Review of Trawling the Silences by Richard Allen Taylor

Jacar Press published Trawling the Silences, a poetry book by Kathryn Stripling Byer, after her death from cancer. I ordered the book and have read it over and over. Richard Allen Taylor wrote a review in The Pedestal Magazine.


If you knew Kathryn Byer or if you are a fan of her poems, you will certainly enjoy this review. As Richard says, in some poems she lets us know she is facing death. But, like so many of her poems she writes about the mountains and about her childhood on the farm. I identify with those childhood memories as I grew up on a farm not many miles from where the Stripling family lived. That is what I have always enjoyed most about her poetry. I feel she is writing for me.


https://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/kathryn-stripling-byers-trawling-the-silences-reviewed-by-richard-allen-taylor/

Submissions for Anthology of Love (in all its shapes and sizes)

(Photo by Catherine Beyler)

Jacar Press is calling for submissions for its poetry anthology on LOVE. What a large focus! Surely Netwest members can help Richard Krawiec out by submitting some poems. Go to the Jacar site, http://jacarpress.com/submit.html, to find out more about the submissions guideline.

At this very moment I love looking out

my window and seeing sunlight

on winterized rhododendron leaves.

Snow melting on brown grass,

weary winter trees readying themselves

for the bustin' out, the bursting forth,

the flourishing, the glorious full

in your face SPRING!

GATHERING OF POETS IN WINSTON-SALEM

On April 9, Press 53 and Jacar Press (in Durham) are sponsoring a day-long gathering of poets, featuring workshops with Fred Chappell, Val Nieman, Alex Grant, among others, and a faculty reading in the afternoon, including Isabel Zuber. I will also be doing a workshop. This sounds like a lot of fun, so please visit http://www.press53.com/GatheringofPoets2011.html to view the schedule and sign up to participate in this collaborative effort for the cause of poetry in our state!