Rachel Landrum Crumble’s latest poetry collection, In Praise of Detours (Main Street Rag), is available for advance purchase at a discounted rate.

About 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 newest collection. 

Praise for In Praise of Detours

It is evident from this collection’s first poem that this is a body of work crafted with heart, wisdom, spirit, and witness. Across four sections, Crumble interrogates the human condition, old and new America, race and racism, and more. In Praise of Detours is not just a beautiful book but a necessary one that announces to the reader that family, faith, the country, and this very life are things one must always fight for.
—Christian J. Collier, author of Greater Ghost

In Praise of Detours (Main Street Rag), is now available for pre-order.

About the Author

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.]