by Stacie Smith (Author), June Campbell Rose (Author)

June Campbell Rose and Stacie Smith first met in 1967 in East Boothbay, Maine. Smith, a photographer and poet, had traveled from Eugene, Oregon, to Maine. Rose had recently given birth to her first son, Nathan. Smith met this mother and child at the post office and wanted to take their portrait. This turned out to be a very special meeting during which time a bond was made: both were born-again poets who kept journals and notebooks, filled with their thoughts laid down, like life lines to a deeper self. Fifty years in the making, this book reveals a unique collaboration between two poets whose histories include deep roots upon opposite shores, a chance meeting, and the exchange of poems, spanning time and distance.