Apr 125 minBlog4/11/23: A Newsletter, A KeyboardAnd National Poetry Month! Dear Reader, It’s been a month since my last blog post, and there are many excuses as to why it’s been so long...
Mar 66 minBlog3/6/23: My Poetry was Taught in a High School ClassAnd what student responses to my poetry taught me Dear Reader, No, the title is not hyperbole. Just last week, a good friend of mine who...
Feb 219 minBlog2/20/23: Black Writers, Black PoetsAnd a celebration of Black writing “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on...
Feb 76 minBlog2/6/23: FeedbackWhy it terrifies so many of us, and what we can do about it. Dear Reader, If you're anything like me, then you still have vivid memories...
Jan 305 minBlog1/30/23: I Didn't Want to Write This What do you write about when you don't want to write? Dear Reader, Would you believe me if I told you that I didn't want to write this...
Jan 236 minBlog1/23/23: Writing, Heartbreak, and the Tortured ArtistExamining the relationship between heartbreak, trauma, and the messiness of poetry. Hello, my dear, dear reader, It's been quite some...
Sep 1, 20213 minBlog9/2/21: The Routine Hello, dear reader. I have just lit a candle -- the same candle that I burn whenever I sit down and write at the end of the night. I try...
Aug 25, 20213 minBlog8/25/21: Hello Hello, you. Yes you. My dear reader, as Charlotte Brontë wrote in her story, Jane Eyre some 200 years ago. Thank you for coming here to...