Ruth Thompson: Poet & Channel

This week’s poem

Having a Drink With My Daughter At the Casa Del Mar She is a Renoir rising from this gilded half shell, a shiningVan Gogh sunflower, a tree full of August apricots. She throws the banners of her laughter into the coffered ceilingsand the castle awakens. The waiters leap to serve her. Outside the window, a…

Journey Bread News

My book, JOURNEY BREAD, can be purchased directly from Broadstone Books, or from Amazon. Because Small Press Distribution, Broadstone’s distribution channel, crashed just before Journey Bread was published, the book is not available from Bookshop.org, Indiebound, or via Ingram to independent bookstores. However, I have copies! So if you would like a signed copy of…

Whale Fall reading at Poetry Flash

“Whale Fall” Reading at Poetry Flash, 2017.

Ruth Thompson talks about her work

“Ruth Thompson Talks About Her Work” – A short video made at Hilina Pali on the Big Island of Hawai’i, on the Winter Solstice in 2014