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2013 Poetry Chapbook Contest Announced at Lettre Sauvage–A Letterpress Story
Fiona Leggett, (pictured here) owner, operator, and director of the Santa Paula, California based, letterpress studio, Lettre Sauvage, has recently announced that the press is sponsoring another...
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Creating Collaborative Haiku
A while back, a good friend, poet, Joey Connelly and I thought it would be fun to collaborate on some haiku. We each wrote, five of the two parts of the haiku, dividing the poem as described by Tom...
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Poetry-Speak — The Re-Launch of Poet’s Quarterly
Lots of great summer reading! My essay, The Inexplicable Math of Good Poetry, in which I discusses the language used to describe poetry, is available in the most recent issue of Poet’s Quarterly....
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The Villanelle–A Poem Video
In preparation for the upcoming Midwest Writer’s Workshop, at which I will be privileged to get to work with poet, Kathleen Rooney, I was assigned an article to read on the villanelle form that we will...
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On Being a First Reader for The Antioch Review: An Interview with Poet,...
As assistant poetry editor for The Antioch Review, is it the job of Poet Benjamin S. Grossberg, along with another first reader, Melissa Berton, to read the poetry submitted to the journal. They advise...
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Fed by Birds in Winter
Caught on a stoop rail is a bundle-gift of seeds and leaves hand-woven into a grass basket by birds, a thank you, I think, for years of lugging seed to the feeders—millet, black-oil,...
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Weeding as a Source of Poetic Inspiration
I am pleased to have my poem, Weeding, currently featured in Repeat Poetry. It originally ran in Waccamaw Literary Journal. I like what Repeat Poetry does, which is to breathe new life to previously...
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N2Poetry Honored with Award from 99Fiction
Great News! N2Poetry was selected as the 2012 Winner of 99Fiction’s Blog Competition! Be sure to check out 99Fiction for the best in short, fiction and poetry.
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A Poem for Winter Solstice
We lost the tungsten stream through fracturing birch limbs as we scouted by road. And (now is the time and place to admit it) we were wrong. Wrong in the way a cat miscounts or a fish is fooled by...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,500 views in 2012. If...
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All Poetry is Local…
Well, not really. That’s something that is true of politics according to former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Actually poetry is international, universal, or possibly even galactic. I just...
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Five Lessons from Ohio Poets
Sometimes, “sitting alone in a room and wrenching it out of yourself” as Jon Winokur wrote in the introduction to his book, Advice to Writers, is not enough. So, I jumped at the opportunity to go to...
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The Inexplicable Math of Good Poetry
Article first appeared in Poet’s Quarterly, Summer 2012. I am at no loss for information about you and your family; but I am at a loss where to begin. – Demosthenes Recently, an editor of a well-known...
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Five Unexpected Benefits of 30 Poems in 30 Days
This is the first year I’ve committed to writing a poem every day during National Poetry Month. So far so good! In the past, it has always felt a little gimmicky or forced. Now that I am doing it, it...
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Borderlands Reading
In mid-March, I was invited by Mark Sebastian Jordan, curator of the newly created monthly poetry event, Borderlands, at Main Street Books in Mansfield, Ohio, to read poetry along with Columbus poet,...
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A Wellspring of Poetry Happenings
Ohio Poetry Association Anthology Launch Party On April 16, at Bexley Library in Bexley, on the eastern edge of Columbus, the Ohio Poetry Association held the launch party and reading for its first...
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What’s a Short Story Doing on a Poetry Blog?
Crazy, Right? I write short stories, too. Did I mention that? Here is one I had published earlier this year at The Smoking Poet. Speaking As Em lay in bed trying to wake up, she found herself recalling...
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To the Christmas Tree
Bathed in the act of forgetting still upright light endowed upright on crutches drinking only what I give it giving all that it can a few winks now and then ball-catcher. What other relic withstands...
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Reveling in poet, Carl Adamshick’s poems
I’ve just reread, again, Carl Adamshick‘s debut collection, Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press). I can’t get enough of his surprising, elegant, streamlined poems. Listen to Carl read...
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