A Snap-Shot a Day

My friend Aja takes a snapshot a day. For one month, I decided to join her and create a snapshot-in-words every day. My only rule was that my snap-shot-poem had to fit onto a 4×6 card and it had to evoke an image. We didn’t share our pictures and poems until the end of the [...]

While They Were Writing

I start each poetry class by reading a poem to my students. Then I give them a prompt and about 20 minutes to write. I sit at a desk with a pencil and loose-leaf paper, too. I’d like to write while they do, but I don’t get a chance to much. Despite the fact that [...]

Where the poems are

This summer I am not teaching poetry. I miss it. Teaching poetry means reading poetry every day. It means I get to talk about poetry every day. It means I get the opportunity to tell other people what I love about poetry and see one of them from time to time learn to love it, [...]

In the Garden

This summer my goal is to focus my energy on writing and gardening. That’s an idyllic combination for me, even though gardening is not my forte. Still, I enjoy the idea of it – no matter that despite my annual attempts, I have not managed to create the symphony of color and bloom that I imagine. (Okay the truth: Weeds [...]

The blank page

I always tell my students that the hardest part about writing is not writing. And the scariest thing in the world to a writer is a blank page. So, here I am, hesitating about what to write … and staring at a blank screen.
 
I am starting this blog as a way to record my [...]