Writing Process
Let Go. Return.
From the poet Josephine Johnson: This is the need, the deep necessity of every life; To scatter wide seed in many fields,But build one barn. This is our blunder, to…
posted January 10, 2022
Journal
Perfectionism, Novels, Songs and The Great British Bake-Off
Stacey from Hertfordshire is desperate to be crowned star baker, which is why she is sitting on the floor in front of her oven holding its door shut with her…
posted July 23, 2021
Journal
Poems
Anam Cara
I fell in love with running writing groups eighteen years ago because of a man named Michael Biegner, and if it weren’t for his brilliance, humor, warmth and friendship, I…
posted May 26, 2021
Journal
We Made It.
I woke this morning with plans. I would read a chapter two of Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, work on chapter three of my new novel, re-read The Big…
posted January 20, 2021
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Poems
To Make Amends
I am looking for maps on GoogleTo show me the peoples my peoplesDisplaced. Finding their namesHearing their voices in the PennacookThe Pocumtuck the Mohawk But where do I even start?My…
posted November 25, 2020
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Poems
Siphonophore
After Stephen Philbrick. They say the mysteries of the heavensAre nothing compared to the mysteries of the seasWhose leagues we cannot fathom,Whose depths we take for grantedUnderfoot, our terrestrial backyard….
posted November 15, 2020
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Poems
Did you see those maps?
Stranger, you are welcome hereRegardless of the laws of men and womenWho don’t see that freedom can’t be contained by a wall.This land, always yours to claim, as much as…
posted November 11, 2020
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Poems
When They Said He Won
When they said he won, they meant release the prisoner––you––from her cage. You can gaze at the trees again. Look at them glow in the November sun––the leaves on the…
posted November 10, 2020
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America the Beautiful Nov.2020 addition
In November 2016, I started writing new lyrics to Katharine Lee Bates’s beautiful hymn. Throughout the last four years, I have added verses. Today, I wrote this. O beautiful DemocracyWhere…
posted November 8, 2020
