Blog, Craft, 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….
Reading 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…
Blog, 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…
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…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading 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,…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading 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…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Franz Wright —in the wake of another tragedy: praying for France THOUGHTS OF A SOLITARY FARMHOUSE And not to feel bad about dying. Not…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Elizabeth Bradfield PURSUIT —for Arctic Explorer Donald B. MacMillan Provincetown, September All summer, town kids pose at the edge of the pier named after you…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews The Rhythm of Reading & Hearing Poetry: Reading Three Beautiful Collections by Susan Lewis Do you ever find yourself in a reading slump? Or too unreasonably busy to even consider finding a way to fit reading in? And…
Reading Reading Allan Peterson CONTINENTAL We were sinking The windows were filling with cities as if poured into glasses No one was thinking of drowning No one…
Blog, Reading, Reviews & Interviews Counting Down to the New Year: Five of My Favorite Books of 2014 Happy New Year, all! I hope you had a wonderful celebration of the upcoming new year and were able to spend some time recounting…
Reviews & Interviews, YA Literature Moving Forward, Moving Back: Reading Jason Odell Williams’ Personal Statement We’ve all been there. We reached the final year of high school and discovered the college, the school, the job, the career that we…
