Poetry Lab: Week Four This is our fourth Poetry Lab and the first time we focus on a single poem instead of the…
Poetry Lab: Week Three Greetings, all. For this Lab, we’ll take a look at Nautical Terms (and How Best to Love Them) and…
Poetry Lab: Week Two Today, we’ll take a look at two more pieces from Pearl Dandy, “Loretta” and “A Poem for Children.” Both pieces are a bit absurd…
Poetry Lab: Week One I sometimes think poetry is a mystic art. It is the conjuring of words and forms, meter and (sometimes) rhyme to transport—intellectually and emotionally…
Buy Once, Share Often I've spent the last few days bombarding social media with information about my two new chapbooks: "How The Story Ends" and "Pearl Dandy." The…
Bye-Bye Social Media, Hello New Poetry If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you likely know that I've taken a temporary break from those two tyrannical titans of social media….
Talent and Hope in all shapes, sizes…and ages. I've always loved to watch children create. Whether they are building a castle out of Duplos to fend off an impending dragon attack…
The Language of Broken Houses Poetry is as much about honesty as it is about emotion and form. For a poem to “work” it must carry within it some…
Why Poetry? As a stay-at-home dad and part-time writer of fiction, I knew that poetry was never going to put me on a best-seller list. I…
