Patricia A. Oplinger received 3rd Place in the Grand Conference Award II for her personal essay “Love Gives Itself”; 2nd Place in the Village Writers of Hot Springs Village Award for her essay “The Teacher Who Was Most Influential in My Life”, at the 68th Annual Arkansas Writers' Conference in Little Rock on June 1-2, 2012 where her speech, “Words: Powerful, Playful, Persuasive” was well received.
Each person is but a grain of sand resting beside the sea. This thought sets the tone for Jill Eisnaugle’s latest poetry collection, Beside Still Waters.
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
