buzzing, spinning, sky Family love, eternal love, love of nature, the existence of love, the mystery of love, space, recollection, tenderness, … Call & New Work by Courington, Nagel & Stromberg This is a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with other poets and create a poem of beauty. I just submitted. I hope you will, too! Continue reading Call & New Work by Courington, Nagel & Stromberg
Red Roofs All the red roofs beckon Below me making false Promises of security and comfort. What do they know of comfort, Bound to the earth by mortar and brick. What do they know of security, Unable to weave … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2020 / Day 4
Patience
is hard to come by
When life is picking and clawing
When time is running faster
Than my my own racing heart
Knife points jump out of my skin,
intruders hiding inside me
Slicing away the softness
Leaving bone shards and steel
*
This is an unfinished beginning of a poem. I’m late posting for yesterday so I decided to go ahead and put this out there. I’ve been ruminating on patience, of which I have little. Almost every night I meditate on ways I can practice patience in my everyday life. Some days I’m better at it than others. Continue reading “NaPoWriMo 2020 / Day 3”
Fuselli My life has been a simmering fuselli A double helix hurtling in and out A swirling, a stirring motion It began as one thing Ended up another Now, safely slathered in sauce All of its crevices filled * Day … Continue reading NaPoWriMo 2020 / Day 1
I have a micro creative nonfiction piece, “Polaroid“, in the Spring issue of The Citron Review. I’m especially excited to be one of three first ever micro CNF writers in this journal. (Wow. That’s a mouthful & I hope I … Continue reading Touching Base + New CNF in The Citron Review
West Virginian V.C. McCabe has created a startling body of work in Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot, her debut book of poetry. While these poems are written about the people and events of her life in Appalachia, don’t assume … Continue reading Book Recommendation: Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot
With the holidays upon us I decided to go ahead and post my fourth quarter Favorites . I’m currently reading some books I plan to review here plus I have a post or two percolating so I don’t think I’ll … Continue reading Favorite Reads, Last Quarter-ish
Poem by Jane Hirshfield, stolen from Kasey Jueds on Twitter. I’d never read it before but it’s so perfect I wanted to share it. For all the poems by all the poets we will never know. Keep writing! Continue reading The Poet
Every single essay on this list is a story that had to be told. Every single one had me nodding my head and thinking, “Yes. I needed to read this right now.” I love fiction and I love poetry but … Continue reading Favorite Nonfiction, 3rd Quarter
In looking over my poetry selections for the 3 rd quarter, I realize several of them have a theme of breakage, rage, powerlessness. But, instead of getting mired in the crap, these poets reclaim their power. This kind of poetry … Continue reading Favorite Poetry, 3rd Quarter
