Octavio Paz, solitude