Ampersands & Accents

Library renovations at ABAC are coming right along! (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3e9Kz1BmmbnW-Aew0_sGfFroJiBT-d_Tt4vGk0/?igshid=p5s7igbzvnlh

I have been arguing with this poem for weeks now. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3c8OFyBZezph8eEX369zMTiqJp5wAx5ZoUhsM0/?igshid=qxhlyxlbj0lo

Richard Wilbur, “The Proof” https://www.instagram.com/p/B2se0jvB_aH4ArkKba9Jm6v45hbw2Gm_uWLulQ0/?igshid=ujdll90dvlso

The fine folks over at Sweet reconnected with me in this short interview. I hope that you’ll read, enjoy, and share! 

The campus library renovations are coming along nicely! (at Tifton, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B034jsjBfoKG6mxtRVqxQedGMqqo1ZPREjIiKU0/?igshid=o29luzi66st5

Yusef Komunyakaa laying down some wisdom. Pay attention, children. Grown folks are talking. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0llt4sBBP6FBjGujAYPOf6u5Aj5QT7MdYODGM0/?igshid=1gurohq9jrumr

I’m so happy to have a poem in this new anthology, Local News: Poetry About Small Towns (MWPH Books). “To Come of Age in a Mill Town” is the opening poem in Brackish (Aldrich Press 2013). Written as a response (in some ways) to Richard Hugo’s “To Die in Milltown,” the poem weaves together imagination and lived experience in a kind of tribute and a kind of elegy to #PortStJoe, Florida, where I grew up, a town that has changed so much over the years that it scarcely resembles the fishing village/paper mill town of my youth. Still, if writing poems has taught me anything, it’s this: memory creates its own kind of truth. (at Tift County, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bEWMxB1Zd0UwIDySfOwd5P7QApqho4jtQEDQ0/?igshid=1cth6byx5k1k2

I write every day. Often, along with original work, I copy down a poem that I admire or that means a lot to me. Here’s Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Flying.” . . . . #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #jackgilbert #poetry #journaling #fountainpen #handwriting #diplomatfountainpen #cursive #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WbHjuB9dqtXQQdSsUmCH8IpVoipCDZ5ZLL2Q0/?igshid=1j0le2khhq44w

Court Stevens teaching at the ABAC Young Writers Conference . . “We all are living stories [that] we have the ability to change” —Court Stevens (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JXZcaBQ2xMQSop37HiwHjCMUBFkNFwa8LRFY0/?igshid=wdjzjkydystz

ABAC Professor of English and featured faculty at this Year’s ABAC Young Writers Conference leads a class on the hermit crab essay at the conference (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JLYdlh9hY0FmQKyn4Ln-ri2IcyTUYRDHNWVc0/?igshid=1jf7c4r9skhti

Justin Evans (@rightpoetright) teaching at the ABAC Young Writers Conference (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JDY6pBIYqxL2n6c-i7S3XqSc0SM4_GMTVXIY0/?igshid=1e4h55d6aic0k

We are here! Where are you? (at Midtown Reader) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HQRlYhiRRPBuaWh1NLk6T6Xnfw3g9nxpikAc0/?igshid=1aynyx5igaoqz

Here’s a fun survey for #poets and #poetry lovers! • • • • • • • #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetry #survey #pleaseshare #thisisfun #writers #writing #amwriting #shouldbewriting https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_8BD8hi_UvnC9Kp0814sRzFfeBLrL6eVCEZI0/?igshid=4saxxjkq34k

New pens make me happy #fountainpen #pens #pilot #jetpens #jetpenhaul https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlnvvQhiw1m-Ua8ET_Vg6QqnRwuyxKn9APzaI0/?igshid=1fv55z6bdbu1b

From this afternoon‘s journaling/writing session: “Ours is in age a performance, not sacrifice.“ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzlm51_B4MgntECjJt5qtVCyTyY7pJwrOvIMuo0/?igshid=zawwvetm75og

The lighthouse on St. Simon’s Island (at St. Simons Island, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BygxNSwhVkigQI7zmy_PC1LPxe0m7tJ6-pfIX80/?igshid=gdzmugkts4mc

These essays won’t write themselves #fatguysatwork #iactuallywenttothegymtoday #amwriting #sortof (at Tifton, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTTEj4hiNyWbhm8EI9BKEtS_i3dZTOdVBx2Gk0/?igshid=tylefkti2keg