Nov. 3. I haven't actually been writing the last three days, but I worked a little nugget of an idea over in my head all the way home today. I'm not crazy about the title, but everything else is just about right ( Read more... )

While sitting in a doctor's office on Monday, I was reading poetry by Wendell Berry. He gave me this jewel:

If you imagine
others are there,
you are there yourself.

~Dante from the collection Given

Ganged from a website I frequent, www.tackoftheday.com:


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I said I would post this yesterday and then forgot. But tonight, between making a meatloaf and washing the dishes, I remembered and wanted to share it with both those promised and unpromised.

Art
By: Robert Wrigley
from Reign of SnakesHow the buck could have tangled himself ( Read more... )

Well, here's the series so far (just two). I have been wanting to write love poetry for about four years now, but have always failed miserably. True, I have written these poems with a certain subject in mind, but that does not mean I am "in love". It means I know what the experience is now, and I have to words to communicate it (the harder of the ( Read more... )

Hey all. Guess what? I was reading The DePauw today and I noticed that I got first place for the best rhymed poem in the Indiana Collegiate Press Association competition. How cool is that? The poem was published in last semester's A Midwestern Review ( Read more... )

So, I just read this poem and it made me feel much happier. The last stanza is my favorite. It puts things into perspective ( Read more... )