Spring 2022

And just like that—or so it seems—there’s movement. Spring symbolizes growth, newness, and hope. There’s the big stretch after winter’s slow down. And this year, the desire to make up lost time. I recently returned from a trip originally scheduled for May 2020 and have plans with family I haven’t seen since 2019. It also feels like I am unwinding into spring, re-learning how to stabilize my footing, and letting out a deep pent-up breath.

 

Anything That Happens

“I don’t know that I have ever heard of a book of poetry being called a page-turner, but I opened it when it arrived in the mail, expecting to just take a quick peek and read the rest as I had more time, and ended up sitting down and devouring it. Just gorgeous”

—More reviews at Goodreads

Good News

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Anything That Happens
Second Finalist
Poetry Society of Virginia
North American Book Award

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Listen to my interview with Peter Vankevich of WOVV 90.1 FM, Ocracoke’s Village Voice.

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the publication of Anything That Happens on WOVV radio, Ocracoke’s Village Voice. We cover topics ranging from how I began writing to how crafting poems helps in my daily life. I read two poems and talk about the book. It’s a fun and casual conversation that provides a peak into a writer’s life.

“Anything That Happens is a mature poetic inquiry into the ways early trauma can reverberate through the whole of a life—relationships, family, one’s sense of self. The poems are candid, sharp-edged and very well rendered. You can taste “the bone in the broth” here as Wilder works through the maze of emotion. In the end, we witness change and redemption, but the psychic weight remains. As she aptly describes it: ‘I am two people now— // the before and the after; one I’ve already forgotten, // the other I have not met.’” —Mark Cox, author of Readiness: Prose Poems

 

Upcoming Events

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September 9 & 10, 2022, Time TBD

Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

Reading and Discussion – Anything That Happens

From the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival website: “Our mission is to bring together, in small, intimate settings, authors, readers of all ages, novice writers, listeners, and learners. We are a festival of readers who appreciate discussing the ideas in literature.”