At the end of the first week, I have to say that the workshop is going exceedingly well.  My fellow workshop attendees are both gifted poets and thoughtful analysts.  I will certainly get an amazing amount of insight and growth from this eight weeks, which is more than I was even hoping for.
Interestingly, the assigment [...]

So my workshop with Kim Addonizio began today.  I had to post a poem.  I had nothing to post, though, having only just signed up for the workshop a couple of days ago, followed by a weekend devoid of writing opportunities.  I looked at my “needs to be revised and/or finished” folder last night and [...]

I’m delighted to say that I’ve been having good luck with submissions the past few months.  I’ve had plenty of rejections, of course, but have had enough poems picked up by journals to make the rejections much less painful.  I’ve got stuff forthcoming in Spillway, Rattle, 34th Parallel, and Redheaded Stepchild. And the poem that [...]

Los Angeles Review is now on Twitter — ghost written by moi.  Ok, not exactly ghost written, because it’s not like anyone else is getting credit, and anyway it’s announcements and events and stuff mostly instead of something complex and skillfully crafted, but still.  And I think everyone reading this who has a Twitter account [...]

I have always had close girlfriends.  I get along fine with guys, too (my best friend and spouse is a guy, after all), but I have always had significantly more female friends than male.  I admit, I took them for granted for many years.  I wasn’t popular in high school, but I had a close [...]

My friend and fellow Whidbey MFA graduate, Stefanie Freele, wrote a book of very short stories called Feeding Strays.  It was recently published by Lost Horse Press.  My copy has been sitting on my counter for a couple of weeks waiting to be picked up and read.  I have a hard time finding time to [...]