If you go to any bookstore, independent or chain, it will seem as if you are inundated with magazine choices. But often the best magazines cannot be found on those shelves. Caribbean Interview is an important magazine that needs to read, looked at and enjoyed with its mix of visual […]
On Wednesday January 18, 2017 in a windy, cold pouring rain storm San Francisco’s Main Library’s Koret Auditorium under the auspicious of the SFPL and LItquake filled with people listening to writers responding to the looming reality of a Trump presidency. It was an honor for me to be […]
A friend e-mailed me recently asking if I she could use a poem I sent to her a while ago. I read the poem and for just over a day could not remember whose dead I spoke of. The names gave clues, Syria was freshest, but then it could have […]
Sitting down to write something new, facing the blank journal paper blinking computer screen I often just write. I create a stream of consciousness word dump that may begin to take form and show me what I need to be writing about in that moment. At other times there is […]
Writing is by its nature a solitary pursuit. One sits with one’s thoughts, possibly hammering away at a piece of stone, maybe pushing grains of sand together on a low tide shore until something begins to take form. Then comes the edit, the trim, the shape and reshape, and the […]
Struggling to write one day last week my mind found myself thinking of a Jayne Cortez poem, “You Know:” “You know I sure would like to write a blues you know a nice long blues you know a […]
Writing for the web, particularly writing blogs, has always frustrated me. The writing needs to be fast, glib, entertaining; an easy read and, if possible, say something of value. As writers go, I am a relatively fast wordsmith. That is to say I can get a gush of words on […]
My website is not yet complete, but I really needed to start my blog. So welcome and thank you for braving the “under construction” zone! This is a writer’s website and as such most of my blogs will have something to do with writing. I am a multi-genre writer, most […]
