Priscilla Long

Priscilla Long’s latest book is Cartographies of Home: Poems. Forthcoming is a collection of essays, On Spaces and Colors. She is author of two other books of poetry, a book on thriving while aging, a collection of memoirist essays titled Fire and Stone, the how-to guides Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators and The Writer’s Portable Mentor, as well as Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry.

What Do Worms Want?

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday November 16, 2011

Ocean

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday November 9, 2011

Dogs and Us

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday November 2, 2011

Beauty and the Blue Bottle Fly

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 26, 2011

Small Is Beautiful

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 19, 2011

Coal Is a Rock That Burns

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 12, 2011

When Bugs Were Bigger

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 5, 2011

Endless Arms Most Beautiful

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 28, 2011
Seattle library interior

The Red Room

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 21, 2011

The Moon

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 14, 2011

Family Trees

By Priscilla Long | Monday March 2, 2026

Electrons That Bind

By Priscilla Long | Monday March 3, 2025

Imperiled Planet

By Priscilla Long | Tuesday September 3, 2024

We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

By Priscilla Long | Thursday June 1, 2023
A picture of the moon

Ten Sights (I Wish I’d Seen)

By Priscilla Long | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Becoming a Poet

By Priscilla Long | Monday August 29, 2016

How Chemistry Became Biology

By Priscilla Long | Monday December 7, 2015

What Killed My Sister?

By Priscilla Long | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Remembering Steve

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday July 3, 2013

Till We Meet Again

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday June 26, 2013

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