Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/tracy-k-smith My God, It...

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in...

I looked into the room a moment ago, and this is what I saw — my chair in its place by the window, the book turned facedown on the table...

If you're a Facebook friend, you know by now that I'm head over heels in love with the new Wonder Woman movie. I went bac...

Guess what I did today? I learned how to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on my flute. The flute I bought a couple years ago. S...

In 2009, I happened to read about a submission call in Kathryn Stripling Byer's blog, "Here Where I Am."  Kay was North Car...

you know what that means. I'm at Jungle Red -  http://www.jungleredwriters.com/ We're talking about all the special fur babies ...

We keep opening up a little more of the house for Annabelle as she grows up some and gets better about some of those bad puppy things. You...

My heart is broken. Don Barley and I saw Gregg Allman in Charlotte last summer.   http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2016/07/gregg-allman-a...

"Mama.  I do love getting a bath!" "I'm just a little bit wet.  I'll hide here.  No one will ever know...

This poem was one of 12 shortlisted in the Poem for Manchester Competition run by the BBC in 2004, as chosen by Andrew Motion, the Poet L...

Breakfast at the New York Deli A visit (and some shopping, of course) with some of my favorite folks in one of my favorite sho...

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