I feel like shifting blog focus for a moment from my reviews and interviews. So I’ll share some musings about the season and my children....

I interviewed Reuben Jackson by phone on the first day of Spring. He spoke to me from his front porch, in the company of birds, I typed...

Ann Bracken is a Poet who courageously tackles important personal themes, illuminating them with beautiful imagery and compassion,...

As I was mulling over what to write in my next blog post, I realized it would be a great opportunity to learn more about some incredible...

Of the many comforts that have sustained me in 2020, poetry and friends top the list. I take the opportunity of free time in winter...

In October of 2016, I wrote a children’s book. Here’s the pitch: "As most inventions, Becoming the Enchantress, was born of necessity. I...

My first poetry collection will be published by Kelsay Books in April 2021. When I received the email, “Acceptance Letter and Contract...

Time with The Mustard Seed: A Collage of Science, Art and Love Poems, by Lalita Noronha has comprised some of my favorite moments of the...

I’ve spent the last few hours gathering, organizing and reorganizing poems into a Chapbook, a small poetry collection, in this case about...

In his most recent poetry book The Migrant States, Indran Amirthanayagam gifts us an expansive collection of over sixty poems that bring...

I find myself with more time on my hands these days. Maybe I love poetry in part because I can fit reading, sometimes even writing a...

Reactions to these weirdest of days vary as wildly as weather across a week in Maryland. None of us enjoy having movement curtailed by...

Imagine a whimsical room painted your favorite colors, high ceilings, inspiring art adorning walls, soulful, heartening music piped in, a...

I’ve wished for a cabin or shed in the woods for some time. I write better, contemplate better when surrounded by trees. Although let’s...

"...the pebble cannot bore you; a pebble also cannot disintegrate, or if it does, only in times far in the future. You also cannot forget...

For the past three days I’ve been working on poems on this theme, but want to dispense of measure and structure and explode like a...

From “Untouched”: “ ...if I could, I would write forever about her, the girl without even one scar, but truly, there is so much more...

In Our Situation, W. Luther Jett addresses both contemporary and timeless perils with heartbreak, anger, and hope. Poignant imagery as...

I'm looking forward to hitting the Words Out Loud (WOL) poetry reading at Glen Echo tomorrow night. It's a particularly fun and laid back...