baker, poet, and biographer Margot Kahn on getting over self-consciousness to begin again (and again) and the power of reminding yourself that you do have time 🌲

malformed calves      foaming at the mouth      a creek that bubbles

“I’m constantly thinking as I’m writing, ‘That’s not really it!’ or ‘That doesn’t ring true’ to get myself to drill down and get at the real emotion of a character.&#8…

“Sometimes we are sheltered surely and fully and sometimes we only have a particular kind of solace—maybe not the complete respite we hoped for, but solace all the same.” Certain Shelte…

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“what if one told the story of one’s life in terms of times that they felt fed… with love, with knowledge, with a sense of security in one’s self and one’s environment?” Gastromyt…

“…we’re all connected, even if in invisible, underground ways.”   Mycocosmic (Tupelo Press , forthcoming March 4, 2025) A question from Toni Ann Johnson: Why are you wri…

I drive four hundred miles to my grandparents’ Angus cattle farm near Nestorville, West Virginia. And walk up the knob, zenith and center of meadows they mowed, cow paths, rust-roofed sheds, silo, shr...

I drive four hundred miles to my grandparents’ Angus cattle farm near Nestorville, West Virginia. And walk up the knob, zenith and center of meadows they mowed, cow paths, rust-roofed sheds, silo, shr...

Pleasures of 2024 by Lesley Wheeler     During the summer, I spent two weeks in Scotland. I read many memorable books to set the m...

Janna Miller’s new collection, All Lovers Burn At the End of the World, conjures a host of weirdly beautiful characters, enticing the reader into landscapes perilous precisely because of their surf…

Evergreen Review

Bookstore selling contemporary poetry collections published by River River Books.

“The Boxes” One day in late April, two enormous boxes arrived at my door. Together, they weighed eighty-six pounds. For the last two years, my brothers and I had been renting a storage …