by Jody Lee Collins | Oct 3, 2023 | Poetry, Spiritual Practice
Dear Friends & current readers, Hi there! This is your second communication from me in one day…. But I think you’ll be happy ’tis so. I am sharing something I believe you’ll find helpful–Five Things That Might Surprise You About...
by Jody Lee Collins | Sep 4, 2023 | On Writing, Poetry
Dear Kind Readers, as you may know (and for those who are new here–welcome!) my second book of poetry, Mining the Bright Birds: Poems of Longing for Home found a publishing home earlier this year at a small press in Oregon. I wrote about the background of the...
by Jody Lee Collins | Jun 10, 2023 | On Writing, Poetry
Last fall when the sky was cobalt blue and leaves were brilliant, flaming shades of amber and maroon (as they are wont to be here in the Pacific Northwest) I stole away for an overnight writing retreat. My goal was to cobble together a year’s worth of poetry...
by Jody Lee Collins | Dec 28, 2020 | Poetry
It’s the fourth day of Christmas and I’m sitting at my dining table while shadows play on the Advent wreath and the dishwasher hums. The post-holiday lull has begun, that in-between time where memories of enjoying my family’s company, complete with...
by Jody Lee Collins | Sep 22, 2020 | Poetry
First of all, hello to new subscribers and welcome! I’m glad you’re here. By now you all know I write a bit of poetry…. much of it has been published here on my website but I have had the honor of seeing my work in print and in other places here on...
by Jody Lee Collins | Feb 8, 2020 | Poetry
Several years ago in a biography of preacher and evangelist Jonathan Edwards, I read the name of “slave poet” Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). Wheatley wrote an elegy (poem on the occasion of one’s death) for George Whitefield, one of Jonathan...
