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 […]
Many thanks to Literary Mama for publishing my poem "Dragonfly Daughter" published in their May/June 2020 issue. If you aren’t familiar with Literary Mama, set aside an hour or two with a glass of your favorite adult beverage and check out the variety of talented writers they publish. You can […]
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 […]
My favorite of the three is Visuwordsâ„¢ online graphical dictionary -- “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” These two also do the trick and are simpler with less visual flare: […]
My favorite of the three is Visuwordsâ„¢ online graphical dictionary -- “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” These two also do the trick and are simpler with less visual flare: […]
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, […]
I was fortunate to be teaching two classes online just as we as a nation started seeing the impact and the terrible potential of Covid-19 — one class called “Writing Winter Poems with Mary Oliver” and the other called “Hygge Poems: Writing the Cold Away with the Cozy […]
