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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I hate Halloween. Husband does, too. This year — thank goodness — we didn’t get invited to any Halloween parties with costumes required. If I’m ever invited to […]
One of my poems will appear in Tigertail, A South Florida Annual (2006), edited by Richard Blanco.
32 Poems should be in the mail around November 10. I’ve bribed people to come and help get it ready with wine and a cute baby. Stuffing envelopes isn’t fun. What is fun is getting drunk with a bunch of poets.
Keep your fingers crossed. We’re improving the quality of the paper on the inside […]
I’m better! Thanks for your notes and well wishes. The past week has been grueling for a variety of reasons I won’t go into here in public. Phew, this tough time will soon be over. As a result, 32 Poems will show up in November instead of October.
Olive and I went to a poetry […]
It’s 0516 and I was just up feeding the bean. Being sick while caring for a little one is not easy. The other night I was nursing her when I started finding it difficult to breathe due to this chest cough. I tried so hard to get air into my lungs and could barely say […]
For those of you just tuning in, I challenged people to write a poem based on elements they write or think about a lot. Woody, brave soul that he is, posted his poem at http://glamourarrives.blogspot.com/.
Oh, I just noticed that Lorna posted her poem in the comments in a post below and Pamela posted hers at […]
Best Use of Naughty Language
Reb Livingston
Most Likely to Get 97 Comments in Response to a Blog Post
Paul Guest
Best Use of Wacky Language
Peter Pereira
Most Likely to Mention Buffy and Carrot Sticks in the Same Sentence
Charles Jensen
Most Likely to Discuss Superheros
Jeannine Hall Gailey
This week I’m writing a poem involving science in some fashion. I wrote a draft and then realized that the speaker took over and that wasn’t what I set out to do or even wanted. The point, for me, was to have a poem that strayed from having a speaker you can “see” if that […]
Michael Collier walked past me in a strip mall today. I don’t know why I didn’t say hi. I guess because he was talking to someone and I was jammed into a seat behind other people and I was busy shoveling a salad into my mouth before Olive wanted to be fed and hollering across […]