Luanne Castle: Poetry and Other Words (and cats!)

Three of the poems in my not-yet-published book, Hunting the Cosmos, have been published in this month’s issue of Verse-Virtual.

The gardener and I went to a Halloween party over the weekend. Our costumes were meant to be Marie de France and her Unknown Lover. Unknown because nobody even knows Marie’s identity, just that she was the first female poet of France, living in the 12th century.

Here she is in an illuminated manuscript:

Among other texts, Marie wrote one of the early Arthurian t...

Today I attended the local authors book fair at Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was a good day but I am going to crash now because the fluorescents were intense. I wore my hat and half the time I also wore my migraine glasses which look like dark sunglasses and probably put some people off. But this was hard for me with the vestibular migraines (think of the...