One of the things I most love about blogging is stumbling across gems that I had no idea existed. As often as not, I run into them when I”m not looking for them – when I”m researching something else. That”s the case with La Bloga, a blog maintained by RudyG, Manuel Ramos, Michael Sedano, Daniel [...]

In the United Kingdom, they take these things seriously enough that the National Health Service funds poets in residence at hospitals and clinics. They pay good money to put poetry in doctors” waiting rooms and bring poets in to work with patients undergoing traumatic illness. Poetry, they say, is therapeutic, and they are willing to [...]

This is not a real post. Okay, it is but… this is a link just for fun. Because I ran across this little Cafepress store completely by accident and spent the next ten minutes grinning at the snarky little sayings on the t-shirts, notepads, mugs and more. If you write, you”ll find something you love [...]

Billy the Blogging Poet has made my work considerably easier. His list of 100 blogging poets remains up at his blog, offering a road map to – well, 100 other blogs by poets who blog. That kept blogger Billy busy for 100 days – but it wasn”t enough for him. He”s since done two more [...]

Double-scoop on the great poetry places on the web this week. Rick Lupert has been hosting one of the longest running poetry readings in the LA area since 1994 (That would be the Cobalt Cafe for those of you close enough to drop in on a Tuesday night), and building and maintaining the Poetry Superhighway [...]