Possession and omission. Pause and exclamation. Musings on writing and life.
April 7, 2010
Batter up! And go ahead, take a swing at that fastball of word after word after word… read more »
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 »
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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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