On Prose Poetry

Not too long ago, I didn’t know exactly what prose poems were, but I suspected I’d been writing them for a while. I just assumed they were hybrid poems that emphasized the narrative over the lyrical. Apparently I was both right and wrong. In order to better understand what I...

Recommended Reading #6

Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde “What Kind of Times Are These” by Adrienne Rich “Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser “Sewing Feathers” by Jennifer Givhan “Tangerine Trees & Little Bags of Sugar” by Su Cho “The Letter” by Mary Ruefle “Little Exercise” by Elizabeth Bishop “Postfeminism” by Brenda Shaughnessy “Echo”...

Recommended Reading #5

“The Third Stage” by Kendra Fortmeyer “Stepping Over My Shadow and Stepping Into Another” by Adam Clay “Dis Mem Ber” by Joyce Carol Oates, in Boulevard #94 “We May Be Like Fish” by Anna Lea Jancewicz Issue #19 of the Adroit Journal Poetry, February 2017 issue The daily poetry found...

The 2016 Memory Jar Project

Contents: “Rock the Arts” pin “Gamer Pride” pin Florence + the Machine concert headline GaymerX pass w/ name and preferred pronoun Ticket stubs for Bonnie Raitt concert, Mary Chapin Carpenter w/ Rose Cousins concert Invitation to surprise party celebrating friend’s parents’ 30th anniversary Business card from my favorite used bookstore,...