Ruth Thompson: Poet & Channel

“First Sunday” With Philip Terman

It was such a joy to read and talk with Phil Terman in the February “First Sunday” reading, sponsored by Saddle Road Press. Phil is the most generous and sympathetic poet I know, and has read with benevolent insight the manuscript of every book I have written. In this conversation and sharing of poems, I…

The Galway Review

I’m trying to get back to submitting again. My thanks to The Galway Review for publishing two new poems: Fold the Three Black Crows Fold the three black crows into the autumn field.Fold the steel winter trees heavy with snow.Fold the violet mornings, and the mists. Fold the full moon along the rim of the…

After Words

In April, I had a stroke. Among other things, I lost the ability to make poems the way I had always made them, drawing from intuition and complexity of language and technique to try to create poems as art. I could no longer handle the multiplicity of focus and reference. I thought my life as…

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 Breugel: skaters and strollers and dogsand a sun just beginning to…

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.