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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

Slow Irony, Sure Wit
January 20, 2015
Slow Irony seeks to link the pleasures of humorous insight with a commitment to “go local” in matters key to a community.
Forty-two years ago, at a weekend retreat held at St. Andrews Presbyterian College, read more
Tags: Grace Loving Gibson, higher education, irony, Laurinburg, North Carolina, place, poetry, retirement community, Ron Bayes, Scotia Village, St. Andrews University, Ted Wojtasik, wisdom, wit

On Her Plate
October 8, 20143 comments
“Let me tell you what’s on my plate.”
It’s Mom on the phone, from her hospital bed in NC to me at my desk in NJ, and I think, Ah, she wants to talk about her upcoming pacemaker procedure. read more
Tags: Aging, Atul Gawande, Families, Healthcare, Kezar Lake, Medicine, mothers, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Sarah Manguso, Two Kinds of Decay

Stillness, Nothing-Happening Moments
April 10, 2014
In March at a beach in North Carolina, a group of people I have known for a long time gathered read more
Tags: Akhil Sharma, Burning Down the House, Charles Baxter, experience, Family Life, fiction, Kawabata, memory, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, senses, stillness, writing

Onset of Spring?
February 1, 2014
Most of this post — Robin Robertson’s poem, the photographs taken in November in Frenchtown, NJ — was compiled in a moment of late November pause, read more
Tags: Calendars, family, February 1, Festivals, Frenchtown, Gaelic, Gerald Stern, holidays, Imbolc, NJ, North Carolina, poetry, Robin Robertson, Samhain, Spring, winter

Waiting Ahead
November 1, 2013
Amy Bagwell is a force for poetry in public spaces in Charlotte, NC. Spurred first by her love of poetry and her passion that it be out there for everyone to read read more
Tags: A. R. Ammons, Amy Bagwell, art and design, Billy Collins, Central Piedmond Community College, Charlotte, Charlotte Center City Partners, Jon Pineda, Leiden 101 Murals, NC, poetry, Poetry In Motion, Poetry Society of America, public art, Queens University, Wall Poems of Charlotte

A “mayor”, a cellist and a writer-producer walk onto a dock
August 13, 20132 comments
Who expects surprise when a creative couple leaves New York for up-country South Carolina? Debbie Rice and Bryan Hiott made the leap in 2012, friends’ admonitions read more
Tags: Alex Hubbard, alternate process photography, Bearded Poets, Betsy Teter, Blue Ridge Writers Workshop, Bryan Hiott, Celloasis, collage form, Debbie Rice, fiction, Greenville SC, Hub Bub Arts, Hub City Press, hybrid forms, John Lane, Lake Summit, Michel Stone, nonfiction, Patrick Whitfill, Saluda NC, Sharon Gerber, Spartanburg SC, Zach Mueller