Possession and omission. Pause and exclamation. Musings on writing and life.
February 23, 2010
Since last fall, maybe early November, I’ve been drafting (mostly) a poem a day with time off for Thanksgiving, a 60th birthday party, Christmas, and our recent delirious spate of February spring. read more »
February 2, 2010
A Man Without a Country is a little gem of a book published when Kurt Vonnegut was eighty-two, two years before his death. read more »
January 20, 2010
Iambic pentameter is the familiar heartbeat of the English language. Blank verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter—is poetry’s “tool of all trades.” read more »
January 4, 2010
Words are all we have, Samuel Beckett once wrote. Is that part of the problem these too-much-information days? read more »
December 7, 2009
OK, 900 poetry manuscripts submitted for two measly publication slots. Isn’t that getting to be something like playing the Powerball? read more »
November 19, 2009
Leaping is the ability to associate fast, and associative freedom is desired and desirable in both the form and content of a poem. read more »
October 29, 2009
I recently learned the hard way: It is no small feat to organize a book of poetry. read more »
October 22, 2009
It seems that the autumnal equinox brings not only waning hours of daylight but dozens of deadlines for poetry contests hither and yon. read more »
October 7, 2009
In Japan, there is a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, poems (mostly haiku) as near as possible to the actual moment of death. read more »
September 16, 2009
Jenny Holzer’s Truisms project gathered sayings that you may or may not have heard before and then (maybe or maybe not) repeated some verbatim and turned others on their tiny linguistic heads. read more »
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A former university administrator, Nancy Flynn now writes creatively and edits carefully from her sea-green (according to Crayola) house near lovely Alberta Park in Portland, Oregon.
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