Writer’s Island

Recently I was thrilled to have a couple of memoir essays published, “Steal This Bull” in the beautifully eclectic print journal Gulf Coast...

Are there any sweeter words to a poet than “Please send me some poems,” spoken to you by a literary journal editor after a reading? Yep,...

A few weeks ago, poets Donna Vorreyer and Kelli Russell Agodon had a Twitter conversation about a strange phenomenon they’ve noticed in the ...

The other day I got my contributor’s copy of the 2018 Poet’s Market . I’ve had articles in the past six editions on topics like chapbook de...

I am my father’s kid. My dad could fix anything from a toaster to a Plymouth. And since I grew up watching him take things apart, I started ...

I’ve been working my way through the books in my house, the ones sleeping on shelves and teetering in stacks everywhere, in the usual rando...