Spring classes & a quick prompt! Photo by Yousef Espanioly on Unsplash It’s hard to talk about spring while “in the midst of winter.” (Thank you Camus, for your glorious and evergreen quote...
There’s something about October that makes me want to just wallow in memory. Echoes of the past seem to rise from the world’s skin, scented with decaying leaves and baked apples. In that spi...
October’s going to fly by in a flurry of news and apple harvests. My third chapbook is coming out soon, through Essay Press (called Field Guide to Alma Avenue and Frew Drive), a couple of publi...
Eee… Look at the beautiful writeup that Porkbelly did for my chapbook. How sweet!! I’m so thrilled to be in their lineup. It’s already listed in their Etsy shop, and you can get a copy by f...
If you’re anything like me, the 30 poems in 30 days push is exhilarating and terrifying. I can’t say “no” when anyone mentions they’re pulling together a group of people to support each...
https://bluebirdwords.com/2016/03/18/another-reason-april-is-the-cruelest-month/
Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. – Picasso With summer’s last few golden hours slipping quickly behind us, and the aisles of most stores already packed with unsharpened pe...
https://bluebirdwords.com/2015/08/17/five-fab-things-retreats/
I love art which is inspired by other art! This week’s prompt: Write a poem in response to something you see on one of these fantastic art websites. 1. Jealous Curator – Often pastel, frequen...
https://bluebirdwords.com/2015/07/15/five-fab-things-art-as-inspirationekphrasis/
*This post is the first of a weekly series. One of the hardest things about submitting poetry is knowing where to begin. These five tools are where I do most of my submission ground work, and the...
https://bluebirdwords.com/2015/07/06/five-fab-things-submission-tools/
It never fails – I sit down at my messy desk to submit, and I come across amazing prompts for poems. I sit down at my messy desk to write, and suddenly there are a thousand deadlines looming. F...
https://bluebirdwords.com/2015/07/02/distraction-as-motivation/
I took a class my last semester of grad school which really made me think critically about the idea of ‘home,’ and how I thought about places that felt like ‘home’ to me, even when they w...