National Poetry Month '24: Being Rooted
It's Poetry Friday...and National Poetry Month. Today's Poetry Friday community roundup is hosted by Ruth at " There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town ." Stop by for all the poetry joy you need today! (If you're interested in the madness I've jumped into this month, scroll to the bottom of this post.) On Home Recently, I went to see Joy Sullivan and Maggie Smith in a conversation hosted by Gramercy Books . Joy's new poetry book "I nstructions for Traveling West " had just been released. As the evening was concluded they took one more question. A man in the back of the room asked, "Joy, what have you learned from leaping, and Maggie, what have you learned from staying rooted?" I found the question fascinating. Joy went on to talk about what it was like to leap. Maggie talked about what it was like to be rooted. However, if you really listened, you heard Joy talk about the anchor of her home community. If you've read Mag