Exciting News! The Spring 2024 Vol. 26 Edition 2 of Stirring is now available, and I’m one of two featured artists. The online magazine includes two of my black and white photographs from my Murmurations series. Please check it out, and let me know what you think. Back to the Mirrorworld This morning I reconfiguredContinue reading “Taking Risks”
Category Archives: Exploring
Setting Off On My Road Trip
After looking at everyone’s Reflections posts, I realized that even though I tried to visit everyone’s A to Z posts as much as I could, I missed out on a lot. Now that the rush to get my posts written every day is over, I can spend some time enjoying all the posts written inContinue reading “Setting Off On My Road Trip”
April Review and What’s Coming in May
I gave the challenges my all. I showed up every day. I began the month promising acceptance for whatever comes, and then instantly regretted it, because the unexpected came again, and again. There was nothing to do but accept it, and yet that didn’t mean I could help but want to get off the roller-coasterContinue reading “April Review and What’s Coming in May”
Time to Take it All In
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to “write a poem about self; self-love, self-doubt, self-scrutiny, self-healing…whatever you feel comfortable about sharing. For a whole month you have written for others, today write for yourself. The length and the form are of your choice.” This prompt inspired me to start my review of someContinue reading “Time to Take it All In”
And Zoom It’s Over
The July/Aug 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine was the first of the magazines I studied this month where the effects of COVID-19 became apparent, an interesting place to end this intensive jaunt through the recent history of Poets & Writers. In the Trends section in a piece called “Literary Festivals Go Virtual” I read, “The Jackson HoleContinue reading “And Zoom It’s Over”
You Are Poetry
While reading through the July/Aug 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, I didn’t find a lot of Y words to choose from. The one that came up the most was “you” in the form of a question. Like in the Q&A with Natasha Trethewey, Joshunda Sanders asks, “Are you relieved to have physical distance from Georgia?” “Have youContinue reading “You Are Poetry”
Wild and Mysterious Poetry
This week I talked about being unpinnable, the violence of language, and survival, so I was drawn to my Sasquatch poetry kit (assoc link). The Prompts NaPoWriMo: Write a sijo. “This is a traditional Korean verse form. A sijo has three lines of 14-16 syllables. The first line introduces the poem’s theme, the second discussesContinue reading “Wild and Mysterious Poetry”
XLIV Pushcart Prize Collection
On the page across from the editor’s note in the May/June 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, there’s a full page ad for the 2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV Best of the Small Presses edited by Bill Henderson. The X in this number is ten subtracted from the L after it, as the I is one subtracted from theContinue reading “XLIV Pushcart Prize Collection”
Poetry as a Wedge
In the Q&A with Cathy Park Hong called “Double Doors Open” by Dana Isokawa in the May/June 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, the word “wedge” is used three times in three different ways. Dana Isokawa writes, “I spot Hong’s three poetry titles on a top shelf, wedged between Homer’s Odyssey and Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road.” In answerContinue reading “Poetry as a Wedge”
The Violence of Poetry
In the Q&A with Natalie Diaz called “Energy” by Jacqueline Woodson in the March/April 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, Natalie Diaz said, “I have lived many lives. I have tried and failed at many things. I have won and lost much. I don’t know much, but I believe language lasts. In all its violence and tenderness, itContinue reading “The Violence of Poetry”
Experience Writing 