What a pretty word, villanelle , musical and delicate!  And then you try to write one.  Maybe they should be called villain elles.   But the...

Happy Poetry Friday, friends, where we all digress as needed when there are burning, flooding, subsiding, melting issues at hand...At least ...

Last week I wrote about responding to a writing challenge that "I get good mileage from putting two poems side by side and aiming for t...

  Welcome to July! Here's where you can learn more about the Poetry Friday tradition...all are free to join in and link up.  What Is Poe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3aQjTy328o It's not so bad to be posting late on this first official day of MY summer break, because it...

Pawel Kuczynski my body is not weary; I've energy to walk and bike and swim. but oh my brain is smeary    And there is the begining of a...

  And then, 37 chapters of the best book ever came to a close, the last chapter having been a wild and unexpected roller coaster of still-so...