Ernie K-Doe – Experience Writing

After Fleeting Moments Fly

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is a bit odd (but timely since I found out last night that a friend died). We are to write a monologue poem delivered by someone who is dead. Poem-a-Day prompt is a metaphor poem. A to Z Challenge is Game. My Janus word is garnish: With food, the verb means “toContinue reading “After Fleeting Moments Fly”

Reading to Keep the Blues Alive

I recently received an email from author Ben Sandmel announcing that he is the recipient of the Keeping The Blues Alive award in Literature for 2015, presented by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation. Congratulations, Ben! If you, dear readers, are at all interested in history, biography, New Orleans, rhythm and blues, music in general, or evenContinue reading “Reading to Keep the Blues Alive”