Two Fine Crows Books

10/31/2024

Thank you to Verse Daily for featuring "Reversing the Spell" today! And for including the recording too!
One of my favorite poems, and a moment when I knew I was truly free of the abuser.

Ruth Thompson

09/04/2024

JOIN US!
Diane Gilliam, George Ella Lyon, Melva Sue Priddy, and Ruth Thompson

"HOW WE RENSHI “ – POEMS AND CONVERSATION

Time: Sep 29, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time

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What is Renshi?
Renshi is a Japanese collaborative poetry practice. The traditional renshi makes its way around a circle of poets. The first poet writes a poem and sends it to the second. The second poet uses the last line of the received poem as their title. And so on around the circle. Each poet is free with regard to rhyme, meter, and other technical, tonal and thematic choices. Our renshi group (George Ella Lyon, Melva Sue Priddy, Ruth Thompson and I) made some changes to the traditional renshi. Rather than one to one to one, each week we all respond to anyone’s poems, and rather than limiting the renshi to "last line becomes title," we respond to content, lift words, borrow a title or a shape – whatever has opened a door for us. We don’t critique in our renshi group. The generative inspiration and the companionship are what matter most to us.
Diane Gilliam

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08/23/2024

Reposting this with new email contact info. To register, please email [email protected]. Looking forward to Philip Terman and Keith Walker on October 6!

08/21/2024

This is going to be SUCH a terrific reading series! Thanks to poet and host extraordinaire Philip Terman and the great 2024 line-up: Keith Walker, Jendi Reiter, Donald Mengay, Amy Holman, Dane Cervine, Maria Williams, & Jessamyn Smyth. Save the dates & watch for more information coming soon!

07/18/2024

Wow! I am thrilled to have received a Publishers Weekly's BookLife review that compares Journey Bread to the work of two of my most beloved poets, Deborah Digges and Theodore Roethke.
"The poems illuminate with fairytales and birdsong both what remains and what has been forgotten. 'Memory slips away now,' Thompson reflects, 'like a fish you see moving under water, sliding past the hook.'
Tender, reflective, and finely crafted, Journey Bread baits that hook.
Takeaway: Tender poems of personal history, myth, and meditations on nature.
Comparable Titles: Deborah Digges, Theodore Roethke."
The review will appear in Publishers Weekly's BookLife August 19, 2024.

And I will be reading that poem and others this Saturday at 4 pm eastern in Broadstone Books' monthly reading series. Here's the link to register:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Broadstone Reading Stage featuring Michel Steven Krug, Harry Moore, & Ruth Thompson. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

03/24/2024

So happy to announce:
JOURNEY BREAD, by Ruth Thompson
Coming in July from Broadstone Books!

"This is a wonderful book!" – Frank X. Gaspar

Here's a poem:

Pay No Attention to That Poet Behind the Curtain

The naked Oz in her birthday suit
wishes it were Mae West’s.
But too late.

What if she took off her feathers?
No more sleight of hand.
No more special effects.
No more Poet, radiant and magnetic.

What then?
That’s what she wonders.
Is she just full of it (snake oil, hot air)
?

Yet her balloon seems to have landed
in a world of magic.
(No feathers, but lots of green.)

Here's the question: over the Rainbow
does even the Dust Bowl
become an occasion for grace?
And what if the ruby slippers
crack?

Mae just shrugs her shoulder.
"I used to be Snow White. But I drifted."

She slips off a fur, winks at the cameraman.

"Here's a tip, kid. Don't be in so much of a hurry
to get back to Kansas."

11/13/2021

I'll be talking with the extraordinary poet Diane Gilliam, author of Kettle Bottom and Dreadful Wind & Rain, about new ways of being a poet suggested by the Quickwater Oracles messages, this Sunday, November 14th, at 4:00 pm eastern. I hope you will join us.
When: Nov 14, 2021 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
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11/06/2021

Join Tania Pryputniewicz and Ruth Thompson today for conversation, tarot, and reading from Quickwater Oracles!

When: Nov 6, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Join Ruth and Tania for a conversation about Quickwater Oracles, a Heart's Compass Tarot reading for Quickwater, and Ruth's reading of some oracles from the book.

07/11/2021

07/11/2021

07/11/2021

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Forthcoming Books COMING IN DECEMBER 2021 Quickwater Oracles: Conversations & Meditations by Ruth Thompson PRESS KIT / MEDIA KIT PRE-ORDER HERE When award-winning poet Ruth Thompson decided to learn to channel in 2018, she wanted to deepen the intuitive connections with nature that inspired her p...

06/02/2021

COMING IN DECEMBER!

02/12/2021

If the tarot is a journey of the soul, then Heart’s Compass Tarot is its indispensable guide.

—William Haigwood, author and creator of The Counterculture Tarot

FROM TANIA PRYPUTNIEWICZ'S WEBSITE:
Come out on Valentine's Day and celebrate a labor of love, a book meant to open your heart to the world of tarot and your own inner gifts. The Heart’s Compass Tarot book launch promises a beautiful conversation with moderator and publisher Ruth Thompson (Two Fine Crows Books), yours truly, and three wonderful Heart's Compass contributors (Carrie, Gillian and Lisa) discussing our tarot journeys and tarot art this coming Sunday, February 14, at 1 pm PST / 2 pm MT / 4 pm EST. Here’s a direct link to the Facebook Live event; we will host it on the Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing page. No need to pre-register, but if you RSVP for the event, Facebook will alert you as we go live: Heart's Compass Tarot Book Launch https://www.facebook.com/events/168817814606411

01/11/2021