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Alaska poems by Sara M. Robinson, founder of the Lonesome Mountain Pros(e) Writers Workshop and poetry columnist for Southern Writers Magazine.

In Stones for Words, Sara Robinson takes the reader through five distinct levels of an evolutionary journey of her writing and philosophy of life. Like the stratification of the earth's mantle, her personal development is in layers of hard and soft rock, which she must mine for definition and clarity. She is not afraid or reluctant to involve the reader in the intimacy of her thoughts and self-doubts. Using simple, but powerful imagery, mixed ...

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Aging cowboy Rhue Hogan can't remember falling off the wild mare, but the leg cast and burial of his best friend are enough to send him back to New York City to find the son he's never met. Meanwhile, as Rhue rides the train east, his son, 40 year-old Ford Hogan invites Evie Newton, a young woman he barely knows, to travel to New England to explore his Puritan roots on his mother's side. As Ford and Rhue chase their private demons, a midget ps...

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Based on a true story. A mother's worst nightmare, Lacy Kellam's three month-old son Danny stops breathing one June morning in 1969. The doctors never tell her what caused his seizures or the permanent brain damage that follows. For three and a half decades government-mandated vaccinations have sent thousands of infants into seizures and encephalitic shock, leaving many brain damaged and handicapped for life. Danny Kellam is one of those babie...

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Linda Levokove's book of love poems has been described by Ilya Kaminsky (co-founder of Poets for Peace) as, ..".a court where memory and desire come to play and take turns as they bow to each other, teach each other the rules of the game, make poetic form a revelation of human insight." Another poet, Jack Trammell, commented, "The imagery in her poetry is soft and sumptuous, a reminder of why we write poetry. She openly shares with her readers...

Poetry and Prose by Central Virginia Writers

Gillie a skilled spinner of wool leads a charmed life high in the Blue Ridge Mountains until a hailstorm strikes. With their cash crop destroyed and taxes due, Gillie and her pa risk losing their farm. Then a strange little man gives her the power to spin hay into gold. Years later, when he demands his payment, Gillie doesn't know what to do.