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poetry

How to follow a spark
7 Aug 2022

How to follow a spark

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

When I was a child and was naughty (not really naughty but perhaps headstrong and wayward), my father would occasionally say to me, “Are you a witch or are you a fairy or are you the wife of Micheal Cleary?” … Continued

Black Earth Institute, poetry, writing
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
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
Isolation and Poetry
10 Jan 2022

Isolation and Poetry

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: Uncategorized | 1

It has been by inch and trickle that the continued isolation and stress of COVID has covered the person I want to be. The person who has friends and laughs a lot and has time to walk on the beach. … Continued

being poetry, poetry
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
Listening to the body
14 Feb 2021

Listening to the body

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

The body is always talking to us.  This week, for me, included a recurring cricopharyngeal spasm – or in other words, a cramp in one of the muscles of my pharynx, typified in my case by the feeling of a … Continued

poetry, the body, writing

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