I didn't use the prompt from Napowrimo.net for the first day of National Poetry Month. Instead, I've been having a lot of reoccurring...

I'm sharing a snapshot from my journal on 10/13/2024. It is a gorgeous morning in mid-October, I've been feeling a lot of anxiety, and so...

Yesterday was 84 degrees and the sky so clear I could see three mountains at once: Adams, Hood, and St. Helens. Now, the clouds shade the...

I want to do some quick administrative items in this post and then dive into poetry. I won’t be posting every single day in this blog...

I enjoyed experimenting with the last pantoum I wrote in this post here. I decided to dive deeper. I did a free-write on May 1st and used...

pantoum poetry form mentioning the american poetry review and their podcast with Dorothy Chan and her triple sonnets.

Here's to another great April of writing poems! I can't pass up writing without mentioning that 160 countries celebrate May Day as global...

This is the final day of NaPoWriMo 2024 and I chose to feature my poem I wrote during Christopher Luna's Tuesday morning Zoom workshop...

**Quick update! This poem was featured as one of the Day 28 poems highlighted. Very exciting!** Of course, I wrote in response to today's...

I wrote a sonnet in response to today's napowrimo.net prompt. Today we’d like to challenge you to write an “American sonnet.” What’s...

I have skipped quite a few days, but we have been busy with home improvement projects, family medical issues, and exhaustion. I'm glad...

Today's is a color experiment after the Day 21 prompt on napowrimo.net.

My shoutout today is to Only Poems, a new online lit journal featuring a poet of the week, rather than a poem of the day cadence. I...

I'm catching up as the last two days have been spent on a home renovation project. Our master bedroom has had one wall covered in old...

I found inspiration to write today's poem from Victoria Chang's The Trees Witness Everything. I'm a big fan of Chang's poetry and I am...

I decided to write a sijo to save time. I didn't follow today's prompt or any prompt, but took inspiration from a past notebook. As I...

I'm not sharing this across the main NaPo site this evening. It doesn't follow the daily prompt, but was written in response to...

I didn't follow any prompt today, but just sat down and wrote. My writing desk looks out the window to a magnolia tree, but it's dark as...

I followed today's prompt on napowrimo.net, which was to start each line of a poem with the same word or phrase. I chose "start with" to...

I followed today's prompt on napowrimo.net, which was to build a list of words, and then find words that rhyme and build a poem with or...