Michael Hettich joins us from Black Mountain, North Carolina to read his poem “Ghost Trees.” Michael was one of our first Poetry and BBQ poets …
Michael Hettich

Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation
The Literary Heart of Indian River County Since 1992
Michael Hettich joins us from Black Mountain, North Carolina to read his poem “Ghost Trees.” Michael was one of our first Poetry and BBQ poets …
I do not doubt you. I know you love me. It is a fact of your indoor face, A true fancy of your muscularity. Your …
The little quids, the million quids, The everywhere, everything, always quids, The atoms of the Monoton— Each turned three essences where it stood And ground …
Here where the end of bone is no end of song And the earth is bedecked with immortality In what was poetry And now is …
This is not exactly what I mean Any more than the sun is the sun. But how to mean more closely If the sun shines …
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly, Though the mind is meek. To be aware inwardly of brain and beauty Is dark too recognizable. Thought …
With the face goes a mirror As with the mind a world. Likeness tells the doubting eye That strangeness is not strange. At an early …
Across a continent imaginary Because it cannot be discovered now Upon this fully apprehended planet— No more applicants considered, Alas, alas— Ran an animal unzoological, …
This week we are delighted to feature Carol Frost, an alum from our 2013 Poetry and BBQ Human/Nature. She read alongside fellow Featured Poets Campbell McGrath and Rick Campbell. Carol enjoyed her …
Dr. Sidney Wade is a poet, translator, and professor. Sidney appeared at out 2016 Poetry & BBQ “Three Faces of Eve” along with fellow poets …