Category: Uncategorized

Just received word that my poem “Beach Vacation” was accepted for the 2020 Wisconsin Poets Calendar. I love the Poets Calendar. It’s a gathering of voices from all over the state and every year I look forward to reading poems by poets I’ve gotten to know. The editors try to match each poem to a…

It’s wonderful to find a journal that appreciates the sestina form.  I’m thrilled that “October Reunion” found a home at Blognostics.

Glad to have my poem, “Thank You, Stormy” published by James Penha for the Newest Verse News. (Dec. 3, 2018) https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/12/thank-you-stormy.html

There’s something mindful and rewarding about folding paper into an origami book. And if that paper becomes a micro-chapbook of your own poetry…it’s a profound joy. Announcing “Rocking Chair Abstract” by Peggy Turnbull. Please download it–FREE–here. Just look for the title under my picture.

One of the problems I ran into when writing about the story of the U.S.S. Lincoln was the missing element of surprise.  My poems followed the facts I had collected from several eyewitness accounts.  This took away from the joy of writing.  There were no twists, no turns.  It was hard to enter the characters’…