Nancy's Arts & Crafts

photo by Jack Heniford (1947-2015) Grace It comes when you’re not looking. Has been there Before you noticed. Blazes forth betw...

A Short Testament by Anne Porter Whatever harm I may have done In all my life in all your wide creation If I cannot repair it I beg ...

Going through my closet, discarding clothing and deciding that I need only a dress or two, a funeral dress or a party dress, for both are in...

...for PPF  (Watercolor on canvas) My mother always called it a nest, the multi-colored mass harvested from her six daughters...

An arresting photo of a woman in her late years: A quilt of unknown origin, size unknown this from just a portion of a poem well wor...

"That beautiful season the Summer! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; And the landscape Lay as if new created in a...

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Poet Hometown: Laugharne, Wales Thirty-one Craftlit fans (thank you, Heather Ordover found here and here and h...

by Barbara Crooker Feel a tomato, heft its weight in your palm, think of buttocks, breasts, this plump pulp. And carrots, mud clinging to ...

Today is my father's 90th birthday. He is celebrating it with all his family and friends in north Texas. Needless to say, Dad has seen m...

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one mon...

Through an exciting exchange of emails beginning in October with Lynda Jones, a lovely young Christian mother living in Ireland, I was intro...

The following was written by Isabel Hoskins. She writes thoughtfully speaking through her poetry. You learn that she has come through a life...

While listening to Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio show on Saturday, I learned about a free poetry contest. This contest is ...