poems
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The Verse Epistle is my favorite type of poem: in fact I found my poetic voice when my mentor Andrea Hollander suggested that I write a “postcard poem” and this poem came rushing out! I’ve never been able to publish it (apart from in my own published chapbook, Shining from a Different Firmament (Finishing Line
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Backbone Press just published my new poetry chapbook The Ocean Between Us along with Faisal Mohyuddin‘s The Riddle of Longing. Faisal’s book The Displaced Children of Displaced Children just won the 2017 Sexton Prize for Poetry from Eyewear Publishing; I’m very honored and excited to be published alongside him! Many thanks to editor Crystal Simone Smith for
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Thirty West Publishing House produces hand-bound chaplets and chapbooks. As I previously posted, they recently chose my poem “The Surest Poison” as winner of their sonnet challenge (part of their celebration of National Poetry Month) and now editor Josh Dale is publishing a chaplet of all the weekly challenge winners! It will include work from four
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The Australia Times Poetry Magazine has published several of my poems, two in the October issue, “Inspiration” and “The Last Thing I’ll Lose” and has accepted two more for future publication! They just featured one poem, “Bahia Honda Beach Conch” on their facebook page with a lovely photo of a conch. I wrote this poem right
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Thanks for having me today Beatriz! Why Do I Write Poetry? Robert Graves once said, “There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money either.” Well he’s right. Poetry is not a genre that will bring you fame and money. But of course one doesn’t write poetry for fame and money either. So
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