Tag Archives: writing

The Haiku Moment. Woodstock Bookfest. 3.19.2018

I’m so excited about The Haiku Moment, a workshop I’ve created and am teaching at this year’s Woodstock Bookfest. While preparing for the event, I kept thinking about how to share not just the knowledge of what comprises haiku—the 17 Read More

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Post Election. The Blog. 1.31.2017

To be alive in times of trouble, in times of chaos, in times of uncertainty. Throughout my life, I’ve wondered if I could do what so many before me have done, could I be useful if called upon? From a Read More

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Prose Snapshots. Country. 2.25.2016

There had been so much rain. The window screens now woven with spider webs of drops, paths intricate and shining, a splattering made windswept, as if by design. In those first moments of sunrise, the valley pulled at the cuff Read More

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Reading M Train. City. 10.18.2015

I’m reading Patti Smith’s M Train, a transcendent memoir meditation traversing glints of story from Pennsylvania to Michigan to NYC to Rockaway Beach. In an event at the New York Public Library, the interviewer observes that Smith seems to have Read More

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Super Bowl. Everyday Poetry. 1.30.2015

Field like a valley / cradled between corporate / –whim and hard-earned sweat. ~Super Bowl Haiku.  Writing about the everyday, putting pen to page and watching a snapshot of living, a moment unfolding like a developing Polaroid, appear in front Read More

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