Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.