Blog Posts

  • Webinar recording: “Recharge, Reimagine, and Write!”

    Originally posted on Brain Popcorn: If you missed my webinar yesterday on creative writing for museum professionals, you can catch up now with the recording and download a pdf of the slides, available for  free on the NEMA website.  You can also watch it directly below, or just have a look at the slideshow without…

  • #MPF17 Wrap-Up: “Solarpunk Serenades” workshop

    The second workshop I led for MassPoetry Festival 2017 was “Solarpunk Serenades,” which was an introduction to the world of eco-conscious, optimistic, near-future science fiction that is now termed solarpunk.  Arguably, there are moments in poetry, publishing, and popular culture which have fit this bill in the last hundred years at least, but now it…

  • #MPF17 Wrap-up: “On Beyond Giggles: Writing Poetry for Children”

    In my sixth year of attending the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, I once again listened to amazing poets that were new to me, reconnected with friends and colleagues, and came away with several pages of thoughts on poems I want to write (even a few scribbled draftlets!). I also led two workshops on Sunday morning of…

  • “Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages”

    It’s spring, and I celebrated “Aprille with his shoures soote” by heading to England for a dose of literary pilgrimage, much in the spirit of my third and latest essay for all the sins, “And I must follow, if I can.” (Issue 3 is up in its entirety, and it’s great, go check it out!)…

  • MassPoetryFest17 Schedule is Up!

    …And signups are now available for my two workshops, among many other fantastic looking offerings, here. As always, there’s a great diversity of poets, styles, forms, and ideas represented in the schedule, and I’m really looking forward to attending this year, as well as leading the two workshops on Sunday morning. Solarpunk Serenades Solarpunk, the…