Category Archives: Writing
Bad Poems
Here is the thing, all poets write bad poems. Even my favorite poets; William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden, Les Murray, Byron, (to name a few) wrote and published for posterity’s sake at least one or two poems that are bad, … Continue reading
Sticky Little Phrases
Sometimes I have awkward lines, that wedge themselves into my head, in a way that I cannot get them out of my brain. They come up whenever I try to start writing. One of the lines that has been stubbornly … Continue reading
On an Apocalypse
Seven Golden Lampstands is the name of my manuscript of apocalypse poems. I have been working on this manuscript for three years now and it is slowly coming together. Various poems from the collection are already available in Journals, print … Continue reading
Readings
I am not a comfortable reader of my own poems in public. I often try and convince my friends, who often have much better reading voices then I, to read the poems instead. I have never successfully convinced anyone to … Continue reading
Rejection Letters
I have rejected a lot of people’s poems, as the primary reader at one press, and a reader and then an editor at Lumina. Sometimes I rejected poems because they were not a good fit, often I rejected them because … Continue reading
Revision
Writing is arduous. Anyone who tells you otherwise, does not edit. Lately I feel as if all I am doing is editing. In the last two months I edited my novel, my novel in verse, and currently I am editing … Continue reading