Check out this podcast from The First Friday Contemporary Writer's Series of my friend Hillary Keel reading a poem in German -it offers some wonderful sound bites as she uses her throat and tongue to create those sounds not in the English language and so dominant in the German. You may remember I posted a... Continue Reading →
Finding a Poem’s Geographical Location: Visual Mind-Mapping
Tag-surfing one windy day, I stumbled on the headline: "How to Create Visuals When All You Have Is Words." It got me thinking about making my poetry more visual, and not necessarily by arranging the words in unique patterns on the pages - something I did in my Aquathoughts collection mostly written over a period... Continue Reading →
Poem from a Wrinkled Hag
I hadn't written any poetry in a very long while , then one night - in the middle of the night - I woke up and scratched out these words on the back of an energy bill envelope: Put pen to paper one last time wring a poem from my aching soul let the... Continue Reading →
