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Welcome! I’ve been posting poetry related information on my blog almost daily since October 2014. Below is a summary of the types of information I post, where, and how to access it quickly. If you are looking for information on how to write, publish, or participate in the […]
Welcome! I’ve been posting poetry related information on my blog almost daily since October 2014. Below is a summary of the types of information I post, where, and how to access it quickly. If you are looking for information on how to write, publish, or participate in the […]
A few years ago, I wrote a post here about how to promote a book of poetry with a chronic illness or a disability. That post was a digest of ideas from my how-to book from Two Sylvias Press, PR for Poets. With everything going on, I thought […]
Blue Light Press, along with being a publisher, is a community. We are dedicated to the publication of poetry and flash fiction that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. We are a group of poets, artists and musicians based […]
You've written a literary masterpiece. The characters are awesome (one of them is called Breathless Muffler), the setting is exotic (thousands of miles away from Milton Keynes) and the conclusion mind blowing (the main protagonist turns out to be his own daughter). You randomly submit your short story […]
Prewrite. Draft. Revise. Edit. Publish. These are the five stages of the writing process. Whether or not you intend to publish your work, you want it to be its best expression of your intention. Wait. That was a big assumption. Do you? Do you want your poems, stories, […]
Prewrite. Draft. Revise. Edit. Publish. These are the five stages of the writing process. Whether or not you intend to publish your work, you want it to be its best expression of your intention. Wait. That was a big assumption. Do you? Do you want your poems, stories, […]
Years ago while working on my MFA at Drew University, my mentor Ross Gay cautioned me of something he referred to as "poetic gesture." He wanted to warn me of moments when I was trying to make a poem sound like a poem. If you are trying to […]
