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My friend Nicole Schultheis is a poet, a lawyer, a mom, a novelist and president of a fabulous organization, the Maryland Writers Associatio...

National Poetry Month is finally here! Did you order your free NPM Poster from the Academy of American Poets ? National Poetry Month 2011...

Happy Poetry Friday, everyone. I'm glad to be back after a long hiatus. The end of winter was a busy time in my poetry life. Life in M...

'Tis the season to be jolly. Carols and Salvation Army bells are in the background of our daily chores. Our homes smell of pine or fryin...

Many poets have been sending in questions about submitting work to the upcoming Maryland Writers Association Poetry Anthology. (Find the ful...

Happy Poetry Friday! I have big news to share. I am editing a new anthology of poetry for the Maryland Writers Association . The theme ...

I'm dancing today. The children don't find it amusing. Maybe if I put on my streamer headband, they'll play along. It started ...

I'm about to leave for a group reading at the Writers' Center in Bethesda. Reading poems out loud to myself, stop watch ready. One...

Recommended for High School and up Poetry & Non-fiction/Memoir I took a wonderful class with Baltimore poet Kendra Kopelke a few years...

News! My family adventure article is finally up at Baltimore's Child online. http://www.baltimoreschild.com/articles/index.cfm?fuse1=de...