Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Writing”
In April 2020, my friend, David Pickering, and I were both scheduled to be featured poets at that year’s Inland Poetry Prowl, a weekend-long poetry event hosted by various venues within easy walking distance in the heart of historic downtown Ellensburg, Washington…
Back in August 2016, I participated in Tupelo 30/30 Project. What did this mean? I applied to be a participant and was accepted. Then I wrote one poem a day for 30 days. And Tupelo Press then published these poems on their 30/30 Project web site each and every day. Poems from the 30/30 Project are considered “rough drafts” …
In January 2013, I participated in The Next Big Thing! I can’t remember now who sponsored this poetry interview series. But I recall it was something along the lines of six degrees of separation meets a literary chain letter—…
In many ways, chapbooks have long been—and remain to this day—the lifeblood of poetry publishing. According to the online Oxford English Dictionary, a chapbook is historically “a small pamphlet containing tales, ballads, or tracts, sold by peddlers.” …
In December 2018, Halfway Down the Stairs published two of my poems in the “Coming of Age” issue of their quarterly magazine: “A Woman on the Verge of Menopause Looks Back on a Too-Skinny Girl Also on the Verge” and “The Wisdom is Hindsight.” …
In Spring 2012, my poem, “A Villanelle While We Wait for a Future When the Other Cheek Is Never Turned,” was published in the Traditional Forms issue of Blast Furnace, Volume 2, No. 2. It also appears in my poetry collection, Every Door Recklessly Ajar…
My poem, “Mercator Projections” was published in Issue #12 of Matter in 2015. It was also featured in my poetry collection, Every Door Recklessly Ajar. According to their website, Matter is a (mostly) monthly online journal of “poetry, political commentary, prose…
In March 2016, I was asked to by the then-director of Alberta Main Street to come up with a proposal for haiku that could be etched onto art benches here and there throughout the Alberta Street arts district neighborhood….
A September Sunday of rain on the long holiday weekend. Harvesting the San Marzano tomatoes at our community garden plot after giving a tour of the garden to passersby…
The Fall/Winter 2017 issue of Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine (Issue #7) had a special section, “Social and Political Issues of Today’s World.” My three-part poem, “After the 45th President Unveiled His ‘America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again’ Budget..
