by Nora Hutton Shepard | Mar 7, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Plowed – a Poem by Nora Shepard Newton School, Asheville, NC 1956 In the third grade we were very seriousabout contour plowing. We poured overthe artless pictures in our textbooks,inspected the patterns placed before us:the swirls and...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Feb 16, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Forecast, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard for RBS jr (1936-1997) Can you feel the storm rising out the back doorlike a kettle on the stove building steam,the boil coming up, lid rattling, ready to pour down the sides of the pot, down the windows,...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Feb 4, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS Ars Poetica – a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard Dear reader, are you here too? looking with me at this room, at that chair beneath the casement and a woman entering from our left? She doesn’t see us, sorting and choosing her woolen skeins. You see...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jan 23, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Left Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Thank You, Vasili Arkhipov, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard October 27, 1962 The world, booked in alphabetical order,lined the shelves of the dimly lit denwhere my brother and I dawdledover grade school homework. I fingeredthrough the solar system, sun...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jan 10, 2023 | Local, News, The Written Word, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Villanelle with An Owl Nora Hutton Shepard Acknowledgement: Eclipse What if in the morning the sun did not rise, the moon was stuck against the sky and the barn owl flew behind his yellow eyes over the field mice in their darkened...