The books are in and they look great! Get yours now by clicking on the link at the top of the page. Christopher Watkins will be in Orlando for his book launch at Urban Think! in downtown Orlando May 2nd. He’s going to read from Short Houses With Wide Porches and play us a few songs from his “other” life as a singer/songwriter. You won’t want to miss this!
Shady Lane Press has contracted with Christopher Watkins to publish Short Houses With Wide Porches. Christopher Watkins is a poet and songwriter. His poems are appearing or have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The GW Review, Slipstream, Euphony, Talking River, and Red Rock Review, among others. He was the Fall 2006 Writer-in-Residence at The Kerouac House. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program at The University of Southern Maine. As a songwriter, he has released five albums under the name Preacher Boy and has received a Gold Record for his songwriting work with Grammy-winning artist Eagle-Eye Cherry. He was raised in Iowa, Michigan, Italy and Washington and his lived with his missus, visual artist Amy Marinelli, in California, Ireland, Colorado, Illinois, and New York. This is his first poetry collection. Publication date: March 2008
Darlyn Finch’s Red Wax Rose is quickly becoming Shady Lane Press’s “Little Book that Could.” Just got word that Garrison Keillor will be reading Darlyn’s poem: ”I {Heart}My Wife,” on The Writer’s Almanac, Thursday, June 21. Check your local NPR listings for times. The poem will also appear on The Writer’s Almanac website and daily e-mail. For a complete list of stations and broadcast times, click here: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/stations/list.php
Congratulations Darlyn! Way to create a buzz!
Reviewed by Peggy Miller, Senior Editor, February 2007
“Here is a delightful find, an appealing combination of simple, dark and wise…”
These works are open-eyed to life’s tenderness and sadness—and the intersection of tenderness and sadness, which is the source of power in Finch’s writing.
A native Floridian, Finch was the recent writer in residence at Kerouac House in Orlando. Many Americans these days relocate often, but Finch lives in the midst of her history. In the poem “Hometown” she writes, “There are ghosts in the sanctuary,/ and our hometown is a place/ where we visit family/ alone/ on opposite ends of town.”
