Sally Thomas joins Donald for another installment of the Doomer Optimism Literary Hour. They discuss her novel Works of Mercy, American poetry past and present, homeschooling, and family life.

Sally Thomas is a poet and fiction writer, and author of two poetry collections, Motherland and the forthcoming Among the Living, both from Able Muse Press. Her novel, Works of Mercy, was published in 2022 by Wiseblood Books, and a short-story collection, The Blackbird and Other Stories is coming from the same publisher in the summer of 2024. With Micah Mattix, she co-edited an anthology, Christian Poetry in America Since 1940, which received Christianity Today’s 2023 Book Award in Culture and the Arts. As associate poetry editor for the New York Sun, she contributes regularly to the weekday Poem of the Day feature. The mother of four grown children, she lives quietly in North Carolina with her husband and a dog.

Her novel is available from Wise Blood Books: https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p123/Works-of-Mery-by-Sally-Thomas.html