I’m honored and so pleased to have my poem “Three Miracles” published in the winter issue of The Penn Review. This poem is the third to be published from a series of personal poems about healing and recovery. In 2015, my son (21 at the time) was in a […]
Into the Void “is an award-winning print and online literary magazine and small press publisher dedicated to providing a platform for world-class fiction, flash, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art from people of all kinds all over the world, as well as literature, music and film reviews, interviews, and […]
NaHaiWriMo is a web site focused on the pursuit of writing a haiku a day, every day in February and there’s still plenty of time to join in! The site includes daily haiku prompts and tons of haiku related resources, including links to other haiku organizations. I wondered […]
Blue Mesa Review (BMR) is a literary magazine published online by the creative writing department at the University of New Mexico. They are currently open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction until the end of February, as well as artwork until March 15, 2019. I wondered […]
Soundings East is the annual literary journal of Salem State University, published with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts. Founded in 1973, the journal is edited by graduate and upper-level undergraduate creative students under the aegis of an advisory editor from the writing faculty. […]
It's hard to believe that Paper Nautilus, the small press I started at my kitchen table, will turn 8 years old this year! By the end of this Spring, we will have published a free digital anthology, six annual print issues, and 27 chapbooks in various genres. While […]
Segullah is currently running a poetry and visual art contest free to enter this year. Segullah is an online literary journal and blog designed to encourage literary and artistic talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women and other women of faith. They […]
Segullah is currently running a poetry and visual art contest free to enter this year. Segullah is an online literary journal and blog designed to encourage literary and artistic talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women and other women of faith. They […]
Today, I’m immersing myself in reading poems to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and listening to my favorite community radio station KRCL streaming online as they play music and speech excerpts in his honor. You can also listen to the entirety of his “I Have a Dream” speech here […]
For my previous poetry collections, I had kept my endorsements close to home, inviting poets I knew personally and whose passionate support I could trust. In all honesty, I also feared it an imposition to contact "big names" in our poetry community whose work I admired yet to […]
