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…

JOURNEY BREAD Happy Spring! It feels like the right time to start a journey. Journey Bread, my sixth book, will be published by Broadstone Books in August. Journey bread is the viaticum, the bread on the tongue of the dying. It is the journey cake my forebears carried through the mountains or baked on a flat…

At last! My new book, JOURNEY BREAD, is now available for pre-order from Broadstone Books. Be sure to use the discount code on the Broadstone site for 20% off! https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/journey-bread-new-selected-poems-by-ruth-thompson My thanks to Larry Moore and everyone at Broadstone Books, who kept the flame burning despite being hit by the Small Press Distribution disaster. Here’s…

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…