The following is the third and final installment of a story I wrote about our local art scene for a Floyd Press special insert. Part I is HERE. Part II is HERE. The literary arts also have a presence in Floyd, with a monthly open mic night and at least two writing workshop groups. Poets […]
A Flourishing of Arts in Floyd, Part I is HERE. This story originally appeared in The Floyd Press on March 27, 2008. Another sign that the arts have grown in the community is Floyd’s active nightlife. Music lovers and fiddle players spilling over into the streets for the Friday Night Jamboree is part of […]
This is the first installment of a three part reprint from a story that originally appeared in a Floyd Press special insert on March 27, 2008. A post about the process I went through writing this retrospective on Floyd arts can be found HERE. Whether it’s food and shelter, or creative arts and entertainment, […]
1. Winning Hand 2. A Pupil of Poetry 3. Self portrait in the eye of the beholder 4. Pose of Ponder 5. Gold Finger Post note: Body Language Part I is HERE.
1. My Father’s Nose 2. Teardrops 3. Last Leg
Joe took the day off to study for his upcoming counselor’s licensure test. I had just returned from a morning Scrabble game, the one where Mara complimented my lime green shirt and I explained how I had pulled all the little rhinestones off after I bought it at thrift shop. She and Rosemary, whose dining […]
1. Seeing poets Bruce Weigl and Claudia Emerson together at the VMI Poetry Symposium last weekend was as cool as seeing James Taylor and Carole King together in concert back in the 70’s. 2. Over the two-day symposium weekend there was a humorous discussion between Mara and me about the difference between pulpit and podium. […]
Poet pandemonium at the VMI Poetry Symposium The Power of Poetry makes us say Cheese It rhymes with Please Post Notes: Left to right, back row first, is (mostly): Kara, Mara, Julie, (and then Noren), Sharon, Sharon’s husband. Colleen and Melanie are in front. The first photo also shows VMI Professor Gordon Ball. To read […]
The following was published in The Floyd Press on April 10, 2008. Floyd County poet, Mara Robbins (pictured on the left) was one of three students representing nine regional schools to receive a first place award at a Poetry Symposium this past weekend. The symposium, titled “The Power of Poetry,” was a first time event, […]
1. On my way to Hollins University to meet Mara and her friends so that I could follow them to the Power of Poetry Symposium in Lexington, I had a full tank of gas and a choice to make. I could either focus on the road construction on Interstate 81 that would make me an […]
1. This is my version of ‘I can’t resist a man in uniform.’ 2. So I follow him around like an adoring fan. 3. This is him, my soccer coach husband, simulating the bicycle kick he did on the soccer field during practice earlier that day. 4. This is what the second part of a […]
1. On April fool’s day I wrote this fake news story: A fool resembling Donald Trump announced on April 1st that Thursday had been fired. People in board rooms across America were stunned at the turn of events and feared the lost revenue that would ensue. CEOs scrambled to book Friday, which overflowed into Saturday, […]
