Almost an IPPY Winner!
This news tickled me this March morning: My book, A Fine Canopy, was the [...]
Here Is an Idea for Your Saturday
This post is dedicated to the stranger I recently encountered, sitting on a park [...]
I Want to Throw a Huge Party
Yesterday I walked up the brick walkway from my little writing shed to [...]
On ignoring the news for a minute
A couple of days ago, I was the fortunate recipient of a songbird's [...]
My Third E x p r e s s i o n s i n I n k at Water Street Gallery
As a poet, one doesn't get (or expect) a lot of assignments, so [...]
Diane Seuss’s Poem, “This is now”
There's nostalgia, which serious writers regularly lampoon, for good reasons, I suppose--'though I'm [...]
Foreign and Familiar: Meridith Ridl’s Alaska Series
Anthologies, like art galleries and wooded trails, invite exploration. I rarely read them [...]
“In Things,” a Poem in Response to David Adix’s Native Figure #70
Here's a draft of the poem I'm writing in response to David Adix's [...]
Ekphrasis in Downtown Douglas, Michigan
Native Figure #70, David Adix Last Monday I carried my notebook [...]
Mary Ruefle on the Contrast Between Thinking and Creating
It's been a while since I've offered anything up. I've encountered plenty of [...]