Open Call for Submissions
James Evert Jones, Eileen Carole, and I are in the process of starting a new online poetry and arts journal, and we are looking for...
It's Poetry Month and I'm Blocked!
Six Ways to Fight Writer's Block It is one of my favorite times of the year, and I've got nothing! I should not say I have nothing. I...
Overwhelmed by the Love
Yesterday, at work with Casey Family Programs, we had an icebreaker before our meeting, which was to give a shoutout to a woman we each...
The Screaming Boy in the Closet
Quite a few people have asked me about the dedication in my new book, Surviving Home, which says, "To Mozell, the screaming boy in the...
Free Verse or Traditional Forms
This week in The Canyon Poets Zoom poetry reading, we wrote and shared pantoum poems. Pantoums are poems that are found Malayan...
Haiku: The Next Big Little Thing in Poetry
Over the past year, millions of people turned to poetry to make sense of the world. Poetry can be found in nearly every social platform....