skate a little lower now*
music can take us places. back to a first kiss at a school dance, a breakup in college, the first dance st your wedding. music has been there for all of our best and worst moments. music is the soundtrack to our life. when you read through some of your poems do you hear a […]
peeking over the fence
starting a new anthology is exhilarating and frightening. kind of like peeking over a fence. will you see green pastures with idyllic panoramas full of cows. perhaps it is a hidden garden, lush foliage and bright flowers. the hint of salt water could beckon to a seafaring exploration, glimpsed just ever so slightly over wooden […]
ekphrastic leanings
poetry does not exist in a vacuum. without novels, comedies, and music, how uninspired would we poets be. when it comes to the arts, poets have been so inspired there is a whole form of poetry dedicated to this intermingling of poetry and art. many art museums have free or reduced rate days and times. […]
inspiration hides in plain sight
sometimes it is hard to find the inspiration to start writing. sitting down and staring at a blank screen and a blinking cursor, looking at lines on the page and your pen hovering above, staring into space and thinking about anything BUT writing. it happens to all of us. and some days there is a […]
what we’re (not) reading – july 1, 2019
sometimes we just need to get outside. stop and smell the roses, lillies, honeysuckle. unplug and put our phone on airplane mode. tuck a journal in our back pocket and tuck a pencil behind our ear. you never know when inspiration is going to strike.
