with words, charcoal, dreams and possibly lightning storms
Somewhere between Virginia and North Carolina: Find slips of her wit igniting weeds between the concrete slabs of the city sidewalk or in the worm-hooked smirk of a crow in the Blue Ridge sky. Her poetry chapbook Between Blue and Grey (Amazon, 2012) won the Barnhills Books & More: Mothervine Festival Award for Best in Poetry in 2013. Her writing has been featured in such publications as Thrush Press, Moon Books, Moonchild Magazine, Pedestal Magazine and VQR's Instaseries. Follow her @tifchaney on Instagram and visit sassafrassoothsayer.com for more wyrdness.
Eat ‘em or bury ‘em? 🐸 An Oral History Tale As Told By Kester Stoot
The Blacklick Frog Rain
It starts with a tell-tale THUD... 🐸
Every three generations, give or take, frogs fall across Blacklick, Virginia. You won’t hear folks talk about them much, because they’re so few and far between these days.
When they do talk, folks say these frogs have properties. From charming a man to killing a man, women would cook up spells and the men, being men, would eat.
As you know, southerners eat some strange things. Get a special recipe for frog legs from this new American oral history folk tale. 👩🍳
Kester Stoot, recently reported missing 👀, relates the oral tale to us as he first experienced the phenomenon of falling frogs.
He says that folks would shovel them up, bury the bodies and burn them in droves, but the frogs kept falling. His last words to us may give us a clue as to how to stop the deluge, due to fall soon.
Between Blue & Grey
Winner of the 2013 Mother Vine Festival Award for Best in Poetry & Barnhills Books & More
In four small collections: The Very Outside, Thicker Than Water, The Animus, and Dry Air, Tiffany Chaney courts accessible language with vivid imagery and exposes sooted skies, a clothesline dividing childhood from change, lovers as familiar as discarded socks... She dances with Woolf and Plath around a bonfire and embraces with wry appreciation the havoc - outer and inner - wreaks to destroy and create what we love, how we love. "At times raw, painful, and melancholy; at others hopeful... In The Next, Chaney writes: 'When you find yourself in the midst of a perfect present/ and attempt to find yourself there again you cannot/ The only hope you have is the beauty of the next.' In her first collection, we are led by the hand down a path with the speaker and are left, after each poem, wanting the beauty of the next. A tremendous collection, a young talented poet I am sure we will see more of." - Helen Vitoria, Poet and Editor-In-Chief of Thrush Poetry Journal/ Thrush Press For forthcoming titles or to book a reading visit www.tiffanychaney.com.
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