Category: Poetry

Did you ever have a vision? Did you imagine it was possible to turn it into reality?  Even though I teach creative writing myself, I have attended many a summer poetry seminar over the years since graduate school, from Provincetown Fine Arts Center to Split Rock Arts Workshops in Minnesota.  Aside from enjoying the thrill …

Continue reading "The Poetry of Stone"

I'm happy to have two poems from Simples featured this week in Scoundrel Time.  Check it out!

I've been singing with One Voice Mixed Chorus for almost 20 years.  This summer, we will be performing Roots and Wings, a musical look back and forward to celebrate the chorus's 30 years of building community and creating social change by raising our voices in song (nice mission statement, no?).  I am beyond honored that …

Continue reading "The Shape of Change"

Every Tuesday, Cullen Bailey Burns puts a new poem in the box in front of her house, and then writes an explication of it in her blog.  I'm thrilled that she has chosen the title poem from Sweet Weight for this week's entry.  Check it out! I'm honored to be in such good company. http://poeminabox.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html

I'm editing a poetry anthology featuring work by lesbian/bi/trans/queer women with a connection to the Midwest.  My deadline is May 31, 2012. Squares & Rebels, a brand-new LGBT imprint of Handtype Press, plans to bring out two poetry anthologies in the fall of 2012. Our goal is to help foster a sense of community among …

Continue reading "Still time to submit!"

It's the title of my forthcoming book from Tiger Bark Press (June 2012).  I think about this book as a study in contrasts and contradictions. It might be somewhat ironic (am I using that term correctly? or at least better than Alanis Morrisette?) to celebrate weight as sweetness. But it IS sweetness. Once we are …

Continue reading "Why Sweet Weight?"

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