Upholding a Literary Tradition for the Third Year in a Row: Postcard Poems

For the past two years I hand sketched postcards for that most dreaded of holidays: St. Valentine’s Day.  I think I am one of the few people who insist on keeping the S-A-I-N-T on the holiday.  I don’t insist for religious reasons, more for tradition.  I am perfectly aware that the story of St. Valentine […]

I Say Poetry and Then Your Eyes Glaze Over

Maybe poetry went wrong for you in high school. Perhaps an English teacher decided to start unraveling Shakespeare like the Da Vinci Code, until it resembled a complicated algebra problem…hexameter. No, I mean iambic! Somewhere in being taught how to dissect a poem to reveal its “meaning” poetry became nebulous—a dangerous sea for amateurs to […]