<poem> ******************************** Join Carol and more of the Poetry Friday crew at Carol's Corne r for a Thanksgiving weeken...

Dear Sunday Swaggers, I'm sorry.  Last week I very consciously made a decision to pass on Poetry Friday in order to focus on my work for...

rustle-rustle...THUD.   Autumn has fallen hard here this week.  Trees are looking disheveled if not bare, leaves are blowing in the rain, an...

which for me is so unusual, and if not, I know why, usually, and tonight (starting too late after the debate, and late to take my nightly ha...

  Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, children's poetry champions extraordinaire, have done it again. Their new anthology, HOP TO IT: POEMS T...

 Well, thank you very much, Margaret Simon! A bracing challenge for the Sunday Swaggers this month: we swag on over to  Jericho Brown's ...

I'm distracted. You're overwhelmed. I pause a moment at the bathroom window to take in the dogwood's deep red signal of fall. Yo...

This popped up before my eyes on a day when I hadn't realized I needed a prayer of some kind. Read it first with the fire in mind. Then...

about as delicate as I can be about  dismantling anything right now The Sunday Night Swaggers are back to monthly challenges. This month Cat...

It's good to be back, Poetry Friday!  My hiatus was important, but I've missed you. Do you wonder what I've been up to?  You can...

I conclude my nondigital, move-words-around-with-my-actual-hands poetrymaking project.  It was fun and interesting and challenging and above...