Next up, Glass Cabin Exhibition at the Syd Blackmarr Arts Center, in Collaboration with Artist Michael Johnson —

Below is a list of the places where Tina and I will be reading, signing books, and yes, occasionally dancing on our Glass Cabin Tour. If you’re interested in having us dance and read at your place, or give a creative writing workshop, send us an email at southverve at gmail.com. We were asked to put together a playlist for our reading at Pink Porch Market, which took me back to my high school cassette-making days. Check it out and check back here for times and places as our dance card gets filled in —

ORDER of DANCES

The Syd Blarckmarr Arts Center — Glass Cabin Exhibition, a Collaboration with Artist Michael Johnson — May 13 – 24, 2026 — Tifton Council for the Arts — Tifton, Georgia

University of Montevallo — Wednesday, April 8, 2026 — Montevallo, Alabama

True Story Brewing Company — Sunday, March 1, 2026 — The Quorum Poets Present — Birmingham, Alabama

Thank You Bookshop — Sunday, September 7, 2025 at 2pm — with poet Jennifer Horne — Birmingham, Alabama

Vespers Poetry — Thursday, July 24, 2025 — Detroit, Michigan

StickBuilt — Thursday, May 20, 2025 — Birmingham, Alabama

CCC — Thursday, April 10, 2025 — Huntsville, Alabama

H.E. Francis Readers and Writers Festival — Saturday, April 5, 2025 — UAH — Huntsville, Alabama

Sharon and Steve’s Place — Sunday, March 23, 2025 — Blount County, Alabama

Monroeville Literary Festival — Saturday, March 1, 2025 — Monroeville, Alabama

University of West Alabama — Wednesday, February 13, 2025 — Livingston, Alabama

Hoover Public Library — Sunday, December 15, 2024 — Hoover, Alabama

Denison University — Thursday, November 21, 2024 — Granville, Ohio

Pinch Gut Creek — Sunday, November 10, 2024 — Trussville, Alabama

Birmingham Arts Journal Reception and Reading — Sunday, October 27, 2024 — Leeds, Alabama

Solar Tour Alabama — Saturday, October 5, 2024 — Blount County, Alabama

Southern Exposure Films Premiere — Friday, September 27, 2024 — Birmingham, Alabama

Standard Deluxe — Thursday, September 12, 2024 — Waverly, Alabama

Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers — Wednesday, September 11, 2024 — Auburn, Alabama

Opelika Public Library — Tuesday, September 10, 2024 — Opelika, Alabama

AWC Conference — Saturday, September 7, 2024 — Orange Beach, Alabama

Harding University — Thursday, August 22, 2024 — Searcy, Arkansas

Wednesday Night Poetry — Wednesday, August 21, 2024 — Hot Springs, Arkansas

page and pallete — Saturday, August 3, 2024 — Fairhope, Alabama

Water Is Life — Tuesday, July 30, 2024 — Summer Reading Zoom Talk Series, Alabama Rivers Alliance

The NewSouth Bookstore— Thursday, July 25, 2024 — Montgomery, Alabama

The Birmingham Newcomers — Tuesday, July 16, 2024 — Hoover, Alabama

Pink Porch Market — Thursday, May 23, 2024 — Oneonta, Alabama

Plenty Downtown Bookshop — Monday, May 6, 2024 as part of Sawmill Poetry — Cookeville, Tennessee

Vickey’s Place — Sunday, April 28, 2024 — the Banks of Big Canoe Creek

Wednesday Night Poetry — Wednesday, April 24, 2024 — virtual reading

Thank You Books — Sunday, April 21, 2024 — Birmingham, Alabama

Many thanks to Jackie Trimble for interviewing Tina and me for Salvation South. And many thanks to Andy Fogle and Chuck Reese for publishing the interview and featuring two of our new poems.

Glass Cabin has been named Southern Literary Review’s 2024 Poetry Book of the Year. Thanks to everyone at SLR for this honor!

Glass Cabin has been named one of the best books of 2024 by Alabama Writers’ Forum. You can find a review in their current issue of First Draft. Thank you AWF!

Many thanks to Simmons Buntin and everyone at Terrain.org for Stutter-Step: Poetry, Prose + Window Views, an excerpt from Glass Cabin. The excerpt includes artwork by Dan Shafer from the book as well as readings by Tina and me of the poems.
 

UAB Magazine features Glass Cabin in its fall issue. Many thanks to the folks at UAB’s Central Communications for writing the story and for coming out to the cabin to take photos in the hot summer.

AWF has posted a review of Glass Cabin. An excerpt is below, but you can read the full review here.

Wanted to share this review of Glass Cabin in the Daily Yonder. Below is an excerpt. You can read the full article here.

Southern Literary Review has posted a review of Glass Cabin. Below is an excerpt. You can read the full review here.

Glass Cabin is out in the world today! Just want to thank Pulley Press and all the wonderful people there who helped make this book. Pulley Press’s mission is to publish and celebrate rural poets. The poems in Glass Cabin chronicle the thirteen years Tina and I have spent building our home and living on Hydrangea Ridge.

I’m excited to say that Pulley Press contracted Tina and me to write a book of poems about living in our glass cabin. The book has just been published, and you can now order Glass Cabin.

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Building the cabin continues. Slowly. Everything we do is by hand. If you’re interested in knowing more about our life as writers, beekeepers, first-time builders and homesteaders, tadpole raisers, meadow makers, hawk watchers, and native plant propagators, you can go to my blog, Glass Cabin Diary, or you can go to our Instagram @glasscabindiary.

“Necessary Weight, Necessary Time” is the essay Tina and I wrote for What Things Cost: an anthology for the people: (University of Kentucky Press, release date March 7). Our essay is about the power and ache of work in our lives. We are very proud to be part of this wonderful book that is a fundraiser for the Poor People’s Campaign.

After the pandemic, Tina and I visited places and read from our books, This Ditch-Walking Love and Known by Salt. We’re grateful to the people who had us out and the audiences that attended. Below is the record of places. The Salt Love Tour is now over. But soon, the Glass Cabin Tour will begin.

Friday, February 23, 2024 at Triana for Smithsonian’s Crossroads: Change in Rural America

Thursday, November 9, 2023 at Jasper County High School

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Thursday, October 27, 2022 at Southern Connecticut State University

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke

Monday, October 24, 2022 at Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at The Lava Center in Greenfield

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at Kennesaw State University

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at Harding University

Monday, February 28, 2022 at Hendrix College

Thursday, February 24, 2022 at Ferus Brewing