“To a Moth” featured again
W5ran continues to include my work in their “best of” collections, this time in a “best of the weekend,” which I will take. Go check it if you’ve never seen it!...
View ArticleNew poem – Sister Christian
I wrote the idea for this poem on an envelope I stole from the greeting card aisle in a Price Chopper. When inspiration strikes, you’ve gotta be prepared. Yes, I ripped off the title from one of my...
View ArticleNew poem: Occupy Rural Route Two
The whole Occupy Wall Street mess has been all over the news lately. I won’t tell you my opinion, except that I agree with some of their demands (though I think calling them demands is a really bad...
View ArticleNew Poem – My Mother’s Hands
Happy weekend, all! I just finished this new poem, that I got the idea for after reading a sappy, sentimental poem about a mother’s hands, and as I was about to take a nap. I never got the nap, because...
View ArticleMeanwhile, in the traditional publishing world…
Despite my literary fame and bestseller rankings exceeding 50 copies sold, I still make time to submit my shorter works to literary journals the old-fashioned way, including my poetry and short...
View ArticleIn which I appear in a print anthology
In case you missed it, I had a poem published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine back in May, my poem “Culley’s Pub: An Elegy“. This same publisher is putting out a print anthology soon, and they’ve...
View ArticleI got my contributor copy… 3.5 years later
I’ve blogged several times about the issue of Clackamas Literary Review that I was recently published in – a publication timeline that looked a lot like this: October 2009: I submit 3 poems via snail...
View ArticleNew poem up: Home
I’m still finding it difficult to accept the truth of the Julian calendar, but it tells me that it is, in fact, November. Part of the reason I find this so shocking is because the month of September...
View ArticleNew poem up: The Day Grandpa Taught Me to Drive
I struggled with the format to use to capture this powerful memory that has stuck with me to this day. I finally landed on prose poem after simple prose proved too loose a structure for the subject...
View ArticleOn Crayolas: a lifelong literary device (for me, anyway)
I’ve made no bones about the fact that I grew up poor. Not in the “we were poor, but we didn’t know we were poor” kind of way. I knew we were poor, and one of the first things that clued me in were...
View ArticleMy new friend, Amanda Gorman
Like most of the country, I didn’t know who Amanda Gorman was before Tuesday, January 20. At any given time I could tell you a few of my favorite poems, a few of my favorite poets, but I couldn’t tell...
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