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Flayed: Heuristic Halo Press May 2025
Heuristic Halo Press is a gorgeous online literary magazine out of Myanmar (Burma). I'm honored to have my poem Flayed appearing in this...
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May 282 min read
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Playing With Fire: Syllabic Diversity in American English
One problem with writing formal poetry in American English is that we are not a formal people, yah know whud I mean, bub? Yo. Like that....
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May 255 min read
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Vital Truths: Review
Vital Truths Fomite Investigations, A Series of Tracts for Our Time  I am absurdly fond of little books – a category in which I include...
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May 102 min read
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Sonnet Stories: Fiction in Fourteen Lines -- A DIY workshop for you!
Happy National Poetry Month! I'm in Florida at the Wolf Media Festival , meeting writers and filmmakers, giving poetry workshops, and...
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Apr 181 min read
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Reading at The Front, Montpelier
Becoming involved in National Poetry Month over the last ten years has been transformational for me. April was always, indeed, the...
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Mar 311 min read
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Art and Poetry: The Authentic Joy of Book Cover Art
Book cover art helps sets a mood for the poetry within, inviting readers to enter into a world of tone and color different from their...
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Mar 82 min read
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Mosaic and the Italian Sonnet: Ilsley Library Talk
The sonnet originated in Sicily, and several hundred years passed before it moved into English and the form we've come to know as the...
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Oct 8, 20241 min read
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Memory Houses: Reading at Art on the Trails
The Beals Preserve in Southborough Massachusetts runs a lovely annual Art on the Trails program. Sculpture proposals are selected in the...
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Sep 18, 20241 min read
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A Sumptuous Poetic Romp Through Italy -- Kirkus Review
My new poetry book MOSAIC: POEMS FROM TRAVELS IN ITALY is hot off the press from Wild Dog Press. Kirkus Review calls it "A sumptuous...
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Aug 14, 20241 min read
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Your Summer Reading List:Twelve Books That Tell Us How the World Works
Does it ever seem to you like we are living on a not-quite-cohesive planet a badly crafted science fiction novel? A world in which you...
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Aug 4, 20248 min read
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Animalize Your Writing!
Joining forces with my esteemed colleague from Texas, Paul Koniecki, we created this video on Animalizing Your Writing (writing from an...
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Jul 25, 20241 min read
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Jul 20, 20240 min read
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Poetic License: Sharon Webster at SPACE Gallery, Burlington
The intersection of music (sounds) and lyric (words) creates a unique art form which is quite familiar: the song. But what does the...
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Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Henri Cole and the Italian Poets of the Trecento
Henri Cole's Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets , 1994-2022 employs the 14-line room as a safe space to examine his relationships....
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Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Cover Preview! Mosaic: Poems from Travels in Italy
There are some things you can tell about a book from it's cover. No AI images for me -- these extraordinary photos were taken in Rome in...
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Jun 9, 20241 min read
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The Biopsy -- Sneak Preview of the Upcoming Mountain Troubador
Thrilled to have my poem The Biopsy included in this sneak preview of the upcoming Mountain Troubador -- the literary magazine of the...
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Apr 30, 20241 min read
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Lavender Aubade Published in Sinkhole
https://sinkhole9.wordpress.com/issue-1/
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Apr 23, 20241 min read
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Spices and Seasonings
https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/category/spices-seasonings/ Silver Birch Press is a unique indie press in LA which runs poetry...
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Feb 27, 20241 min read
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Sonnets at MacQueen's Quinterly
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ19/Hill-Which-Side.aspx MacQueen's Quinterly is such a marvelous publication of...
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Aug 17, 20231 min read
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What is a Qaṣīda?
In my last post, "There Be Dragons: A review of Khaled Mattawa’s Fugitive Atlas: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020)", I mentioned a poetic form...
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Aug 2, 20231 min read
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