Poetry Blog
Friday finds us at Day 3 of NaPoWriMo, where each prompt asks us to see the familiar from a different angle. Today’s challenge invites us to reshape a profession—to strip away the polished image and reveal something truer, rougher beneath it. This piece is my …
Read More April opens its doors, and with it I step into the quiet ritual of NaPoWriMo—a month of daily poems, of dusting off memory and letting it speak in its own weathered voice. Today’s challenge turns back toward childhood, toward those early moments that quietly foretold …
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April arrives… and with it, National Poetry Month. But this year, I’m not just writing—I’m revisiting. Welcome to Whiskey and Words: The Book Tour. All month long, I’ll be sharing pieces from Whiskey and the Autumn Wind and Whiskey and the Winter Wind—two seasons, two …
Read MoreThere’s a moment in every writer’s life where you stop asking, “Am I really doing this?” and start saying, “Yes. This is the phase.” I’m in my self-publishing era—and I genuinely love it. Not because it’s easy. Because it’s a forge.
Read MoreWho Is This? My name is Richard White. I’m a novelist, an MFA candidate in Creative Writing, and the founder of Whispers in the Dark Press. I write stories that live in the quiet spaces after chaos—where grief lingers, where truth fractures, where the human …
Read MoreWritten by @RWhiteAuthor There is a season when the world begins to let go gently. Leaves loosen their grip. Light softens. Even grief feels warmer in the amber hush of October. Whiskey and the Autumn Wind lives in that space—the place where loss has arrived …
Read MoreSome books ask to be finished. Others ask to be savored. Whiskey and the Autumn Wind belongs to the latter—a collection meant for slow evenings, low light, and a glass poured with intention. When a reader described the poems as something to be “sipped like a fine bourbon by a crackling fireplace,” they captured the spirit of the book perfectly. This is poetry that lingers, that speaks softly, and that stays with you long after the final page.
Read MoreRichard White’s Breakout Espionage Thriller Debut This is the story that steps out of the shadows. A black sedan disappears into a blizzard on a forgotten stretch of highway. Snow buries the wreckage. Wind scours the road clean. No skid marks. No witnesses. By morning, …
Read MoreThe wheel of the year turned like a slow tide, and here we stand at its close — rich with stories, hardened by truth, softened by grace. In the quiet places between sirens and silence, 2025 became one of reckoning and resolution. This year I …
Read MoreThe sirens fade, but the silence never does. Long after the call is over, the echoes remain—flashes of faces, voices cut short, the weight of choices that can’t be undone. We carry them into the night, into our homes, into the places where quiet should mean peace. For EMS, quiet is never just quiet—it’s the reminder of everything we’ve seen, and everything we can’t forget.”
— The Quiet After the Sirens by Richard White
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