
Thanksgiving
November 23, 20163 comments
During these months in North Carolina with Ike, he is the steady focus of my days. Now 33, his undiagnosed degenerative illness has shaped his life, and ours, now for 19 years.
Tags: Agnes Martin, beauty, caregivers, death, happiness, hospice, Ike Levy, Isaac Robert Levy, life, Psalm 143, thanksgiving, undiagnosed illness, W.S. Merwin

A Well-Loved Poet and Gatherer of People
October 18, 2015
When I moved to Laurinburg, North Carolina, in June to teach at St. Andrews University, one of the first people I met was Ronald H. Bayes read more
Tags: Black Mountain poets, Joseph Bathanti, Laurinburg, NC, poetry, poets, Ronald H. Bayes, St. Andrews University, Ted Wojtasik
Recent Work

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