Author: Leanne Phillips

Poem: Evening, McAbee Beach

Monterey Bay teems. I have loved beaches and oceans up and down California’s coast all of my life, but none, to me, is so alive as this. I stand raw before it, fresh-faced, broken, watching its colors change. Cream froth at its edge, like a tatting of lace, then sand, […]

Poem in WordFest Anthology: “Evening, McAbee Beach”

I was honored to have a poem, “Evening, McAbee Beach,” published in the 2019 WordFest Anthology . The theme of this year’s anthology is water. I wrote this particular poem while visiting one of my favorite spots on Cannery Row in Monterey, California. WordFest is a part of the annual […]