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.

Fun House

Fun House

I asked my mother, once, why some of us found circus clowns disturbing or scary. Objectively, I know that they are there to make the audience laugh and to bring joy. But count me among those who see Pennywise in every clown.

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