This is the first of a new blog series I am devising with a fabulous student from my poetry classes at Politics & Prose. When Shari Lawrence Pfleeger first took my A Poem a Day class last year, I was thrilled to discover that in addition to writing very good poems, she asks the kind…
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A Circle of Books and Poets
I no longer remember when it was I first set eyes on that beloved literary dynamo, Grace Cavalieri. As a young poet, I came to know and love her voice, as I heard it in her poems and also on her radio interview show, The Poet and the Poem, then broadcast on WPFW.
A Reason to Dance
As a way of launching my new, spiffy website, I am spending the turn of the year reflecting on various artists and arts organizations who seem to me to have done particularly powerful and important work in the past year. First up, Word Dance Theater. Though poetry was my first love, it wasn’t the only…
Poems, New & Old
Spring is here and I’m happy to celebrate poems new and old. My third full-length collection of poems, The Last Girl, will be available later this year. Along with it, the ASP/SFWP consortium is also putting out a new edition of my first collection, Difficult Weather. Below you’ll find a sample poem from each book….
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a cool sort of combination of chain letter and a “tag-you’re-it” interview game for writers. I was tagged by Nick Courtright (who was tagged by Kyle McCord who was tagged by Matt Guenette who was tagged by Mary Biddinger who was tagged by Jennifer Militello…) to interview myself about my…
A Letter from Cynthia Matsakis
Anyone who knows the writer, artist and therapist Cynthia Matsakis is lucky indeed. I met her when we were both undergraduate poets at the University of Maryland, where she wowed her professors and fellow students with her fierce, imagistic, lyrical poems. Since then, we’ve read and worked together, co-founded the non-profit women’s’ arts organization Pandora,…