Thanks for your support
Just wanted to say thanks to all who have purchased an ebook version of Late Night Writing. Your support means a lot to me. Since the book’s re-release as an ebook, […]
Category Archives: poetry
Which came first philosophy or poetry?
Someone asked how many of today’s poets are also philosophers?[1] The question presents some assumptions. One assumption is that poets merely express themselves in literary work through distinctive style and […]
Scrambled eggs and poets
Have you ever typed a message into your smartphone and the autocorrect delivers an amusing sometimes intriguing option? That’s were the title of this post comes from. I was trying […]
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Write now, set writing goals
Is it writer’s block? Procrastination? What’s keeping you from completing that collection of poetry or that novel you started years ago and you can’t quite get around to finishing it? […]
Why do poets and writers write?
This is a question like a sliver that gets under your skin. It is like that wood splinter you received from running your hand along a wooden fence and the painful […]
Late Night Writing ebook – now available
After nearly a decade since it was published, Late Night Writing is now available as an ebook for $1.99 at Amazon.com. The ebook features some new material — a Foreword by journeyman […]
Do you submit poetry for publication?
So, you write poems. Maybe you read your poems at a local bookstore, music venue or coffeeshop at a monthly or weekly open mic. And maybe you even sign up […]
Interview: Caleb Beissert on Beautiful translations of Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda
Caleb Beissert is a poet, translator and musician. His published work appears in International Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review and Beatitude: Golden Anniversary, 1959-2009. This week, Poetry […]
Found poem: The courage to live [annotated]
POET’S NOTE: As an exercise to try something new in composing a poem, I wrote this short piece as a found poem based on news headlines and related blog posts. John […]
50 poems in 30 days
More than 50 poems were sent to publishers in January. Encouraged by another poet who submits somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 poems a month, I thought it would be […]
