. . . who invited the four editors of the Sandwich Arts Alliance’s new publication, “Pebbles in the Stream,” including Christina...

Since I was assigning the poems to writers who had agreed to be tapped for the 2020 Literary Arts “Poem-athon,” I gave the first...

THE POWER OF A POEM In the spring days following the upheaval to our lives by COVID-19, new lifestyles and urgent needs were created that...

Writing is always about bringing clarity to the subject. The more historical research, the greater the clarity a writer can provide....

The places of honor for artwork vary by house and owner. The bathroom in my house is a place where one pauses, detaches and closes a door...

If you have children, care about animals, or need any further reasons  to accept that wildlife extinction is a fact of life on our...

What is it about music that binds us to time and place? Woodstock, for example. Here it is, 50 years after an event that called . . .

Poems can be so irritating to write. Why? Some years ago I heard a dazzling great writer, maybe Margaret Atwood, provide one answer. She...

I worry about small things. Children. Weeds. A crack in the plaster of the wall in my family room. The violet plant that is not thriving....

April is Poetry Month, a time to read and/or write a few. Perhaps you can recall poems you have indiscriminately encountered over your...