by Shannon Turner | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog
I’m on a plane as I write this, headed to give a keynote and workshop for the good people at UNC-Wilmington and Coastal Youth Media Project. There’s nothing like travel to make us wake up, pay attention, become alive in all our sense. Inevitably when I fly I get...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 7, 2019 | Blog, national poetry month, poetry
memento moriremember that you shall dieas if I ever forgetas if my mind doesn’t wander offacross gray fieldsto stand next to myundecorated gravein effort to understand whyas if I don’t hypothesize aboutthe brave and noble deedI’ll do or the...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, national poetry month, poetry
Where you gonna go,little ol’ miss white-hairedBlack woman?That cane and thosetired, short li’l legs ain’tgonna carry you acrossthe Asheville expressway. Nawth C’olina didn’tbuild you no overpasson which to walk.I see you lookin’...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, college, national poetry month, poetry
April is National Poetry Month. It has been so since 1996. It is not lost on me that 1996 was when I was in college and writing the bulk of my bad, sulky poetry. There’s something about that phase of life, standing on the precipice between childhood and...
by Shannon Turner | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog, GCDD Storytelling Project
Joe Steffy working in his popcorn business. Photo by Lynsey Weatherspoon. Just discovered this story from the 2018 GCDD Storytelling Project published on their website back in December. If you know how much I love popcorn, then you know how much I loved writing this...
