by McKenzie | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Sunday, reading and writing friends! I’m here to very happily announce my Poem of the Day series, discontinued more than a year ago, will be re-launched, alongside two additional series: my Favorite Fiction Friday Series and the Saturday Spotlight. Poets,...
by McKenzie | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene, Reading
The last few times we’ve lost a poet, I’ve had the privilege of knowing them, or at least loving their work. Today, with the loss of Linda Gregg, I walked into the unfamiliar place of not knowing a poet by name, or not being able to associate them with at...
by McKenzie | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene, Reading
It came to my attention last night via social media that Marni Ludwig, poet of New Issues Poetry & Prose and Poetry Society of America, has passed away. She leaves behind her chapbook, Little Box of Cotton and Lightning, her full-length collection, Pinwheel, and...
by McKenzie | May 19, 2017 | Blog, Literary Scene
Last night, I had the extremely great opportunity to perform as one of the five Selected Readers for Lit Literary Collective’s Write Night in May, organized by Krista Cox and Ultreia, Inc. Thank you, to Krista and Lit Literary and everyone, for having me....
by McKenzie | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Literary Scene, My Poems
—To my fellow Benders, I threw on my grief. MY DUMB HEART is open wide and overflows with water. How I manage to stay alive is beyond me. I like...
by McKenzie | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Literary Scene, My Poems
—Hope is the thing with feathers. Here is a truth: I thrive on hope. But yet, here is another: if you fill a pillow with feathers, I cannot sleep— I wake in the middle of the night, heavy-chested and warm, throwing off the dark as if it were...
