Open Call for Submissions
James Evert Jones, Eileen Carole, and I are in the process of starting a new online poetry and arts journal, and we are looking for...
It's Poetry Month and I'm Blocked!
Six Ways to Fight Writer's Block It is one of my favorite times of the year, and I've got nothing! I should not say I have nothing. I...
Overwhelmed by the Love
Yesterday, at work with Casey Family Programs, we had an icebreaker before our meeting, which was to give a shoutout to a woman we each...
The Screaming Boy in the Closet
Quite a few people have asked me about the dedication in my new book, Surviving Home, which says, "To Mozell, the screaming boy in the...
Free Verse or Traditional Forms
This week in The Canyon Poets Zoom poetry reading, we wrote and shared pantoum poems. Pantoums are poems that are found Malayan...
Haiku: The Next Big Little Thing in Poetry
Over the past year, millions of people turned to poetry to make sense of the world. Poetry can be found in nearly every social platform....
Involuntary Endurance
This week, Spokane Public Radio allowed me to share poems covering the modern Black experience. The first poem I chose to read was my...
Googling My Way to Hypochondria
About a month ago, I got pretty sick. It started with an episode of vomiting and diarrhea, and then a day later, I had a cough, fever,...
A Motherless Mother's Day
My mother died over thirty years ago when I was 19. Considering that I lived a significant amount of my adulthood without her, I have...
Small Bear to Great Bear
There’s the big dipper I say “No” she splays my fingers into fronds and measures the night sky from minor to major “There’s the big...
