Tag Archives: Fiction & Nonfiction

Fiction, Tunes, Teaching, & Parenting:

Notes from Somewhere Inside a Poetry Sabbatical

Ten days (I kid you not) after my first child was born, I received a phone call from a press to whom, several months prior, I’d submitted my second poetry manuscript.

We’d like to publish your book!

Art & Inspiration

Those who know me know that I am undoubtedly a book nerd. I love books, love working with books, love discussing books–I even went so far as to organize my bookshelves by color last winter. So it should be no surprise that I’ve recently started a book club among our friends in Charlottesville.

Works With Soul: Joshua MacIvor-Andersen

Josh MacIvor-Andersen is author of ‘Flexing, Texting, Flying’, winner of the 2011 Ruminate Nonfiction Prize featured in Issue 20: Feasting. He’s joined us to chat about hubris, obsession, and the messy business of life.

A Quest For Faith

David Downing’s novel Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel pays homage to the Inklings (a literary group connected with the University of Oxford and made up of friends and scholars such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams) and entertains the reader with a quest that includes a holy artifact, a conversion, and love.

Collectors Of The Good Words

David Dark is a man whose words have captured me over the past year.
I was first pointed to him via a killer profile of David Bazan that was published last summer in the Chicago Reader. Through that article I found Dark’s Twitter account and subsequently his blog and subsequently/a couple months ago this bit of audio: Collectors of Good Words