Blogging & Poems, My Poems What Growing Up Tastes Like —A poem today after a long hiatus —Happy International Day of the Girl WHAT GROWING UP TASTES LIKE I sit with my…
Blogging & Poems, Literary Scene My Reading with Write Night! Next Up: Dinosaurs. Last night, I had the extremely great opportunity to perform as one of the five Selected Readers for Lit Literary Collective’s Write Night in…
Blogging & Poems, Personal Achievements Reading at LangLab Tonight! & Poem Featured as Creative Writing Prompt Hi everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying your week. Two pieces of fun news for this afternoon— I’ll be reading tonight among friends at…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading 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…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading 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…
Blogging & Poems, My Poems A Walk in the Snow When we were younger, we leveled footprints in the woods—off the path, of course, down deep where the sun could barely find us, where…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading 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…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading (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…
Blogging & Poems, Literary Scene, My Poems, Writing Challenges My Dumb Heart —To my fellow Benders, I threw on my grief. MY DUMB HEART is open wide and overflows with water. How I manage…
Blogging & Poems, Literary Scene, My Poems Dear Emily— —Hope is the thing with feathers. Here is a truth: I thrive on hope. But yet, here is another: if you fill a…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews “Black Light / Her Name in a Cup”: Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee’s Animalities David Dodd Lee has been there with me since the beginning—not since the beginning of my reading and loving poetry, but of my writing…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading 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…
