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I worked on poetry in 2017.  I just wanted to learn more, understand what I didn’t know.  Like what a poem is.  How to improve, mostly.  So I took courses and continued to submit.  I wrote it down and was surprised.  It was a good year, my strongest yet.  Still, I fear running dry.  And…

Postcard Poems & Prose is a lovely online journal I’m proud to be published by. Peruse the journal and you’ll get a personal look at the people who write the poems and stories presented.  Thank you to editors David Morehouse and Christy Miron.  Shameless

I’m taking a class from The Mill: A Place for Writers, entitled Writing the Lyric Poem with Tom Montag. I’m completely absorbed by it and have not been sending my work to journals. But am writing. Struggling. Revising. Practicing. Changing.

Big thanks to the editors of Mad Swirl, who published “Party Sex” today. It’s another poem inspired by my former roommate, Mark Kostopoulos (see Elegy for an ACT UP Warrior). Who knew in those busy undergrad days in Madison that he would be the one to spark my creativity? But maybe not such a surprise,…

This poem makes me feel nostalgic for the recent past. I am grateful for every summer I have lived, though they pass too quickly. Thank you, Ron Harton, editor of NatureWriting, for publishing my poem. Blueberry