My new poetry book, Piccola Poesie, A Nibble of 100 Short Form Poems, is now available! Piccola Poesie contains a variety of Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and American Sentences that explore human relationships, our relationship with nature, and with everyday objects around us. The poems wheel through the seasons and incorporate observations and commentary in appreciation…
Revising 101 (Housekeeping)
The most important thing to revision? Buy lots of ink cartridges and printer paper. You might be tempted to skip this step. Don’t. This applies to both novels and poetry. Print that sucker out. I know, I know, it seems like a PITA to use all that ink and paper on something you just know…
Poetry Submissions for the Rest of Us
So, I’ve been reading submission guidelines while I search for places to home my poetry. A lot of them leave me scratching my head. “We want poetry that makes our heart go POW and our head pop off the stem of our neck spouting blood like a geyser. We want work that zings our strings…
Genre Reading and Writing. Arithmetic Free.
When it came time to choose a genre to write in I chose fantasy. As a longtime reader of Fantasy, Scifi, and everything in between, it seemed a natural fit. I was a latecomer to women’s literature and romance. It didn’t hold me the way fantasy did, although I like some romance in my fantasy,…