Prompt: argue with a proverb or aphorism. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The woods were brushed with summer light going...

Acrostic: first words of the lines spell out another poem: Enough plots and characters who refuse to spring to life. Fiction means to...

The sea’s a patient animal glittering and oddly still out past where the breakers heave and spill. She’s a glossy-headed seal the cap of...

prompt: write a poem in the form of a prompt for a poem Don’t plunge again into that worn pouch of memories; it’s a bag of kittens...

Glosa on Vita Sackville-West’s “The Land” It’s a photo, black and white, Easter 1962, two small girls beside their tall Daddy in our...

From her room next door flicked whispers, susurrations passed between her best friend Helen and my sister. My door ajar, I listened....

Click here to see my first poem of the month, inspired by the article by Melissa Hart on National Poetry Writing Month: Insider: National...

Daily watercolors based on images from The New York Times from 4.14.19 to 4.30.19

A Daily Watercolor Almanac of the Day's News Because we're living in such frightful times, in March, 2019, I started painting a...