Beowulf for teens as well as children
A teenager I know sent me a private email the other day that made me smile. Howdy! I started reading Beowulf in English class but I had trouble understanding what was happening in the...
A teenager I know sent me a private email the other day that made me smile. Howdy! I started reading Beowulf in English class but I had trouble understanding what was happening in the...
I have a new podcast. I don’t know how it will evolve yet, but the first episode is a poem I wrote about the Johnstown flood. So far I have received good feedback on...
I created a podcast on PodOmatic and have uploaded my first episode, a found poem of sorts about the Johnstown Flood. Click the link and enjoy! Johnstown Sonata in C Major.
This month is National Poetry Month. Since the beginning of April I held a class and workshop on music of #poetry, read poetry by some of the greats to a group of children, read...
Writing more than one poem at a time can have its disadvantages, in the same way that reading someone else’s poetry while writing your own does: they can create writer’s block. A poem is...
Here is an interesting idea. I received this invitation from another poet friend of mine (it’s funny calling her a friend — I have never met her, but we are both from Washington DC,...
Please note: this blog post was originally published by 32 Poems blog in the summer of 2011. I am not sure why they removed it, but they have been going through some restructuring over...
First of all, titling my posts drive me crazy. I learned to title things as I did here, where words such as “at” and “the” are lower-case, but everything else is upper-case; however, I...
Watching the Presidential Inauguration yesterday, one thing stood out in my mind more than anything else: Damn it was cold out there. Michelle Obama made sure she looked fashionable while at the same time...
I have been been spending quite some time now trying to build up my Twitter followers with Indian poets. I have a lot of Twitter friends, most of them poets, and with a handful...
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