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For 2026, I made a goal to participate in all the monthly ekphrastic poetry contests at the local Bellefonte Art Museum. I started with a last-minute submission to the January contest (the very night it was due, I believe!), and as if someone Up There wanted to encourage me, my poem was selected for display! … Read more
Wednesday evening, the Bellefonte Art Museum hosted a poetry reading with the 2023 winners and runners-up of their monthly Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. I was one of the runners-up for January with my response to If 10 Million Fireflies by Danielle Austin. Since we went in chronological order, I was first up and unsure of the crowd … Read more
No comment. Marian Devotion My mother is not a club, neither the exclusive kind nor the sort men wield to beat their women into tiny boxes of silent femininity. My mother is the measure of what no man can be without grace, what all men could be if emptied of judgment and imbued with the … Read more
I’ve been wondering how to share my recent poetry without my former community on DeviantArt, and it occurred to me tonight that I’ve been neglecting this blog completely! This is where I used to share everything! So here I am again. To get started, I’ll share some poems I was thinking about today. I wrote … Read more
Contrary to all appearances, I have not given up my 100 Themes Challenge, even though I started it in 2015 and I’m not even halfway through. I WILL GET THERE EVENTUALLY. Tonight (December 2 going into December 3), I wrote a poem for the first time in months. And the poem before that had been the … Read more