September 6, 2017 This is the second of a series in which I take questions from Shari Lawrence Pfleeger on the poetry writing process. Shari: How much should a poet…
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July 26, 2017: Writer and Reader
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…
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…
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 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…