When I became the second Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California, I wanted to continue the poetry workshop that the first Los Gatos Poet Laureate, Parthenia Hicks, had started. That group met on a weekday evening, once per month. Some of the attendees told me that they would […]
Thank you so much to Lis Pankl and David Pace of 15 Bytes for this lovely review of my chapbook Footnote. I was particularly pleased with Pankl’s focus on one of my most widely published poems “Waiting Around” and her thoughtful connections to other women writers such as […]
Glass’ Poets Resist is a current events poetry series, edited by Catherine Chambers, published by Glass Poetry Press as part of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. They are “looking for poems that reflect the immediacy of the world around us. . . . poems that are targeted, and […]
Glass’ Poets Resist is a current events poetry series, edited by Catherine Chambers, published by Glass Poetry Press as part of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. They are “looking for poems that reflect the immediacy of the world around us. . . . poems that are targeted, and […]
The Summerset Review is a quarterly online literary journal originally founded in 2002. They publish unsolicited fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. I really like the approach they took with their guidelines, which are brief, informative, and link to additional resources, such as Recommended Reading and Additional Advice. I wondered how and […]
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: […]
I’m honored to have such a good home for my brand new poems “hurricane” and “Not my flag” inspired by recent events. Tuck Magazine is an online political, human rights, and arts magazine. The magazine includes opinion/news, poetry/fiction, music/film/tv news, art/photography, and articles on human rights and politics. According […]
I’m honored to have such a good home for my brand new poems “hurricane” and “Not my flag” inspired by recent events. Tuck Magazine is an online political, human rights, and arts magazine. The magazine includes opinion/news, poetry/fiction, music/film/tv news, art/photography, and articles on human rights and politics. According […]
Every so often, we are fortunate to read a line of poetry that changes the way we look at the world. This was my experience the first time I read the third line - the last line of the third stanza - in "Final Soliloquy of the Interior […]
Most editors are happy to answer questions regarding submissions. If a lit mag seems like a good fit for your work and it happens to be a collaboration, found poem, or other more nontraditional form, contact them via email or on other social media to ask if they […]
