Testimonials
“Poet Patricia Thrushart is a contributing member of Dark Horse Poets and a gifted Appalachian writer. Ralph Waldo Emerson notes that; ‘The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.’ Patricia’s poems offer a particular clarity and insight to the great mystery unfolding around us in the natural world and glimpses of the eternal beyond it. Patricia’s engaging verse unfolds into an exploration of what Goethe called the “ordinary extraordinary” that awaits us all just outside our doorstep and is truly an inspiration for the heart.
–T. Byron Kelly, Poet & Artist
Dark Horse Appalachia
“Illuminating and impeccably researched — mining archives and other primary sources to highlight the consequential life, times, and contributions of Philadelphian Gilbert Ball — this is a labor of literary love that shines in a light on a time and place in Pennsylvania and U.S. political history, where political parties, ward politics, political culture, urban life, and the press collide, constrain, and shape daily lives in a time of profound technological and social change. At the heart of it all is a citizen that merits our attention, appreciation, and further academic study.”
-Kevan M. Yenerall, Ph.D.
Professor of political science
Pennsylvania Western University
Coauthor, Seeing the Bigger Picture: American and International Politics in Film and Popular Culture
Links to Published Poetry
- Tiny Seed Nature in the Now – “March”
- Tiny Seed Nature in the Now – “The Moon and Venus”
- Shanti Arts Summer 2019 – “The Seer”
- Feminine Collective – “Message For My Daughter”
- High Shelf XIV – “The Choice”
- Poets Reading The News – “The Gem of Her Dreams”
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