wordswimmer

Wandering through a local bookstore the other day, I came across Dorianne Laux’s Finger Exercises for Poets (Norton, 2024) on the poetry she...

A good friend who knows how much I love reading (and writing) poems mailed me a copy of Nadia Colburn’s collection of poems,  I Say The Sky ...

No matter how many poems you’ve read or how many pages you’ve turned, no matter how many rhymes and line breaks you’ve heard, no matter ...

Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the US, shares her thoughts on writing and the power of poetry in a slim volume, Against Breaking: On t...

 I found Gladding’s poem, “Blue Willow,” in  Poetry 108,  an anthology of poems that Billy Collins selected, and immediately felt as if her ...

It's excruciatingly hard to describe the pain of losing a young mother, to return to the moment when she took her last breath and then, ...

Prompts for poems can come from anywhere. An unexpected letter from a college friend that triggers a memory. A slant of light that rekindles...

There’s a special feeling that you get when you hold the new book of an author whose work you've loved in the past.  It’s a little like...

It’s so strange how poems come out of nowhere like clouds passing by like birds soaring overhead fluttering to a branch for just a mome...

Poems are hiding lately-- playing hide-and-seek over the past few weeks-- unwilling to answer the door when I knock. Are they sleeping or ju...

This morning I lay in bed before the alarm went off wondering about the shape of my day and what would happen if I didn't go to my de...

Some mornings I sit at my desk the way a man might sit on the shore and gaze out at the water of a lake or the sea watching t...