I have two poems entitled "Homing In" and "Christmas House, Vallejo, California" in A Fire To Light Our Tongues, an anthology of spiritual writing by Texas writers (what an honor to be called one!) forthcoming from Texas Christian University Press in May 2022. I'd like to thank the late Donna Walker-Nixon for reaching out to me to solicit work for this volume (and for generously considering me a Texas writer, even if I left the state in 2013), as well as Dr. Elizabeth Joan Dell of Baylor University for selecting my work for publication. Below is a description of this wonderful anthology:
A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye’s introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as “a fire to light our tongues.” This view describes the role that creative writers, encountering the challenges of this past decade, face as they grapple with shifting views of spirituality. While the project started before COVID-19, given the current worldwide pandemic, a book of creative work responding to writers’ spirituality could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief.
Copies of the anthology can be pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Blackwell's in the UK. I would also like to thank Willow (Canada) where these two poems initially saw print in 2018.
A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye’s introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as “a fire to light our tongues.” This view describes the role that creative writers, encountering the challenges of this past decade, face as they grapple with shifting views of spirituality. While the project started before COVID-19, given the current worldwide pandemic, a book of creative work responding to writers’ spirituality could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief.
Copies of the anthology can be pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Blackwell's in the UK. I would also like to thank Willow (Canada) where these two poems initially saw print in 2018.
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