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I do relish being able to read again.  After the biggest concussion (aka the Year I Was Dead)  and losing access to language and not being able to parse conversation, let alone poetry for months. After learning I have macular degeneration and that vision is even more ephemeral than life itself. After what I suspect […]

Why write a review? That’s a poky trident. You can do it for yourself, for the community, or for the authors you are reviewing. It is helpful to the reader/reviewer to read more deeply with intention to understand, to see patterns and reasons behind the writer’s choices. It makes you a more active participant, a […]

It is too hot for words. Photos I can do. Have been doing. Is it just me or is prose easier than poetry in higher temperatures? 5 days into August and I have two ghazals and 5 haiku written. Mostly I’ve been reading. Chapbooks, single author collections, what have you. I’m doing the Sealey Challenge. […]

I know the adage poetry is that which does nothing, but please, let us not confine ourselves to such lazy cynicism. Poetry doesn’t have to ignite passion and action, nor refuse to. Poetry can be whatever nudges meaning or lack of meaning as language touches a human tangent. Poetry can be in a breeze, or […]

an accurate cigarette: poetry & prompts by Sarah Burgoyne (above/ground, 2026) has prompts and her responses to them. I’ve been going through that, generating poems in this wild bit of heat and storm we find ourselves in, within a side of vertigo (to go soon I hope). One of her prompts was take a rough […]