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A few of the stereotypical “poetry words” include: dark, darkness, moon, love, […]
Didi Menendez posted an interview with me on her Women of the Web blog.
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I used to think I had no time to write poems. I graduated from my MFA program, moved back to the DC area and got a strange job managing the production of direct mail packages for nonprofits. I lived on homemade mashed potatoes and Caesar salad (not because I was poor but because I had […]
I stumbled across a number of interesting poetry articles this week and thought I’d share them with you. Reading articles on poetry — such as the ones listed below — is how I’m getting back to writing after a stressful month.
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Didi Menendez, who seems to have more energy than any other poet I know, started Men of the Web, which is a blog full of interviews with male poets. Lest you think she forget the women, there’s also Women of the Web. I’d not heard of several of the poets on the women’s page. Since […]
When I first applied to MFA programs, I spent hours spreading my poems out on my living room floor and figuring out what order to place them in. It seems silly now. At any rate, I applied and got into a number of places. When I look back on where I applied, those schools seem […]
Curious where other writers write? This article has photos and small essays about the rooms of writers.
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A while back, I wrote about being a Wallace Stevens junkie. I read and re-read one of his poems and would get annoyed if the phone rang when I was in the middle of yet another reading of it.
I stumbled across this old post of mine and wondered (again) what poems we return to […]
I’m not sure which poet said that, for her, writing is a physical process. She had to feel her arm and hand doing the work of the writing and the thoughts came from her mind down her arm and into her hand.
An article about children and handwriting reminded me of that quote.
In our house, […]
I’ve kept four of the 30 or so poems I drafted in April. I’m not sure any others will make the cut.
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It’s a new experience to find my current book “done” and to start working on the next one. Where does one book end and the other book begin?
I did not write a project-style […]