They may not like my poems like I want them to like my poems, but they all like poetry and they all read poetry and they all talk in little poems and at night what hovers over their heads is poetry and they all have at least one poet they can't live...

So I just got a rejection in the mail for an anthology I submitted to some six months ago. It's a weird feeling to get a rejection from a place I had forgotten that I had even submitted to in the first place. I made the first round of reading but...

with the calm assuredness most poets carry with them every where they go. The great poets we read decades later have it in every poem great or small. It's that confidence I need to learn. When I look at any of my poems I don't see the poem. I can't...

Today I learned that some teachers in my school (a Jr/Sr high combo) have received incentive pay of almost $3000 after taxes for working at a school in need of improvement and below the poverty lines. Well, those teachers who teach hard to fill...

I had this rip-roaring post about how I have difficulty in doing all of the non-writing poet-stuff I am supposed to be doing to get things done. I completely blew it, so you get this photo I took of a hummingbird in my grandmother's back yard.