Writing Retreats: A Report from Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Beyond

I returned home last night from the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference.  It was a great week of workshops, craft talks and readings.  I spent six days in the workshop of the poet Carl Phillips who had many things to say about kinds of repetition and pattern in poetry.  The drafts of poems I brought to class […]

Let’s Dish: An Interview with Poet Dustin Brookshire

Dustin Brookshire is a Dolly fanatic, activist, and Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Dustin’s work has won awards from state poetry societies and been published in Blue Fifth Review, Oranges & Sardines, Shape of a Box, OCHO, Ducts, Qarrtiluni, Ouroboros Review, and other publications. Feel free to stalk him on the web at http://www.dustinbrookshire.com/. Jory Mickelson: […]