Richard Tillinghast

Richard Tillinghast is the author of Blue if Only I Could Tell You—his 13th collection of poems—and Journeys into the Mind of the World: A Book of Places.

A Poet of the Soil

The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity

By Richard Tillinghast | Friday September 27, 2024

The Mule on the Stairs

Remembering the school in the midcentury South where “We Shall Overcome” was born

By Richard Tillinghast | Thursday October 6, 2022

A Poet of the Soil

By Richard Tillinghast | Friday September 27, 2024

The Mule on the Stairs

By Richard Tillinghast | Thursday October 6, 2022

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