Why would anyone but a poet spend an entire Saturday posting every hour to a blog of strangers? This says as much about who I am as anything: I’m a writer. Poetry and non-fiction.<\/p>\n
I grew up overseas, a fact which infuses much of my writing. It was a long time before I could accept that my writing wasn’t going to sound like the writing of many of my friends & colleagues. It still doesn’t, but it does \u00a0occasionally find homes. I have three published chapbooks, and currently am jobbing a book manuscript.<\/p>\n
In the meantime? I teach classes in creative writing to older adults (through a community outreach program at the University of Tulsa). For years I taught writing at a state university, while also directing a federal non-profit working with teachers k-university.<\/p>\n
As I’m too old to go w\/out a night’s sleep (even for poetry),\u00a0I’m participating in the half-marathon. I also want to see what I produce when I crank it out. Traditionally, that’s a good way to silence the inner censor. The past couple of years I’ve been working in tanka, so I may do some of that. However, there’s always my love of the neo-sonnet. Free\/ blank verse is another possibility. Overall, I just hope to come up w\/ 12 new poems to work over later.<\/p>\n
Wishing everyone good writing ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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