Another one Bites the Dust

Yesterday I went ahead and finsihed the last 30 pages or so of Mortified by David Nadelberg. This book was such a fun read! I believe I have mentioned it earlier and how it made me just laugh outloud, but to summarize: Mortified is comprised of the journals, notes, poems etc of young people mostly [...]

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Two Books Done!!

Today I finished two very different books of poetry: The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic and What Flies Away by Anne Campanella.
Simic’s award winning book of prose poems is amazing! I have a difficult time w/ surrealism but Simic’s word choice makes the surrealism clear enough even for me . This was a [...]

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I’m Here, I Swear!

I generally post at the end of the day, when I am winding down, but I have been so lack on actually posting that I thought I’d post a morning bit of dribble.
Recently I finished the LitMag ABZ printed by Marshall University in West Virginia. I picked this up at an independent bookstore [...]

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More and More Reading

Last night I was going to type up a blog post but we were having computer issues. Luckily we were able to get a replacement modem at the Time Warner store convienently located in Northlake Mall, nice .
We had kind of a nutty day yesterday. I was going to stay home and finish painting [...]

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Reading, Reading, Reading

Since my writing is in a bit of a slump (I’m still writing a poem a day but nothing really quotable-mainly look like journal entry’s) I thought I’d make a few notes about what I’ve been reading.
I just finished Rimaud’s Illuminations. There are some truly wonderful prose poems in this collection but some of his [...]

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Janice Fuller and Keith Flynn Reading

Last night I attended the monthly meeting of the Charlotte Writer’s Club and I just had the best time. Two poets were there to read and discuss. The first one up was Janice Fuller and her poems were AMAZING! She has this wonderful flow and her newest book has some great new forms she has [...]

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Eloquent Article out of Blacksburg

I am so glad that this article was posted in the Speakeasy Forum as the tragedy at VA Tech continues to unfold. This article is from one of the directors, Lucinda Roy, at the VA Tech Creative Writing program.
Please read and keep the victims and their families in your thoughts.

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