Author Archives: Virginia Crawford

Good morning, and happy June! Yesterday I did something I haven’t done for almost a year and a half. I saw a film in a theater with my family. It was such an odd feeling – one part anxiety, one part excitement, and one part oh-yeah-I-remember-this. Discussing the film on the way home was almostContinue reading “New Again”

I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to finally have them in the world, to see other people with them, to read the poems to others! The events I’ve had so far have been wonderful in a way that’s hard to describe. Even though they’ve been virtual and not at all what I hadContinue reading “Books…”

My favorite poem by Lucille Clifton: the mississippi river runs into the gulf and the gulf enters the sea and so forth,none of them emptying anything,all of them carrying yesterdayforever on their white tipped backs,all of them dragging forward tomorrow.it is the great circulationof the earth’s body, like the bloodof the gods, this river inContinue reading “every water”

Between the virus and the cost of travel, we haven’t seen each other recently. But spring is here, medical science is finding new ways to keep people healthy, it’s almost April-National Poetry Month, and my book, questions for water, will appear in just a few weeks! I’m thrilled to finally have a full-length book coming out. It’s taken severalContinue reading “Too Long and Almost”

Here we are, Publication Day. questions for water is officially available in the world. That is such a wild and fabulous thing! It’s taken me so long to get here, and my copies haven’t arrived yet, so it still feels un-real. I hope you will join me in celebrating this Friday evening at 7 pmContinue reading “Today! April 5, 2021”

Magic-ing is tough. It requires so much of us. Faith in ourselves – that we have something worth magic-ing into existence, as well as hope that there will be magic enough for someone somewhere at some time to find and connect through it. And at the same time, it’s impossible not to “magic.” That wouldContinue reading “Magic Anyway”

Winter Welcome Hello and Welcome! Here in the Mid-Atlantic, we have the chance of snow every day for a week. That’s pretty unusual. And I’m delighted. I’ve always loved snow — one form of water — for its ability to magically transform our familiar landscapes as well as cancel school and sometimes work. At leastContinue reading