My poetry sisters and I have our monthly poems up today. This month's challenge was to write any poem you want to the title "Statues in the Park", and I have to tell you that it didn't give me much guidance or speak to me in any particular way. I started thinking about various statues in various parks, and did online research where I found this ( Read more... )

I was watching The Chew on TV the other day, as I am occasionally wont to do, and Michael Symon was making some sort of vegetarian chili (that sounds good, tbh, and I have the ingredients in my kitchen just now to make it), part of which involves lentils ( Read more... )

If it's the first Friday of the month, it must be time to post a poem from my ongoing project with my poetry sisters. Have I mentioned how very glad I am to have them all in my life, and how much I enjoy these monthly challenges? Because I do, even when the challenges are difficult. Maybe especially then ( Read more... )

Just last month my first-ever chapbook came out. It's called The Universe Comes Knocking, and it's available from Maverick Duck Press. And it's already into its second printing (not that they put print-run numbers into their books), but still...). And I can say it's transcontinental, since my good friend Angela De Groot sent copies to England as ( Read more... )

Two weeks from today is the launch of my first-ever chapbook, The Universe Comes Knocking: poems, which is being published by Maverick Duck Press. Here's one of the poems that will be inside that collection:

CopernicusFixed like a newel post for years ( Read more... )

YOU are invited to the launch party for my forthcoming chapbook with Maverick Duck Press. It will take place on Friday, March 13th, at 7 p.m. at The Daily Grind in Mount Holly, NJ. If their pricing holds (and I have no reason to believe otherwise), then copies ought to be available for $6, and will be available at the event and online through their ( Read more... )

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Many of you have been following my downsizing posts and recommending them to others, for which I am quite grateful. Also, very happy if the posts are of assistance to you as you clear clutter from your homes, whether you are going anywhere or not. I am especially glad to be of assistance to those of you who are readying yourselves for a move, ( Read more... )

Last night, my sweetheart and I drove to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania to attend a reading by Kay Ryan, which was, surprisingly enough, free of charge. My thanks to the good folks at the college and their endowment for that ( Read more... )

Of course, it's way late, but there you have it. Also, I'm not at all certain it's any good, although it amuses me. I found it in one of my old notebooks and figured I'd share it with you. (It's from 2010 or so, when I still had dogs.)

July 4thSomeone on the next block ( Read more... )