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It’s National Poetry Month, and I’m busy teaching poetry, poetry, poetry!  My high school sophomores are writing their own poems and will end up with a small book at the end of the month, and they will participate in Poem … Continue reading →

I am incredibly thrilled and grateful to share the good news that Tiffany Besonen and I were awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant to produce a collaborative poetry/sculpture project.  It’s a fairly elaborate, complicated project, and I’m both … Continue reading →

This winter has not been as bleak as some.  The lack of snow was getting me down there for awhile, but now I set my sights toward spring.  A long time ago I heard someone refer to Itasca State Park in winter as … Continue reading →

It hardly seems that we’ve had winter this year, as I’ve discussed at length, although there’s some time left.  We still are without our usual weather, though it did snow about an inch last week and my husband and I were finally … Continue reading →

I doubt that any people anywhere are quite as weather-obssessed as Midwesterners, and Minnesotans in particular.  So I apologize to those who aren’t really interested, but the weather this winter is so strange that I can’t help but write about it.  … Continue reading →

Two weeks later, and we still have no snow to speak of.  I’ts disappointing.  One thing that could really cheer me up, though, would be a full class roster for Writing the Short Poem, the class I’m teaching online for … Continue reading →

I know that people who live in warmer places think I’m crazy, but I love winter.  At least in December, I do.  (March is a little different story).  It’s December 1st , and we are without the snow and cold … Continue reading →

I can hardly believe that I’m coming down to my last couple of weeks of teaching Writing the Short Poem online for The Loft. Teaching at The Loft has been a wistful wish of mine for many, many years, but geography precluded … Continue reading →

As I wrote in my last post, I’m really thinking about what it takes to be an individual in an increasingly homogenized world.  Evidence would suggest I’m not the only one (“People say I’m a dreamer…”).  So, although I don’t live … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking a lot about “outliers” this week.  Malcolm Gladwell had a bestseller by that title, and said about it,   “I’m interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished … Continue reading →