Paradise and Achievement: A Week in Acadia
I climbed summits and traversed ocean waters.
I climbed summits and traversed ocean waters.
This poem is published in the poetry anthology, Its Not Easy by Poets’ Choice. This is my first published piece.
“People can shy away from topics because they are hard, and it can be easier to call them dark, rather than truth, or an aspect thereof. I believe that it is in the dark that we can really start to understand the true nature of our world and its people.” —N.L. Blandford
I am excited to finally be able to answer the dreaded question, “Are you actually published?” with a, “Yes!”
All great writers master the craft, but Crane—like Whitman, like Dickinson, like Hemingway, like Hugo, like Pope, like Voltaire, like Homer, like Kafka, like Woolf—had a touch of the divine; that unteachable it factor, and it is among the company of these writers where he lives forever in the pantheon of literary immortality.
“If I was to write a Christian novel, I would have to write, like all writers do, a human canvas navigating and experiencing life as it is lived; I would have to write the truth”