These last weeks have been so busy that I”ve barely had time to think, let alone to read and write, so this morning, when I had a few minutes to relax, I took the opportunity to poke around for something enjoyable to read. I found Tom Montag, The Middlewesterner, and I”m bookmarking his blog. More [...]

Bill Diskin is the Poet Laureate for the city of York, PA. Every other Thursday, he writes a column for The York Daily Record. You can find those columns about poetry at his Poetryork blog, but you”ll find a great deal more there as well. You”ll find poetry – not just his own, but that [...]

So I missed the Dodge Poetry Festival this weekend, but I”m hoping for next year. In the meantime, I”ve kept up with some of the excitement by following along with what”s coming out of there in a few blogs. Here”s a taste of what you would have seen and heard if you”d made it to [...]

My new discovery this week – Poetry Thursday, a thoroughly delightful blog written in tandem by Liz Elayne and Lynn. Every Sunday night, Liz or Lynn post a new poetry prompt and invite other bloggers to write about it. The prompts are filed as “this week”s (completely and totally optional) idea”, because, in Liz Elayne”s [...]

I was drawn into the Scoplaw blog by a conversation on the values of poetry, and the need for a common vocabulary with which to discuss and criticize poetry, and then drawn further and further along to read about the esthetics of poetry, what is needed to encourage quality poetry, the writer”s adventures as a [...]