This great blog post by Nancy Chen Long gives a description of what a broadside is and links to some examples. She also shares: ways to create your own broadsides a list of broadside contests with their info and fees a list of broadside publishers Big thanks to Nancy […]
I had quite a few poems published this year. In fact it was my best year ever. And all of my poems were published anonymously (minus half a dozen or so). Why did I do this, you ask? In 2014 I embarked on an anonymous adventure, publishing some […]
Years ago, when I was young and impressionable and dreamy and romantic and oh so foolish and thought I had something to offer and thought I could help the world--nay, thought I was MEANT to help the world, I fell in love. Hard. You know the kind--big sigh […]
Years ago, when I was young and impressionable and dreamy and romantic and oh so foolish and thought I had something to offer and thought I could help the world--nay, thought I was MEANT to help the world, I fell in love. Hard. You know the kind--big sigh […]
Fugue Journal is a literary journal out of the University of Idaho. It was launched in 1990 and has been run ever since by graduate students in the Creative Writing MFA Program. We publish both a Summer/Fall print issue and a Winter/Spring online issue. Working for Fugue for […]
Fugue Journal is a literary journal out of the University of Idaho. It was launched in 1990 and has been run ever since by graduate students in the Creative Writing MFA Program. We publish both a Summer/Fall print issue and a Winter/Spring online issue. Working for Fugue for […]
I confess. It began early in my life as a poet-apprentice, my love affair with epigraphs. As soon as I learned this name for a quote usually in italics beneath a poem's title and before its first line, I found them seductive. True, as a reader, I sometimes […]
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 […]
READ PART I… READ PART II… Creativity it turns out is not a magical quality that some lucky people have and others don’t. The spark of genius is in the ability to switch perspectives quickly--seeing each new challenge or event from different perspectives […]
Poets portray time--the past, the future, the passage of time, this moment now, and changes over a lifetime. Moments may be in front of us or behind us. Fictional poems can be set in the future or in a world where altitude or colors influences the passage of […]
