I wrote this week’s poems with the idea of learning in mind.
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How I wrote this week’s poems: Objects and opposites
This tricky love of museums is part of what I’ve been working through in my poems this week.
How I wrote this week’s poems: Lines and spacing
This week, I challenged myself to avoid using my go-to starters (sonnets and golden shovels) and also tried to play with space on the page.
How I wrote this week’s poems: Reliable reminders
This week, many of the poems I had drafted were based on some reliable prompts I use to help me get started.
Support me through May 30/30 with Tupelo Press!
During the month of May, I’m writing poems for Tupelo Press’s 30/30 challenge!
How I wrote “Cyanistes caeruleus”
For this blog post, I wanted to talk a bit more about my writing process, since I wrote this poem last semester and I kept some notes about how I wrote it.
jmww 2013-2022 anthology now available!
I’m incredibly honored that my flash fiction piece “Star Count of Orion,” originally published in 2020, is among the pieces selected for the 2013-2022 jmww anthology! The anthology is available now: ebooks and paperback copies are available on Amazon. jmww was one of my first acceptances after a few years off from writing and submittingContinue reading “jmww 2013-2022 anthology now available!”
When writing begets writing
As I write this blog, I sort of understand the impulse to write so much lead-in. I’ve shared the big news: now where do I go from here?
I used to write so much
Every semester I try to do the assignments along with my students partly as a way for me to keep up my own writing practice (I write things I turn in for my classes sometimes), and partly to experience for myself what my students experience when I walk them through a multi-stage writing prompt, or set draft deadlines at certain intervals.
New Story: “One Fall” in Five on the Fifth
I’m thrilled to share that my short story, “One Fall,” is now published in Five on the Fifth!