by McKenzie | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, My Poems
I think of you, fellow teacher, and I fear what lies on the other side of the door, the window, the rain. What power lies in waiting, what anger, what brown paper bag concealing fire. I lean back in my desk chair and make myself a little smaller, blend into the...
by McKenzie | Oct 1, 2015 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Hi all! Just in case you haven’t heard elsewhere, my poem, “Memory Stone,” (which is arguably my best poem about the grieving process) is up at Rogue Agent Journal today! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this...
by McKenzie | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog, My Poems
And it is from this moment that you are going to live. Think of that. You’re standing in the middle of what used to be a cornfield,...
by McKenzie | Jul 23, 2015 | Blog
Yesterday evening, I wrote a sort of long-time-no-see post, followed by a post that very well may have opened a huge door for me. I shared how a poem from my earlier writing life had hugely intersected with a specific incident from my day yesterday, and I came...
by McKenzie | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog, My Poems
This is why I love reading: it opens so many doors. While reading Allan Peterson’s Precarious (published by 42 Miles Press, 2014), I began to consider less-than-common terms, synonyms that are so interesting and unique that we often do not use—for...
