Journey Bread

HAPPY SPRING! NEW BOOK! It’s Spring! There are red buds on the maples (see Don’s photograph at http://www.newsofelsewhere.com/23-04-01.html)! And no more sno …. Well, maybe I was wrong about that …. And I’ve written a new book! It’s called Journey Bread: New and Selected Poems. It’s a memoir of a life in poetry, a “New and Mostly Rewritten Poems” collection, and a late-in-life…

RADICAL REVISION WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED! RADICAL REVISION ONLINE WORKSHOPRuth ThompsonAugust 6, 13, 20, and 27 3-4:30 Eastern / 12-1:30 Pacific$120 Are you interested in revising older poems? Or new ones? Do you want to unearth the deeper, stranger, more authentic poem that may lie beneath the poem you have written? (It may have a…

Welcome back! I’m writing this, the first of a new series of posts and newsletters, on Imbolc. Imbolc is the first stirring of spring underground. It’s lambing time, Brigid’s day – Brigid who was a goddess of creative fire and fertility, long before she was a saint. In Gaelic, Imbolc means “in the belly of…