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Yesterday was the Girls Write Now Poetry Workshop on short poetry forms, co-led by yours truly. I have to admit I was pretty much shaking in my sneakers and I wore a dark shirt so that the girls couldn't see how my pits were sweating profusely. The sections I had to lead were for the… Continue reading Oh hai Haibun

Ok, technically I won't be standing at an actual podium, but I will be one of the poets featured in the next issue of Podium, the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center's online literary journal. Currently, Podium only publishes the work of students in their poetry workshops. The workshop leaders choose a student to represent… Continue reading I’ll be standing at the podium

So, this news is about a month old...but better late than never, right? My poem, "Prayer for My Fiance before His Bachelor Party," was nominated for the Best of the Web by the Splinter Generation. Read their announcement here.

Yes, that is the long title to one of two new poems that are featured in the October 2010 issue of MiPOesias. There's a poster in New York City that used to be on all the subways with a photo of Jerry Orbach and how he donated his eyes to the Eye Bank of New… Continue reading Jerry Orbach Gave the Gift of Sight to Two New Yorkers

You press the send button on your e-mail. A nice burst of adrenaline and possibility. You wait and wait, sometimes dreaming of your name in lights, other times the doubting rain clouds take over. And then the wait is over and you have your answer. A form rejection letter. This is how it feels:

Is one of the descriptions given for what kind of poetry Breadcrumb Scabs likes to receive. I definitely have many poems that fit, so I submitted to this journal back in spring/summer. Three of my poems, "Stuck in Traffic," "Doll Keeper," and "Terror Toma," appear in Issue 21 of the journal. Also, the editor of… Continue reading “Poems that make us feel nauseous.”

I am going to be the newest mentor with a wonderful organization called Girls Write Now. Please check out their website. Beginning in September I will have a mentee, a high school girl who is a writer (or wants to be). We'll get together weekly and work on our writing together, also Girls Write Now… Continue reading Girls Write Now

This poem was inspired by a class taught by Jenny Factor at Antioch University Los Angeles. Dancing with Swans neighborhood bar seated at usual seat surrounded by usual people laura waves hello walks towards me she once told me it was pronounced lowwra showed me how to open mouth roll tongue say it just right… Continue reading Yes, I have experimented in the past…

My friend asked me to write her bio for her website as a poem. I've written plenty of bios before in my day job as a publicist/writer--but never a bio written in poem form. She also wanted specific things mentioned in the bio, and at first it was pretty tough to get those things to… Continue reading A Poem as Biography

So here it is: my poem "Life Cycle of a Star" in the final issue of The November 3rd Club. I'm glad I made it into this last issue--check out the archives, there's a lot of good writing that's been posted there over the past five years. I got the idea after reading yet another… Continue reading Life Cycle of a Star