Every story begins with an experience

Elizabeth McBride writes poetry, prose, essays; and children’s poetry, picture books, and middle-grade literature, from the heart of Michigan. With 22 years’ experience running a large elementary school library, and a background in Psychology, Family Studies, Prevention, and Trauma and Loss in Children, Mrs. McBride is drawn to both the wonders of the outdoor world and complex characters that exemplify the endearing and the humorous sides of living.

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Most Beautiful

A collection of poems, prose, and paintings inspired by the village of Glen Arbor, Michigan and the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, voted “Most Beautiful Place in America” in 2011. Elizabeth McBride’s poetry and prose invites you to bear witness to the wonder of that which surrounds us. Whether you enjoy this book right where you are, or bring it with you to take your own poetic tour of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and its surrounding regions, you can match the cited locations to the poems and prose they inspired, and experience what is here, what was here before you, and what is changing right beneath your feet and overhead.

The Value of Poetry

In this time of instability and nervous grasping at “facts,” there can be a hurried disdain for that which is not perceived to be functionally able to create change. But actions are driven by responses to perception, and how much of what Read More

Landscapes of Poetry Third Annual Holiday Reading

Jack Ridl and his Landscapes of Poetry group offered a Holiday Reading hosted by Jack on December 14th. The following poems were part of the evening: Christmas Wishes What I wish you to receive is the Permission to be you, in all Read More

Aid for the People of the Ukraine – “Busy Griefs, Raw Towns,” AVAILABLE NOW!

“Busy Griefs, Raw Towns,” is a collection of poets’ responses to the war in the Ukraine. It is edited by GF Korreck and is now available! Published by Schuler Books, all proceeds from the sale of the book are forwarded to the Read More

"...the writer's ending is, for the reader, always a beginning."
— Krista Tippett
"I have come to love questions more than answers, for it is in our seeking that we are most alive, most open, most willing to come to new understanding."
— Elizabeth S.E. McBride
"The expansiveness that comes from thinking someone else's thoughts and seeing through someone else's eyes is the chief gift bestowed by the written word."
— Baba Brinkman
"...if you listen carefully, as you read, you'll hear a voice whispering to you gently: "you are not alone."
— Samantha Cristoforetti
“What you read becomes part of your human adventure, the world you will make with your words and your life.”
— Krista Tippett
“There is a sweetness in being blindsided by life, by truth, by a dark corner suddenly illumined. There is sheer joy in epiphany.”
— James Calvin Schaap
“…we seek an enlargement of being…We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as our own.”
— C. S. Lewis
“To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know. Thus, creative writing requires a real act of trust.”
— Henri Nouwen
“Editing is when you get to play with someone in the sandbox of language.”
— Joe Morgenstern
“We take great care with our words, for they are meant to get into our bloodstream.”
— Richard Foster
“Cherish your curiosity. It is your questions that will shape you.”
— David Delgado
“Every day I walk out into the world to be dazzled, then to be reflective.”
— Mary Oliver
“Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us”
— Henri Nouwen
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
— Virginia Woolf