Posts tagged poetry

My story is as much an exploration of what it takes to forge a writing life as it is about the mission field but there is plenty of that woven into the plotline as well. As I sat reading on job site after job site or whizzed between one small town and the next shuttling supplies to the churches, I took every opportunity I could to make notes in my writer’s notebooks. It would take me years to work some of the material into poetry, which was always my aim, and a great deal of credit goes to Tom Absher, my professor at Vermont College (I did my undergraduate degree in my late thirties and early forties after these experiences had made a mark on my perceptions). He taught me the hard lessons of sculpting away dross, which was tough at first but paid off in the end. [ . . . ]