Summer Writing, It Happened So Fast or Summer in the City (Writing)*
That’s a weird, undecided title, but I'm not sure which is catchier. I’ve had summer songs stuck in my head of late (for fairly obvious...
Summer is Here, Bring on the Sun and Literature
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the awesomeness of April’s National Poetry Month, highlighting my extreme gratefulness to have...
Memory, M&Ms, and What the Body Holds
Happy New Year! I know it’s a few weeks after the horrible pressure to have fun, look nice, and stay up past the ball dropping that is...
'Tis Labor Day!
A day where people remember laboring by not laboring. But that’s because we’re not celebrating working exactly, but the people who do the...
Happy Birthday, All Day, Talking!
Today is a very special day. Well, yesterday was a very special day, but with fall semester preparations, family phone chats, bathing...
Small Press Fest, Live Music, & A Little Heart Opening
This weekend I went to this awesome new literary festival called Small Prestivus, books for the rest of us, a celebration of small...
Poetry Out in the World! or My Little Summer Trip
I just recently returned from a little summer trip. It was not a vacation, as I spent the first nine days working (save for two travel...
Day 22 of 30 - March Poetry Update!
I seriously cannot believe the month is almost over! It's gone by *so* fast and I've done SO MUCH. I took a trip to sunny Los Angeles...
Poetry Needs You (I need you)
That sounds dramatic, but once, in a two-week visiting writer workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Li-Young Lee (who might...
