This Saturday I’m teaching a class — Writing the Creative Chakras — with my friend Margaret Riordan, and I think I’m having a panic attack. When I was a new teacher, I had a mentor who told me, “Teaching is easy: you go in the first day of class and teach your students every thing […]
Any excuse to share a Ted Kooser poem. Last September, at Litfuse, I took a workshop with poet Samuel Green about working with images. He shared poems that were numbered haiku-like stanzas all dealing with a single abstraction (love, for instance). Similes and metaphors scattered over the pages and swayed through the air as we […]
It’s still Mother’s Day (for a couple more hours) so I wanted to post a link to a new anthology with both a print and an on-line component in which my poems will appear — along with many other really wonderful poets worth visiting, or revisiting. Click on this link — All We Can Hold — to […]
I am a featured poet at EIL (Escape Into Life) this week, for their Mother’s Day special, and you really MUST visit. I love Hannah Stephenson’s opening poem, “Smash Cake.” My poem, “Making a Bed,” which some of you have already seen, is also included in this selection of words and pictures.