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 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...
