Category: Creative Nonfiction

I write poems the way some people keep a notebook by the phone: not to capture everything, but to be ready when something important calls. Most of my poems begin with a moment that refuses to stay quiet: a small human exchange, a remembered voice, an image that lingers longer than it should. I don’t chase ideas so much as I wait for them to return, shaped by time and attention.

I don't get why some submitters want to talk about themselves so much in their cover letters...

a new year's resolution

There are no rules. I had a teacher once who told the class that if we took a picture of the state capital building in Providence he’d fail us. Oddly, I never have, and always look at that building like it’s a complete failure of a structure.

...My preferred setting is solitude and silence and a room free of ornamentation and distraction.  Sometimes I write at a desk.  Sometimes, on the couch.  Or in bed....