Happy Sunday, all! As fellow readers, book lovers, and writers, I know you have authors and books in your back pocket that you find yourself returning to… Read more “Reading David Dodd Lee”
Category: Reading
Reading Stephen King & Writing Horror Shovels
Hi friends! Happy Thursday. I hope you had a really wonderful holiday mid-week and are finding yourselves back in the full swing of things. The last… Read more “Reading Stephen King & Writing Horror Shovels”
A Quiet Return: Spending Time in the Horror Genre
Hi friends! It’s been a really long time since I posted or shared work with you, and it bothers me. I’ve still been reading and writing… Read more “A Quiet Return: Spending Time in the Horror Genre”
Poem of the Day: Ada Limón
Help me turn my mind off. Help me be more than a song. The stress like a crow’s open flame. Help me to not give up… Read more “Poem of the Day: Ada Limón”
Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio
DARKENING, THEN BRIGHTENING The sky keeps lying to the farmhouse, lining up its heavy clouds above the blue table umbrella, then launching them over the… Read more “Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio”
Poem of the Day: Kim Dower
HE SAID I WROTE ABOUT DEATH and I didn’t mean to, this was not my intent. I meant to say how I loved the birds,… Read more “Poem of the Day: Kim Dower”
(I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert
Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while again. But here I am: quiet little me, doing quiet not-so-little things. I’m in the process of starting… Read more “(I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert”
Poem of the Day: John Ashbery
AT NORTH FARM Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through… Read more “Poem of the Day: John Ashbery”
Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck
—after Philip Larkin TO BRING THE HORSE HOME Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever, an infinitive… Read more “Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck”
Poem of the Day: Danez Smith
not an elegy for Mike Brown I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary,… Read more “Poem of the Day: Danez Smith”