by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 7, 2022 | Bubbler
Back in April, the lovely Evelyn read us some poetry at The Alley Downtown... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 24, 2022 | Bubbler
Joan Miro was well known for saying he’d spent 90 years trying to paint like a child. At one of our recent launches at the Tap Room in Aiken featuring Julia Wendell and Evelyn Berry, Victoria Corchada Menendez, age 6, made the decision to become a poet and to... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jun 26, 2022 | Bubbler
Saturday morning. Hours before you’re due for your sister’s college volleyball game, before either you or your mother shuffle out of bed and greet the mildew and cigarette smoke layering your apartment. The doorbell comes to you first as a wren’s warble in your dream... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jun 10, 2022 | Bubbler
Review of William Heath’s Steel Valley Elegy https://kelsaybooks.com/products/steel-valley-elegyKelsay Books (2022), $19 William Heath’s new book is an encouragement to look outward, at the play of history and the panorama of modern life. Often hard-boiled, the poems... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 8, 2022 | Bubbler, FSR
February, 2017. We’re sitting at a swank, expense account kind of restaurant. I’m in D.C. for the AWP conference and visiting my cousin is an added perk. Since I’m stranded at the downtown Marriott, Ruth has come to me. Once her father worked with mine building...
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