Here are two lovely blurbs for my upcoming poetry collection, entitled The Meeting Place, due out May 2018, from Salmon Poetry of Ireland. It's starting to become real… In Dede Cummings' The Meeting Place, we find a writer at the height of her powers, reaching back to the past to find not only herself, but also to... Continue Reading →
Announcing the first Green Writers Press travel program for writers and readers, with a focus on incorporating a sense of place into your writing. Located between 61 and 66 degrees north latitude on the southern edge of the Arctic Ocean, Iceland is a country of dramatic extremes, where geysers and steaming lava flows coexist with... Continue Reading →
What an amazing first trip to Cuba! I'm co-leading trips occasionally and helping to find clients for my friend, Tim Weed. His Creative Travel Arts and my Green Writers Press are even going to collaborate next year on a few adventure travel trips: Iceland, Cuba, Tierra del Fuego. If you are interested in finding out... Continue Reading →
UPDATE, March 7, 2015 Our trip is filling up very quickly, and there is talk of Tim and Dede doing another one in March, 2016, so don't worry! Tim Weed, our guide, just returned from a National Geographic trip to the island, and he is really excited about our trip because he will be able... Continue Reading →
Here . . .our first day was spent being exhausted, but pretty excited to be here. We flew from JFK to Madrid to Barcelona. The airports here are works of architectural genius—in a dazed state, I found myself walking through the airport this morning at 6:00 a.m. on the glass-like black marble floors. We flew... Continue Reading →
Dede Cummings 