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got junk?
Today’s WordPress Daily Post Challenge poses the following questions: Is there “junk” in your life? What kind? How do you get rid of it? As a writer and facilitator of writing groups in a variety of...
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moodling onward
Today’s WP Daily Prompt poses the (timely) question: Think about something that drives you crazy. Now, think about something that makes you happy. Does it change your perspective? Ever have the feeling...
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writing after retirement
This week I received my complimentary copy of WRITING AFTER RETIREMENT: Tips from Successful Retired Writers. Chapter 16 is titled “It’s Never Too Late to Start Blogging.’ By my very own blogging self....
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creative impulse
I love Brain Pickings. If you are not familiar with it, go to it directly. Well, read this first – THEN go. Because you’ll want to read what Patti Smith remembers of her first creative impulse. Reading...
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where did i go?
Today’s Daily Prompt asks ‘what is your superpower? how and where will you use it to appear/disappear at will?’ Curiously, that feels like a continuing thread from my previous post about feeling...
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‘change’ issue of MER
Dear Friends, I’m excited to let you know that my work is being featured in the latest issue of Mom Egg Review. Mom Egg Review Vol. 14 “Change” is a unique literary collection about motherhood focusing...
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gratitudes
Last week I ‘officially’ launched SLOW BLOOMING GRATITUDES with a lovely event held at colleague Teresa Davis’ fabulous studio. [If you live in the Burlington VT area and are not yet familiar with her...
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new poem acceptance
Dos Gatos Press is releasing its third POETRY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST anthology early in 2018. Each poem in this new collection is precisely 100 words long. And they accepted my “Lonesome Boy-Cow,”...
View Articleat the new year
This year started off dragging a long bag of the last with it. I have been slow to drop it behind me. Especially when the bag included a veritable stream of rejections received the first week of this...
View Articlewomen’s review of books
The current issue just arrived from Wellesley Centers for Women on my computer screen. An impressive collection of serious writing about thought-provoking issues, from academia, tenure and feminism to...
View Articlewriting about flowers
It has been months since I posted here, for reasons far too numerous to mention. In any case, today’s Poem-a-Day from Academy of American Poets spoke to me so deeply that I decided to break my silence...
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It’s summer, and that means reviewing poetry collections for Mom Egg Review! The most recent review – We Became Summer, by Amy Barone – is now up. It turns out that 750 words is not much when it comes...
View Articlethird time’s a charm
This image pretty much says it all: twelve poems in twelve hours. Third time around. Completed all 12 each time. Now the question is: are any of them worthy of the light of day? We’ll see over the...
View Articlenew chapbook review
My review of Escape of Light, by Deborah Kahan Kolb, is now up at Mom Egg Review.
View Articlethree spring poems
Just released today, ‘Morning Rituals,’ ‘Hope Abundant’ and ‘Early Spring,’ in Capsule Stories Spring 2021: In Bloom, March, 2021, pages 152, 153 and 158. ‘Early Spring’ In this too-early...
View Articlelatest review of a poetry chapbook
I continue to love reading and reviewing new poetry collections. As Mary Oliver wrote, “you never know where a sentence will lead,” I find all kinds of new ideas, unexpected connections, even familiar...
View Articlepassages
Just published is a huge undertaking by Leigh Sugar, MFA, MPA, who spent years gathering and focussing material; then finding a publisher for an anthology she edited of writings by facilitators of...
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