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The Journey

The Practice of Submitting
12 Jun 2022

The Practice of Submitting

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 0

Well, I certainly didn’t mean to be gone so long. Unfortunately, when things get super busy, my personal writing gets shuffled to the bottom of the stack – so for the last two months I have been all Kachemak Bay … Continued

poetry, publishing, submitting
Resurrection
17 Apr 2022

Resurrection

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 2

For some people, the story of resurrection begins with a cross. For me, it begins with song. Yesterday morning, walking the dog beneath a grey sky, collar turned up against a chill breeze, I heard the first calls of the … Continued

poetry, ruth stone, spring, writing
The Wobble
27 Mar 2022

The Wobble

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 0

Alaska is in that wobbly season when we can have a 40 degree, perfectly blue sky, sunny day followed by sub-zero, grey sky, snow falling. I remind myself each year that March and April are cold months. Often grey months. … Continued

Jane Hirshfield, poetry, spring
Holding two things
6 Mar 2022

Holding two things

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 1

This morning, an unseen wind illuminated by an unseen light source manifested as a great bright spume of snow lifting from the peaks across the bay. The mountains lay, as they always do this time of year, like a pale … Continued

poetry, ukraine
Dream of the seed beneath the frozen soil
13 Feb 2022

Dream of the seed beneath the frozen soil

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 0

This is the time of year that I trip myself up. I expect spring to wash over me, soft, sweet air and green things popping up everywhere. Instead, we get snow, then perhaps a day of thaw, ice, single digits … Continued

imbolc, paula meehan, spring
Winter beach wisdom
6 Feb 2022

Winter beach wisdom

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 0

February. A grey white month. More light but still cold. The forecast is for two weeks of snow showers. A month that still belongs to winter though the light lingers later now, long slow sunrises and sunsets when the clouds … Continued

Jane Hirshfield, wisdom
A Handhold
23 Jan 2022

A Handhold

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 0

What handholds have you? When all around you there is difficulty – some of the season, some of the cycle, some of the seemingly endless pandemic, some of the suffering of others, some of the suffering of ourselves? I have … Continued

poetry, william stafford, writing
To dig heels into
16 Jan 2022

To dig heels into

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 3

I am not ashamed to admit that I have a large personal library of poetry collections. Because poetry books have narrow spines making them hard to identify at a distance, I keep them in meticulous alphabetical order by poet’s last … Continued

eva saulitis, grief, poetry, writing
Turn
4 Apr 2021

Turn

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 0

The spruce trees are filled with siskins whose bright voices patter and swoop. Such brilliant conversation from the world at this turn of the season, two weeks past solstice, Easter Sunday, Eostre. Even though there is still a bitter chill … Continued

christian wiman, poetry
Spindrift
7 Mar 2021

Spindrift

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 5

May I admit to a great howling wind inside my mind, scouring and scouring? Every handhold, every rough surface polished like the glassiest ice. An unnavigable glare.  * To crouch down, narrow focus, examine this moment. The difference of inflection … Continued

Mary Oliver, mystery, Sherry Simpson

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