Unending Blues has great images, but I feel as if I am left out. Most of the poems are written to or inspired by someone--and I'm not...

My copy is inscribed "To Carol, with best wishes"--but this is not one of the 800 books I was gifted. I was "assigned." "suggested" to...

In "The Kindness" the narrator creates vivid place and emotion: I am walking in the psych hospital in Pittsburgh, feeling broken &...

Hot damn intense. The proem "The Banishment" sets up metaphor for women being blamed/ subjugated/ misunderstood. Discordia was...

Yes, I took a day off. And yes, I'm coordinating with friends to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off today over several countries. I've got...

I have been trying to conceptualize trauma and survival, and how one finds their path through the briar. The cover, of course, had...

Mouth Full of Seeds is conversational, feels confessional (though I'm not one to assume), and has great use of persona. The voice is spot...

For those keeping score--yes, this is day five. I will have another post. Connectivity was so bad that I did not even bother last night....

A bit of a "now for something completely different!" For those of you who know--or don't I am a huge 90s (sometimes 80s) TV nerd....

I am cheating a bit. Yesterday I missed my deadline of midnight by one minute! Today, I am re-reading the poem cycle that launched my...