Well, it turns out a little piece I wrote called “The Power of Pebbles” will appear in the forthcoming Cup of Comfort for a Better World. That news came Friday as I was having one crisis after another. My daughter forgot her math book and her scooter, which she needs to get around to her [...]
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Score on the publication front
Posted in Italian-American Literature, life, poetry, writing, tagged essay writing, poetry, publication news, writing on November 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
An evening in the red room
Posted in family, life, photography, poetry, writing, tagged art, fiction, photography, poetry, writing, writing rooms on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sitting here in my red room, working amid the clutter of Pokemon cards and the sound of Pokemon streaming over the Internet. So, it’s not the ideal writing space, but I think of Stephen King and how he wrote in his book On Writing: A Memoir of Craft of writing with his son playing [...]
Long time not post
Posted in art, life, poetry, writing, tagged emotional freedom technique, Henry Grayson, life, Mindful Loving, poetry, school on September 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So, I’ve been busy. It’s September. School has started. We are adjusting to that first week of school and the first week of University of Michigan football. There is a plaque on our kitchen wall that my friend Deb found for me. It reads, “We interrupt this family for football.” That’s about how it goes. [...]
Writing poetry with Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Posted in Italian-American Literature, life, poetry, writing, tagged Italian-American women writers, life, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, poetry, writing on August 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve written about it here before, that I’ve studied the writings of Italian-American women, that I discovered there were a lot of writings by Italian-American women totally by accident. It was a case of bucking the old “you can’t judge a book by its cover” saying. In this case, it was the green cover that [...]
More Poetry Month
Posted in life, poetry, writing, tagged poem in your pocket, poetry, poetry month, Robert Fanning on April 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What I love about April, along with the sun and greenery, is that there is so much poetry in the air. Finally, after so many years, it seems that there is a little more buzz about National Poetry Month than in past years. It also comes with many opportunities to hear poetry read and to [...]
Magico Finestra
Posted in art, life, poetry, writing, tagged art, MFA Creative Writing, poetry, sculpture, writing on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a poem I wrote rather quickly that was inspired by the sculpture in Tecumseh called Magico Finestra. I judged a contest in Tecumseh of poems that were inspired by any of the sculptures currently up around Tecumseh. The sculptures are changing soon, but I was captivated by the way the window looked to [...]
Word of the Week – Pause
Posted in breast cancer, life, poetry, tagged breast cancer, life, menopause, poetry, writing on March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Not as in a pause
before taking action.
not as in giving pause…
not as in we pause for a brief
announcement from our sponsors.
not as in pause here.
As in meno-
pause.
The answer to all that has been ailing me for the past few days. It began with unexplainable fatigue, moving to mood swings and, of course, hot flashes. It’s [...]
Word of the Week-Quietude: Notes From the Rejection Front
Posted in life, poetry, writing, tagged creativity, life, poetry, quietude, rejection, writing on February 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My poetry has been labeled. Well, one of my poems has been labeled. Read the following comment from my most recent rejection:
It falls in the vein of what some might label \”school of quietude\”.
In some instances, as I mentioned in a previous post, having a personal note means something good, means that there was maybe a [...]
Things are sizzling
Posted in life, poetry, writing, tagged AWP, mfa, poetry, writing, writing poetry on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t mean figuratively. I mean literally. My dear partner Jay is cooking and I’m just discovering all of these new little things related to my blog. I can’t say things smell nice, because I don’t have a sense of smell, but the sound of things sizzling in the kitchen has a comfort all its [...]
Some thoughts, some announcements and a lazy Sunday morning
Posted in breast cancer, family, life, poetry, writing, tagged art, breast cancer, kids, life, newspaper, poetry, radio, writing on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hesitated to move to get my computer because my cat, Betty, was so comfortably curled up on my lap as I sat in the recliner, Jay’s recliner, watching my favorite television show, Sunday Morning on CBS. I tried calling my mother, who is probably sleeping, to tell her to watch it because artist Jim [...]
