The Writers' Collective

I love this picture ’cause she’s holding a hammer. More poets should hold hand tools in their bio pics. I am inspired! My next pic will have to involve a machete i think! you think?

I am most looking forward to this Speaking Crow and hearing more from the poet and fiction writer who wrote some very divine poetry like,

“So we sit here, over the darkness,
over the rippling black water
where unsteady stars waver.
We wait for trains.”

and this,

“We take our turns at the window, staring
at the cottonwood grove across the river
noting the casual sway and flicker of leaves
when the wind combs through.”

ok one more,

“My silence seems inevitable

as if I cannot afford to give anything away.

As if I have given it all already, given it to you”

~Go and checky her website for more info… and come out to Aqua Books on August 3rd!!

Michelle Elrick is a poet and fiction writer from British Columbia and Manitoba. Growing up on a mountain overlooking the Fraser Valley contributed to a sense of perspective that has continued to develop in her writing. Now on Canada’s great plain, she lives in an attic overlooking the rooftops of Winnipeg. Her first book, a collection of poems titled To Speak, was published by The Muses’ Company in 2010. In addition, her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, Event and other magazines, and performed at festivals and events in Vancouver, Winnipeg, London, Kingston and Belfast. She is currently deep in a second draft of her novel, Dust House, surfacing on occasion to play the banjo and walk the dog.