New Poems in Print!

Please take a moment and stop by to read four of my persona poems about the constellations at Orion headless: Poetry, Art, Found Objects.  I am thrilled to have four poems picked up by a single literary magazine or website. Stop by and you will encounter “Lyra” about Orpheus, a cranky “Orion,” “Dorado” in which […]

You Sank My Prose Poem! A Word About Revision

I spent a good deal of time last week revising poems. Perhaps by some strange alignment of the stars, I’ve been locked into writing prose poems for most of the year. I have even gone back to some older poems, which draped across the page and turned them into blocky-talkie prose poems. What started out […]

Book Notes on Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess

Paperback, 80 pagesPublished by Rosemetal Press, October 2008ISBN: 9780978984854 Reading Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess is akin to remembering your dream. The pieces of the story are fragmentary. There is a struggle to weave a narrative thread between them and more often than not, the dream can be interpreted any number of ways depending on […]