by McKenzie | Apr 30, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Hi everyone and Happy Tuesday! I hope you’re having a wonderful week. For today, I have a fun announcement! Vocal Poets announced their 2019 “Poetry-in-Motion” contest back at the end of March, in honor of National Poetry Month. My poem, “Bad...
by McKenzie | Apr 16, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Literary Scene
Hey everyone! A fun announcement for today: I’m going to be one of three judges in the Speculative Fiction category for INSPY’s 2019 Book Awards. (above via GIPHY) The Longlist of titles has already been released for each category (link below), and the...
by McKenzie | Apr 1, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
HYMN TO A LANDLOCKED GOD Perhaps as a child you, too, sawthese stallion clouds & knew a skywith no blue was a sky tooreverent to be overlooked or understood. Perhaps heaven is the moon flag,not the moon, & you came to know praise as vertical only because the...
by McKenzie | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Monday, reading and writing friends! Happy April 1st! And Happy National Poetry Month! National Poetry Month was first thought up by the Academy of American Poets (or, as many readers think of them, Poets.org, or Poem-A-Day). The idea caught fire, and now it...
by McKenzie | Mar 29, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
A BLESSING Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.And the eyes of those two Indian poniesDarken with kindness.They have come gladly out of the willowsTo welcome my friend and me.We step over the barbed wire into the...
