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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]