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Happy Poetry Friday, everyone! Let's celebrate the end of a week during which the cruelest invention, Death, took the lives of cultural ...

Before you do anything else, Dear Readers, go check out this First Chapters Critique Giveaway.  Linda Baie is hosting today at Teacher ...

Thank you for all of the kind, supportive words as we send our son off to college, Poetry Friday friends! I appreciated your comments last w...

Today is my son's last Friday at home. This time next week, he will be settling into his home for the next four years: Case Western Rese...

Poetry has been in the news lately. We lost Maya Angelou on May 28 and this week gained a new U.S. Poet Laureate in Charles Wright . But I...

For  National Poetry Month 2014 , I have invited 17 authors and poets to guest post about  source poems . In this series of essays, each wr...

I am skipping ahead to Poetry Postcard 43. Why? To wish a happy 16 th birthday to our son and eldest child, Robbie. Robbie and...

On Monday evening, a dear friend's son passed away. He was 15. I first met Grant, his mother and his sister in the spring of 2002, whe...

I've been away from Poetry Friday for a while, but I could not pass up William Stafford's birthday. Stafford was born January 17...