Sherry Chandler

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Man, it would be so wonderful to have a president who gave a damn and who could think and speak and not just parrot talking points

What better time than World Poetry Day to draw your attention to these three new collections by poets with Kentucky connections:

Lynnell Edwards’s second collection, The Highwayman’s Wife, was released by Red Hen Press on March 1. For sample poems and a reading calendar, visit Lynnell’s website

Rebecca Bailey’s chapbook Meditation upon the Invisible Ceremony of the Breath is now in pre-release sales from Finishing Line Press. Free shipping for orders received before the release date of April 25.

Mosaic poet Joanie DiMartino’s chapbook Licking the Spoon is in pre-publication sales at Finishing Line. Free shipping on orders made before the release date of June 1. [Note: I have read and even helped perform a number of these poems. Joanie is an excellent poet. And TR loves the spoons on the cover.]

This is the second possible first day of spring — the one marked on my office calendar and what some refer to, I think, as the first full day of spring (an interesting concept) — and Deane has given me permission to share with you these photos she took of a coyote on her farm in Crittenden County in Western Kentucky.

She says:

The coyote was pretty far away on the neighbor’s farm amid the sage, so I am glad I got images at all. You can tell it is looking at me as I was studying it in the one photo.

We used to hear coyotes howling around here. I never did see one of them but my husband did. Fortunately they left our small domestic animals alone but, in the tail-end of our cattle raising years, something was preying on our newborn calves. I’m not so sure they were purely coyotes. We’re also supposed to have coyote/dog crossbreeds roaming in packs around here, which are meaner and not so people-shy. Whatever they were, lately, they’ve been quiet. I think local farmers may have taken action.