Stepping Off Always, in the big woods, when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new … More
Category: Here in the ‘Hood
Five of Five (Good Things)
From an interview with poet August Kleinzahler: INTERVIEWER Recently Poetry posed a question about the social utility of poetry. Does that interest … More
Fourth of Five (Good Things)
Moreland Avenue Kroger parking lot.
Third of Five (Good Things)
A neighbor “commissioned” this wall last year. The stonemason worked at his own pace, setting bits of quartz and shell into the nooks and crannies. … More
Second of Five (Good Things)
Hitchhiker, Moreland Avenue Overpass. The other sign she’s holding says: “Artist headed to New York.”
First of Five (Good Things)
“Found art,” I-20 overpass, Cherokee Avenue
Five Good Things
Five good things, I tell my daughter as she leaves for school. Because the weight of Twelve drags heavy on … More
Every Picture Tells a Story
Harvest: An Ode to Sun Golds
This morning, as I headed somewhere, car keys in one hand, iPod in the other, I found myself yanked momentarily away … More
Home.
Back in the early aughts, soon after I returned to Georgia after spending a decade elsewhere, I wrote a personal essay in which … More
Katherine L. Hester 