They say "the pen is mightier than the sword". True, but not true enough. The pen is a sword, the sword which is sharpened only w...

"Poems? There are stacks of poems lying here. When I began to write them I wanted to prepare myself a palette of words, as if I were d...

In January I submitted material to four different publications . . . Rattle, StepAway Magazine, Agni, and Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Co...

Submitting to more publications this year than last wasn't a New Year's resolution but the fact that I just did send work to two mor...

The view from my office window tonight. Had a hell of a time focusing on writing today. My end goal is to get a few more things submitte...

Front page - Medford Mail Tribune - July 4, 2018 What is it about FREEDOM and JUSTICE FOR ALL that the Party of Trump doesn...

The word "do" entered our language sometime before 900 CE and although it's only two letters long it is incredibly nuanced ....

If you're a word geek, there's a delightful article at the BBC by Mark Forsyth I think you'll enjoy. Check it out. " The l...

Besides publishing a current list of literary magazines accepting reprints , the blog Published to Death includes a link to poetry publish...

Happy New Year. Is this idea of a "new" year merely a stupid fantasy? Oh well. Who cares? As Heraclitus said, change is the onl...

Currently I'm sitting in the Fort Lauderdale airport waiting for our flight to Costa Rica. We'll be there for two weeks. We've ...

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." - Neil Gaiman This morning,...

Poetry Unplugged's cave Poetry Unplugged is the only open mic I've read at in London. It's not because I like the room whic...

Ideas dart in and out of my mind like fish, a flash of silver and they're gone. It's very frustrating. I grab for one, notice anoth...

Squirrel with a nut! And now I am off to do my five minutes. That is all.

For the last two mornings I've been practicing doing my "five minutes" of writing, writing writing, not blog writing which ...

Sunday - last day - Georgia to Florida Forget Kerouac and Cassady . Perhaps, they were never really all that anyway. For this five day d...

I posted a new poem at AnnaSadhorse the other day. Well, it's not new . I wrote it in 1988 for Lawson Inada , Oregon's poet laureat...

We're leaving in the morning for Sukhothai . It's a five hour bus trip from Chiang Mai. As usual, I have been unable to keep up wit...

I posted a new poem at annasadhorse tonight, Epitaph. This makes 27 to date that I've posted there. As with the others, this one is ...