A Starting Point, A Pathway
We’re just a few days away from the December 2018 session of the 21 Day Poetry Challenge, an end of year ritual that results in many poems, passages and poetic fragments being written. I [...]
In Praise
I love this poem by Franz Wright. A good one for the first snow of the season. HOMAGE There are a few things I will miss, a girl with no shirt on lighting a cigarette and [...]
A Practice in Being Your Whole Self and Listening
I’ve learned so much in the last five years of hosting the 21 Day Day Poetry Challenge about how to coax and provoke and draw-out those who want to write more poems, and I’ve been [...]
Words Toward a Manifesto of the Moment
What If What if doing one thing at a time was fast enough. What if we trusted that taking care of ourselves would have an equally positive effect on others. What if we began with curiosity rather [...]
Using Process as a Portal + Works in Progress
I need different strategies at different times, but when I’m scattered or anxious (anyone else holding their breath in advance of mid-terms?) I’ve learned that I feel best when I dig [...]