the red thing the blue jays are screaming as if they are the voice of the red thing caged inside my ribsthe red thing battling through another rejection the red thingunstoppably impossibly doingthe job of keeping me alivewithout my permission, reallyI didn’t choose this red thingthe way it ambitions the wayit pursues the way it mattersbeyond its prison… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 14
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POEM A DAY – April 13
Two Submission Responses This Week anticipation, for weeks, two seeds burrowing in the bottom left temporal lobesprouted, embryos of hope hypocotyl-ing and also a memory: my mother in the yellow sun-faded kitchen on Moy. fisting the beige phone handle, the curled cord coiling into itself, the curve at the base, cracked, black wires in shadow.… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 13
Interview with Anne Baldo
This is writer Anne Baldo! Anne and I had a zoom call earlier this fall, and goddess was it a fun discussion! Anne is widely-published poet, fiction (short story/novel) writer who lives and writers in Windsor. She's an ECE by day, and a writer by the in-between, raising three kids and a golden retriever! We… Continue reading Interview with Anne Baldo
What It Feels Like To Get Published – Part I
Herein lies the third instalment of blogs I'm writing about being a writer. The first, what it feels like to have a writing idea; the second, what it feels like to finish a writing project; and now, what it feels like to get published. This is a LONG post that is so long, I've split… Continue reading What It Feels Like To Get Published – Part I
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