Tag Archives: poetry
Second Look: Lodestone Crossing
It’s a long book of poetry. Experimental poetry. An oddity to end this series of looking back on my books, but such was the chronology. Lodestone Crossing Is a long poem broken into smaller chapters, derived from several sessions of “blackout” poetry. It’s a process wherein one takes a preexisting text, and removes (or blacks …
National Poetry (sometimes) Month
We are well into April, which is, as the title mentioned, National Poetry Month. (It is also National Autism Awareness Month, which was probably a coincidence, but I like to pretend the two are connected in some unseen, life-affirming way. That’s another post.) Poetry peaks and valleys over the course of my writer’s life in …
National Poetry Month ’22
Welcome to April, and to National Poetry Month. First established in 1996, it is a time to both read and write more poetry as an overall appreciation of the craft. I want to take this chance to mention two things. One is to ask that you head over to the “My Books” section of this …
Back to Poetry
A few days ago I went into Barnes and Noble. (We still have one here for the time being…) I had some money left on a gift card, so I bought the most plain looking, utilitarian blank journal ever. I haven’t owned one of these in a while, because over the years I have used them almost …
