I will be reading with Poet Connie Soper on Sunday, February 12, at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. It is an honor to return to the Oregon Coast where I spent most of my childhood and share through poetry how I was influenced by this special place.
Yours in poetry,
Carey
If you like poetry and haven’t been to a reading in person for awhile, join us at Kennedy School McMenamins on June 4th – 7:00 PM. Each reader will have about five minutes to showcase their work and celebrate publication in Cirque. Hope to see a few of you.
Yours in poetry,
Carey
Last weekend I had the great joy to read my poem at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita, Oregon, which is just up the road from where I learned to read and write at Garibaldi Grade School. To feel the trajectory of my writing come back to where it started 60 years ago was a homecoming of sorts, and the loss I felt as a child leaving the North Coast was replaced with the understanding that this place had never left me.
Judge Lana Ayers who selected my poem for the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize had this to say about “Birthday Fires”.
“Birthday Fires is a marvel of imagery and complexity in 9 couplets. The fires are birth, creativity, life. The poem reminds us that even as hardships and sorrows sap joy, we can still celebrate and make our own light, as in the final captivating image of the poem.”
Yours in poetry,
Carey
I am honored to have my poem “Early Seral Stage” published in Shark Reef.
Shark Reef is one of my favorite regional journals and I hope you take
time to read this winter issue.
Yours in poetry,
Carey
Carey Taylor 