“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~ William Shakespeare
For all you poetry lovers, you might wanna pick up the latest chapbook from my good friend and major outhouse inspiration, Mary Carroll-Hackett. (In case you missed it, Mary is the primary reason the outhouse became a blog.) Mary teaches creative writing at Longwood University. I can only imagine how fired up she must leave her students after class. She is gutsy, honest, positive, and Southern as the day is long. All virtues in my book. They’re all virtues in her book, too, literally. There are few poets like Mary. Writers who lay their bloodied and bruised souls on the page waiting for the world to embrace them, or judge them cruelly. It’s pure vulnerability, like walking through a grocery store bare-assed naked the night before a snowstorm. Mary is fierce and unafraid. She changed my life, and I’m just one of many lives she has touched. That’s some positive power right there.
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