When I attended the Stringtown reading a few weeks ago, I exchanged books with two other poets. A few days later, poet Koon Woon asked if I would like to see a review of my book in the on-line journal Five Willows. I am very, very pleased to share it with you. (Click on the […]
At last night’s workshop, Shawna and her students didn’t need to talk about resistance. They brought notebooks and pens! They also brought up some additional important points about keeping a journal, and they jogged my mind to come up with a couple others. Don’t worry about spelling, grammar, or penmanship. Just write. Writing in a […]
This evening I am taking a class on “Mindful Living” from my friend Shawna Michels, and I get to talk for a few minutes about keeping a journal. I think I can credit Heather Sellers with the denigration of that phrase “keeping a journal.” She said (somewhere) that she didn’t want a “kept journal,” that […]
I’ll be reading poetry tonight in Wallingford — just on the open mike, J. I. Kleinberg is the featured reader — and you may as well come along. (Follow this link to learn more: http://easyspeakseattle.com/welcome-2/previous-featured-artists/j-i-kleinberg/) I assume there will be some tributes to northwest poet Carolyn Kizer, who died last week at the age of […]