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6 Local Atlanta Sweet Spots Not to be Missed

With Valentine’s Day approaching, I curated a selection of local sweet spots not to be missed in Atlanta. From bespoke cookies to traditional southern desserts, this list of go-to places is crafted to satisfy your sweetest of cravings. Dive into the world of flavors and celebrate the day of love ...

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An Epicurean Journey through Luxembourg

Luxembourg, a small landlocked country in Western Europe, is possibly best known for being one of the world's wealthiest nations. A founding member of the European Union, Luxembourg City, is a UNESCO World Heritage site with medieval fortifications, as well as a major financial hub and home to many ...

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”Erin Ganaway gives us a world seen through the dual lens of grief and praise. She sees this world clearly, and she renders it in textured language that compels us to feel the words as we understand them. This is the work of the poet. In this moving collection, Ganaway has done that work well.”

– Judson Mitcham

The Classic Darling
2021-11-24T06:37:56-05:00
”Erin Ganaway gives us a world seen through the dual lens of grief and praise. She sees this world clearly, and she renders it in textured language that compels us to feel the words as we understand them. This is the work of the poet. In this moving collection, Ganaway has done that work well.” – Judson Mitcham



“Erin Ganaway’s The Waiting Girl is one of the freshest poetry collections I have read in a long time. Brimming with dynamic turns of phrase, rich imagery, and sophisticated honesty, Ganaway’s debut collection explores dichotomies of the visible landscapes she inhabits—Appalachian Georgia and Cape Cod, Massachusetts—and the bipolarities of inner, psychological landscapes. A significant new voice in contemporary poetry, Erin Ganaway stuns with both delicacy and subtle violence, poems of raw energy and meticulous craftsmanship. The Waiting Girl reveals a poet of genuine giftedness, one who will endure.”

—William Wright

The Classic Darling
2021-11-24T06:35:35-05:00
“Erin Ganaway’s The Waiting Girl is one of the freshest poetry collections I have read in a long time. Brimming with dynamic turns of phrase, rich imagery, and sophisticated honesty, Ganaway’s debut collection explores dichotomies of the visible landscapes she inhabits—Appalachian Georgia and Cape Cod, Massachusetts—and the bipolarities of inner, psychological landscapes. A significant new voice in contemporary poetry, Erin Ganaway stuns with both delicacy and subtle violence, poems of raw energy and meticulous craftsmanship. The Waiting Girl reveals a poet of genuine giftedness, one who will endure.” —William Wright



“Erin Ganaway’s poems are as emotionally deep as they are clear-cut and precise at the surface. The elegiac poems of Memories of Green offer their readers an almanac of loss, an atlas of grief, and yet, in their close attention to the natural world (both inner and outer), a calendar of celebration. They condense the complex collateral damage surrounding a suicide, the memories and regrets and moments of providentially heightened awareness, into a poetry of pure presence.”

– R. H. W. Dillard

The Classic Darling
2021-11-24T05:58:26-05:00
“Erin Ganaway’s poems are as emotionally deep as they are clear-cut and precise at the surface. The elegiac poems of Memories of Green offer their readers an almanac of loss, an atlas of grief, and yet, in their close attention to the natural world (both inner and outer), a calendar of celebration. They condense the complex collateral damage surrounding a suicide, the memories and regrets and moments of providentially heightened awareness, into a poetry of pure presence.” – R. H. W. Dillard




 “In these precise poems, at once bold and vulnerable, Erin Ganaway takes us to the interior of the constructed, fragmented self of ‘the waiting girl’ through landscapes that envelop, tear, and would toss her out.  In the action of tracing lineage and of seeing the sensory details of diverse settings, these poems enact uncertainty that the combinations alive in the speaker will finally make their own whole, and yet we are left with some confidence that this is so: ‘. . .through the froth / I can follow the sun’s porthole / to a lighter place, // surfacing, piercing through, / like the lone survivor.’  The journey of these poems shimmers with wonder, a wonder to behold.”

— Cathryn Hankla


The Classic Darling
2021-11-24T05:55:52-05:00
 “In these precise poems, at once bold and vulnerable, Erin Ganaway takes us to the interior of the constructed, fragmented self of ‘the waiting girl’ through landscapes that envelop, tear, and would toss her out.  In the action of tracing lineage and of seeing the sensory details of diverse settings, these poems enact uncertainty that the combinations alive in the speaker will finally make their own whole, and yet we are left with some confidence that this is so: ‘. . .through the froth / I can follow the sun’s porthole / to a lighter place, // surfacing, piercing through, / like the lone survivor.’  The journey of these poems shimmers with wonder, a wonder to behold.” — Cathryn Hankla

”Erin Ganaway‘s Memories of Green reflects a complex mind, both elegiac and celebratory, dark and illuminating. Ganaway is unafraid of subtle ornament: her words—particularly her verbs—compel the reader’s imagination into new territories, just as she illumines the depths of her own seasonal experience in a deeply imaginal and imaginative way. In Ganaway’s world, experience does not equal mere transcription, but the challenge of finding  connective tissues that both freight and lighten human experience. Metaphors are always surprising, and aural imagery blooms beyond the page, as do other imageries, creating half-lives that allow her poems to reside in the mind long after they are read. You will “see in the hemlock the green hands of a compass, not the chalice of a philosopher’s end, but life embracing life” in this book, a beautiful addition to Ganaway’s growing body of poetry, a poetry I consider important to American letters.”


– William Wright

The Classic Darling
2021-11-24T05:52:23-05:00
”Erin Ganaway‘s Memories of Green reflects a complex mind, both elegiac and celebratory, dark and illuminating. Ganaway is unafraid of subtle ornament: her words—particularly her verbs—compel the reader’s imagination into new territories, just as she illumines the depths of her own seasonal experience in a deeply imaginal and imaginative way. In Ganaway’s world, experience does not equal mere transcription, but the challenge of finding  connective tissues that both freight and lighten human experience. Metaphors are always surprising, and aural imagery blooms beyond the page, as do other imageries, creating half-lives that allow her poems to reside in the mind long after they are read. You will “see in the hemlock the green hands of a compass, not the chalice of a philosopher’s end, but life embracing life” in this book, a beautiful addition to Ganaway’s growing body of poetry, a poetry I consider important to American letters.” – William Wright
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