Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
Verse to Be Thankful For: Four Short Poetry Book Reviews
Before posting these mini-reviews, I took some time to post excerpts on Amazon and Goodreads, depending on where I found the collections....
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Sep 30
- 3 min
Don’t Try Your Best
En’s over a month into his first year of high school and is making an effort to stay on top of all the work in all their classes. It’s a...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Aug 27
- 2 min
Refractions of Light: A Review of Said Through Glass, by Jona Colson
Jona Colson’s Said Through Glass poetry collection (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2018) transports one to the internal life of...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Jul 28
- 4 min
A Perfect C+ On My First Solo Open Mic Performance
I’m resting my fingers and voice after a long practice session, although typing makes the fingertips of my left hand sore; they’ve had a...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Jun 25
- 9 min
Cancel Culture: A Complicated Shortcut in Communication
Living with two teens in the thick of pop culture and internet on-goings, I vaguely follow Cancel Culture. Some incidents my kids share...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Jun 19
- 4 min
Beneath One Roof: A Review of Model Home by Jay Hall Carpenter
Jay Hall Carpenter’s Model Home (2021) is an astounding collection of poems on a number of levels. Jay writes each poem with beautiful...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Jun 12
- 3 min
Spring Turns to Summer Vacation & My Writing Den Is Ready
With pizza enjoyed, ice cream cake shared, and gifts opened, En’s 14th Birthday Party comes to a close and with that our 2022 Birthday...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Apr 26
- 4 min
Ten Bedrock Songs
My first love was Music. I grew up on the likes of Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and Elvis. Between fights with my...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Apr 9
- 5 min
DiVerse Poetry: Always Moving Me Along and Moving to the Casey Center in June
DiVerse Poetry Reading Series has been a staple for me, both in my social and internal life. I missed surprisingly little through...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Apr 2
- 3 min
Honest Glimpse into Hard Moments: A Review of “No Barking in the Hallways”
I spent some evenings this week with “No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom,” by Ann Bracken (New Academia Publishing,...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Mar 24
- 9 min
Ten Bedrock Poems
I return to some poems again and again. I need to share them with friends. I need to read them aloud or recite them to myself in mind....
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Mar 17
- 3 min
Luck o’ the Irish
I do love these minor holidays — Valentine’s, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s — days in which a little festive goes a long way with no great...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Across Lands and Time: A Review of “A Story of the World Before the Fence” by Leeya Mehta
High on the hill, beneath a fern sky of speckled spores there is a place I long to describe in a language I do not know. Reads the first...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Mar 5
- 5 min
Love It When a Plan Falls Through
Some moments in time are like the cross-hairs on a grid, more structural than atmospheric to a life. Rites of passage, moves, marriages,...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Feb 26
- 15 min
The Poet's Story: Interview with CL Bledsoe
I first met CL Bledsloe in July of 2021 at a reading hosted by Steven Allenmay at Martha Washington Library in Alexandria, Virginia. It...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Feb 19
- 7 min
Validating my Children’s Concerns: A Deep Dive Into The EARN IT Act 2022
It was the late 1980s and I was fired up about Parental Advisory Stickers and threats of censorship affecting my music. Tipper Gore was...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Feb 13
- 4 min
Stories Upon the Depths of Poetry: A Review of “Stay” by Tanya Olson
Tanya Olson shares masterfully written, thoughtful poetry in her full-length collection Stay (YesYes Books, 2019). Her lyrical lines...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Feb 4
- 3 min
Resolutions & New Starts
Lunar New Year brought a new wave of hope to this year for me. Early to be trudging through, but feels like we drag a lot with us these...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Jan 16
- 8 min
The Poet's Story: Interview with Lucinda Marshall
Congratulations on your new full-length poetry collection, Inheritance of Aging Self. A powerful collection that I had the honor of...
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Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Dec 31
- 4 min
Human Kintsugi: A Review of "All Things Beautiful Are Bent" by James Diaz
In All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha Press, 2021), James Diaz explores, reveals, and uplifts both anguish and healing, or the...
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