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
Hunkering Down, Writing
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.
"Party Sex"
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,…
Blueberry
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
No Longer Silent
Not quite as powerfully anti-racist as the last few days demand. Yet for many of us, becoming engaged in social justice requires small first steps. These are mine. No Longer Silent in Social Justice Poetry