Tim Carmichael
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Tim is an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. He writes about rural life, family, and the places he grew up around. His poetry and essays have appeared in Bloodroot and Coal Dust, his latest book.
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The Letters to Eleanor
Every evening, as the sun set, Anna sat by the window with a stack of worn letters resting in her lap. The paper was yellowed, edges softened by time, the ink faded like memories drifting through her hands. Each letter bore a name in looping script. Eleanor, the name of someone who had shaped Anna’s days without ever truly existing.
By Tim Carmichael7 months ago in Fiction
The Solitude and the Discipline of Poet Sylvia Plath
People have looked at Sylvia Plath in a warped way for a long time. More often than not, she’s seen as a tragic figure instead of as a serious author. For decades, popular imagination has stuck to the image of the suicidal, confessional poet, pouring her pain onto the page. But if you dig into the archives, her drafts, her letters, lecture notes, her marked-up books, a different picture starts to form. What you see is a sharp, self-driven writer who knew that imagination alone wasn’t enough. She understood that inspiration comes when habit and intellect meet. If you go to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, where her calendars and notebooks are stored, you don’t find chaos. You find a careful, professional writer.
By Tim Carmichael7 months ago in History
At Last
The night we met, At Last by Etta James played overhead. We were at Mellow Mushroom, having dinner and getting to know each other. When that song came on, something about it felt too perfect. We both noticed. I guess to other's it was background noise, but to me it felt like a moment. Almost like it was saying what we hadn’t yet: At last, my love has finally come along.
By Tim Carmichael7 months ago in Writers
