The Tribal Knot
Rebecca'a newest nonfiction book, The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change is now available from Indiana University Press and Amazon.
New craft essay just published...
"(Small) World Without End: From Me-More to Memoir" in Soundings, Spring 2013
More essays just published...
"Things Gone the Way of Time" in Brevity
"Adopt a Bench" in The Sun
Upcoming Workshops
Apply now for Rebecca's spring/summer workshops
Just published...
Kenyon Review interview with Rebecca
Word Painting Available on Kindle
Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively is now available as a Kindle edition.
Garrison Keillor reads Rebecca's poem "Autobiography of the Cab Driver..."
"The shortest distance between two points is always under construction."
Deep Light: New and Selected Poems
- Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review
The eighty-seven poems in Deep Light have been selected and arranged to create a continuous, unified text. Like McClanahan’s description of gray doves “tipping across the gravel/ their shadows pumping before them,” the poems move forward in an alternating dance of light and shade.
In the brightest places of our world, suggests this poet, grief and loss cast their shadows. But even in the darkest places, light makes its way.
Published by Iris Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-916078-99-7 (paperback)
Selections from Deep Light
- Watching My Parents Sleeping... read by Garrison Keillor
- Autobiography of the Cab Driver read by Garirson Keillor
- Visit with the Newlyweds read by Garrison Keillor
- Teaching A Nephew To Type read by Garrison Keillor
- My Father's Cadillac read by Rebecca McClanahan
- To the Absent Wife... read by Rebecca McClanahan
Read and Listen
- A Conversation with Rebecca McClanahan from The Kenyon Review On genre crossing, violent revisions, and writing from joy- the last taboo.
- Review by Judith Kitchen in The Georgia Review