Poetic Journeys
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Traveling to different countries has been poetry in itself. Each new spice. Each new face. Each new way of living. The colors in other countries, like the primary colors of doors in Ireland and the earthy colors of Mexico--I long for these in this city of engineers (bless their hearts; they can't help it). But I carry all those colors with me, and all the fabrics and scents of houses and the beauty of other cultures, other beliefs, and landscapes of sunflowers and poppies, and in the distance, the shine of the Mediterranean Sea.
When I first came across Bonnie Roberts's work . . . I was absolutely, immediately exhilarated with the same kind of exhilaration as when I first opened Neruda, a sense of a whole landscape singing through a person. ”
—Paula Meehan, Irish poet, her comment on the back of Roberts's first collection, To Hide in the Light.
About Bonnie
Both my parents were teachers, who met at the University of AL. My mother eventually taught 2nd-grade reading; my father taught math, history, and political science. To improve his income, he later became a seller of insurance, not something he liked, but...
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Causes Bonnie Roberts Supports
The Southern Poverty Law Center, The National Resource Defense Council, The ACLU, Doctors without Borders, Save Darfur
Bonnie’s Favorite Books
To Kill a Mockingbird; The Poisonwood Bible; The Star Thrower; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Leaves of Grass; Les...