Last year around this time Street Light Press interviewed me for their amazing Resources for Writers page. There are several interviews and lots of great information! You’ll need to scroll to the bottom to find mine from last year, but there’s lots of great writing and submission tips […]
My new book from Two Sylvias Press, PR for Poets, is a guide for beginning to mid-career poets to learn how to build an audience and promote their books. Think of it as a guide to getting read. People have asked me many times while doing talks on […]
I couldn’t be more honored to be invited as a feature poet for the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds Poetry Club in Norwood and Telluride, CO on Sept 17 & 18 respectively. Special thanks to Art Goodtimes and Daiva Chesonis for coordinating the events. If you’re in the area, please come […]
I couldn’t be more honored to be invited as a feature poet for the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds Poetry Club in Norwood and Telluride, CO on Sept 17 & 18 respectively. Special thanks to Art Goodtimes and Daiva Chesonis for coordinating the events. If you’re in the area, please come […]
Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity is the blog and writing resource site by writer Erica Verrillo. Her site is loaded with great articles for writers and the writing life, including listings of publishers, agents, where to get reviews, submission calls, free contests, writing conferences and more. […]
SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) is co-directed and co-curated by Jen Karetnick and Catherine Esposito Prescott, two women writers and poets based in Miami, Florida. SWWIM celebrates and promotes women and women-identifying /femme-presenting writers through a year-round reading series held at The Betsy-South Beach and through a digital publishing platform, […]
If you have been writing poetry for longer than a few months, you may have experienced this anxiety-inducing scenario: you sit down at the desk, look at the blank page, and nothing happens. You write a line and immediately erase it. You cross out titles. You second guess […]
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry is a beautifully designed print poetry journal seeking poems “written by authors whose work is informed by the Catholic faith. We publish poems on the basis of their artistic merit, rather than on the basis of the author's professed creed or because the […]
I’m pleased to announce three of my poems were published today on Cultural Weekly! Click here to read all three poems: “I smoked marijuana for the first time with a 13-year-old boy,” “South Side,” and ” A Leveling.” Big thanks to editor Alexis Rhone Fancher for believing in […]
When a local writers group asked me to teach a class on inspiration, I was stopped in my tracks. How could what inspires me inspire this community of prose writers and poets? The more I thought about what might be universally applicable, however, the more excited I got. […]
