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Deliberate PracticeOctober 20, 2021 - 5:09 am
About the featured image: Every day I walk — I’ve walked at least 5 miles a day for 416 days in a row (yes, I’m a little compulsive) — and every day I snap a photo of something. Sometimes I post the photo at Instagram with #gratitude. I’d like to get more consistent about this, […]
A Little Something to Get You WritingOctober 13, 2021 - 3:19 am
One of my daughters is moving home temporarily, and cleaning out the bottom story of our house — which includes a mother-in-law kitchen we’ve never really used — has necessitated another attempt to reduce the amount of paper I’ve stored in bins and boxes. I threw away a bunch of old literature assignments, and I […]
Persimmon Tree and WindfallOctober 6, 2021 - 3:55 am
Persimmon Tree Remember earlier this year when I spent 100 days sending out my work? Here are two of the results of that blitz, both of which hit my in-box or mailbox this week. The first is a creative nonfiction essay — “About a Marriage, from A to Zed” — in the superlative Persimmon Tree: […]
What I’m Falling ForSeptember 29, 2021 - 1:13 am
I opened the new issue of Passager (Issue 71, 2021 Poetry Contest) to find a Fall poem, and lost (or found) the next hour, reading poem after poem. It’s a wonderful issue, and I’m happy to recommend it—and not only because it includes a poem of mine. This poem makes me think of fall, though […]
The Autumn EquinoxSeptember 22, 2021 - 2:47 am
Tomorrow — at 12:21 p.m., in my area at least — autumn begins. It seems an excellent time to write a fall poem. Here’s one that I’ve cribbed from the collection at https://www.poetryfoundation.org. For the Chipmunk in My Yard BY ROBERT GIBB I think he knows I’m alive, having come down The three steps of the […]
What I’m ReadingSeptember 14, 2021 - 12:47 am
These past few months I have been on a reading binge — dozens of mystery novels, of course, and tons of poetry. But I just finished reading a novel, White Dog Fell from the Sky, by Eleanor Morse, that is so jaw-droppingly well-written and gripping that I want to buy a sackful of copies and give […]
Where to find meSeptember 8, 2021 - 2:58 am
The #SealeyChallengeSeptember 1, 2021 - 1:45 am
Here it is, the last day of August, and already it feels like fall. Leaves are changing color, the air is cool, and this morning a light mist accompanied me on my walk. It’s a perfect day for curling up with a book of poems. Lucky me, I’m a long-time follower of Kathleen Kirk’s blog: […]
The Freshwater ReviewAugust 25, 2021 - 12:08 am
Here’s your poetry assignment for this week, but it’s also my shameless plug for the freshwater review, v. 24, in which my poem “Considering a Photograph of a Piano Abandoned in a Field” appears. The review is student run and operates out of Duluth, MN (The College of St. Scholastica). I’m pleased to be part of this […]
Your Poetry Assignment for the WeekAugust 18, 2021 - 4:25 am
Every Wednesday afternoon I meet—either on Zoom or in person, if our outdoor cafe is a safe bet—with several other writers. We have two dedicated novelists, but the rest of us write mostly poetry. All of us, I should add, write poetry sometimes. We’ve been meeting for 11 years. I think of myself as the […]