• May’s Books and Bookstore Roundup

      Janice at Salt City Verse is hosting our Poetry Friday roundup.   24 Bookstores in 2024: May Report This year I made a goal to visit 24 independent or used bookstores in 2024.    January Roundup  February Roundup  March Roundup April Roundup   Unlike last month, I made…

  • Poetry Friday: May 24, 2024

    Michelle Kogan has the Poetry Friday roundup today.    A Week of Artist Dates   Last weekend I had the immense pleasure to meet Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Politics & Prose. She did a book launch in conversation with Jason Reynolds for her new book Bite by Bite.    …

  • Poetry Friday: May 17, 2024

    This week’s Poetry Friday host of the week is Patricia Franz at Reverie. Hop on over there for the roundup.     Haiku of the Week     under the tunnel wisteria dribbles down its purple dollops   Photo & Haiku © 2024 Marcie Flinchum Atkins     Photo Taken:…

  • Poetry Friday: May 10, 2024

    Linda at A Word Edgewise is our host this week. Hop on over there for the roundup.    Haiku of the Week     new growth perfumes the sidewalk breathe deeply   Photo Taken: May 1, 2024 on a neighborhood walk Haiku Written: May 8, 2024      …

  • Poetry Friday: April Books and Bookstore Roundup

    Buffy Silverman is our host for the week. Hop on over there for the roundup.    24 Bookstores in 2024   This year I made a goal to visit 24 independent or used bookstores in 2024.    January Roundup  February Roundup  March Roundup   April 26 was Indie Bookstore…

  • Poetry Friday: Learning Roundup

    Ruth at There’s No Such Thing as a God-Forsaken Town is our host for the week. Hop on over there for the roundup.     News and Links It’s been a busy few weeks, and I thought I’d share about things I’ve enjoyed doing.   Listening—I stumbled on a…

  • Poetry Friday: New Places for Poetry

      Heidi at my juicy little universe is our host today. Hop on over there for the roundup.   New Poetry Anthology   Fellow Poetry Friday friend, Carol Labuzzetta, has edited a new ekphrastic poetry anthology called Picture Perfect Poetry.     I have three ekphrastic poems and three…

  • Progressive Poem is Here!

    I’m excited to be a part of the Poetry Friday Progressive Poem, where each day in April, someone new adds a new line—or in this year’s case, a new couplet.    cradled in stars, our planet sleeps,clinging to tender dreams of peacesister moon watches from afar,    singing lunar lullabies…