Category Archives: Notes

I’ve been in North Carolina visiting family for a week. And now, just back, I’m sitting at my desk catching up on some blog posts about writing. I know that I’m getting ready to start something new, and I decided Read More

Thrilled that my poem was chosen as a winner in The New York Times Haiku Challenge by Marie Howe, the state poet of New York. Please click on the link below. The New York Times Haiku Challenge Photo: Michael Kirby Read More

Since 2002, NYC has celebrated Poem In Your Pocket Day. Several years ago on April 24, I realized I’d left home without a poem, so I wrote this and put it in my pocket. Poem In Your Pocket Day After Read More

Two of my poems are finalists in The New York Times Haiku Contest celebrating National Poetry Month, and I’m thrilled. There were thousands of entries, and the poems that I read online were beautiful, thoughtful, playful and so very New Read More

Here are a couple of poems that I posted last week on the haiku-a-day page. The first was inspired by a photograph, a long exposure image by a North Carolina photographer, of fireflies. The second is pure Woodstock. Obviously, I’m Read More

The New Yorker. February 10, 2014. My Manipulated Instagram of Tomer Hanuka’s “Perfect Storm.” Yesterday I saw a recent issue of The New Yorker perched on a coffee table against several urban shelter magazines. The cover made me look twice Read More

In two winter scenes, the light and terrain inspire me in opposite ways. Simplicity and texture, monochrome landscape to color and shape. On two different days, during this weekend in the country, the beginning of March speaks. A snow field’s Read More

A second polar vortex swept over NYC, along with the first big snowstorm of 2014, and, while I didn’t know this at the time, the winter that never stops was on the way. I’d begun the day scrolling Twitter—checking news, Read More

There’s a new post today on 100 Word Story Anthology, and we’ve got more great writers telling stories in exactly 100 words on deck. Visit the site, and you can also submit to rousseaunyc@gmail.com. Since we’re still living in a Read More

The poem is my post for today on the haiku-a-day group site. The photo (such a fairy tale dreamscape) is Central Park on Monday night. This week of NYC winter storms continues. Some hot raft boots perfect New York fashion Read More