Birdbrains in Ballard!
I’m reading with several others at It’s About Time at the Ballard library next Thursday, Sept. 10, at 6 p.m. and would love to see you there.
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Entries by Bethany
Wendell Berry (1934-2026)
I’ve so many posts unposted, and a million distractions…but it seems important to share a Wendell Berry poem this morning. To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, […]
My Pilgrimage
I am away from home—away from vacuum cleaners and dirty dishes and laundry and cats-needing-fed and all things routine. Let’s not call it a “trip” (even if it is trippy), but a pilgrimage: to Amherst, Massachusetts, to hang out with Emily Dickinson. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years and years, and never quite […]
Terri Cohlene’s A CONSPIRACY OF BLACKBIRDS
A CONSPIRACY OF BLACKBIRDS, Terri Cohlene, MoonPath Press 2026. I want to describe Terri Cohlene’s long overdue debut poetry collection, A Conspiracy of Blackbirds, as a hodge-podge, but only if you understand hodge-podge as that strange little store crammed with ancient washing machines, pitchforks, maybe a statue of Cupid or a wrought iron hen with […]