In my rapacious search for poems to send out (yes — I made it to 50 submissions!) I came across many old poems, plus notices that a few had been published elsewhere already and needed to be removed from the send-out file. Here’s to better organization in the future. This poem appeared at Escape into […]
I saw this image at my friend’s blog earlier in the week. It’s perfect for a writer at Christmas…or anytime, now that I think about it.
Last night Emma and I saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and we thought it was epic. And heart-breaking. But as always happens when a writer watches a movie (at least it always happens to me), I found myself thinking about what got me invested in each character — especially Jyn and Cassian, and Cassian’s […]
Some Reasons Why I Became a Poet Because I wanted to undo each stitch in time, unravel the nine seams that inhibit remembering; because I wanted to roll a stone with such tenderness that moss would grow & hold light on all sides at once; because I wanted to teach every old dog I saw […]