Writing Articles

(Inter)national Delurking Week!

Resolutions, goals, or pantsing it through the New Year? What’s your style?

Scala Decima Inversa

It’s harder to go down the up staircase! Almost harder than writing a double-acrostic, and probably for similar reasons.

Peace, Fragile as a Seashell

A poem inspired by Vinitha Dileep’s Fiction Monday prompt for December 1, 2025.

Feelin’ Spicy

Poets responding to other poems is an old tradition – using the original poem as a prompt, a springboard, an invitation to a conversation.

Feelin’ Spicy

Feelin’ Spicy

Poets responding to other poems is an old tradition – using the original poem as a prompt, a springboard, an invitation to a conversation.

Jump Scare

Jump Scare

How is it that we know the tropes – they are, by definition, cliché – and yet, they can still make us feel something like fear or anticipation?

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Naani Naani November’s Here!

Naani Naani November’s Here!

Not doing NaNoWriMo these days, but maybe I can write 30 poems in a month. Or not. One of these is inspired by Robert Brewer’s 11/1/25 prompt for the PAD challenge; the other is a form I was challenged to try by Barbara Ehrentreu.

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