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WUTC with Ray Bassett and Scenic Roots: ALL THE WAY THROUGH

3 Questions and a Poem: KB Ballentine Interview with Deborah-Zenha Adams

<a href="https://rss.com/podcasts/dialogues-with-creators/918393">KB Ballentine</a>

WUTC with Ray Bassett and Scenic Roots: KB Ballentine and Spirit of Wild

Talking Writing with Richard Winham, Part One

Talking Writing with Richard Winham, Part Two

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Jessie Lendennie of Salmon Poetry

Jim Johnston of Celtic Cat Publishing

Chattanooga Writing Workshop

My Alma Mater, Cambridge, MA

Cambridge Reading

New London, New Hampshire

Donald Hall Poet Laureate Block Party

New London (NH) Writing Workshop

New York City AWP

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Cleopatra Mathis at Vermont College of Fine Arts

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My first Southern Festival of Books

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Winder Binder Reading

Chattanooga Writers' Guild Reading

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Writing in San Francisco

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Reading in Auvillar, France

Reading with Marilyn Kallet in Auvillar

Writing beside the Garonne River

Goodlet Farms Reading

Minneapolis (MN) Reading

Rose Glen Literary Festival

Southern Festival of Books

On Panel with Marilyn Kallet, Jeff Hardin, Maggi Vaughn

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Maggi Vaughn, Tennessee Poet Laureate

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Margaret Britton Vaughn, TN Poet Laureate

Diane Frank, publisher with Blue Light Press

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Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Officers

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Squaw Valley Mentors

Brenda Hillman, Sharon Olds, Robert Hass

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Sewanee, Tennessee Residency

Spreading the word, radio station style...

Reading from THE PERFUME OF LEAVING

Southern Festival of Books with some supportive students

Knoxville Writers' Guild Reading

Square Books, Oxford, MS

William Faulkner's Rowan Oaks

Eudora Welty's home and garden in Jackson, MS

Reading at Salmon Bookshop in Ennistymon, Ireland

John Millington Synge's "Chair" on Inis Meain

William Butler Yeats's Thoor Ballylee

Coole Park, WB Yeats and Lady Gregory

Dylan Thomas, Ennistymon, Co Clare

Some days . . .

JM Barrie reminder

Surveying London

Jane Austen sighting?

Eden Phillpotts's Dartmoor

Nashville Public Library Lobby

Southern Festival of Books Panel with Maggi Vaughn

Book Launch at Star Line Books

Beatrix Potter's Hill Top

Writing in Wordsworth's Shelter at Dove Cottage

Wordsworth's Rydal Mount

Smell the writing...

Back in Cambridge, 2019

Speaking at A Novel Idea, June 2019

On NPR with Richard Winham 2019

Preparing for Ashe County, NC, workshop

Received copies of my sixth book!

Open Mic October 2020 Zoom

Rockvale Writers' Colony Goals Retreat

Open Mic July 2020 Zoom

Sheila-Na-Gig Author Zoom

Black Dog Virtual Open Mic

Getting ready for Open Mic

Rockvale's Jumpstart Workshop

Bell Buckle Mural with Maggi Vaughn

Rockvale Writers Colony

Working on a manuscript

Open Mic at Wanderlinger

Writing and tea

Book launch at Soddy-Daisy Community Library

Edge of the Echo book launch

Main x 24 Open Mic

Reading at Rockvale

Rockvale Writers Colony

Writing at Rockvale Writers Colony

Coffee County Manchester Library Author Signing

2023: Eighth Collection

Home from the gym to find…Spirit of Wild!

Did JK Rowling catch the train here?

Writing workshop in Bronte country

On the trail with Chris Wood to discover the Huggate Poetry Bench

Find some of my books at Pickering Book Tree (in England!)

At Haworth with the Bronte family

Reading at Meacham

SoLit Young Writers Program

Six poems of mine appear here about Devilstep Hollow on the Cumberland Plateau

Can’t beat a book chat with writer friends like Helga Kidder and Chris Wood!

Reading at Bessie Smith Hall in Chattanooga with Earl Braggs

Some of the CWG Poetry Critique Group

Open Mic at the Philosopher’s House in Johnson City, TN

Ada Limon in the Smokies!

Hayley Haugen in the house (literally!)

Writing at Rockvale

23 years as host for Open Mic night

StoveWorks Reading with SoLit in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Reading at ETSU, Johnson City

Book Number Nine!