{"product_id":"the-manifesto-and-its-blue-ball","title":"The Manifesto and Its Blue Ball","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLlewellyn Mckernan\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up writing poetry in a swing on her family’s front porch. No skeptic’s air there, just a fresh breeze and a nearby shade tree that kept her from being blinded by too much sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe grew up well-educated: high school, college, M.A. Degree in English (University of Arkansas), M.A. Degree in Creative Writing (Brown University). But she never really left that front porch swing. It just moved to West Virginia where she wrote poems in the one she found on the porch there, which just fit her lonely lonesome, hoot and holler, heckle-foot state of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow she lives in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where—though she doesn’t have a swing—she has a screened-in back porch where she sits and contemplates the edge of a forest—and still writes poems. And all along, they’ve gotten published in many journals, including \u003cem\u003eArtemis, Kalliope, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Antietam Review, Kenyon Review, Now\u0026amp;Then, Appalachian Review,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAppalachian Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e They’ve been included in fifty-seven anthologies, and they’ve won 107 regional, state, or national awards and prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSix of her poetry books have been published: \u003cem\u003eShort and Simple Annals\u003c\/em\u003e (1978, AAUW Author Grant; 2nd ed. 1982, West Virginia Humanities Council Author Grant); \u003cem\u003eMany Waters\u003c\/em\u003e (Mellen Poetry Press, 1993); \u003cem\u003eLlewellyn McKernan’s Greatest Hits\u003c\/em\u003e (Pudding House Pres, 2005); \u003cem\u003ePencil Memory\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2010); \u003cem\u003eThe Sound of One Tree Falling\u003c\/em\u003e (Motes Books, 2014); and \u003cem\u003eGetting Ready to Travel\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2017). She has also had four poetry books published for children: \u003cem\u003eMore Songs of Gladness\u003c\/em\u003e (Concordia, 1987); \u003cem\u003eBird Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e (Standard Publishing, 1989); and \u003cem\u003eThis is the Day and This is the Night\u003c\/em\u003e (C.R. Gibson, 1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe has also been an adjunct English professor at Marshall University (Huntington, WV) and St. Mary’s College (Lexington Park, MD) and directed state and regional writing workshops. Her writing mantra comes from the advice that the French novelist Colette gave to a young writer: “Look long and hard at what gives you the most pleasure, but look even longer and harder at what gives you the most pain.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 82 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (February 1, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44462961131623,"sku":"tbb1787287007113","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/1601\/0087\/files\/the-manifesto-and-its-blue-ball_1.jpg?v=1787287012","url":"https:\/\/urbanstepfashion.shop\/products\/the-manifesto-and-its-blue-ball","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}