Last night I couldn’t sleep. This morning, I was thumbing through a notebook, from 2004, and I found this poem by Elaine Sexton. I had copied it out without noting where I found it. On-line, I learned that it was first published in American Poetry Review. Rethinking Regret Let’s thank our mistakes, let’s bless them […]
Seattle’s poetry bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, invites you to stop by after hours on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, August 26, 27, and 28, 2016, to say goodbye and thank you to longtim… Source: say goodbye, say hello
This past week a friend of mine invited me to go to Portland and write poetry. My mother was stable, my kiddo was home from camp and getting caught up on her on-line classes. My husband would have to do without me for only three days and two nights. We were staying at my friend’s […]
A friend was confiding in me about a situation in her life that deeply upsets her. She is a poet — a genius of a poet — so, while I tried to be a good listener and not jump in with personal advice, I asked her if she’s tried writing about it. “Not yet,” she […]