For fans of October 31st, young and old, “My Brother’s Thirteenth Halloween” appeared in today’s Portland Press Herald. The poem was originally published in my most recent collection, Reincarnation & Other Stimulants.
I hope both Jack O’Lanterns and Jill O’Lanterns (Irish pumpkins?) enjoy!
Although they are technically vignettes, the short chapters in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street are deeply poetic in their use […]
T’is the season for “Best of” lists, and yes, even poetry gets in on the game, at least if the playing field […]
Think-alouds are a great tool to help students unpeel the meaning of a poem. The first step in the process is for […]
T.S. Eliot? No. Me, actually. Just in time for National Poetry Month, the publication date for my first collection of poems, The […]
