Poetry in Twelve (Part III)

I succeeded in meeting my poetry goal for 2017! 🎉 Advertisements Continue reading →

Genre, Format, and Height

A person’s bookshelves can tell you a lot about them—their interests, their histories, their dusting abilities—and while the content is what’s most important, of course, the organization can also speak volumes. — Emily Temple I read an article on LitHub about how writers organize their personal libraries and that got me to thinking about my own … Continue reading →

Splash in the Public Pool

One of my poems was published today at Public Pool. Do me a solid and read it, maybe. 🤓 Continue reading →

Poetry in Twelve (Part II)

Boo! 🎃👻 In the initial post I stopped at March, but here we are all the way in October, so it’s time for an update. The book of poetry I bought next was I’m So Fine by Khadijah Queen. It’s a collection of prose poems – of which I am a big fan – detailing … Continue reading →

Poetry in Twelve

Hello March! At the beginning of 2017, while setting my 52 book Good Reads challenge, I promised myself 12 of those books had to be poetry. That also means I’m going to buy more books that usual this year. Public libraries don’t carry as many poetry collections in comparison to fiction. Interlibrary loan helps, but … Continue reading →

Three for the Price of One

Things have happened. Literary things and I haven’t been sharing them here. You know how you’ll have an experience that’s so good you hold on to it and just roll around in the yumminess of it by yourself? I wish I could use that as my excuse, but I simply haven’t made time to write … Continue reading →

Winter 🍊

Okay, so that emoji is probably an orange, but in my case it’s a tangerine. I participated in an online writing workshop with Winter Tangerine in August and haven’t written about the experience on my blog. Partially because it’s not library related, but really I just haven’t made time for it. It was a three … Continue reading →