Name: Porch Posts
SKU: PORC
Price: 30.50 USD
Availability: InStock

Porch Posts

$30.50

Diane Marquart Moore is a poet, journalist, book author, and blogger at “A Word’s Worth,” who divides her time between Sewanee, Tennessee and New Iberia, Louisiana. She is a regular contributor to the Pinyon Review, has published in The Southwestern Review at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, Interdisciplinary Humanities, The Xavier Review, Acadiana Profile Magazine, American Weave, Louisiana Historical Review, Trace, and other literary journals. In 2017, she was featured on a panel of poets at the Louisiana Book Festival and read from A Slow Moving Stream. She has been an Associate Editor for Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine, New Iberia, Louisiana, feature writer and columnist for The Daily Iberian, as well as a feature writer and book reviewer for The Yaddasht Haftegy in Ahwaz, Iran during the reign of the Shahanshah.
Janet Faulk is a native of southeast Alabama and has lived most of her adult life in the Acadiana region of South Louisiana, where she currently lives with her husband Rudy Gonzales. Her books are collections of personal essays—The Road Home,(2009) and Porch Posts (2014) written with Diane Marquart Moore, a novel, Southern Cross.

Description

Porch Posts by Diane Marquart Moore and Janet Faulk-Gonzales is a book to delight inveterate porch sitters, people who enjoy relaxing and meditating on a small porch or sitting with families and friends on Victorian style verandahs, telling stories and “taking the air.” These essays by two southern women who have long extolled the virtues of porch sitting include descriptions of various porches, stories told on, or centered around, the porches of childhood and later life. The vignettes are set on porches ranging from those fronting southern homes to two international porches in Iran and Qatar, from contemporary glass porches to the porches of Acadian history. The vignettes are quaint—some humorous, some tragic—but all should incite memories of good times and relaxed hours “just porch sitting.” The cover is a photograph of glass work rendered by Karen Bourque of Church Point, Louisiana, and the text includes eight whimsical illustrations by Paul Schexnayder of New Iberia, Louisiana. Porch Posts is also available in eBook format from Amazon for $3.49. Published 2014.