In Praise of Detours
Empty nesting, pandemic isolation, grief and healing, race and racism, family joy, depression, all through a boots-on-the-ground faith perspective are encompassed in Rachel Landrum Crumble's collection. Advance purchase at discount for a limited time: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/in-praise-of-detours-rachel-landrum-crumble/
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Rachel Landrum Crumble is a life-long poet and retired teacher. Sister Sorrow (Finishing Line Press 2022) was her first poetry book. She has an MFA from Vermont College. Over the course of her career, she has received scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vermont College Post-Graduate Poetry Manuscript Workshop, and Vermont Studio Center. For her current work on a novel, she was accepted to The GoodLit Writers Retreat. She and her husband, a jazz drummer, are Yankee transplants to Chattanooga, Tennessee where they have raised three children as an interracial couple. They have three grandchildren. [Find her on Substack @rachellandrumcrumble or at poetteachermom.com.]

Sister Sorrow 
Poems in this collection span 37 years and have been published in Southern Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Typishly, Reed Magazine, Sanskrit, Stickman Review, Rio Grande Review, and anthologized in Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace. Rachel Landrum Crumble writes as a survivor of her mother’s schizophrenia and suicide, as a Yankee transplant married to a black man who raised biracial children in the South, as a woman baffled by institutional chauvinism, and as a believer who dignifies depression, doubt and grief as a gateway to wisdom. Purchase at: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sister-sorrow-by-rachel-landrum-crumble/