I’m thrilled to announce that Publisher’s Weekly today reviews Kissed by a Fox. I’m even more thrilled that the reviewer has a lot of good things to say about it: a tenderly woven collection of essays an entertaining and emotionally resonant book … Read More…
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I’m sitting in the audience at a writers’ conference a couple of years ago listening to poets talk about nature. I look forward in this session to being inspired, as I was earlier by Pattiann Rogers, who said, The Earth and … Read More…
“So how do you feel today?” Tim asked me. “Spacious!” I said. “There’s so much room!” It was quite a change from the day before—actually, from the whole month of January, when I and the publishing team were scrambling to … Read More…
Spring is here even in Boulder—at least for today—and now that the trails are mostly dry I am making wildflower rounds again. The McClintock Trail at Chautauqua hosts the earliest blooms, and this morning I scouted for pasqueflowers (no luck) … Read More…
Some decades ago the American poet and producer James Lipton revived interest in an old word tradition—giving fanciful names to groups of animals. An Exaltation of Larks explored how English hunters and word lovers in the fifteenth century pursued with … Read More…
Over the weekend I had the good fortune to attend a women’s writing and meditation retreat. I can’t think of anything I would rather have been doing in the first days of the new year than listening to poetry, writing, … Read More…
A milestone today—the 100th post since I started This Lively Earth in January. What a fun blogging ride this has been! The view out my window is again of winter. The sky today is brighter than this shot makes it … Read More…